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ACDEP Financial Services
This project provides a model for facilitating and increasing access to credit and other financial services from banks by rural smallholder farmers, processors and other rural entrepreneurs.

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Health Projects
The health unit supports Primary Health Care Programmes to reach out to communities in new and innovative ways, exploring the use of communities own resources and capabilities

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The RESULT Project
The Project addresses the four basic elements of food security by increasing food availability, access, utilization and stability (i.e. resilience).

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Farmers Capacity Development Project (FCDP)

Description: 

The Farmers Capacity Development Project (FCDP) is a three (3) year project with funding from AGRA –FOSCA . FCDP overall goal is to enhance the business capacity of FBOs for improved business orientation, service delivery and food security in the Upper West Region of Ghana. Its specific objectives are:

Project Goal: 
The FCDP project builds on the collaborative work and experiences of IFDC/AGRA Farmer-to-Market (FtM) project of IFDC and FAMAR Project of ACDEP over the years in these four districts. It seeks to strengthen the business capacities of the FBOs at both the community and district levels to become strong and viable enterprises, business oriented and be able to negotiate for services for their members. It is anticipated that this will further enhance district FBOs capacities to improve the coordination of their member FBOs activities in the communities.
Objectives
  • To enhance the knowledge and skills of 350 FBOs on business plans development and implementation for enterprise upgrading by 2015.
  • To improve FBO marketing structures and linkages in the four targeted districts by 2015.
  • To strengthen the institutional capacities of 350 FBOs to meet the needs of their smallholder farmers in the four targeted districts by 2015
Target Group: 
The FCD Project will directly benefit 350 farmer organizations made up of 7,000 men and women smallholder farmers in the Wa East, Wa West, Sissala East and Sissala West Districts of the Upper-West Region of Ghana. The project will build a delivery platform through FBOs that can reach many more of farmers in the Upper West Region The target beneficiaries are members of traditional households with an average size of 10 people per household. The illiteracy rate in the targeted communities is over 80% and even higher among female farmers. These are mainly the membership of primary and secondary district level farmers’ organizations. The project will initially target 209 primary FBOs, 4 secondary FBOs and 1 tertiary/regional FO that were facilitated by ACDEP in the Upper West Region. FCDP will then scale-up to reach additional 141 primary FBOs facilitated by ACDEP under NRGP in all the target districts by December, 2015.
 

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Activity Details
Status:
Implementation
Planned Date:
10/23/2013
Actual Due Date:
10/23/2013
Aid Type:
Sector budget support
Tied Status:
Tied
Finance Type:
GRANT
Flow Type:
Other flows
Collaboration Type:
Multilateral
Policy Marker:
Trade Development

Northern Rural Growth Programme (NRGP)

Description: 

The Government of Ghana received a loan from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and African Development Bank (AfDB) towards the cost of implementing the Northern Rural Growth Programme (NRGP). The target area of NRGP comprises the three regions of Northern Ghana (Upper West, Upper East, and Northern) and five districts of the Brong Ahafo region contiguous to the Northern region. NRGP is an eight-year integrated pro-poor socio-economic development programme driven by the Value Chain Approach (VCA) in four commodity windows.

The VCA is a private sector driven economic growth and poverty reduction strategy. The commodity windows are:
i. The Industrial Crops Window (soya, maize, sorghum)
ii. The Fruits and Vegetables Window (Papaya, okra, chilli)
iii. The Women’s Crops Window (Shea, sesame, moringa)
iv. The Animals Window (Guinea fowl, small ruminants)

The industrial crops commodity window (soya, maize, and sorghum) has been selected for focus based on its market potential, financial viability, high outreach (potential to be grown in nearly all areas in northern Ghana), and low risk (farmers familiarity with the production technology).
In each of these chains, the programme is to develop efficient, transparent, and sustainable contractual business relationships between and among the value chain actors and service providers. The objective is to transform the structure and dynamics of the production and marketing of each of these crops. This should eventually lead to efficiency, increased productivity and production and ‘transformation and modernization’ of the agricultural sector. The critical actors in these chains are the farmers, input dealers, agricultural mechanization service providers, aggregators/buyers, agro-processors/industries, and consumers. Other essential service providers that fuel the process are financial institutions and technical service providers.

Essential to the success of these chains is the organization and support to farmers (small, medium, and large scale) not only to become efficient producers but also as full, knowledgeable, and active stakeholders in the value chain. This is in recognition of their critical and yet currently weak organization and role in the three commodities value chains. The programme will organize, strengthen and link these farmers to markets and other actors in the chain.

Role of the Facilitating Agency- ACDEP
ACDEP is the Facilitating Agency (FA) for the industrial crop window (soybeans, sorghum and maize) under the NRGP. This is being implemented all districts in the three northern regions and selected districts of the Brong Ahafo Region contiguous to the Northern region.

The FA is to:
(a) Facilitate the participation of commodity stakeholders in the development and implementation of the CBPs for the industrial crops and
(b) Assist in the strengthening of producer organizations and establishment of inter-professional bodies.

Activities

TitleDescriptionStatusDate
Test Wa

Test Wa

 Implementation 10/23/2013

Implementing Partner

Name
DescriptionType
Assemblies of God Relief and Services (AGREDS)

The Assemblies of God, Relief and Development Services (AGREDS) is a Church-based non-profit NGO that co-ordinates all the development and relief programmes of the Assemblies programmes of the Assemblies of God Church, Ghana.

 National NGO

Farmers Capacity Development Project (FCDP)

Description: 

The Farmers Capacity Development Project (FCDP) is a three (3) year project with funding from AGRA –FOSCA . FCDP overall goal is to enhance the business capacity of FBOs for improved business orientation, service delivery and food security in the Upper West Region of Ghana. Its specific objectives are:

Project Goal: 
The FCDP project builds on the collaborative work and experiences of IFDC/AGRA Farmer-to-Market (FtM) project of IFDC and FAMAR Project of ACDEP over the years in these four districts. It seeks to strengthen the business capacities of the FBOs at both the community and district levels to become strong and viable enterprises, business oriented and be able to negotiate for services for their members. It is anticipated that this will further enhance district FBOs capacities to improve the coordination of their member FBOs activities in the communities.
Objectives
  • To enhance the knowledge and skills of 350 FBOs on business plans development and implementation for enterprise upgrading by 2015.
  • To improve FBO marketing structures and linkages in the four targeted districts by 2015.
  • To strengthen the institutional capacities of 350 FBOs to meet the needs of their smallholder farmers in the four targeted districts by 2015
Target Group: 
The FCD Project will directly benefit 350 farmer organizations made up of 7,000 men and women smallholder farmers in the Wa East, Wa West, Sissala East and Sissala West Districts of the Upper-West Region of Ghana. The project will build a delivery platform through FBOs that can reach many more of farmers in the Upper West Region The target beneficiaries are members of traditional households with an average size of 10 people per household. The illiteracy rate in the targeted communities is over 80% and even higher among female farmers. These are mainly the membership of primary and secondary district level farmers’ organizations. The project will initially target 209 primary FBOs, 4 secondary FBOs and 1 tertiary/regional FO that were facilitated by ACDEP in the Upper West Region. FCDP will then scale-up to reach additional 141 primary FBOs facilitated by ACDEP under NRGP in all the target districts by December, 2015.

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