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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.
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
The RESULT Project
The Project addresses the four basic elements of food security by increasing food availability, access, utilization and stability (i.e. resilience).
Program Purpose
To create mechanisms for the elimination of gender-based discrimination and improve the living standards of women.
Program activities
Media campaign
Training activities for statutory institutions and relevant NGOs
Awareness raising workshops / seminars at regional, district and community level
Documentation and Publications
School outreach programs
Implementing organisations
The program was implemented by three partner organisations in collaboration with FORWARD UK; ACDEP, Maata-N-Tudu and Navrongo/Bolgatanga Diocesan Development Office. It ran for 4 years and was funded by Comic Relief.
Name | Description | Type | |
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Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocesan Development Office (NABOCADO) |
Until 1991, the Diocesan Health Office (DHO) operated independently of the Diocesan Development Office (DDO). |
National NGO |
The success of the Gender and Reproductive Health Program encouraged ACDEP to source for funding and expanded this program to four gender programs under the Anglican Diocesan Development & Relief Organisation (ADDRO), which is a church based NGO working in the Upper East Region of Ghana.
The program which was a two year project started officially in January 2006 and was implemented by ADDRO in collaboration with ACDEP. The program was funded by CORDAID.
The program operated in three communities in the Upper East Region namely; Yelwoko and Binaba in the Bawku West District and Sherigu in the Bolgatanga Municipality. The program was also implemented at the regional and district levels. The Program targeted change at the regional, district and community levels.
Program activities
Media campaign
Training activities for statutory institutions and relevant NGOs
Awareness raising workshops / seminars at district and community level
Documentation and Publications
School outreach programs
Target Group
The target group were largely those who could contribute to a change in the status of women. These were the agencies whose actions affect the gender and reproductive health status of women. These agencies are present at the regional, district and community level. This change is expressed and experienced in the daily life of women and in their relationships at the family and community level. Consequently, the program identified the various actions who should be engaged in this change process. They are enumerated below:
District Level
Ghana Health Service
Ghana Education Service
Department of Social Welfare
Domestic Violence & Victims Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service
Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs
National Commission on Children
National Commission for Civic Education
Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice
Media (radio, print, television)
Religious Organisations, NGOs, and CBOs
Community Level
Community leaders (Chiefs, Magazias, Assembly members)
Religious and other Opinion Leaders
Women, women groups, mothers of young girls, young girls (at home and in school) and youth groups
Expected Results / Outputs
Innovative training material produced through the use of multimedia
Symbols used for Training
1,800 farmers trained in groups and 600 farmers coached on a regular basis by their peers
The impact of the different approaches measured by comparison of the farmer’s profiles
A final evaluation report gives clear recommendation for ACDEP’s broader capacity building plan in business development.
Project Target Group:
The direct beneficiaries of the project are 1,800 small-scale farmers (of which 45% will be women)
Staff of 6 ACDEP member agricultural stations / NGOs
Other Project Beneficiaries:
Financial institutions (approx. 4) operating within the operational area of the project
ACDEP Network
Duration of the project:
From June 2010 to November 2011
Team:
Mr Arnaud Leclercq, Microfinance & Business Development Advisor
Mr Baaman Chatin, M&E Officer
Miss Patience Akolgo Alagskomah, Training Officer
To enhance financial literacy of farmers in northern Ghana through capacity building activities that will help them to farm as a business