Action Ambassador Ghana

Teenage pregnancy continues to be a major problem facing adolescents, parents and other stakeholders in the Central Region and the battle against the menace rages on. The Central Region has for the past three years been consistently ranked as the Region with the second highest prevalence rate in teenage pregnancy in Ghana. The Ghana Health Service Report for 2015 indicates that more than 13,000 teenage girls got pregnant in the Central Region in the year under review. Teenage pregnancy prevalence reduced from 15 per cent in 2013 to 14.8 per cent in 2014 and now stands at 14.4 percent due some measures and strategies put in place by stakeholders. This, however, has given stakeholders hope that with some more intensified efforts, they could achieve their aim of drastically reducing the menace. Ms Vera Oheneba Safoah, known in showbiz as Esi, reigning queen of TV3 Ghana’s Most Beautiful beauty pageant is the latest warrior to join the trail of queen mothers, chiefs, govern...

It is of course very factual that teenage pregnancy  is the increase in both the urban and rural areas but sometimes some of its causes are very perform to unearthed, because some of these teenage pregnancy you do not know why it should happen. Somebody asks, what at all is teenage pregnancy? It is a pregnancy that involves girls between ages 13-19years of age which was not planned for and as such unwanted. As l know that anything which is not planned for and happens has a lot of hunting repercussions which go lonely may to endanger the persons entire life and future due to this reasons ,I would like to put fourth some for causes and effects so that people who would intend to invite themselves would perhaps desist from it.  Some of the causes are listed below; 1. Parents irresponsibility 2. Poverty 3. Lack of education 4. Bad company 5. Peer pressure 6. Lack of parental control 7. Lack of affection 8. Children’s irresponsibility. More so, some o...

Topics as sex,abortion and sexual abuse are complex issues that are deeply rooted in Ghanaian culture which have not been adequately addressed. With initial funding from the Dutch Embassy in Accra, Afra Jonker , an independent film maker has trained young leaders in Ghana to write,develop and produce short films to inspire,inform and ignite change.Youth Advocates Ghana and WEB.foundation believe that storytelling through film can be a powerful tool to engage local communities around very complex societal issues.Through social media,YouTube and community outreach,the films once produced will help to understand how an issue plays out in the lives of individuals, families and communities. The first phase of the research training focused on identifying problems,writing stories,directing,handling camera ,editing and sound engineering. Richard Ben Apui , a local film director has joined the team and assisting the film team to further develop skills in film ma...

Over 55 Parties covering More Than 55 per cent of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Ratify the Paris Climate Change Agreement New York/ Bonn, 5 October 2016 —The UN’s top climate official today praised nations across the globe for acting swiftly to bring the landmark Paris Climate Change Agreement into force. “This is a truly historic moment for people everywhere. The two key thresholds needed for the Paris Climate Change Agreement to become legal reality have now been met,” said Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). “The speed at which countries have made the Paris’s Agreement’s entry into force possible is unprecedented in recent experience of international agreements and is a powerful confirmation of the importance nations attach to combating climate change and realizing the multitude of opportunities inherent in the Paris Agreement,” she said. In a  statement  issued before the threshold for ratification of...

Ghana's contingent to the 2016 edition of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI), hosted at the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON) Badagry in Lagos, Nigeria have topped the awards scheme organised by officials of ASCON. YALI, an initiative of President Barack Obama, is a signature effort to invest in the next generation of African leaders. Officials of ASCON held the awards scheme as part of the five-week training programme which was organised by the YALI Regional Leadership Centre, West Africa, and partnered by the USAID, and Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). The participants made up of 134 young Africans came from Ghana, Nigeria, Gambia, Cote d' Ivoire, Cameroon, Liberia and Sierra Leone. They were taken through three key modules being Civil Society and Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy Management; and these included courses like Urbanisation, Ethics, Gender and Health, Stimulation, and Creativity. T...