Climate finance in Ghana
An analysis of climate finance flows in Ghana shows that an annual average of USD 830 million was tracked in 2019 and 2020. This is a meagre 5-9% of its required investment — estimated between USD 9.3-15.5
Ghana
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Doing More With Less
West Africa is one of the least green regions in the world, but the nation of Ghana has distinguished itself among its neighbors, achieving a rank of 86 on Yale and Columbia's Environmental Performance Index. In sub-Saharan Africa, only Gabon and the island nation of Mauritius rank higher, and Ghana is bigger and poorer than each of them.
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Stepping into action: the second report on Citizens' action for accountability in water and sanitation
This report details how Citizens' action initiatives have empowered poor communities in developing countries to assert their demand for equitable, sustainable water and sanitation services, and work with service provides on developing action plans to achieve this. Using the Citizens' action approach poor people have been given a voice and have succeeded in making public authorities address issues of inadequate water and sanitation provision.
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Africa gets substandard malaria drugs
A recent study has found that substandard anti-malarial drugs are being distributed in six African countries
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Towards a global forest partnership: consultation, assessment and recommendations - final report
IIED conducted an independent consultation on the World Bank
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Ghana to increase mining royalty
Ghana's Minerals Commission has come up with a regulatory framework that will ensure that mining companies operating in the country cough up more to the government coffers. The new legislation
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Dhaka for UN task force to address global food crisis
The foreign adviser, Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, has urged the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to immediately establish a high- level task force to address the acute global food crisis. He made the appeal while chairing a ministerial meeting of LDCs on the eve of the inauguration of UNCTAD-XII in the Ghana's capital on Saturday. Iftekhar proposed that the task force, comprising eminent persons, should address long-term food security issues including those of agricultural productivity, grains trade, land utilisation and diversion for bio-fuels.
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Radio stations in Ghana to talk about AIDS
Ten radio stations in Ghana have been selected to educate people in the country about hiv/aids. The Ghana Aids Commission is funding the project, being implemented by the Centre for Development
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An update on crop-raiding by elephants at Bia Conservation Area, Ghana from 2004 to 2006
The study updates the post 2004 elephant crop-raiding situation around Bia Conservation Area (BCA). This was done through an analysis of data on elephant damage from crop-raiding report forms completed for all raids occurring between 2004 and 2006 at BCA. There were 103 elephant crop damage incidents involving
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Sustainable intermediate transport in West Africa: Quality before quantity
Non-motorised transport (NMT) is central to the issue of sustainable transportation. Among the more arguably important aspects of NMT that are sometimes overlooked are bicycle transportation development and accompanying policy reform.
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High-tech trash
People have always been proficient at making trash. Future archaeologists will note that at the tail end of the 20th century, a new, noxious kind of clutter exploded across the landscape: the digital detritus that has come to be called e-waste. More than 40 years ago, Gordon Moore, co-founder of the computer-chip maker Intel, observed that computer processing power roughly doubles every two years. An unstated corollary to "Moore's law" is that at any given time, all the machines considered state-of-the-art are simultaneously on the verge of obsolescence.