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The Northern Ghana Environment and Extractive Journalists Network (EEJNet) has been launched to address environmental challenges and ensure enhanced natural resources protection and management.
The EEJNet is a platform of journalists with interest in environmental protection and natural resources
governance, comprising selected media practitioners in the five regions of northern Ghana; Northern, Savannah, North East, Upper East and Upper West.
Feb. 26, 2025 by TAMA Foundation

The Transformation of Marginal Areas (TAMA) Foundation Universal continues to champion responsible and sustainable natural resource management in the Nabdam District, Upper East Region. On Friday, January 24, 2025, TAMA successfully facilitated a stakeholder dialogue series aimed at enhancing community engagement, fostering peace, and ensuring that mining activities contribute positively to the region’s development.
January 23, 2025 by TAMA Foundation
Dr Chrys Anab, Executive Director, TAMA Foundation Universal, said the country was blessed with natural resources such as gold, timber, water among others, however, their management and exploration had been a major
challenge.
July 26, 2024 by TAMA Foundation

UNDOUBTEDLY, Northern Ghana is becoming a hub of mining activities with the discovery of mineral resources, particularly gold deposits in large quantities in many communities.
July 26, 2024 by TAMA Foundation

Welcome to our dedicated page highlighting the impactful work being done through the Feed the Future Resilience in Northern Ghana Systems Strengthening (RING II) project in the Bawku West District. This initiative focuses on building resilience, enhancing nutrition, and promoting sustainable economic growth in vulnerable communities.
July 1, 2024 by TAMA Foundation

Under the scorching midday sun, Salifu Abugri, a 45-year-old smallholder farmer at Agatusi in the Bawku West District in the Upper East Region is slogging away along a stream with frustration written all over his face.
Ford Foundation West Africa Newsletter 2023

TAMA Foundation Universal with funding support from Ford Foundation joined forces in 2021 with the Northern Ghana Natural Resource Accountability in Northern Ghana (NaRAING) Project. This project’s focus is to empower local communities to fight for their rights and hold the mining industry accountable
March 20, 2024 by TAMA Foundation

Tama Foundation Universal, an extractive-centred CSO, working in Northern Ghana, has called for the urgent need to restore vegetation at degraded mining sites in the north.
March 20, 2024 by TAMA Foundation

TAMA Foundation Universal, an NGO, has organised a forum on natural resource governance in northern Ghana with the aim to
address the salient issues of mining activities and resource conflicts in the northern belt of the country.
March 20, 2024 by TAMA Foundation

Tests conducted on the White Volta River that stretches through Northern Ghana and empties into the Volta Lake have revealed high levels of dangerous heavy metals due to illegal mining and sand winning activities along its banks.
Our Work
Narural Resource Governance and Integrating the Fulani in Ghana
The Fulani population (Peul in French and Fula in Portuguese) remains the largest nomadic pastoralist group in the world. They are an ethnic group of people spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and Sudan in North Eastern Africa. ...
Non-Violent and Peaceful Approaches to Fulani Presence in Ghana
The Fulani ethnic group in Ghana, falls within the category of socially excluded groups. The various post-colonial governments have always considered them as “non-Ghanaians”, “foreigners” or “aliens”. This is in spite of the fact that the Fulanis have been living in Ghana for nearly a century (Tonah, 2003). ...
TAMA Foundation and the Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam in Ghana
News that Cabinet has given approval to the financing and construction of the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam (PMD) is ground-breaking and Government should be commended for this bold step. When fully implemented, the PMD will be the largest irrigation infrastructure not only in Ghana but ...
TAMA Foundation reflections on Inequality in Ghana
Conversations at social gatherings almost always end with the concern that our society has become sharply divided, intolerant and polarized especially around the two dominant parties and individuals who lead them. Discourse is largely uncivil. Vitriol has replaced logical arguments and opposing views take the form ...
TAMA Foundation reflections on Oxfam, SEND, GAC report on Inequality
As you know this report follows two other equally seminal reports that address poverty and inequality in Ghana – the GLSS 7 report (GSS) and the Northern Ghana Human Development Report (UNDP). The GLSS report updates the state of poverty and inequality and makes a grim reading. ...
Why the Pwalugu Dam will fundamentally change Ghana’s fortunes
Lying on the White Volta, the PMD is about 15 km north-east of the Pwalugu bridge that separatesthe Northern from the Upper-East region and is approximately 20km to Bolgatanga, and an equal distance to Walewale. It is “multipurpose” because it would deliver more than one benefit: ...
The Transformation of Marginal Areas (TAMA) Foundation Universal continues to champion responsible and sustainable natural resource management in the Nabdam District, Upper East Region. On…
Dr Chrys Anab, Executive Director, TAMA Foundation Universal, said the country was blessed with natural resources such as gold, timber, water among others, however, their…
Welcome to our dedicated page highlighting the impactful work being done through the Feed the Future Resilience in Northern Ghana Systems Strengthening (RING II) project…
Struggle for Natural Resources in Northern Ghana: Clashes Over Gold Escalate
UNDOUBTEDLY, Northern Ghana is becoming a hub of mining activities with the discovery of mineral resources, particularly gold deposits in large quantities in many communities.However,…
Voices from the Mining Communities
Lost of livelihoods for women
Transparency question
Lost of lives
