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Child Marriage in Ghana's Fishing Industry: Analysing the experiences of children who have witnessed or undergone child marriage
The Ghana-based organisation Challenging Heights rescues and rehabilitates 100 children each year from trafficking and child labour in communities along Volta Lake. It is estimated that about three-quarters of them, both boys and girls, have either been p
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FRESH School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Webinar: The Impact of School Feeding- Findings from Ghana- Sept 2016
For the past 3 years the Partnership for Child Development have been running a large scale impact evaluation to assess the impact of the Ghana School Feeding Programme on the health and educational outcomes of children and the economic health of the commu
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Ghana LEAP 1000 Programme: Baseline Evaluation Report
This report presents results from the baseline survey of the impact evaluation of LEAP 1000 (Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty), a sub-component of the wider Ghana LEAP programme, which explicitly targets poor households with pregnant and lactating w
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The West African Giveaway: Use & abuse of corporate tax incentives in ECOWAS
This report examines corporate tax incentives and their impact in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), with a focus on four countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal. ActionAid and Tax Justice Network Africa’s research shows
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Governance and Policy Coordination: The case of birth registration in Ghana
Coordination is a significant issue for the study of governance. Policy and practice in even the most specialized area often have implications or involve relationships beyond the sector, let alone relationships between different units or tiers of administ
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Key Findings from the YouthSave Project
YouthSave is a consortium project led by Save the Children in partnership with the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, New America, CGAP, and supported by the MasterCard Foundation. The YouthSave consortium and local partn
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Impacts of Financial Inclusion on Youth Development: Findings from the Ghana YouthSave experiment
The Ghana Experiment in YouthSave is a large-scale, rigorous test of the impacts of youth savings accounts (YSAs) on savings performance and developmental outcomes for youth and their households. The Center for Social Development (CSD), in partnership wit
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Youth Savings Patterns and Performance in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and Nepal
Research suggests that accumulating savings not only creates economic opportunity but also improves developmental outcomes, including school enrolment, academic achievement, and health. But the percentage of children aged 15 and 24 with formal savings ran
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Researching the Linkages Between Social Protection and Children’s Care in Ghana: LEAP and its effects on child well-being, care, and family cohesion
Despite most national governments ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the following Guidelines on Alternative Care for Children, evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) suggests that the rights to adequate care are being violated in th
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My world, my vision. Consultations with children on their priorities for the post-2015 framework
Around the world, discussions are currently taking place on the framework that will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they come to an end in 2015. Commitments have been made to ensuring that the process of developing this new framework
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Child-sensitive Social Protection in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
A publication by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), prepared in collaboration with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) as part of a series of background papers written to inform The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2013. The paper explores soci
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Becoming a human rights friendly school: A Guide for schools around the world
The Human Rights Friendly Schools project aims to empower young people and promote the active participation of all members of the school community in integrating human rights values and principles into all areas of school life. The project is founded on t