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
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
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
Communiqué from the Africa Climate Week, 18th - 22nd March 2019
The 2019 Africa Climate Week held in Accra under the theme, “Climate Action in Africa: A Race We Can Win” was reported to have brought together around 3,000 participants including governments’
“In the next five years, I want to be the best woman ginger farmer in the district”
A few years ago, Asanna Iddrisu was a struggling subsistence farmer working to make ends meet to feed her family and herself, until ActionAid and our partner, Centre for Maternal Health and Community
How Kende fought back child marriage and the trap of teenage pregnancy with education
Kende is an 18-year old survivor of child marriage with a two-year old child, who has returned back to school to reclaim her life and that of her child's.
ActionAid wins EU #ChangingLives video competition
Sumaila Abdul-Rahman, Country Director of ActionAid Ghana receives the Overall Award for Video Most Appealing to the European Public from Paolo Salivia, the Chargé d’Affaires of the European Union in
"The training has been great so far"
Richard Acheampong lives at Oyarifa Teiman, one of the fifteen communities that falls under the scope of the La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly (LaNMMA) in the Greater Accra region.
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Action for Global Justice: ActionAid Ghana's Take
Our new strategy, “Action for Global Justice” strengthens and implements learnings from our previous strategy.
With a critical understanding of the influencers and causes of extreme poverty and
Position paper: Integrating SRHR, decent work and unpaid care work
This position paper is a product of the first three years of the ‘Young Urban Women: Life Choices and Livelihoods Programme’ aimed at empowering young women by addressing their economic rights (in
