Tag: UNFPA
Traditional Authorities sensitized on ways to prevent child marriage
Traditional Authorities, religious and opinion leaders from selected communities in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region have been sensitized on...
Traditional and Religious leaders urged to help address child marriage
Ms Yvonne Wonchua, the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council Focal Person for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has called on traditional and...
UNFPA builds capacity of community facilitators on Adolescent Girls
A capacity building workshop has been held for about 60 community facilitators and healthcare providers under the Adolescent Girls Programme being implemented by...
Teenage pregnancy is another pandemic-UNFPA
Mr Niyi Ojuolape, Country Representative, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), says the world was facing a greater pandemic than COVID-19,...
“Access to sexual education sure way to reduce teenage pregnancy”
Mr Maxwell Kotie, the Assin South District Health Promotion Officer, says access to accurate education on Sexual and Reproductive Health Right (SRHR) is a...
Increased sex education necessary to curb teenage pregnancy in Bono East
Increased teenage pregnancy is contributing to high school-dropouts and impeding girl-child education in the Bono East Region, Miss Joycelyn Adii, the...
Orange Support Centre will address SGBV issues in Ghana – UNFPA
Mr Niyi Ojoulape, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative, says the Orange Support Centre would help reduce cases of Sexual and Gender-Based...
UNFPA sensitises women on its SGBV orange support Centre
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Thursday sensitised women on its Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) Orange Support Centre aimed at assisting...
Write your wills to reduce post-death conflicts
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has encouraged families and individuals to make wills to legally declare their wishes on how to dispose their...
Parents must empower children to say ‘no’ – UNFPA
Ms Abigail Edem Hunu, the Programme Assistant of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has advised parents to empower children, especially girls to say...
UNFPA trains counselors to support Sexual and Gender-Based Violence survivors
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has commenced a training programme for counselors to support survivors of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) via...
UNFPA launches “Cube Convos” in Accra
The United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) has launched an initiative dubbed ‘Cube Convos’ to provide a safe space for adolescent girls for open discussions...
UNFPA urges Queenmothers to help end teenage pregnancy
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has called on Queenmothers in the Upper East Region to help end teenage pregnancy and child marriage.
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UNFPA opens Orange Support Centre, launches SGBV Boame App
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has opened a Support Centre in Accra and launched a technology application to provide services to Sexual and...
WHO and UNFPA support Ghana’s fight against COVID-19
Dr Francis Kasolo, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Country Representative, has reiterated calls for deepened and sustained stakeholder collaboration towards winning the fight against...
UNFPA organizes exhibition to climax 16-day activism against gender-based violence
Parents of young children, especially girls, have been advised to pay close attention to changes in moods and behavior of their wards, since it...
40 out-of-school young men empowered against gender based violence
A total of 40 out-of-school young men have been tasked with the responsibility of helping to advocate an end to gender/sexual based violence, gender...
Humanitarian support must include Sexual and Reproductive Health issues – UNFPA
Dr Robert Mensah, Reproductive Health Programme Specialist at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has called on stakeholders and institutions to mainstream sexual and...
UNFPA’s intervention improves adolescent sexual and reproductive rights
The implementation of adolescent empowerment programme by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) across some selected regions in Ghana has led to improvement in...
Let’s advance the well-being of adolescent girls
Mr Niyi Ojuolape, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative, has called for concrete and innovative ideas to advance the well-being of adolescent girls...
UNFPA adolescent intervention yielding results in beneficiary communities
The implementation of adolescent reproductive health intervention by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in selected districts in the Upper East Region is making...
UNFPA/Gender Department present sanitary pads to school girls in Tano North
The UNFPA and the Department of Gender on Tuesday presented quantities of sanitary pads to school girls in the Tano North Municipality of the...
Hearing-impaired girl gets access to education
For 14-year-old Salmu Alhassan, a hearing-impaired girl, education became a reality following the intervention of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)...
Black Girls Matter: Speak Up for Our Girls Now – UNFPA
The world has witnessed some remarkable progress in how adolescent girls navigate their lives today. There is a large increase in their access to...
Validation workshop on the updated child marriage toolkit opens in Kumasi
A two-day validation and capacity building workshop on the updated child marriage toolkit for field workers has opened in Kumasi.
The workshop which was put...
UNFPA to support youth empowerment in Volta Region
Mr Vitus Atanga, the Programme Officer-In-Charge of Reproductive Health, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has said the organisation would continue to strengthen institutions in...
Adolescents need accurate information to navigate life successfully
Madam Enyonam Afi Amafuga, Volta Regional Director of Education, has stressed the need for adolescents to be provided with the rightful information to guide...
UNFPA calls for time, resources to curb domestic violence
The United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has called for an urgent investment in time and resources to prevent a high incidence of...
FBOs urged to campaign against dehumanizing cultural practices
Mr James Twene, the Upper East Regional Director of Department of Gender (DoG) has called on members of Faith Based Organizations (FBOs) to...
Vocational and Skills Training to facilitate National Development-Allan Paintsil
Heads of vocational institutions and artisanal groups have been charged to educate the youth on the importance of skills training to facilitate national development.
Mr...