Day: June 7, 2023

The Ga East Municipal Assembly (GEMA) and the Ghana Statistical Service, in partnership with GIZ, have outdoored two mobile Apps to help address the sanitation challenges, and serve as a medium for reporting on Gender-based violence. The Apps, namely, the ‘CleanApp Ghana’ developed by CERSGIS and ‘Let’s Talk’ developed on OA Holdings were designed to use Citizen-Generated Data (CGD), with GIZ providing the financial and technical support in collaboration with the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS). AO Holdings is the developer of the ‘Let’s Talk App’ while the ‘CleanApp Ghana App’ was developed by CERSGIS. The project was first piloted in the Ga East Municipality and three others namely Ho, Techiman and West Gonja Municipalities, in 2020 and it is now being scaled up nationwide. The move is aimed at leveraging technology and innovation to collect Citizen-Generated Data on Waste and Gender-based violence to be used for effective waste management in the country. The objective of the Project is to explore the potential of CGD as a complementary data source for official statistics through pilot projects by exploring the use of CGD methodologies to collect data on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and solid waste management for SDGs 5.2.2; 11.7.2; 16.1.3; 11.6.1. It is also to augment statistics production for evidence-based decision-making at the sub-national level and document and share learning with National Statistical Systems and evidence community. Mrs Elizabeth Kaakie Mann, Municipal Chief Executive, GEMA launching the project Apps, said prior to the launch a two-day training workshop was organized for the District Technical Team on how to use them and to be able to transfer the knowledge acquired to the community members during the sensitization activities. She appealed to the residents to embrace the Apps, share it on their various WhatsApp group platforms, and educate their members to effectively use the Apps to report their complaints and challenges pertaining to sanitation and gender-based violence within their community as it serves as a faster and more accurate means to address their grievances. She said both Apps could be accessed by downloading and installing it from the Google Play Store on an android phone or through the short codes: *902*58#, for the CleanApp and *800*818# for the ‘Let’s Talk’ App.

Source: Ghana News Agency

The MTN Ghana, as part of its ’21 Days of Y’ello Care’ programme, has trained young people on social media marketing as well as customer services relations. The training is to enable the young people to be able to market their goods and products on social media and build proper customer relationships with their clients. They were given skills training in soap making, bead making, bleach making, and shower gel making, among others to reduce youth unemployment in the country. The programme, which commenced on June 5, 2023, aimed at empowering the youth, was on the theme: ‘Empowering entrepreneurs to unlock growth and job creation for communities.’ As part of the programme, MTN Ghana sought to train over 3000 people. Mr Emmanuel Afutu, Senior Manager, Radio and Core Network Implementation of MTN, said there was the need to mentor and train young people on digitalizing their businesses to yield better results. ‘That is why MTN is partnering with Engage Now Africa (ENA) to train the youth,’ he said. He encouraged the youth to assume ownership of the projects and for those who learnt various skills, he urged them to continue to enhance their skills to be the best in their chosen vocations. Madam Cecilia Amankwah, Country Director, ENA, explained that the programme was an entrepreneur programme that would help the youth and women in business. She said, ‘On June 6, 2023, MTN Ghana came to mentor the beneficiaries on how to do proper business, how to use social media to market their products and how to treat customers.’ They were also taught digital literacy,’ she added. Madam Amankwah reiterated the need for the youth to be very efficient in their skills and businesses, hence, the need for ENA to give the youth skills training. She urged the youth to participate in the MTN Y’ello care programme to be able to take care of themselves, their families as well as the society. The 21-day of Y’ello Care campaign is a staff volunteerism programme in which employees across MTN’s operations across the world are encouraged to take time off to physically get involved in activities that would uplift the communities they operate in. It helps to raise awareness about the issues affecting the society and demonstrates the Company’s readiness to do something about them. The programme has been running for the past 16 years from 1st to 21st June each year and in all these years, the Company has maintained a steady commitment, enthusiasm and a sense of purpose in the activities they engaged in.

Source: Ghana News Agency