Sunday, November 3, 2019
Unemployed people of over thirty-thousand (30,000) poverty-stricken households in eighty districts in Ghana are expected to be employed under the Labour Intensive Public Works Project (LIPW). The Project is under the Ghana Productive Safety Net Project (...
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...
Friday, September 27, 2019
Despite efforts to encourage the working population to contribute towards their retirement, only one percent of informal sector workers is enrolled on any form of pension schemes. It is estimated that about 85 percent of the country’s workforce are found...
Friday, September 27, 2019
African governments are increasingly committing domestic resources to social protection and delivering more social assistance programmes to their poor and vulnerable citizens. This is revealed by the findings of a new report on “The State of Social...
Monday, August 19, 2019
GSOP, which ended in June 2018, was an initiative meant to promote the creation of job opportunities for enhanced welfare of the people, particularly the poor. To prevent a void and ensure continuity of the country’s social protection systems, the...
Saturday, August 17, 2019
OPINION: The Government of Ghana announced plans to implement some interventions in the housing and housing finance markets in its 2019 budget last year. A GH¢1 billion mortgage fund was to be established to leverage private capital to provide affordable...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD), has launched new project in the Upper East Region dubbed," The Ghana Productive Safety Net Project (GPSNP)". It is aimed at contributing to jobs creation, poverty reduction, climate change...
Friday, August 9, 2019
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with Vodafone Ghana Foundation has launched a digital financial inclusion project in the Upper East Region to boost poor rural women access to formal financial services and to increase...
Saturday, July 27, 2019
The United Kingdom is partnering with the government of Ghana to protect the most vulnerable and marginalised through the “Leave No One Behind” social protection programme.
A key component of the programme supports a centralised channel for...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019
Ghana is investing less funds in health care, education and social protection, especially for the most vulnerable in the society. This means the poorest Ghanaians are subsidizing the living standards of the richest in society. Madam Harriet...
