This report focusses on social assistance in the form of cash transfers and explores how this can contribute to addressing specific risks and vulnerabilities faced by children in the region.
This report analyses the strengths and weaknesses of alternative health financing mechanisms in the context of West and Central Africa.
This report is one component of a research project on “Parliamentary strengthening and the Paris Principles”. It looks in detail at politics, democracy and parliament and the landscape of parliamentary strengthening with regards to Ghana.
Developing countries’ economies have been growing faster than those of developed countries for some time, including remarkable growth in African countries.
This Opinion asks why children's rights remain largely 'invisible' on the international agenda and sets out measures to address this invisibility. All but two countries have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but the Opinion questions the significance of this apparent consensus and calls for more resources to monitor and implement child rights.
Two women looking over the wall down to a beach in Accra, Ghana
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This project assesses the conference tourism value chain in Accra, Ghana, for the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV), in order to identify areas where its pro-poor impact can be increased, to provide recommendations for interventions, and to provide a strategic framework for understanding pro-poor flows in conference tourism that will guide future interventions in conference tourism value chains in other West and Central African capital cities.
Most of the urban poor spend their lives in insecure, poorly paid jobs. This Briefing Paper examines the benefits and constraints of urbanisation from the labour market perspective, and offers policy ‘next steps’ for municipal governments, including pro-poor urbanisation, backed by labour intensive growth, labour protection, flexible land use regulation and investments in basic services.
"It’s ridiculous how simple it is" Angelina Jolie tells MTV viewers on YouTube after hearing Professor Jeffrey Sachs explain how an insecticide-treated bed net controls malaria on a visit to Sauri, a ‘Millennium Village’ in Kenya. Angelina is right in one way but, as so often in development, the apparent simplicity belies tremendous complexity.
This Project Briefing reviews the impact of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), brainchild of The Earth Institute headed by Jeffrey Sachs, using case studies from Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda. It confirms the many successes of the MVP, and reviews its potential for scaling up, with recommendations for the MVP, governments and donors.