Mastercard Foundation — development organization supporting youth skills training, research innovation, and entrepreneurship initiatives across Ghana and Africa.
… It also highlighted its BRIDGE in Agric Programme, implemented with the Mastercard Foundation, which provides single-digit interest financing to agribusinesses, alongside an export desk to support international market access. …
… In his opening remarks, Paul Kasanga, Country Director of Mastercard Foundation highlighted the partnership between KIC and the Mastercard Foundation under the Initiative for Youth in Agricultural Transformation (IYAT) Program that is creating dignified and fulfilling work for yo …
… Its portfolio includes collaborations with 15 international universities, the World Bank, IFAD, national and international financial institutions, Mastercard Foundation, USAID, GIZ, UNDP, ECOWAS, NEPAD, and several embassies and development partners. …
… Organized by the Africa Health Collaborative in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, the festival reflects growing recognition that young innovators are central to shaping the future of healthcare across the continent. …
… The ‘Associates Programme Touting the transformative intervention of the ‘Associates Programme,’ an initiative designed by the Mastercard Foundation in partnership with Jobberman, targeted at supporting young professionals aged 18 to 34 in accessing job opportunities and advancin …
… She further noted that the Authority has in recent times, expanded collaboration with organisations such as the Mastercard Foundation, selected banks, and other partners aimed at improving service delivery and enhancing opportunities for national service personnel across the coun …
… Private sector interventions, including programmes like the Absa SME Loan at 10% per annum, a partnership between Absa Bank Ghana and the Mastercard Foundation, that pair concessional lending with business development support, further demonstrate how aligning capital with capabil …
… She explained further that the bank, together with its partner the Mastercard Foundation, has been implementing financing programmes – Building Resilience and Investing in the Development and Growth of Entrepreneurs in Agriculture (BRIDGE) – for agribusiness players at a single-d …
… The Nkabom initiative is a collaborative effort of the Mastercard Foundation, the University of Ghana, McGill University in Canada and other local partner institutions. …
… To further advance agriculture through the Mastercard Foundation, the Bank has disbursed loans to agribusinesses at a single-digit rate (4 per cent). …
Youth development advocates say young Ghanaians require greater access to markets, leadership opportunities and meaningful platforms to apply their skills and create jobs. The comments come as Ghana marks International Youth Day 2026 under the theme "Different Contexts, Common Aspirations," which recognises that despite diverse backgrounds, young people share common aspirations for quality education, meaningful work and entrepreneurship.
Youth development advocates say young Ghanaians require greater access to markets, leadership opportunities and meaningful platforms to apply their skills and create jobs. The comments come as Ghana marks International Youth Day 2026 under the theme "Different Contexts, Common Aspirations," which recognises that despite diverse backgrounds, young people share common aspirations for quality education, meaningful work and entrepreneurship.
EduSpots launched a nine-month Digital Champions Programme to equip and certify 60 community-based changemakers to become digital champions, lead digital learning, and strengthen digital inclusion in underserved communities in Ghana.
Ghana's youth comprise roughly 38% of its population and the country needs to create about 300,000 new jobs yearly, but young people face barriers including skills gaps, limited access to affordable capital, and weak market linkages that prevent them from turning ideas into viable businesses.
Students of the Design and Technology Institute showcased innovative projects at their 2026 Capstone Projects Exhibition in Accra on August 14, featuring robotics, smart assistive technology, upcycled fashion, affordable housing models, and other solutions addressing real-world challenges under the theme "Creative Minds, Sustainable Solutions."
The Association of Small-Scale Industries and Ghana Enterprises Agency have organised an executive mentorship and coaching training programme for trade association executives across 33 municipal and districts in the Eastern Region. The initiative is part of the Business in a Box Project, which aims to strengthen industry capacity, equip youth with vocational and business skills, and support business development.
The Design and Technology Institute has graduated over 1,500 Master Craft Persons and SME owners from its Precision Quality training programme, aimed at formalising and improving competitiveness in Ghana's informal sector. The initiative, developed with the Mastercard Foundation, equips artisans and entrepreneurs with technical, business, and management skills including workplace safety, customer service, and digital tools.
The Junior Football Camp's third WELL GIRLS mentorship session featured Commissioner of Police Lydia Donkor, who encouraged participants to embrace change and pursue their ambitions, selecting four girls aspiring to join the Ghana Police Service as her mentees in a structured leadership initiative.
A national study presented in Accra on 28 July 2026 found widespread sexual harassment and discrimination against young women in Ghana's creative sector. The Behind the Scenes project, led by researchers at the University of Cape Coast with support from the International Center for Research on Women and the Mastercard Foundation, called for safer workplaces and stronger gender equity measures.
FAWE Ghana, with Mastercard Foundation support, has introduced a Bridging/Remedial Learning Programme offering conditional tertiary admission to students who obtained a D7 in one core WASSCE subject, allowing them to take structured remedial classes and rewrite the deficient subject.
The CEO of Ghana's Gold Board has called on Africans living abroad to move beyond remittances and become investors and entrepreneurs to drive Africa's economic transformation. He argued that Africa's rise must create African industries, jobs, and wealth rather than enriching foreign economies while African youth remain unemployed.
Professor Christian Agyare has officially become KNUST's 13th Vice-Chancellor, succeeding Professor Rita Akosua Dickson. An accomplished pharmaceutical microbiology researcher with over two decades of academic experience, he was previously Provost of KNUST's College of Health Sciences.
Five hundred and twenty-six young people graduated from the Precision Quality Internship Programme in the Volta Region, a six-month initiative offering training in business skills, welding, hospitality, and fashion design to improve employability and entrepreneurship. The programme, jointly implemented by Precision Quality, the Design and Technology Institute, and Ho Technical University with Mastercard Foundation support, targeted young people aged 18–35 from multiple towns across Volta and Oti regions.
Sammy Gyamfi, CEO of the Ghana Gold Board, has called on African governments, businesses and the global diaspora to invest more in the continent's youth population, warning that Africa's demographic advantage could become a crisis without adequate opportunities. Citing the Mastercard Foundation's Africa Youth Employment Outlook 2026, Gyamfi noted that Africa is home to about 532 million young people aged 15 to 35, and stressed that harnessing their potential is critical to the continent's future.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has been named an inaugural winner of the Africa Higher Education for Transformation Prize, receiving US$3 million from the Mastercard Foundation for excellence in research and innovation. The award will support expansion of KNUST's research-to-innovation pipeline, incubation and entrepreneurship programmes, and industry partnerships to create economic opportunities for young people.
KNUST has been selected as one of five African universities to receive a $3 million Mastercard Foundation prize for driving higher education transformation. The award recognises the university's excellence in research and innovation, particularly its platforms like the Kumasi Business Incubator and Innovation Centre for converting research into startups and industry solutions.
The Coalition for Positive Impact has launched the eighth Igniting Dreams Summit in Wa with a new partnership with the Mastercard Foundation to address youth unemployment and entrepreneurship in Northern Ghana. A business pitch competition offered 20 fellows up to GH¢100,000 in seed funding, with organisers citing youth unemployment at 25.7 per cent across the five northern regions.
The proposed Poultry Master Plan will provide a long-term roadmap to make Ghana self-sufficient in poultry production through a phased and coordinated approach, according to Dr Dan Acquaye, CEO of Agri-Impact Limited. Achieving self-sufficiency requires sustained investment across the entire value chain, including expanding maize and soya production, improving infrastructure, and strengthening processing capacity.
A proposed Poultry Master Plan aims to provide a long-term roadmap for Ghana to achieve self-sufficiency in poultry production through phased, coordinated investment across the value chain. Dr Dan Acquaye, CEO of Agri-Impact Limited, says self-sufficiency cannot be achieved in a few years and requires expansion of maize and soya production, infrastructure improvements, and better farming practices alongside increased bird production.
Ghana consumes an estimated 452,100 tonnes of chicken yearly but produces only about 60,000 tonnes domestically, meaning roughly 87% of consumed chicken is imported. Joy Business and the Super Morning Show will host a high-level roundtable to examine whether Ghana can close the gap and achieve poultry self-sufficiency.
Joy Business and the Super Morning Show will host a roundtable discussion on Ghana's poultry industry, examining why Ghana imports roughly 87% of the chicken it consumes despite decades of policy interventions, and whether the country can close the gap between its estimated annual consumption of 452,100 tonnes and domestic production of about 60,000 tonnes.
Joy Business and the Super Morning Show will host a high-level roundtable on Thursday examining whether Ghana can achieve poultry self-sufficiency. Ghana consumes an estimated 452,100 tonnes of chicken a year but produces only about 60,000 tonnes domestically, with roughly 87% of consumption met through imports.
Members of the Ghana Journalists Association in the Eastern Region participated in a two-day training workshop in Koforidua to strengthen media reporting on green innovation and sustainable development, organised by the University of Environment and Sustainable Development in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation.
A National Youth Dialogue on Ghana's domestication of the Africa Agribusiness Youth Strategy and Youth in Agrifood Systems Performance Index concluded in Accra, with youth calling for greater investment in food systems programmes and pressing the government to move beyond mentioning youth in agricultural policy to creating funded, measured, and accountable commitments across flagship programmes including the Feed Ghana Programme and National Agricultural Investment Program.
St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School won the Visual Arts Contest held in Accra on 30 June, 2026, as part of the BTS Ghana Research Project Dissemination, where selected senior high schools expressed their perspectives on the situation of female artists in Ghana through paintings. The event, organized by the International Centre for Research on Women, University of Cape Coast, Creative Arts Agency Ghana, and Ghana Library Authority in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, featured a panel discussion on research findings and sought to inspire the next generation of artists while promoting gender consciousness in the creative industry.
At AIMS Ghana's 14th graduation ceremony, the Mastercard Foundation's head of workforce development told 130 graduates—35 of whom were Foundation scholars—to view their graduation as the start of a lifelong commitment to solving Africa's challenges. The Foundation aims to enable 30 million young people, particularly women, to access dignified employment by 2030 through its Young Africa Works strategy.
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Ghana held its 14th graduation ceremony on 27 June 2026, conferring Master of Science degrees in Mathematical Sciences to 130 students — its largest graduating class — drawn from 24 African countries. The cohort comprised 49 graduates from the regular MSc programme and 81 from the Master of Mathematical Sciences for Teachers programme, with 30% female representation overall.
The Africa Health Collaborative Health Innovation Festival 2026 convened over 100 participants from nine countries in Accra to develop healthcare solutions for Africa. Seven ventures competed for prize money, with KAARAANGE's AI-powered biomedical waste management system and HerbIma's anaemia-combating supplement winning top prizes in their respective categories.
The Amahoro Coalition has selected 41 refugee and displaced entrepreneurs for its fourth fellowship cohort, with women making up 24 of the fellows (63%). The founders, from 15 countries across Africa and the Middle East, are building ventures in 16 African host countries across sectors including agriculture, education, technology, and health, with each fellow able to access up to US$160,000 in funding.
A four-day free eye care outreach in Bono Region screened 867 people but could not attend to over 500 others due to limited capacity, prompting calls for the National Health Insurance Scheme to extend coverage to prescription glasses and low-vision aids.
The Yilo Krobo Municipality has achieved significant infrastructure expansion and improvements in public service delivery within the first year of the NDC administration, according to the MCE. Key accomplishments include completion and commissioning of healthcare facilities, and the assembly's focus on healthcare, education, sanitation, roads, agriculture, and employment creation.