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Organisation Type: 
National NGO
Origins: 
1 991
Description: 
Until 1991, the Diocesan Health Office (DHO) operated independently of the Diocesan Development Office (DDO). Following the restructuring of the DDO, all development units including the Diocesan Health Office were brought under the DDO. This new arrangement, which is for administrative convenience, has brought some benefits to the DHO as it benefited from the expertise within the DDO. A Health Needs Assessment was carried out between 1992 and 1994 based on which a three-year Health Development Plan was implemented from 1996 to 1999.
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If you look at the provision of health service by the government, it doesn't reach everyone. So we are complementing what the government has not been able to do for the community. Everyone needs health.
Objectives: 
The main objective of the Diocesan Health Office (DDO) is to provide high quality and accessible health care in the most effective, efficient, equitable and innovative manner, specific to the needs of the rural communities at a cost that is affordable.
Partner Activities: 
Implementation of HIV/AIDS programme: A second year of implantation of an HIV/AIDS programme has completed. Activities included educational campaign, drama presentations in the communities, training of various categories of educators, reception and use of audio visual aid for education identification and care of people living with AIDS (PLAWA’s). The project coordinator with the help of some members of the Parish AIDS Committees (PAC’s), Youth Alive Clubs (YAC’s) and other interested person have identified people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Support services are given to victims free of charge. The impact of the HIV/AIDS Project has been acknowledged by the Bolgatanga District Assembly which has offered support for PLWA’s whilst ActionAid Ghana has also supported the project with funds to take care of the PLWA’s and orphans of AIDS victims.
Improvement on community participation and inter-sectoral collaboration: Officers of the DHO attend meetings and also participate in seminars organized by the Ministry of Health (MOH), Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG), National Catholic Secretarial (NCS) and others to foster closer collaboration. Clinic Management Teams also work in close harmonious collaboration with the local population for the effective functioning of the health units.
Operation of a diocesan drug store: The operation of the Diocesan Drug Store has contributed to the smooth running health since essential drugs are always made readily available. All the units are allowed to purchase drugs and make reasonable payment later. Profits accruing from the sale of drugs in a unit are deposited in the Bank Account of the unit. The money is used for daily expenditure of the unit and the payment of their utility bills.
Provision of basic equipment and infrastructure: The DHO with the support of BEGECA secure equipment, which was distributed to all the clinics to facilitate their performance. The equipment included two major bikes for Kongo and Sirigu Clinics, whilst each clinic had a set of items like a baby weighing scale, pressure cooker, steel filing cabinet, bed/ward screen, vaccine carriers, etc. A KVIP latrine has been constructed at the Kongo Clinic where a borehole has also been mechanized as well as at Binde, Wiaga and Sirigu Clinics. Two more wards and a consulting room have been constructed in addition to two bungalows at the Wiaga Clinic whilst a theatre and two more wards are under construction at Binde Clinic. The equipment has enhanced quality care delivery and patients and clients appreciate it very much. From client satisfactory survey, the quality of care given from our institutions is equal to none.
School health programme: Most of the clinics have introduced School Health Programmes within their catchment areas as part of the promoting aspects of health delivery. During the visits, the school children are inspected for hair lice, ringworms, dental problems as well as eye and ear defects. Minor ailments are treated and dewormers are also administered whilst those that need further attention are referred to the hospitals. Health education is given on personal hygiene, dental hygiene, balanced diet etc.
Staff recruitment and training: Three religious Nursing Officers were posted to the Wiaga Clinic whilst a V.S.O. Medical Officer has also been posted to Binde Clinic now a hospital. A medical Assistant (MA) was seconded to the Kongo Clinic and a Midwife to the Wiaga Clinic by the Regional Director of Health Services in recognition of the contribution the DHO is making towards health delivery. As of now, two clinics are manned by Medical Officers and three other clinics by Medical Assistants. Four sponsored Nursing Students, who successfully completed their training at the Bawku Presbyterian Nurses’ Training College, had an intensive orientation and were posted to four Health Units to augment the staffing situation. Six other sponsored Nursing Students completed their training in November, 2002. More are still under training.
Strengthening the managerial capability of the health units and diocesan health office: Most of the Health Office Units are now well staffed with experienced employees. The Diocesan Health Office structure had been recognized by all the unit heads. The various District Health Management Teams (DHMT’s) and the District Assemblies also now recognize the DHO system.

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Description: 

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.

Project Goal: 
To contribute to the eradication of gender-based discrimination and to promote the rights of women.
Objectives
  • To strengthen mechanisms for the elimination of gender-based discrimination and promote the rights of women.
  • To create public awareness on gender-based discrimination and the rights of women at the community, district and regional levels.
  • To build/strengthen institutional capacity at the community, district and regional levels for the elimination of gender-based discrimination.
  • To promote the socio- economic empowerment of young women and mothers in rural communities.
  • To improve access of gender-based NGOs and government organisations to information on gender issues.
  • To strengthen project result based monitoring and reporting.
Achievements: 
The accomplishments of this program were remarkable. The uniqueness of this program is in its grassroots gender awareness, advocacy and capacity building approach along with the linkage with district and regional level statutory institutions all in an effort to create and /or use formal and informal institutional structures and mechanisms to fight against gender-based discrimination at the community and institutional level. The program has brought communities, statutory institutions and other NGOs together to fight gender based discrimination. This has improved the relevance of these institutions, particularly Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service (formerly WAJU) and the Girl-Child Education unit of the Ghana Education Service to the communities. Training workshops organised for statutory institutions and relevant NGOs have enhanced their work in several ways. For instance, the knowledge and information acquired through workshops have increased the content of the public education activities that they carry out. The enhanced understanding of gender issues helped some of them to incorporate the issues into their sector plans and programs for redressing. This knowledge has also helped in bringing about a better understanding of gender issues raised and the need to continue to encourage people to do away with gender based violence. This program has particularly been able to create awareness on gender at all levels. There had been increased public awareness on gender-based discrimination and there is collective will to fight gender-based violence. Also due to the awareness raising, people are becoming more gender sensitive and conscious of the rights of women. At the community level for instance, people tend to be conscious of equal participation and representation of women at meetings and community gatherings. Some men now ask the views of their wives before taking decisions. A number of workshops have also been organised for chiefs and opinion leaders in the various communities which, together with radio discussions, drama and jingles on identified gender issues, has encouraged discussions of the issues at community level. The workshops created the forum and opportunity for these issues to be discussed publicly at the community level. Women particularly have been emboldened through these open discussions to articulate these practices such as widowhood rites, girl-child education, wife battering, witch craft accusations and violence against women with concrete life examples to the amazement of district officials. The realisation of the negative effects of these practices and the collective will to do away with gender-based discrimination will surely go a long way to help eliminate these practices and promote the general well being of our rural women.

Implementing Partner

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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
Description: 

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

Project Goal: 
To contribute to the eradication of gender-based discrimination and to promote the rights of women. To create mechanisms for the elimination of gender-based discrimination and promote the rights of women in the Bawku West District.
Description: 

Expected Results / Outputs

Innovative training material produced through the use of multimedia

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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

Project Goal: 

To enhance financial literacy of farmers in northern Ghana through capacity building activities that will help them to farm as a business

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