Tuesday, October 12, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for African governments to strengthen social protection systems and fulfill people’s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living. Many African governments introduced measures like cash...
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Africa, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda
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Monday, October 11, 2021
The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has been described as the “trailblazer” in Africa as far as the implementation and development of the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme is concerned.
According to a Senior Nutrition Officer and Project...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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Responding to the impacts of COVID-19 in Western and Central Africa, the World Bank has supported the rapid...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Economic inclusion programs, which help boost income and assets of the world’s poorest, are on the rise in 75 countries, reaching approximately 20 million poor and vulnerable households, and benefitting nearly 92 million individuals. This surge comes at...
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Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Zambia, America, Peru, Asia, Bangladesh, India
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Sunday, November 22, 2020
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Carmen Almeida, 56, worries about keeping in touch with her fellow domestic workers. Most haven’t worked...
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Africa, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, America, Mexico, Peru, United States, Asia, India, Thailand, Europe, Bulgaria
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Thursday, October 10, 2019
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, has commenced the implementation of a project to improve social safety nets and productive inclusion of the poor and the...
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Gifty Twum Ampofo, has said the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme, is currently covering 456,000 beneficiary households (which translates into about 1.7 million individuals...
Monday, October 23, 2017
The World Bank says it is embarking on a project to eradicate extreme poverty by the year 2030. According to the World Bank, a person is said to live in extreme poverty if he or she lives below US$1.90 a day. The bank has proposed to eradicate...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
The World Food Programme (WFP) is to scale up its nutrition-sensitive project to reduce stunting and micronutrient deficiencies to cover the three northern regions of Ghana.
The scaling up is after a successful pilot in the Central Gonja District...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Ten million Ghana Cedis has been released to enable settling the debt of caterers under the Ghana School Feeding Programme.