Author: Npong Balikawu Francis

Npong Baliakwu Francis is a Development Communication Specialist, Professional Multi-Media Journalist, Climatologist, Editor, Writer, Photo/Videographer, Visiting Journalism Lecturer, and Script and Content Developer with over 10 years of working experience in international reporting, media engagement, planning and event management, Training Facilitation, blogging, website and social media management and training.

World Vision Ghana THRIVE Project to Accelerate SDGs Achievement in Ghana


World Vision Ghana will roll out an ambitious project in April to accelerate Ghana’s achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The project, dubbed “Transforming Household Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE),” is envisioned to build secure and resilient livelihoods in the poorest communities in the Northern, Upper East, Upper West, and Savannah regions of Ghana.

Ghana must brace for future calamity and leadership crisis


When Judas Iscariot was asked to join Jesus’ ministry, he was already engaged in money-making. He is thought to have hailed from a family with ties to terrorism, theft, and a fanatical Jewish sect that was obsessed with accumulating fortune at any cost.
Judas humbly made a bid for a more lucrative role in Jesus’ ministry: finance. Judas was given money for the ministry and was stealing from it, according to John 12:6. He had no one to answer to, not even his master, Jesus Christ. Jesus’ ministry was increasingly less concerned with accumulating wealth because it was more concerned with saving souls, changing the law, and laying the groundwork for the gospel to triumph.

Booing Nana Addo Akuffo: Expressing Sentiments of a Failed Leadership and System


Today I am intruding into matters of a national nature: the governance and leadership of President Nana Akuffo Addo. Despite the political climate of fear and institutionalized political terrorism, I am inspired by Nana Addo’s invitation to all citizens to be “responsible citizens; not spectators” to express my opinion.

Ghanaian Rural Women Navigate Climate Crisis Through Art


World Vision uses systematic approaches that integrate different but complementary activities to ensure sustained household food security and economically empower households. One such approach is FMNR, an agroforestry methodology that integrates crop production with tree growth through shrub and tree stump pruning. It contributes to restoring degraded landscapes, increasing tree populations, reducing water and wind erosion of soil, improving soil nutrients, and improving moisture retention.

Investment in water, energy, technologies and public-private partnership solutions to sustainable vegetable farming in northern Ghana


All it will take to develop sustainable vegetable farming, build farmers’ resilience, reduce poverty and enhance the income and livelihood of farmers’ households is to enable access to reliable water and energy infrastructure and technologies. Read more…

Can irrigation and water management technologies accelerate cocoa production in the changing climate? The possibility!


Cocoa is one of the leading export commodities, backing and sustaining Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Together, cocoa, crude oil, and gold are three major export commodities that generate about 80% of Ghana’s export revenue.