Tag: United Nations Population Fund
UNFPA supports marginalised young people
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has presented packs of hygiene kits and emergency food supplies to Hope for the Future Generations (HFFG), a...
Protect your dreams, GHS counsels ‘adolescent champions’
The Ghana Health Service ( GHS) has counselled its adolescent champions at Benyadze in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem ( KEEA) municipality of the Central Region to...
Let’s not shield people who impregnate girls – Gender Dept.
Madam Lena Alai, the Volta Regional Director, Department of Gender, has asked opinion leaders to allow men who impregnate girls to suffer the right...
Be bold to educate your children on adolescent reproductive health, parents urged
Gender activists have called on parents and caregivers to be bold and proactive to educate their children and wards on gender and adolescent reproductive...
UNFPA donates to GFD
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Wednesday donated 700 dignity kits to the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD) in Accra.
The items valued...
It’s time for the youth to assume responsibility
Madam Bushra Odoom, Ekumfi District Planning Officer has implored the youth to get involved in the activities of their district assemblies and ensure that...
ARHR sensitizes out of school adolescent girls on reproductive rights
Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR), has organized a day’s sensitization workshop for out of school adolescent girls with disabilities at Peki in South...
A license to rape
Chioma Nwosu & Rainer Ebert
Sudha was a healthy 16-year-old student in South India. Now she is dead. It was not COVID-19 that killed her...
Women in Leadership International donates to two Correctional Centres
Women in Leadership International (WILI), has donated items valued at GHC 25,000 to the Senior Correctional Centre of the Ghana Prisons Service and the...
UNFPA joins Office of the First Lady to support ‘Kayayei’
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in partnership with the Purim African Youth Development Platform (PAYDP) on Thursday donated items to head porters (Kayayei)...
UNFPA equips DOVVSU office at Paga
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has presented office equipment to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service...
GHS accelerate moves to address adolescent needs in Central Region
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has intensified measures to assist adolescents in the Central Region to achieve their dream as they transited into adulthood...
UN pledges support for reproductive health agenda in Africa
The United Nations will support African governments to expand access to quality and affordable reproductive health services for disadvantaged groups like women and girls...
UNFPA inaugurates second cohort
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Tuesday inaugurated the second cohort of the Youth Leadership (YoLe) Fellowship, which seeks to continuously empower...
United Nations Population Fund seeks US$683 million for 2020
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Thursday launched an appeal for 683 million U.S. dollars for 2020 to provide life-saving reproductive health and...
Marrying off a child completely destroys her future – UNFPA
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has reiterated its commitment towards the fight against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Ghanaian Communities by unveiling...
Department of Children appeals for public support against child marriage
Mr George Ankamah, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of Department of Children, has called on the public to be child-right advocates for the elimination of...
Poverty still major cause of child marriage in Ghana
Participants at a national stakeholders’ engagement have identified poverty, gender inequality, entrenched negative traditional and customary beliefs and co-habitation as major setbacks inhibiting the...
Report defilement cases on time to maintain evidence – Dr Darddey
Dr Felix Darddey, the Medical Superintendent of the Elmina Polyclinic, has advised parents and guardians to immediately send their children who have been defiled...
Accessing emergency care, drivers must change attitudes
Some drivers involved in a project seeking to address maternal health mortalities in Ashanti Region are calling on emergency health care professionals to exhibit...
Addressing maternal mortality: stakeholders advocate for community health fund
Addressing maternal mortality: stakeholders advocate for community health fund
The establishment of a health fund in rural communities to reimburse and incentivize taxi drivers who...
UNFPA trains DOVSSU officials on online data management
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service, on Monday began a three-day Data Management training for officers of...
James Town basic schools benefit from health management programme
More than 500 pupils from selected basic schools in the James Town in Accra on Wednesday received elaborate education on menstruation health management, as...
Kenya secures funding from UN for family planning
Kenya has secured additional 387 million shillings (3.7 million U.S. dollars) from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in support of the country's request...
CSOs urged to adhere to national guidelines on Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) implementing Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) programmes across the country have been called to strictly adhere to the approved guidelines to...
Ghana must take firm stands to achieve family planning targets
Mr Niyi Ojuolape, the Country Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has called on the government of Ghana and stakeholders to make...
Gender Department scales up efforts to address teenage pregnancy in Elmina
The Central Regional Department of Gender on Wednesday organised a community documentary road show in Elmina to educate guardians, parents and community members on...
UNFPA Carries Out Advocacy and Sensitisation of FGM in Zongo Communities
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Ghana, on Thursday, partnered the Ghanaian Association for Women’s Welfare, to organize an advocacy and sensitisation on Female...
PPAG Blames Hypocrisy for Hindering Sexual Education in Ghana
Double standards and hypocrisy are the bane of effective sexuality education in the country, Mr Michael Tagoe, Youth Program Officer of the Planned Parenthood...
Rebecca Foundation Pear Young Girls Mentors
The Rebecca Foundation, in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has organised a programme to profile and pitch mentees with mentors under...