UNDP launched a new initiative to promote waste recovery in Ghana, through the creation of a digital and one-stop shop solutions platform that will connect all stakeholders along the waste management chain.
The 2nd National REDD+ Forum was held to sensitise stakeholders and to galvanise political support for REDD+ implementation in Ghana
Increased partnership from all stakeholders will drive maximum support for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Young people have been urged to develop innovative solutions to help address social, environmental and economic challenges that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to address.
Governments of Ghana and Ecuador signed an Aide Memoire (agreement) expressing interest to cooperate on environmental protection, with focus on forestry development. The signing took place in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, during a South-South Knowledge Exchange which was facilitated by the United Nations Development Programme UNDP.
UNDP launched Human Development Report on Northern Ghana. This report explores human development outcomes in the context of significant socio-economic disparities in the northern zone of Ghana.
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UNDP Ghana Brochure
This brochure highlights UNDP Ghana’s strategic focus areas for 2018-2022. The activities for the country office in Ghana for the next five years is focusing on two programme pillars. These are accountable, transparent and responsive governance, and green, equitable, and resilient development.
Wide inequalities in people’s well-being
According to the latest Human Development Index, people living in the very high human development countries can expect to live 19 years longer, and spend seven more years in school, than those living in the group of low human development countries.
Tapping the sun to increase rural incomes
Through a solar-powered irrigation project supported by the Energy Commission of Ghana and UNDP, smallholder farmers in the four communities of Tamalgu, Nakpanduri, Datoyili and Fooshegu can now irrigate their farm fields regularly.
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About Ghana
28.2
Population in million in 2016
21.4%
Poverty rate (in 2012) down from 52.6% (in 1991) per World Bank
3,839
GNI per capita per the 2016 HDR
0.579
Human Dev. Index per the 2016 HDR
