Tamale GHANA - Greater Accra

Young women: life choices and livelihoods in poor urban Ghana Summary of key findings from Greater Accra and Tamale* Tamale GHANA Greater Accra October 2012 Young women: life choices and livelihoods in poor urban Ghana 2 Summary of key findings from Greater Accra and Tamale The proportion of Ghana’s Because of their age and gender, young population living in urban women are often among those most. [...] The research was of Ghana’s land area, is home to 16% required because of the lack of relevant information for programmes seeking to address young women’s of the nation’s population.3 Pr ov i s i o n a l livelihood opportunities, movement building, and results from a 2010 census suggest sexual and reproductive health rights that adolescent that the population of the capital reg i o n and young wom. [...] With 42% of Greater Accra’s In the first section, figures on Ghana’s youth population living in compounds, the growth in the population will be analysed, followed by an city’s population puts immense stress on the already exploration in the second, third and fourth sections overstretched housing services and increases the of the trends for urban youth with regard to labour, tendency of settlements. [...] transactional sex increases the risk to young women of gender-based violence and contracting HIV and AIDS Sexual and reproductive health because of the associated imbalance in power and the knowledge and gaps tendency to have more partners over a given period of ti m e. [...] Young women: life choices and livelihoods in poor urban Ghana 7 Summary of key findings from Greater Accra and Tamale FGD: youth perspectives on sexual Youth of both sexes tend to acquire and reproductive health rights information about sex and reproductive health from their peers and from television (or the In both communities visited, youth of both sexes internet, in the case of Kpobiman confirm.