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The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is mandated to coordinate and ensure gender equality and equity, promote the survival, social protection and development of children, the vulnerable and excluded and persons with a disability, and integrate fulfilment of their rights, empowerment and full participation into national development.
During the year under review, many eventful activities happened to highlight and address crucial gender issues. The Daily Graphic brings to readers some of those major activities.
Gender Minister, Parliamentary Select Committee visit witch camps
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and the Parliamentary Select Committee on Gender, Children and Social Protection have initiated steps to help address the issue of witchcraft accusation that has led to the establishment of witch camps in the northern part of the country.
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Mr. Joe Mensah (2nd right) presenting the items to Mr. Samuel Adjei Attah (2nd left). Looking on are Mr. Raphael Tuekpe (left), Officer in charge, James Camp Prison and Mr. Benjamin Gyan-Kesse (right), Programme Director, Kosmos Innovation Centre. Picture: EDNA SALVO-KOTEY
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As part of its COVID-19 support programme, oil producer Kosmos Energy is distributing $50,000 worth of items and incentives to help the less privileged.
Institutions that are receiving support include the James Camp Prison, the Senior Correction Facility, formerly known as Borstal Home, and the Light Outreach Orphanage, all in Accra.
Under its Kosmos Innovation Centre (KIC), the company will also train inmates of the two correctional centres in mushroom, snail and vegetable farming.
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SOME Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) have raised concerns over the delay in accessing funds allocated to them through the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF).
The PwDs who engaged in town hall meetings in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale established that most of them had not received any funds from the DACF since 2019 due to the opaque style of disbursement employed for such distributions.
They insisted that the government must adopt the method of disbursement used in the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme to help ensure timely distribution of funds to vulnerable groups.
Ghana holds maiden disability-inclusion summit
The event was under the theme “Ending Invisibility: Building Standards for Disability Inclusion and Sustainable Post-Covid-19 Ghana”.
The summit, held at the Accra International Conference Centre on December 3, saw the launch of the 8 Commitments Government of Ghana pledged during the 2018 Global Disability Summit on disability-inclusiveness.
The eight commitments of the government of Ghana are: to eliminate stigma and discrimination against persons with disabilities; to promote inclusive education; to ensure routes to economic empowerment of persons with disabilities; to harness technology and innovation to better lives of persons with disabilities; to build disaggregated data on persons with disabilities to inform policy formulation and implementation; to make adequate provisions for women and girls with disabilities on account of double discrimination; mainstream disability into conflict and humanitarian responses; ensure acces