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Press Release - Workers' Day
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International Workers Day: ActionAid Ghana calls for a national roadmap to address decent work deficits

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CMSP Startup distribution
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ActionAid supports 400 female household heads with livelihood startups tools

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NAP on BHR
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ActionAid calls on CHRAJ to integrate gender issues in the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights

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Press Release
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93% of countries most vulnerable to climate disasters are either in or at significant risk of debt distress, new research by ActionAid shows

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Change Story VSLA
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Village Savings and Loans Schemes improve women's access to finance

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TDS Project
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Improving women’s livelihood: The Donkey welfare intervention as a gamechanger

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Press Release - Workers' Day
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International Workers Day: ActionAid Ghana calls for a national roadmap to address decent work deficits

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CMSP Startup distribution
News

ActionAid supports 400 female household heads with livelihood startups tools

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NAP on BHR
News

ActionAid calls on CHRAJ to integrate gender issues in the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights

Read more
Press Release
News

93% of countries most vulnerable to climate disasters are either in or at significant risk of debt distress, new research by ActionAid shows

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Change Story VSLA
News

Village Savings and Loans Schemes improve women's access to finance

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TDS Project
News

Improving women’s livelihood: The Donkey welfare intervention as a gamechanger

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16 Days of Activism
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Protecting Women’s Rights: Why Ghana needs a law to proscribe witchcraft accusation

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Sanarigu Girls Model School
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Policy Vs Practice: Assessing School Re-entry Policy in Ghana 

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Tontie_Writer
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Looming Food Insecurity Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic: Time to Rethink Ghana's Agriculture Model

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Brandon Wu, Director of Policy and Campaigns, ActionAid USA
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In climate talks, rich countries are getting away with murder

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Smallholder farmers are most affected by the effects of climate change
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Balancing mitigation ambitions with adaptation: placing agroecology at the center of climate action in Africa

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Abena - Writer
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THE CLIMATE CRISIS: HOW GHANAIAN WOMEN ARE INFLUENCING CHANGE

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Martin is the writer
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STOP THE POLITICS OF INSULTS: TOWARDS A PEACEFUL 2020 ELECTION IN GHANA - BY MARTIN ADDISON

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Ghanaian Cedi Notes
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ActionAid responds to IMF debt relief announcement

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Apateba Awienya is a 40-year old shea butter producer who lives in the Kasiesa Community located in the Builsa South District of the Upper East Region
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We Lost our Livelihood to the Floods

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Adek John is a 38-year old nursing mother and smallholder farmer who lives in the Kasiesa community in the Builsa South District.
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I was afraid for my children when the water started rising

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Hellen selling her "pito" to some customers
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Empowering Women like Hellen to Enhance their Livelihoods

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YUWM COVID-19  Sensitisation
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Case Study on COVID-19 Response - Young Urban Women Movement

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ActionAid Ghana Annual Report 2021
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ActionAid Ghana Annual Report 2021

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The Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement and Regional Economic Integration: Reflections and Opportunities for Decent Work and Human Security

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 The Public Versus Austerity: The Wage Bill Constraint
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The Public Versus Austerity: The Wage Bill Constraint

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A section of participants at the event
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Communique` issued at Climate Justice Seminar

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ActionAid Ghana Annual Report 2020
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ActionAid Ghana Annual Report 2020

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