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. […]

STAR-Ghana Foundation and the West African Civil Society Initiative (WACSI) have held a series of meetings across the country on the validation of project frameworks for the Civil Society Strengthening Programme (CSSP). The CSSP seeks to provide long term support to civil society in Ghana, and in effect, enhance their resilience, responsiveness, and effectiveness in […]

The Executive Director of STAR-GHANA Foundation, Ibrahim-Tanko Amidu, has called for a collaborative approach from all stakeholders towards the promotion of girls’ education in the country. He said the performance between boys and girls have not been the best despite efforts by the government, civil society organisations (CSOs), development partners, traditional authorities, parents, and others […]

“Translating the proposal into action is the challenging part, it is not just having a StP manifesto and saying we’re going through with it to the latter. Development is a very messy process; it takes two steps forward and about four backward, and so it requires a lot more than rhetoric.”- Amidu Ibrahim-Tanko, Executive Director -STAR-Ghana […]

Efforts to facilitate access to quality education for girls continues to be frustrated by avoidable barriers confronting parents, girls and other actors vested in girls’ education. STAR-Ghana Foundation (SGF) recognizes the need to tackle these pervasive barriers to girls’ continuous access to education, to wit, proposed discussions would be held in collaboration with relevant partners and […]

A STAR-Ghana Foundation (SGF) Giving for Change (GfC) programme that seeks to promote domestic resource mobilization for development is gaining grounds in some communities in Tamale and Wa, in the Northern and Upper West regions respectively. Indeed, 12 rural and urban communities in the Sissala West district and Wa Municipalities have accepted local philanthropy to […]

Songtaba, an implementing partner of the STAR-Ghana Foundation (SGF’s) Giving for Change (GfC) project, is leading a community mobilization project aimed at empowering communities to take control of their own development. Known as the Faako (relief) Social Fund (FSF), the project which is currently ongoing in Tamale in the Northern region seeks to raise money, […]