The media especially radio stations in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis have been urged to dedicate more airtime for discussions and sensitization on the increasing trend of gender-based violence and social vices involving the youth such teenage pregnancy, truancy and school drop-outs. ...
Culturally-Sensitive and Inclusive Urban Strategies Articles

Sensitization On Community Campaigns for Youth-Oriented and Gender Issues Organized
Stakeholders have been urged to be responsive to their respective roles on gender advocacy and guidance to nurture the youth to refrain from social vices such as illicit use of drugs and prostitution in order to ensure that they become responsible to themselves, their family and the society....

STMA TCSPP Implementing Team Undertakes a Study Tour....
The project implementing Team of Twin-Cities in Sustainable Partnership Project (TCSPP) paid a two-day study tour to Adentan Municipal Assembly and the National Greenhouse Training & Commercial Unit at Dawhenya The tour was aimed to enable the team draw from the experiences of Adentan Municipal .....

Truancy, pregnancy, drop-outs identified as challenges facing education in Sekondi-Takoradi
Truancy, pregnancy and school drop-outs are challenges facing the educational sector in the Sekond-Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region, the Metropolitan Education Director, Mrs Sally Nelly Coleman, has lamented For truancy at the basic level, she said, the directorate recorded a total of 97 cases in 2020/21 .....

TWIN-CITIES PROJECT TO PROMOTE ARTS IN TTU
The Twin-Cities In Sustainable Partnership Project, a sister city project between Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis and Palermo Municipality in Italy, funded by the European Union, has begun discussions with Takoradi Technical University, TTU, to promote the study of Arts and its commercialization. The partnership project which will be under the auspices of the Faculty of....

STMA-Brainstorm with stakeholders on teenage pregnancies and school dropouts
Statistics provided by the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Directorate of Education has revealed increased figures in truancy, pregnancy, and school dropouts between 2021 and 2022.The Directorate recorded a total of 97 truancies in 2020/21 with Kojokrom Circuit scoring the highest of 21,....