A three-day validation workshop for Economic Community and West African States directive on gender and energy assessment opened in Accra on Monday. The objective of the workshop is to ensure that women and men have access to modern energy services and contribute, as well as benefit from the business of expanding energy access in the … Read more
The Local Content Unit in the Petroleum Directorate of the Ministry of Energy, is embarking on a gender mainstreaming tour of some selected Senior High Schools (SHS) across the country. This is to sensitize students on the fundamentals of Ghana’s Energy sector with key focus on the petroleum industry. In all, 12 senior high schools … Read more
The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Rockson Ayine Bukari has pledged to work closely with traditional,religious leaders and non-governmental organisations, to abolish negative cultural practices that hamper the progress of women. Negative cultural practices such as denying women farmers’ access to fertile land, widowhood rites, child marriage and female genital mutilation are among some of … Read more
Participants at a gender capacity building workshop for political parties have stressed the need for the various political parties to make affirmative action a provision in their respective constitutions. The participants, majority of whom were women politicians, also called on the political parties to establish an empowerment fund to support women to run for members … Read more