Tag: LEAP

Manasseh Azure Awuni, an investigative journalist, has stated that each year, NGOs train and support hundreds of kayayei. He noted that despite this, thousands more, primarily from northern Ghana, continue ...

The Finance Minister Hon. Dr. Mohammed Amin has Provided updates to the nation on economic performance.  The finance minister began by expressing gratitude to Ghanaians for their unwavering support throughout ...

Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP), a government-implemented social protection initiative in Ghana, aims to provide cash grants to extremely impoverished and vulnerable households to mitigate economic and social hardship. However, ...

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, has criticized the administration for the deal it made with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the newly authorized $3 ...

The Government of Ghana has disclosed that it is committed to expanding coverage to all 2,500,000 extreme poor individuals as estimated by the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 7) by ...

Dr. Theophilus Acheampong, an economist and political risk analyst, has advised Ghana to use the IMF programme to negotiate some debt restructuring with commercial and multilateral creditors. He noted that ...

Dr. Kwadwo Opoku has proposed a nationwide cash transfer system to cushion citizens against the rising cost of living in the country. The Research Fellow at the Centre for Social ...

The World Bank has released additional funds to support government clear its arrears for two cycles of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) under the Ghana Productive Safety Net Project ...

Director for Civil Society Platform for Social Protection, Ghana (CSPSP-GH), Auberon Jeleel Odoom, has called on government to adopt the bill on Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) in order to ...

The unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic together with massive school closures and inadequate government assistance has reset decades of progress, pushing children into worst forms of child labor, Human ...