March 19, 2008
	FFP calls for payment of salaries for Assembly-members The Foundation for Female Photojournalists (FFP) on Tuesday called for the inclusion of the payment of salaries of Assembly members in the ongoing review of the Local Governance Act 462. This, it said, would ensure that Assembly Members got the necessary remuneration to perform their constitutionally mandated roles effectively and also make them accountable.

	February 28, 2008
	Concern about depletion of the forest The Ashanti Regional branch of the Woodworkers Association of Ghana (WAG), has decried the alarming rate at which the country's forests were being depleted. The development, they said, had in recent time deprived small-scale wood and furniture makers of the needed lumber to work with as most tree species were getting scarce on the local retail market.

	February 22, 2008
	Bureaucracy hampering NGOs A non-governmental organisation has named bureaucracy as the biggest factor hampering access to government initiatives and programmes. According to the Ashaiman-based Fountain of Sustainable Livelihood (FOSL) since its inception a year ago, it has found the bureaucratic nature of government agencies as a major obstacle to accessing and implementing pro-poor government programmes. This was contained in an activity report presented by Mrs. Francisca Asamoah Doku, Executive Director of FOSL at its first Annual General Meeting (AGM), which came off at Ashaiman last weekend.

	February 22, 2008
	Rights advocates explore new ways of implementing RBA Dr. Esther Ofei-Aboagye, Chairperson of the Board of the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) has identified three major dilemmas confronting Ghanaian non-governmental organisations in their implementation of Rights-Based Approach (RBA) to development programmes. Many other NGOs else where face the same dilemmas, said the ISODEC Board Chairperson on Monday at the opening of an international conference on RBA, which was held in Accra. It was jointly organized by ISODEC and Oxfam Novib.

	February 22, 2008
	MINING COMPANIES TURN THE HEAT ON GOV’T The President of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), Mr. Paul Mitchell has pointed out that the underdevelopment in many mining communities in the country could partly be laid at the door steps of present and past governments.

	February 7, 2008
	Physically challenged urged to register

	January 2, 2008
	Stakeholders workshop in Gender Budgetting The proposed Gender Responsive Budgeting Initiative is aimed at giving a further boost to women’s participation in the taking of economic decisions.To this end, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the country have been called upon to change their organisational culture to accommodate gender responsive budgeting in their programmes.

	January 2, 2008
	Women’s groups need to support ‘kayayee’ The recent decongestive exercise by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) that resulted in the destruction of illegal structures in parts of the metropolis, was greeted with reactions from the Network for Women’s Right in Ghana (NETRIGHT) and other women’s organisations.

	December 28, 2007
	UNDP Supports Gender Policy DAOUDA TOURE, UNDP Resident Representative in Ghana, has reiterated UNDP’s commitment to supporting Ghana to bring into fruition its gender budgeting policy.

	December 24, 2007
	Corporate Governance Training Workshop There has been an impressive growth of civil society mobilisation in West Africa, contributing to the development and consolidation of strong democratic and pluralistic states. Civil society is increasingly viewed as a crucial agent for limiting authoritarian government, strengthening popular empowerment, enforcing political accountability, and improving quality and inclusiveness of governance.

	December 20, 2007
	Ibis Ghana holds workshop As part of efforts to strengthen and enhance civic participation, gender mainstreaming and public accountability in the local governance structure, the Institute of Democratic Governance in collaboration with Ibis Ghana has organised a day's workshop here in the Garu-Tempane district of the Upper East Region.

	December 3, 2007
	Civil Society Organisations Asked to Hold Government Accountable Civil society groups in the country have been challenged to hold both governments and donor agencies accountable to promoting human rights and self-determination of women.

	November 27, 2007
	Minister advocates development fund for queen mothers The Central Regional Minister, Nana Ato Arthur on Tuesday said Queens play an important role in the local governance of the country and advocated a development fund to enhance their work. He expressed worry that despite the major role queens played in local governance, they faced problems such as lack of funds, and unnecessary competition with chiefs as to who should represent their traditional areas at functions, while there was also delay in gazetting them.

	November 26, 2007
	MOWAC promises shelter for victims of Domestic Violence The Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs (MOWAC), Hon. Daniel Dugan has revealed that government through MOWAC is mobilizing financial resources to establish shelters in all the ten regions for victims of domestic violence who might require temporary shelter and counseling services.  He said it is the concern of government and its responsibility to protect every citizen especially women and children against violence.

	November 26, 2007
	MORE ACTION NEEDED ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Last Friday, TV3 showed a gory news item in which a so-called father put hot charcoal in the palms of his son and mercilessly beat him till he fell in charcoal pot and got burnt the more. Only God knows what punishment this wicked father have been meting out to the boy’s mother if they are still living under one roof. This and other atrocities against women and children give ample justification for all Ghanaians to take domestic violence seriously. Yesterday November 25 a programme dubbed 16 Days of Activism Campaign Against Gender Violence on the theme, “Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles” was launched by the Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE) in Accra.

	November 26, 2007
	More action needed on Domestic Violence Atrocities against women and children has given ample justification for all Ghanaians to take domestic violence seriously. Yesterday November 25 a programme dubbed 16 Days of Activism Campaign Against Gender Violence on the theme, "Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles" was launched by the Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE) in Accra.

	November 14, 2007
	IDEG, IBIS Ghana hold forum on governance issues in Upper East The Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG) in collaboration with IBIS Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) on Tuesday organised a day's forum for the public on governance issues in the Garu-Tempane District.The Governance Issues Forum (GIF) was aimed at strengthening and enhancing civic participation, women's involvement and public accountability in local governance through dialoguing between citizens and public officials.

	November 13, 2007
	Redefine Role Of Women In Conflict Prevention-WANEP he West Africa Network for Peace-building (WANEP) yesterday called on governments in the sub-region to redefine the role of women in conflict prevention and peace-building, as women suffered the most in times of conflicts

	November 6, 2007
	Administrators to discuss challenges About 100 leaders from Commonwealth countries will converge in Accra on tomorrow to explore how to develop and maintain high quality public service in their respective states. The three-day conference is expected to bring together heads of Civil Service, Public Service Commissioners, head of Public Service organisations including public service training institutions and leaders of Human Resource Development.

	November 5, 2007
	Trainers workshop on capacity building underway A one-week training of trainers workshop on participatory planning to build capacity of district level staff to enable them respond to the needs of rural communities has taken place in Bole. In a speech, the head of the facilitating team of the workshop, Dr Sylvester Galaa of the University of Development Studies (UDS), said the workshop was organised by the Northern Regional Poverty Reduction Project (NORPREP) for 30 participants drawn from the Bole and Sawla-Tuna-Kalba

	November 2, 2007
	NGOs donate to flood victims The Inter NGO Consortium for Emergency Relief, an NGO Consortium comprising of Action Aid International Ghana, World Vision International and Assemblies of God Relief and Development Services, Ghana, in the Northern Region has donated food items valued at ¢157 million to floods victims in the Northern Region.

	November 1, 2007
	Civil society urges government to take climate change serious The Ghana Trade and Livelihoods Coalition (GTLC), the Peasant Farmers Association (PFAG), Civic Response and Christian Aid are calling on the government to bring the issue of climate change into its development agenda.  Ms. Rebecca Teiko Dottey, the Programme Officer at Civic Response says the recent floods and droughts experienced in the country is a clear example that the country is experiencing climate change- related trends as predicted by scientists.

	October 26, 2007
	Minister calls for attitude change Mrs. Oboshie Sai-Cofie, Minister of Information and National Orientation, has stressed the need for a dramatic change of attitude in the entire citizenry for accelerated development.

	October 25, 2007
	Ghana: Fight Against Corruption is a Collective Responsibility THE NATIONAL Coordinator of the Coalition of Good Governance, Mrs. Leonora Kyeremanteng has called for a holistic attitudinal change among Ghanaians as a measure in preventing corruption from the system.  According to her, the prevention of corruption, to a large extent, will maintain the core value of good governance espoused in the country and thereby entrench it into the system.

	December 22, 2006
	Power invites corruption... Mr. Vitus Azeem of the Centre for Budget Advocacy has said that public officials must be careful with the power they wield since it served as the entry point for corruption