The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Upper Denkyira West, Mr Daniel Appianin, has said that Captain Maxwell Mahama who was lynched on Monday at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region, was part of some military personnel who were protecting Chinese small-scale illegal miners (galamsey) in a distant forest at Aminase. In a radio interview on Accra…
DetailsSTORY HIGHLIGHTS Women in West Africa dominate the fishing value chain and often handle the finances related to fishing. Artisanal fishing is under threat, but better governance and improved surveillance systems are making a difference in some countries. Women are increasingly included in the co-management of fisheries with the support of the World Bank-funded West…
DetailsEffective training is a critical building block of any successful mobile data collection project. Data management systems require ongoing maintenance updates. Without a deep understanding of how the technology works it can be difficult for an organization to manage and sustain the solution over time. With Dimagi’s partners, we strongly emphasize CommCare app training and capacity building across…
DetailsEach year, about 15 million girls are married as minors around the world. Widely known as “child marriage,” campaigners say the practice puts girls at increased risk of violence and abuse, and impacts their health and education. Eliminating it is a target of Sustainable Development Goal 5.3. But some activists argue that the term “child marriage” fails to…
DetailsProject Name: Impact Evaluation (pilot, baseline and endline) of British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme Project Period: 2015 to 2018 PDA was hired to partner in the impact evaluation of this global education programme being implemented from 2015 to 2018. The programme is co-funded by the British Council and DFID. PDA is handling specific tasks in…
DetailsProject Name: Impact Study of Root Capital’s Agricultural Enterprises that link Smallholder Farmers to Market in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire (Root Capital Inc.) Project Period: April 2017 – December 2020 The study is mainly quantitative, and uses the experimental difference-in-difference framework to design and assess impact of Root Capital’s financial support for smallholder farmers. More…
DetailsThe World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At least one person has died after contracting the virus in the country’s north-east, the WHO says. The Congolese health ministry had notified the WHO of a “lab-confirmed case” of Ebola, it added on Twitter. More than 11,000 people died in the…
DetailsIt is so visible when one enters the community. Sanitation is a general attitudinal problem that need to be tackled head-on.
Close to one in five people living in towns, cities and megacities across the world do not have access to a safe, basic toilet, according to WaterAid. Some 600 million urban dwellers globally rely on a humiliating and haphazard array of the only services available to them in slums: filthy and crowded communal toilets, or…
DetailsGlobal finance mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund and the Global Environmental Facility must support Africa to adapt to climate change and stop the displacement of public spending caused by climate change, African Development Bank Group President, Akinwumi Adesina, told the United Nations climate conference, which ended on November 18. “Words of comfort are…
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