Month: October 2025

  • October 23, 2025

Ford Foundation marks 65yrs in West Africa with tree-planting drive for climate justice

The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), in partnership with the Ford Foundation, has celebrated the Foundation’s 65th anniversary in West Africa with a symbolic tree-planting ceremony at the forecourt of the Shai-Osudoku District Assembly. The event, themed “From Nation-Building to Social Justice,” highlighted the Foundation’s enduring legacy in advancing education, democracy, social justice, and environmental sustainability across the […]
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  • October 21, 2025

Resource Extraction, Climate Change Driving Inequality in West Africa — ISODEC

Executive Director of the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC),Mr  Sam Danse has raised concerns over the growing link between resource extraction and climate change in West Africa, cautioning that the two forces are reinforcing each other and deepening social and economic inequalities across the region. According to Mr Danse, the growing global demand for critical […]
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  • October 16, 2025

NDPC Boss Calls For Fair Resource Governance

The Director-General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Dr. Audrey Smock Amoah, has called for equitable and sustainable management of Africa’s natural resources to promote shared prosperity and social justice. Speaking at the Equity in Extraction Conference 2025 in Accra on Tuesday, organised by the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) in collaboration with the […]
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  • October 15, 2025

Equity in Extraction Conference 2025: West Africa Confronts Inequality in Resource Governance

The Equity in Extraction Conference 2025 is currently underway, bringing together researchers, policymakers, civil society leaders, activists, and labor groups from across Africa and beyond to discuss how the continent can better manage its vast natural resources in a fair, sustainable, and climate-conscious way. West Africa is richly endowed with critical minerals—such as cobalt, nickel, […]
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  • October 15, 2025

Weak resource governance deepening inequality in Africa- NDPC boss warns

The Director-General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Dr Audrey Smock Amoah, has urged African governments to ensure that the continent’s natural resources become a source of shared prosperity rather than a driver of inequality and environmental destruction. Speaking at the High-Level West Africa Conference on Equity in Extraction, organised by the Integrated Social Development […]
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  • October 14, 2025

West Africa Conference on Equity in Resource Extraction kicks off today

The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) and its partners will today kick start a three-day high-level West Africa Conference in Accra, focusing on promoting equity in the governance of natural resources across the West African sub- region. Running from today,Tuesday, October 14 to Thursday, October 16, the conference is being held under the theme: ‘Equity […]
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