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Gender-Responsive Public Services and Young Urban Women’s Economic Empowerment: A report on research in Ghana and South Africa

In 2016 we worked with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) based at the University of Sussex in the UK to conduct a research in Ghana and South Africa to examine the relationship between young

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Missed Opportunity: How could funds lost to tax incentives in Africa be used to fill the education finance gap?

How much revenue do African governments lose from providing tax incentives, such as giving companies tax holidays and exemptions on paying taxes on import duties and value added tax? And if these

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Out of Pocket: how much are parents paying for public education that should be free?

According to international human rights law, primary education should be free of charge, and secondary education should be made progressively free. Yet in many developing countries education is rarely

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AAG 2016 Annual Report

The second account of our work under the Country Strategy Paper V (CSP V) under the theme, "Increasing Possibilities, Claiming Rights", ActionAid Ghana’s 2016 Annual Report reveals the widening gap

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Strategy 2028: Action for Global Justice

ActionAid was founded as a charity in 1972, and throughout our history we have innovated and evolved our approach to better address the structural drivers of poverty and injustice. In the 1990s, we

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Policy Brief: Incorporation of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Unpaid Care Work into regional polices: Africa

Time to start caring – how ignoring Unpaid Care Work is holding back economic empowerment of Africa’s rural women

Policy Brief: Incorporation of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Unpaid Care Work into regional polices: Africa
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Tax, Education Privatisation and the Right to Education: Influencing Education Financing In Ghana

This report has been commissioned by ActionAid Ghana and its main purpose is to examine education financing and the promotion of the Rights to Education (RTE) in Ghana through the provision of

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Policy Brief: Leveraging Domestic Taxation for Sustainable Financing of the Education Sector in Ghana

This policy brief examines the dwindling state of education financing in Ghana and its impact on learning outcomes and inequality. Despite the government’s commitment to free and compulsory education

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Common Cause, Collaborative Response: Violence Against Women and Girls and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

The right to choose where you go, what you wear, when and with whom you have sex, who you marry and if and when you have children: these are choices that many people reading this paper will assume are

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POWER Brochure

An informative booklet discusses ActionAid's Tax Justice Campaign directed at addressing Unpaid Care Work and Education.It draws and connects the link between the three, making recommendation on what