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 Goal
To contribute to the eradication of gender-based discrimination and to promote the rights of women.
Program Purpose
To create mechanisms for the elimination of gender-based discrimination and promote the rights of women in the Bawku West District.
Program Objectives
- To create public awareness on gender-based discrimination and the rights of women at the district and community level
- To build the capacity of communities for the elimination of gender based discrimination and promote the rights of women
- To build the knowledge and skills of district level organisations for the advancement of the rights of women
- To build the capacity of ADDRO and its participating projects for gender programming and implementation
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