What is GAWU?
Ghana’s General Agricultural Workers’ Union (GAWU) is the nation’s biggest trade union, organising farmers and agricultural workers in both the formal and informal sectors of our country. GAWU has been working with smallholder farmers and other non-wage rural workers since formation on the 9th of February...
Djembe Consultants, the award-winning Africa-focused communications consultancy, has launched its latest Insights Report in partnership with AfriLabs, the largest pan-African network of technology and innovation centers.
The report assesses the impact of COVID-19 on the continent’s young innovators and entrepreneurs and provides perspectives from industry experts as to how African...
Parliament has approved the Finance Ministry’s request to spend an amount of GH¢27,434,180,520 from the Consolidated Fund to finance government operations for the first quarter of the 2021 financial year.
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, on Wednesday, presented to Parliament, estimates of the revenue and expenditure of the government for January...
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, has urged all First Time Voters to be agents of peace as Ghana prepares to hold Presidential and Parliamentary Elections on December 7, 2020.
Ms. Mensa noted that the “destiny of this country is in the hands of the youth and their...
Genetically Modified (GM) crops are crops whose genetic material has been modified through the introduction of a gene from a different organism. Most GM crops have been developed to improve yield through the introduction of resistance to plant pests or of increased tolerance of herbicides.
The cultivation of these crops...
Since its inception, the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership has recognised the primacy of financing in catalysing progress. Since 2010 it has held four high-level meetings with finance ministers from all around the world alongside the World Bank’s Spring Meetings.
These meetings have become known as the ‘SWA...
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Seth Twum-Akwaboah, has said the operationalisation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), slated for January 2021, cannot be put on hold for everything to be ready.
With barely two months for the continental agreement, with a potential...
The shift to digital ways of working and collaborating has been a major success.
The COVID-19 crisis has shown the business world that it is possible to completely overhaul the way we do things in a matter of weeks or even days.
When the severity of the pandemic became more evident...