PDA has been contracted by the Mastercard Foundation as the Impact Partner Organisation (IPO) for its Young Africa Works (YAW) strategy implementation in Ghana. As IPO, PDA is working to track the Foundation’s impact in agriculture, innovations and across the entire Ghanaian economy, particularly job creation and entrepreneurial opportunities for young people. Currently, PDA is…
DetailsThe PDA Child Abuse Tracker is an online platform deployed by PDA to track cases of child abuse in Ghana. Data is sourced from selected online and print media outlets in Ghana. In the second quarter of 2022, 22 out of the 26 cases of child abuse were sexual abuse. About 90 percent of the…
DetailsThe Advocacy and Communications Unit has had a fruitful second quarter of the year. Below is an update on our activities: Job Readiness Training The ACU carried out a project under WEE-NORTH with the Alinéa Foundation. The goal of the project was to provide a curriculum, content and facilitation strategies for Job Readiness training…
DetailsINTRODUCTION During the quarter under review, the Child Labor Remediation team carried out new activities and managed some ongoing activities. Key amongst them were conducting a needs assessment, distribution of educational materials, community sensitization, procurement and distribution of birth certificates, phonics by phone training, and the formation of VSLA groups. Over the past three months,…
DetailsHere are the updates from the second quarter of our VSLA initiatives: VSLA-CHILD PROJECT The VSLA-CHILD Project is in partnership with Beyond Beans and is a child labour remediation initiative that aims to tackle child labour in cocoa-producing communities through a community-driven approach. It also seeks to increase farmers’ access to microcredit, improve their…
DetailsThe growing prominence of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in Africa’s development sector stems not only from the need to assure accountability and learning but also from the “political recognition of the utility of evaluation to good governance” (Basheka, 2015). Indeed, M&E is recognized as the main instrument for assessing the extent to which the…
DetailsThe REL Unit is currently involved in a number of on-going projects while gearing up for some projects that will begin soon. Here is an overview of our on-going projects: IPO Baseline Assessment – Inception Phase PDA has been contracted by the Mastercard Foundation as the Impact Partner Organisation (IPO) for its Young…
DetailsChildren in Ghana still experience frequent and multiple forms of physical, emotional, and verbal abuse. The 2013 UNICEF Child Protection baseline research report indicates that when children were asked about their experiences of physical discipline, over 57% of respondents (aged 14-17 years) said they were beaten at home “all the time” or “sometimes”, while 34% …
DetailsMary Frimpong, a Ghanaian smallholder farmer, tells AMAKA how a community-driven group saving project has changed her and her family’s lives. “It was an adventure”, Mary Frimpong shares on a scheduled call from her home in Enchi, Ghana. She has taken time out of her workday selling weedicides and plantain at a local market.…
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