The United Nations Observance of IWD, under the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”, recognizes and celebrates the women and girls who are championing the advancement of transformative technology and digital education. #IWD2023#Activista#ActivistaGh
Under the project, ActionAid and its partners are sensitising women, children and community members to improve their knowledge and understanding of donkey care.
#TheDokeySancturaryProject#animalrights#ActionAid
ActionAid has been working with @TheDonkeySanctuary to improve the welfare and sustainable use of working donkeys in communities in the Sissala East district of the Upper West Region by ensuring good nutrition, care, proper hydration and disease control.
Mary Paula lives in the Gozziri community in the Nandom district. Through ActionAid’s capacity building on advocacy for women access to productive land, she has successfully supported many women to secure productive land for farming.
Ghanaian civil society organisations are calling on international lenders to cancel enough of Ghana’s debt to make it sustainable.
Read more https://t.co/nk1GFSSFN6
In December, Ghana announced it is suspending debt payments to external private lenders. Join us for a conversation on the #TaxJusticeCoalition call for external debt cancellation.
Date: 4:00 pm GMT/ 7:00 pm EAT
Day: Thursday 19th Jan 2023
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Responding to why the Tax Justice Coalition are calling for external private lenders to cancel Ghana's debt, John Nkaw, Country Director of ActionAid Ghana says the call is to ensure resource-poor people are not unjustly affected by the economic crisis. https://t.co/nk1GFSSFN6
Ghana loses 4-5% of its GDP to tax exemptions. Meanwhile, the 2023 budget allocation to the education sector is the lowest in a decade. We saw a decline from 4.06 to 3.09 of GDP and 15.03 to 12.97 per cent of the government’s total expenditure.
#TaxJustice
We have a responsibility towards all children. The 2023 budgetary allocation to the education sector is the lowest we have seen in a decade. Education is a fundamental human right that must be protected, especially by the government.
#EducationDay
Girls in hard-to-reach communities are faced with barriers to accessing gender-friendly school facilities; hindering the realisation of their full potential. On this #EducationDay, we call on the government to increase investment in the education sector.
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Last week, we held space to discuss the Tax Justice Coalition's call for private lenders to cancel Ghana's external debts. If you missed it, take a read at this story for more insight.
https://t.co/W5kducXTFl
ActionAid has supported over 515 young people (354 female and 161 male) between the ages of 18-35 to gain skills and experience in a range of business areas, improve their financial literacy and life skills and participate in regional and national decision-making.
In 2019, ActionAid received funding support from Medicor Foundation to roll out the Providing Employment Opportunities for Young People in Ghana Project. The project which was implemented from June 2019 to June 2022, successfully achieved the under-listed milestones.
Providing quality education is not a privilege but a human right that needs to be upheld by authorities
Read more on how ActionAid Ghana has been supporting the provision of quality education, especially at the basic level.
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