Gender ministry holds stakeholder consultative forum on adoption, foster care regulation As part of measures to ensure greater protection for children in the country especially in the area of alternative care, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has held a stakeholder consultative forum aimed at reforming and strengthening adoption and foster care processes in the country. Nana Oye Lithur,Minister of Gender,Children and Social Protection interacting with the media According to the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, the forum seeks “to collaboratively engage stakeholders on alternative care reforms and to develop innovative strategies that ensure the reform process contributes to the development needs of all children and our great nation”. Ghana has been ranked among the top twenty countries with the highest rates of inter-country adoptions over the years raising great concerns. A situation which has com