Category: Education

By Ms. Bernadette Deka PMRC Executive Director Dear Friends and Colleagues, Child marriage is widely recognized as a violation of children’s rights and a direct form of discrimination against girls who are often deprived of their basic rights to health, education, development and equality. The practice of child marriage is a violation of girls’ human rights and puts girls’ health at risk, hinders their ability to exercise their rights to choose who, if, and when to marry; to pursue their right to education; and in many cases, may also impede their legal and economic rights. Child marriage ultimately violates a girl’s aspirations...

By Derrick Sinjela PATRIOTIC FRONT (PF) Kasama Central Member of Parliament (MP) Kelvin Mutale Sampa is a man of the people in Kasama, Northern Province with a passion for development which is founded when he served as President of the National Initiative for Citizens Awareness (NICA). Before his latest passion as a parliamentarian, Mr. Sampa (KMS) studied Social Sciences at Mulungushi University in Kabwe Central Province after concluding Grade Twelve at Munali High School in Lusaka, thus sharing an educational heritage with former First Republican President Dr. Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda. Spearheading development is a key component of Sampa, since...

By Andrew Chinambu Cutting Edge The Ministry of Health in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has mandated EQUIP Health to assist with rolling out a Test & Treat programme targeting 65,000 HIV-positive individuals in fiveprovinces in Zambia, namely: Central, Copperbelt, Luapula, Muchinga and Northwestern provinces. This is on the back of His Excellency President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s speech at the HIV Testing, Counselling and Treatment Day event on 15thAugust 2017. The HIV and AIDS scourge continues to be one of the biggest threats to Zambia’s development agenda. Since the first reported case of HIV was confirmed in Zambia in 1984, approximately one million citizens have died of AIDS-related illnesses. Despite the availability of...

Young graffiti artists painted the outside wall of the UN House in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, in support of the Sustainable Development Goals this month. Each unique art piece represents the artist’s interpretation of one of the 17 goals. More info available here from the UN in Mongolia:  https://unitednationsinmongolia.exposure.co/un-mongolia-launches-urban-art-on-sdgs   Photo: UN Mongolia Monday August 28th, 2017|News Be the first to like. Like Unlike

With global warming expected to significantly impact future yields in countries located closer to the equator, the United Nations agriculture agency is calling on Asia-Pacific economies to take a leading role in adaptation and mitigation. “Many APEC [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation] economies have already felt the full force of agricultural losses from natural disasters in recent years, with the vast majority of these being climate related,” said Kundhavi Kadiresan, Assistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific. Geographically, the negative impact of climate change on agricultural output could result in lower yields of rice, wheat, corn and soybeans in countries...

Home Our Mission About us Programmes Advocacy Grants News & Blog Home | Programmes | Making Ghanaian Girls Great! Making Ghanaian Girls Great! Making Ghanaian Girls Great! (MGCubed) Background Making Ghanaian Girls Great! (MGCubed) is Ghana’s first interactive distance-learning project. The Project has impacted over 10, 000 marginalized girls and boys in 72 schools, within two regions in Ghana (Volta and Greater Accra) by providing them with an enhanced quality of education to improve their lives and transform their future. MGCubed aims at addressing the challenges of teacher quality, teacher absenteeism, and poor student learning by equipping two classrooms in every school with solar-powered...