Northern Ghana project led by UN-Habitat comes to a close,  providing resilient infrastructure

September 13th, 2021

Tamale, Ghana, 8 September 2021—A three-year joint United Nations project, led by UN-Habitat, to provide resilient and flood prone water supply infrastructure in northern Ghana has come to a close…

Recipient of a UN-Habitat project to supply clean water in northern Ghana lauds the benefits

July 29th, 2021

Tamale, Ghana 28 July 2021—Samata Abdullahi believes that installing a water tank in her Shichegu neighbourhood, courtesy of a project led by UN-Habitat in the Disaster Prone Communities in northern…

Residents of an informal settlement in northern Ghana get aid to better fight Covid-19

July 28th, 2021

Tamale, Ghana 27 July 2021—Residents of Ward K community in northern Ghana Tuesday received two hand washing stations and two water tanks through a United Nations initiative, a move that increases…

United Nations supports Ghana's vision to upgrade slums and informal settlements and reduce urban poverty

December 1st, 2020

Ramatou Quaye is a 21-year old boxer and a member of Ghana’s National Boxing Team, the Black Bombers since 2014.  Ramatou lives in the Ga Mashie area, an indigenous Ga community of about 200,000…

UN Deputy Secretary-General sees impact of UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme in Ghana

November 24th, 2020

Accra, Ghana 16 November 2020 – The UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed visited the informal settlements of Ussher Town and Jamestown in Ghana’s capital which have been transformed by UN-…

UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme in Ga-Mashie, Ghana to feature at World EXPO 2021

September 24th, 2020

24 September 2020 - UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) project in Ga-Mashie, Accra, Ghana is in the spotlight. The project has attracted the attention of the jury of the…