Lauren Pfeifer, ONE’s Transparency and Accountability Research Assistant, shares Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s call for transparency and accountability mechanisms in the oil industry of Ghana. Renowned Nigerian economist and member of ONE’s Board of Directors Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala advised Ghana on the importance of building transparency and accountability mechanisms into the DNA of its fledgling oil industry. Speaking
Ghana is a country I’ve come to admire profoundly for its democratic credentials over the last five elections since 1992. And now, I have seen that country successfully transfer power for the sixth time in a row without an implosion. Ghana has done it again… it’s pulled off yet another peaceful election last week on December 7!
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Elizabeth Kabach with her family I am a community health volunteer from Batuisa. If any accidents happen, they usually call me to see if I can help. But the road to my place is very bad. Here, we don’t have cars, we only use bicycles. If anybody is sick and you want to carry them
KickStart Ghana is a UK-registered charity that aims to ensure that the people of the Volta Region, Ghana, can fulfill their potential and have every opportunity to succeed. We focus on the promotion of education and physical activity to do this. We use a mixture of grants and volunteers to achieve these aims. At KickStart
I started this year traveling across Africa with Bono visiting places we hadn’t been for nearly a decade. One of these was northern Ghana. Ghana is often held up as a success story of development. It has a stable democracy, fast growing economy and has already met the Millennium Development Goal to halve extreme poverty.
This week, ONE agriculture policy manager Kelly Hauser tells the story of a Ghana cocoa farm through photos. Have you ever wondered where that stunningly delicious chunk of chocolate actually came from? Well, earlier this month, I got to find out. I traveled with a delegation of Yale Alumni ServiceCorps members who were already working
Please allow me to introduce myself: I’m Kara Ford. I’m a rising first year law student at Ohio State. I graduated last June from Ohio State. During my time as an undergraduate student, I was a campus leader for ONE. Like every ONE campus leader I’ve met, I have spent countless hours organizing volunteers, attending
Take your eyes on a summer holiday and view these breathtaking photos of landscapes from various parts of Africa. These photos — taken by ONE members Sophie Wainwright, Jacqueline Akakpo, Jessica Frisina, Karen Walrond, Brent Cline — highlight the unique geography of Africa. You’ll find sandy beaches, lush jungles, massive waterfalls and beautiful ocean views.
Our global health policy manager Erin Hohlfelder had a chance to speak with Winnie Sseruma, an AIDS activist who has been living with HIV more almost 25 years, at the 2012 International AIDS Conference (IAC) in Washington, D.C. Currently, Winnie is the advocacy and networks officer for the community health and HIV team at Christian
ONE Africa Director Sipho Moyo reflects on the life and accomplishments of Ghana President John Atta Mills, who died earlier this week. When an African leader passes on, their death is never a simple, clear-cut affair. It is nearly always shrouded in secrecy or followed by a constitutional crisis in which the citizens never know
This week, we’re featuring photos from Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania submitted by ONE members and a few friends from the nonprofit community. Take a look, and as always, tell us which one is your favorite in the comments below. I would LOVE to be stuck on this island. Just gorgeous. Bazaruto Island, Mozambique.
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