In recent years, the growth of Information and Communication Technologies has brought issues of communication and rural access to information to the forefront of the development agenda of most development organisations.

The ICT4D project was therefore initiated to strengthen the ICT capacity of the ACDEP Secretariat and its member NGOs to ensure that the information and communication needs of the ACDEP and its members, and rural communities are addressed at the right time, in the right location and in the right format for the purposes of rural development. The project is also expected to address the high cost of accessing, collating and preparing information in a form that is easily consumable by the stations.

The project was piloted from 2008 – 2009 at five sites. Currently, the project is being implemented over a three-year period at five Primary Health Care facilities, where ACDEP is supporting field staff and community members to maximise the use of ICTs for communication, knowledge exchange and community-level health extension education.

Our vision, as far as ICT use is concerned, is a network of members that use ICT as a tool to respond to the development information needs of member NGOs and rural communities in a way that would enhance the impact of member NGOs, rural livelihoods, and national development.

The project is supported with funds from CORDAID, while IICD provides technical support and capacity building.

Project Objective for 2010 – 2012:

The main objective of the ICT4D project is to increase the capacity of five ACDEP-member Primary Health Care facilities to develop and integrate ICT tools for health education and information exchange within the Primary Health Care programmes in northern Ghana.