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After two sessions on Zoom in 2021, SAFCEI hosted an in-person Faith Leaders Environmental Advocacy Training (FLEAT) workshop in Malawi during 29-31 March 2022. FLEAT Malawi was attended by seventeen faith leaders who were made up of five female participants and twelve male participants with the majority being youth. The faith leaders were drawn from

The Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights has held a capacity building workshop for community implementing partners of an adolescent girl project being implemented in six districts, held in Kumasi. The participants were drawn from community implementing partner organisations, community facilitators and health providers drawn from six beneficiary districts in the…

In 2014, WASH United, a German non-profit, initiated the commemoration of Menstrual Hygiene Day to raise awareness on the importance of Menstrual Hygiene. Eight years down the line, Menstrual Hygiene Day has become a global advocacy platform amalgamating the voices of various groups of people and actors with different focus,…

A total of 137 young women in the Upper East Region have been trained and awarded a certificate of proficiency in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) at the Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU). The eight-month intensive practical training spearheaded by the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) and sponsored under the…

John Perlman spoke to programmes manager for Africa organisation, Asekho Motabene about this rate of malnutrition. 

A stakeholders’ meeting has been held as part of the Ghana Accelerating Social and Behavioural Change (ASBC) Activity to create space for partners to deliberate on how best to implement the ASBC Activity to achieve the needed results. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/ASBC Activity is managed by…

Superintendent Owoahene Acheampong, the Asokwa Municipal Police Commander is advocating extension of training on Ghana’s Case Tracking System (CTS) for more personnel to build their capacities for effective implementation. He said training more personnel would ensure constant use of the system even when those who had already been trained are…

The Canadian Feed the Children (CFTC), in partnership with the Regional Advisory Information and Network Systems (RAINS) has held a capacity building workshop to train smallholder farmers on seasonal weather forecast. The day's workshop, held at Savelugu, was aimed at providing weather information to farmers to adapt to climate change…

Illegal chainsaw operators engaged in felling of trees and extraction of natural resources are threatening the landscape and forest reserves of the Western Wildlife Corridor and the Northern Savannah Forest Zone. Apart from overgrazing, erratic rainfall and wildfires, which were causing destruction to environment, people who were engaged in the…

The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, (CHRI), has engaged stakeholders on the Ghana Case Tracking System (CTS) to help improve on the justice delivery system in the country. The CTS is an integrated software that tracks criminal cases in the justice delivery system from inception until their disposal. Ms Esther Ahulu,…