Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
CIWED is currently in partnership with Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) to implement a gender transformative initiative project on Women Voice and Leadership to address a gender in equality and sexual and gender based violence with the aims of building the capacity of women, young girls and boys with a school going age […]
Read More » »Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
CIWED is again implementing a COVID-19 Rapid Response and Recovery Small Grants Mechanism, to Support coordinated civil society advocacy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) with funding support from World Health Organization through Management Sciences for Health Inc. (MSH) to contribute to advocacy and accountability for the continuation of quality, lifesaving health and nutrition […]
Read More » »Women Voice and Leadership Project
CIWED is currently in partnership with Plan International through Plan International Ghana, implementing a multi country grant from Global Affairs Canada (Canada Federal Identity Program), on Women Voice and Leadership with the aims of empowering women and young girls to claim their rights to decision-making and sustainable livelihood through capacity building processes to influence responsible […]
Read More » »Promoting Community Based Enhanced Systems Management Preventing Contacting COVID – 19 (ProBESPCoD)
CIWED is currently in partnership with Difäm through Alliance for Future Generations – AFG/WUZDA Ghana to implement a COVID 19 Project which aimed at developing actions to mitigate the progressive spread of CVID 19 disease and improving sanitation in Wovogu and Zion Communities. The following are the achievements so far since its inception in August: – About 238 communities members […]
Read More » »Community-Based Livelihood Initiative Project (CLIP) 1 and 2
CIWED in partnership with Tools for Self Reliance (TfSL), a UK based donor since 2019 to provide skills training for 15 young people from 2019 to 2020 and 26 young persons from 2012 to 2022 in Tamale, Sagnarigu and Nanton. The project which started in July 2019 to train 10 young girls in dressmaking and […]
Read More » »Women Agenda 2030 Project
CIWED entered into partnership with Women Environmental Programme in August 2018 to implement women economic empowerment advocacy project on women access to fertile lands for crop production. Research in Ghana revealed that women do not have access to fertile lands for crop production especially in the northern part of the country. The project main aim […]
Read More » »USAID Agriculture Finance Project
CIWED in partnership with SNV (Netherlands Development Organisation) with funding from USAID Agri-finance project advocated for smallholder farmers who are primarily women to access banking services at the comfort of their homes to promote electronic cash transaction for safe keeping of their monies. The project covered Mion, Sagnarigu, Tamale Metro, and West Mampurisi and Bole […]
Read More » »Agriculture Technology Transfer (ATT) Project
CIWED entered into partnership with International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC) in 2017under the Agriculture Technology Transfer (ATT) project with funding from USAID Feed the Future Programme rolled out the agriculture intervention to build the capacity of Farmer-based Organisations (FBOs) where predominantly on best agronomic practices to increase their yields and for them to contribute in […]
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YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME ( The EMpower Project)
URBANET receives funds from EMpower, the Emerging Markets Foundation, to support the development of programs that empower youth with skills training and development, particularly young girls. EMpower is a USA-based charity organization that focusses on supporting youth in emerging market countries through partnerships and grants given to local organizations. The goals of EMpower align with […]
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Securing Access to land for urban and peri-urban farmers
URBANET in collaboration with ActionAid Ghana initiated a project to promote urban and peri-urban vulnerable farmers access to land for farming. The project was preceded with a research, community level sensitization, dialogue meetings with stakeholders (chiefs/land owners, planning authorities) and culminated in a project dubbed: zoning of agricultural lands/green belts. The project has since facilitated […]
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