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Rural Response System (RRS) — Ghana's Community Action Teams Against Violence Against Women, Evaluated by Community-Randomised Trial

Community-randomised trial in Ghana's Central Region: trained community action teams cut women's past-year sexual IPV from 17.1% to 7.7% and lowered depression …

Cape Coast, Ghana

Good practice Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 67% 52/100 Compare

Ghana Affirmative Action (Gender Equity) Act, 2024 (Act 1121) — Mandatory Representation Quotas Across Public and Private Sectors

Passed unanimously by Ghana's Parliament on 30 July 2024 and assented to on 11 September 2024, Act 1121 mandates minimum 30% female …

Accra, Ghana

Good practice Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 72% 48/100 Compare

DOVVSU — Ghana's National Domestic Violence and Victim Support Police Unit

Ghana Police Service's dedicated unit for domestic violence and child abuse has operated in every regional capital since 1998, but peer-reviewed research …

Accra, Ghana

Good practice Top 78% 41/100 Compare

Ghana's Women's Development Bank — A New State-Backed Lender for Women-Owned Businesses

Ghana's 2025 Women's Development Bank Act created a state-backed lender for women-owned MSMEs, seeded with GH¢51.3m in 2025 and GH¢401m more in …

Accra, Ghana

Good practice Top 93% 15/100 Compare

Ghana's Gender-Responsive Budgeting — Weak Institutionalisation and 0.1–0.5% of the Budget for Gender Equality and GBV (Cautionary Case)

Ghana has pursued gender-responsive budgeting since its 2015 National Gender Policy, but Oxfam finds the supporting systems incomplete, and trackers report only …

Accra, Ghana