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The United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has called for strategic investment in promoting girl-child education and women empowerment to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “Women and girls make about 50 per cent of the population, even almost 52 per cent in Ghana, so empowering them means we are…
Some youth groups championing sexual and reproductive health education and issues at their communities in the Upper East Region have been equipped with vocational skills in soap making. The move was to provide them with economic empowerment for sustainable sources of funding to meet their basic needs and help carry…
Fifty women farmers in the Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region have received 6,000 layers under the President ‘s Special Initiative, Rearing for Food and Jobs (RfJs). The intervention is part of the Savanna Investment Programme (SIP) sponsored by the African Development Loan Fund facility. The beneficiaries, drawn from…
Agro- pastoral infrastructure facilities aimed at boosting livestock mobility and production, increasing economic activities and revenue mobilisation have been commissioned at Bawku and Pusiga Districts of the Upper East Region. The infrastructure consists of a 95-kilometre transhumance movement corridor from Sapelliga to Zongoiri, loading ramps at Zebilla and Pusiga, water…
The Water Resources Commission (WRC) says farmers who still cultivate within the buffer zones of water sources posed a major challenge to ensuring safety of communities along the White Volta. The continuous farming activities within the buffer zones adversely affect the current trend of flooding, especially when the Bagre Dam…