Climate Change Media Partnership
Jan 30, 2011 | Panos London
The media has a key role to play in raising awareness about climate change at both global and local levels. The CCMP project is an exciting programme designed to ensure this will happen.
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Reporting research: using evidence for effective journalism
Nov 13, 2010 | Panos London
Overview Researchers working for universities, governments or private companies are doing vital investigation into issues – such as clean water, food security and sexual health – that directly affect the everyday life of people around the world. However they often communicate the results only to other researchers. Research findings can create powerful stories for news…
Ghana: Taxation, what’s in it for me?
Nov 27, 2009 | Isaac Tetteh
Ghana's government is keen to raise more income from tax. Over the past 30 years successive governments have tried to push through tax reforms but some have been violently opposed by the public, meaning the current government is taking a different approach.
Toothless tigers to tackle corruption
Mar 1, 2007 | Charity Binka
Ghana, one of Africa's most vibrant democracies, is plagued by corruption despite economic governance receiving high public attention. Charity Binka asks whether Ghanaian anti-corruption institutions are toothless tigers.
Mining a rich seam of protest
Feb 21, 2007 | Panos London
Ghana, where gold mines have long drawn foreigners with an eye on the quick buck is under pressure to be more careful with the profits from its precious metal.
Risky business
Sep 20, 2006 | Panos London
In Ghana, the government has told banks to help get small and medium-sized businesses off the ground. Isaac Tetteh took aspiring businessman Owusu Korentang to find some backers in Accra.
Foreign flavours
Feb 16, 2006 | Panos London
Isaac Tetteh reports from Ghana, where farmers are finding they can't compete with cheap cuts of meat from the European Union or subsidised rice from the US.
Hard currency
Dec 15, 2005 | Panos London
Tourism in Ghana is on the up, and the foreigners are bringing in much-needed hard currency. But the tourism authorities and jobless young people have clashed.
Eat what we grow
Dec 13, 2005 | Edwin Kumah Drah
The Ghanaian government has launched an innovative campaign to get the public to eat locally produced rice, in an effort to offset the negative impacts of cheap imports.
Fish and ships
Mar 2, 2005 | Panos London
In Ghana local fishermen face tough competition from bigger foreign fishing boats. Edwin Kumah Drah discovers that when fish isn't available, people turn to illegally hunted meat for their supper.
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