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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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Wednesday 29th August, 2018                            By Kamara Osman Faisal, GNATamale, Aug. 29, GNA
 Field officers of the Department of Cooperatives (DOC) under the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations have been provided with laptops and other accessories to enhance their work at the department.

The initiative forms part of the Government of the Republic of Korea through its Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Capacity Development of Farmer Based Organizations (FBOs) and Farmer-Based Cooperatives Organizations (FBCs) funded project.


The Regional Advisory Committee members at a meeting

The project implemented in the three northern regions is aimed at improving the living standards of local residents through enhanced capacity building of FBC’s/FBO’s as well as strengthening the capacity of partner state institutions and agencies.

The project comprises six major components and these are: Cooperative Policy Advisory, Training of Trainers (TOT), Training of FBOs/FBCs leaders (TOL), Overseas Invitational Training in Korea, Networking and Marketing Support, as well as support for the Pilot Projects.Alhaji Alhassan Issahaku, the Chief Director of the Northern Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), who presented the items, urged the officers to use the laptops for its intended purpose.                                                                                                                                                                             

He said the project has boosted the confidence level of more famers to join such cooperative organizations to serve as a medium  to promote extension services as well as promote support to farmers to increase production.

He said the project has boosted the confidence level of more famers to join such cooperative organizations to serve as a medium  to promote extension services as well as promote support to farmers to increase production.

     

                                                                                                                                                                                               The DOC beneficiaries with some  Regional Advisory Committee members

This article was first pulished by GNA. Pictures  by ACDEP.

'Kobine' literally means farming dance. According to history, it is a cultural festival started and performed annually by a certain clan in the Lawra Traditional Area, when they saw their farms just before harvest and were sure of good yields. They would dance happily for a good cropping season.

However, about ten years ago, the Late Naa Abayifa Karbo II, the paramount chief of the Lawra Traditional area instituted it as an annual festival for the sons and daughters of the Area.

During the festival they showcase their farm produce, discuss their farming challenges and dance and drink to express their happiness and appreciation to God Almighty.

Because harvesting of farm produce normally starts in October every year, the festival is celebrated around the 20th of October. However, this year's celebrations came about a month earlier, i.e. in September for one particular and justifiable reason - to make it coincide with the 10th anniversary of the death of the Founder, Late Naa Abayifa Karbo II which fell on 29th September to honour him. Another thing that makes a difference in this year’s celebration is the opportunity for beneficiaries of the CHF/ACDEP Resilient and Sustainable Livelihoods Transformation (RESULT) Project to participate

img 1794Madam Clare Dery giving her testimony

 The Canadian Hunger Foundation (CHF) and the Association of Church-based Development NGOs (ACDEP) launched a $19 million project in October this year that will strengthen poor rural communities in Northern Ghana by increasing and diversifying what is produced on farms, by building on existing sources of income, and by establishing new income opportunities. Farming families will also be supported to become more resilient to climate change and to access better prices for their products. Women will be supported to have more control and influence over resources and income in the community and household.

In total, as many as 120,000 people will benefit from the project.

Madam Clare Dery of Tanchara community in the Lawra District is a beneficiary of the RESULT project. This is how she expressed her feelings about the project achievement in the first year of implementation:

“The men will farm and the women will also farm. The men’s produce will finish because that is what the whole family will feed on but the women will keep theirs so that if a child is driven away from school because of non-payment of fees, the woman will gather all that she has stored and sell it to send the child back to school. In view of that we thank the RESULT project so much for what they have done for us this year. They should please extend our gratitude to the management of the project. Thank you for the opportunity to share this thought”.

By Ben K.Wumbila, Project Coordinator - UWR

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.

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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