The government is gradually losing momentum in the fight against illegal mining popularly known as galamsey. This is according to a former Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Kwabena Mintah Akandor, who has stated that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is not using the right approach to fighting the illegality. He said the … Read more
The Minister for Energy, Boakye Agyarko has underscored the need for the sustainable management of the state power company to forestall a total collapse. He was speaking at the first Bidders’ Conference on the concession for the Private Sector Participation (PSP) in the electricity distribution business of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). The Bidders’ … Read more
The Minister for Energy, Boakye Agyarko has underscored the need for sustainable management of the state power company to forestall a total collapse. He was speaking at the first Bidders’ Conference on the concession for the Private Sector Participation (PSP) in the electricity distribution business of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). The Bidders’ Conference … Read more
The World Bank has signed a grant agreement with Solidarity West Africa for Natural Resources Management in 53 selected local communities of the Brong-Ahafo and Western Regions of Ghana. The US$5.5 million grant of the Ghana Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Local Communities project (G-DGM) from Climate Investment Fund (CIF) partnership, is to strengthen their knowledge … Read more
The World Bank signed a grant agreement with Solidaridad West Africa for Natural Resources Management in 53 selected local communities of the Brong-Ahafo and Western Regions of Ghana, Friday. The US$5.5 million grant of the Ghana Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Local Communities project (G-DGM) from Climate Investment Fund (CIF) partnership, is to strengthen their knowledge … Read more
Is education in Africa beating about the bush? It will be tough to separate Winston Churchill’s command of the English language from his wicked wit. While a lessor idiom might suggest, for example, that “It’s time to stop beating about the bush,” Churchill might capture Africa’s education dilemma thus: We must “now lay eggs instead … Read more
Ghana is in the process of turning all water reservoirs into security zones to safeguard the provision of the quality treated water for the people. The Executive Secretary of the Water Resources Commission (WRC), Ben Ampomah has disclosed this at the United Nations University-Institute of Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) Stakeholders’ Engagement workshop on the … Read more
Parliament of Ghana has approved a budgetary allocation of over GHc 255 Million to the newly created Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources for the 2017 fiscal year. An estimated GHc 28 Million out of the total budget allocation of GHc255, 531,354 for the ministry has been earmarked for capital goods, with over GHc216 Million … Read more
If you ignore a problem over a long period, it becomes part of the status quo. This is what we have done when it comes to protecting the fish stock in Ghana’s waters. We have allowed Illegal Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing to remain with us and all we have done to stop it is … Read more
Inadequate funding and high attrition rate are some of the challenges confronting research activities at the Forestry Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The research institute has lost 36 workers to retirement and competition in the last three years. The Forestry Research Institute is one of the 13 institutes of … Read more
Artisanal and small-scale mining offers opportunities to generate jobs, reduce poverty, and provide livelihoods, but this sector has been largely ignored by policy-makers and donors, an UNCTAD official said. In addition, poor management of this sector contributes to serious health and environmental risks, said Yanchun Zhang from UNCTAD’s Special Unit on Commodities. “Artisanal gold mining, … Read more
Ghana has received approval for $24 million for the first-of-a-kind Private-Public Partnership project to restore degraded forest reserves and double a sustainable forest plantation. This project is backed by a $10-million concessional loan from the Climate Investment Funds’ Forest Investment Program (CIF FIP) approved on July 1, and supplemented by $14 million in co-financing from … Read more
Ghana has received approval from the African Development Bank (AfDB) for a project to restore degraded forest reserves and double a sustainable forest plantation through a first-of-its-kind Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in its forest sector. The project is backed by a US $10-million concessional loan from the Climate Investment Funds’ Forest Investment Program (CIF FIP) approved … Read more
Humankind was created to dwell in a clean environment and earn his livelihood from economic resources in their immediate environment. The friction between the environment and the economy is becoming a big threat to our future. The necessary steps, policies and individual effort need to be maximized to grease or oil the interrelation between the … Read more