| Active Citizenship, News, Participation, Social Accountability
Friends of the Nation (FoN) a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has organised a day’s training programme for market women in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region on social accountability. It brought together market women from Tarkwa, Nsuaem and...
| Active Citizenship, News, Participation, Social Accountability
Mrs Evelyn Baafi Boamah, Deputy Director of Minerals Development Fund at the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, has called on Friends of the Nation (FoN), to continue to fight for the needs of the vulnerable in the society. She said FoN, a Non Governmental...
| Natural Resources Governance, News, Oceans & Fisheries
Fisheries stakeholders have described government’s efforts at combating Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing practices as inadequate. They have therefore called on the government to double its efforts to end the practice to save the marine resource from...
| Natural Resources Governance, News, Oceans & Fisheries
The fishermen, led by their chief Fisherman, Nana Obrenu Dabum III, said to strictly abide by their decision, a taskforce has been set up to regularly patrol the shores to prevent alien fishermen from engaging IUU practices oblong their beaches.The fishermen and...
| Natural Resources Governance, News, Oceans & Fisheries
Stakeholders in the fisheries value chain have called for an amendment to the Fisheries Act 625, 2002, to ensure sustainable development in the country’s fisheries sub-sector. They said the amendment should promote transparency, participation and accountability...
| Natural Resources Governance, News, Oceans & Fisheries
An European Union Council Africa Working Party, has stressed the need for concerted efforts from both local and foreign actors in the country’s fisheries sector to help rebuild its dwindling fish stock. The group that is responsible for the management of the union’s...
