Today, Swiss philanthropic organisation Fondation Botnar adds the city of Koforidua in Ghana, to its global OurCity initiative that leverages local strengths, community engagement and digital technologies to transform cities and ensure young people’s wellbeing. Following its success in several cities, including Tanga in Tanzania and Cluj-Napoca in Romania, the city of Koforidua in Ghana is joining the OurCity initiative that supports cities […]

STAR-Ghana Foundation with funding from the BOTNAR Foundation is implementing a three -year project named the ‘Action for Youth Development (AfYD)’ project. Also known as ‘our city project,” the project is sited in Koforidua in the New Juabeng Municipality with the overall goal to contribute to a municipality where young people are informed and have the capacity to participate actively […]

STAR-Ghana Foundation and the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) are currently implementing the Civil Society Strengthening Programme Shift the Power (CSSP/#StP) with funding from Comic Relief and the UK Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO). This eight-year programme aims to provide long term support to Civil Society Actors (CSA) in Ghana, contributing to their resilience, responsiveness, and effectiveness in […]

STAR-Ghana Foundation’s Actions for Voice and Inclusive Development (AVID) project has held an orientation for partners under the project in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. The aim was to create an avenue for the partners to better understand the Foundation’s ways of working, including reporting requirements and how these relate to the project. Additionally, the […]

The Executive Director of STAR-Ghana Foundation, Ibrahim-Tanko Amidu, has urged civil society to adopt a double-edged approach in their advocacy work. He said their work must not just focus on reporting to align with the objectives and requirements of their donors but also geared towards development effectiveness. According to Alhaji Tanko, civil society actors often force themselves […]

– Partners of STAR-Ghana Foundation’s Giving for Change identify support areas for development As a result of local philanthropy, Abanga Moses Aningiba is currently pursuing a degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Community-led philanthropy is critical to the development of every society. Developmental projects through local philanthropy is largely need-based, thus […]

Speakers at a STAR-Ghana Foundation forum have called for increased investments in education to improve access to education for all. The call is coming on the back of concerns that poverty and cost-related (hidden) challenges remain foremost on the list of barriers that confront girls’ continuous access to education. Therefore, the unique needs of girls […]

An officer of the Ghana Immigration Service answering questions from members of the Namoo Community Dialogue Platform Community buy-in and support is critical to the success of efforts aimed at helping improve security and or preventing conflicts. Indeed, their involvement and ownership is almost inevitable in efforts to build resilience for risk border communities against spillovers […]

Partners under the STAR-Ghana Foundation’s Gender Rights and Empowerment Programme (G-REP) have been encouraged to use all available platforms to ensure that women and girls embrace and take advantage of technological innovations to improve their lives. Such a move, a Projects Manager at the Foundation, Dr Ernestina Tetteh, said would also help to improve the […]

A STAR-Ghana Foundation forum on “Promoting Girls’ Education in Ghana” has called on all stakeholders to help promote access to education for all, particularly girls. The participants were of the view that improving access to education for girls was a shared responsibility, adding that government alone cannot provide access to quality education for all. There […]

For the first time since its inception, partners on the Giving for Change (GfC) Programme met to learn and reflect on the programme. The five day event, attended by over fifty(50) partner representatives from Africa and Europe also provided an opportunity for strengthening relationships and identify additional opportunities to harness, shift power and scale up the programme. […]