Baako Abdul-Fatawu

As part of project roll out, CIWED-GH in collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development trained our VSLA groups from 20 communities. These communities were drawn from Nantong District and Savelugu Municipal; the two districts CIWED rollout the Women Voice and Leadership Project. The trainings spanned for two weeks in each district …

CIWED GHANA ORGANIZED A 3 DAYS TRAINING WORKSHOP FOR EACH OF THE VSLA GROUP IN 20 COMMUNITIES ON INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES (IGA), FINANCIAL LITERACY AND BASIC BOOK KEEPING Read More »

CIWED-Ghana celebrated this year’s International Day of the Girl Child in grand style. Under the theme; “Our time is now—our rights, our future”, the organisation marked the day with a classic drama performance in the Savelugu Municipality by students from Wataniya Junior High School. These students are part of the advocacy clubs that CIWED GHANA …

CIWED GHANA Commemorates International Day of the Girl Child with a Drama Performance Read More »

It was heartwarming during monitoring visits to the project communities to hear of a great story relating to the VSLA formed for the women of the Kparigiyili Community in the Nantong District. One of the women revealed that she supported her husband with a loan from the VSLA scheme to purchase a tractor. According to …

CIWED VSLA group supports the purchase of a community tractor Read More »

It was a moment of joy from the CIWED monitoring team, when they came across Mma Awabu, a VSLA member for Kpalun Community in the Savelugu Municipality. The old female farmer shared how she helped to support her daughter to progress to a nursing training College in Tamale. She narrated this: “When she brought the …

CIWED Ghana VSLA Beneficiary supports her daughter to progress to Nursing Training College Read More »

As part of project roll out, CIWED-GH in collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development trained the leadership of VSLA groups from 20 communities. These communities were drawn from Nantong and Savelugu; the two districts CIWED is rolling out the Women Voice and Leadership Project. The trainings spanned for two weeks in …

VSLA Leadership from 20 communities received training on child and forced marriages and Adolescents SRH (ToT) and Group- savings and loans management. Read More »

As part of project activities, CIWED organized quarterly review meetings for Ge-net group leaders. The Gender Network Groups (Ge-net) is a group of identified community leaders from various sectors of the community who lead advocacy on gender equality and gender transformation. The review meeting was to identify and discuss in details some gender and human …

CIWED and GE-NET LEADERS IDENTIFY YOUNG FEMALE OUT-MIGRATION AS SERIOUS COMMUNITY CANKER Read More »

CIWED with funding support from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) seeks to increase the effective participation of women in decision-making roles and leadership positions and to empower them to have access and control of resources in two districts in the northern region. As part of the “women voice and Leadership” project, CIWED …

CIWED ORGANIZED TWO DAYS TOWN HALL MEETING ON ENDING GENDER INEQUALITIES Read More »

As follow-up action to a reflection meeting held among Gender Network Groups (Ge-Net), CIWED supported the leadership of the Ge-Net to widen their discussion to the entire communities. Reports gathered from community volunteers revealed that the traditional leaders were full of praise for CIWED and OSIWA for facilitating a community led appraisal action. The chief …

CIWED Supports Communities to Reflect and Act on Gender Issues Read More »

The Girls Assembly (GAS) and Boys Advocacy Clubs concepts are CIWED innovations that see a group of girls and a group of boys formed to deliberate on issues affecting girls in schools, such as leadership, gender discrimination & stereotype, and adolescent reproductive health, including child marriage issues. CIWED through OSIWA support has GAS and BACs …

Two days’ trainer of trainees training organized for Girls Assembly (GAS) leaders and patrons on leadership, team-building and advocacy training Read More »