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Northern Environmental Journalists Network Launched to Protect Natural Resources

Oct 03, 2025 by TAMA Foundation

Violent extremists trading guns for gold in Upper East — CSOs

Violent extremist groups operating from Burkina Faso are reportedly trading guns for gold in mining communities in Bawku West and Talensi districts in the Upper East Region, raising concerns over insecurity and cross-border criminal activities.

Facilitating Community: Local Authorities and Mining

Feb. 26, 2025 by TAMA Foundation

Facilitating Community: Local Authorities and Mining Companies’ Dialogue Series in Nabdam District

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.

Northern Environmental Journalists Network Launched to Protect Natural Resources

Jan. 26, 2025 by TAMA Foundation

Northern Environmental Journalists Network Launched to Protect Natural Resources

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.

Bawku West

July 26, 2024 by TAMA Foundation

Strengthening Resilience and Livelihoods in Bawku West District.

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.

TAMA Foundation Universal - Empowering Communities through Advocacy for Human Rights

Ford Foundation West Africa Newsletter 2023

TAMA Foundation Universal - Empowering Communities through Advocacy for Human Rights in Northern Ghana's Mining Regions

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

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..

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Narural Resource Governance and Integrating the Fulani in Ghana

Non-Violent and Peaceful Approaches to Fulani Presence in Ghana

TAMA Foundation and the Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam in Ghana

TAMA Foundation reflections on Inequality in Ghana

TAMA Foundation reflections on Oxfam, SEND, GAC report on Inequality

Why the Pwalugu Dam will fundamentally change Ghana’s fortunes

Violent extremists trading guns for gold in Upper East — CSOs

Northern Environmental Journalists Network Launched to Protect Natural Resources

Local Authorities and Mining Companies’ Dialogue in Nabdam District

Media, CSOs must collaborate to ensure environmental justice.

Strengthening Resilience and Livelihoods in Bawku West District

Struggle for Natural Resources in Northern Ghana: Clashes Over Gold Escalate

Dead, dying, silted: State of water bodies in north forebodes doom

TAMA Foundation Universal – Empowering Communities through Advocacy for Human Rights in Northern Ghana’s Mining Regions

Northern Ghana resource conflicts could spark violence — Study

‘Let’s minimize the harm and optimize benefits of mining in northern Ghana’- TAMA Foundation

NaRAING PROJECT (Mining Sites)