The African Cashew initiative constitutes a new type of multi‐stakeholder partnership in development cooperation. The initiative is mainly funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. GIZ, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH has been commissioned with the management of the project. Its […]
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Ghana has organised a health walk to observe world AIDS day which is celebrated on the 1st December of every year. The walk started from the country office through designated streets at the airport residential area and back to the country office. All GIZ staff from the […]
A Stakeholder Workshop on the development of a Master Plan for cashew production in Ghana was last month organized by the the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) in Sunyani in the Bronh Ahafo region which happens to be Ghana’s main cashew production region. The workshop which […]
Dr José Graziano Da Silva, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has appealed to world leaders to show courage and resilience by opting for changes that promote a safer, fairer and more inclusive world. Dr Graziano da Silva made the appeal in Paris at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP21), which was […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday, opened a Regional workshop aimed at initiating the 2016 phase of the United Nations (UN) Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water (GLASS) in Ghana. The GLASS, indicates that there are substantial gaps in the understanding and tracking of financing in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene […]
Yara Ghana, a leading supplier of fertilizer, in collaboration with the USAID, has facilitated a training on soil and fertilizer amendments in Tamale, for technical staff working on different agricultural related projects. The participants were further taken through various methods of soil sampling, how to determine the nutrient deficiency and how to amend the soil […]
Ghana has been lauded for spearheading the initiative to counter terrorism in Africa, Madame Claudia Quintero Torbay, Ambassador of Colombia, has said in Accra. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview in Accra, Madame Torbay said, Ghana as a country, takes initiatives at three levels, global, regional and at the national level adding […]
Ethiopian Airlines, the largest, fastest growing and most profitable airline in Africa, has won the Employer of Choice 2015 award by Careers in Africa, an initiative of the Global Career company. The Airline was crowned the Employer of Choice 2015 in the categories of Local Attractiveness and Aviation, Logistics and Shipping. Winners were identified solely […]
The newly appointed US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert Porter Jackson today swore the oath of office in Washington DC. He will be replacing the immediate past Ambassador Gene Cretz. A former US Ambassador to Ghana, Donald Teitelbaum was present during the ceremony administered by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a press […]
PwC Ghana in collaboration with the Embassy of France to Ghana and UNDP Ghana has held the 4th edition of the Ghana Sustainable Business Forum (SBF), a PwC initiative under the PwC Business School. The Forum was opened by the Minister for Environment Science Technology and Innovation, Hon. MahamaAyariga, and the Ambassador of France to […]
