We work with about 100 gender-oriented development organisations across Ghana and 30 communities in the Upper East Region on six (6) main gender advocacy campaigns as follows:

•    Eliminate TRAPPDAW-Traditional Practices and Policies that discriminate against women and girls
•    Increase Women’s Participation in Decision Making (WODEM)
•    Apoka Scheme – Improve Access to Quality Education and Training for girls and women
•    Reduce Gender Based Violence and Provide Essential and Adequate Support to Violence Survivors (VIVISS)
•    Enable the establishment Equitable Community Resource Management Systems (ECOREMS) – Increase Access to Productive Resources for Women and Girls
•    Enable Communities to Design and Implement Gendered Disaster Risk Reduction Systems (G-DRR)

3.1       RITES & RIGHTS (TRAPPDAW)
•    Communities Reduce and eventually eliminate traditional policies and practices that discriminate against women (TRAPPDAW)
•    Traditional institutions (TI) and District Assemblies (DA) address TRAPPDAW and gender inequities
•    Improved power sharing by men with women as well as a strengthened and coordinated participation in gender advocacy by male groups’

3.2       WOMEN IN DECISION MAKING (WODEM)
•    Enhanced women’s understanding of their rights and how to exercise them.
•    Women and girls equipped with information and skills necessary to enhance their participation in all areas of public life.
•    Women’s involvement and influence in decision-making at all levels of society, from family to nation is greatly increased
•    Rural women’s enhanced voice, co-ordination and participation in decision-making
•    Communities and relevant stakeholders enabled to influence, change, design and implement policies to promote equity and equality between males and females

3.3    APOKA
3.3.1    Scholarships
Encourages and supports promising young girls who have performed well in school but lack the resources necessary to continue pursuing their education
3.3.2    Sensitization for Mindset Transformation
•    Educates, lobbies and negotiates with parents/guardians about the benefits of educating their girl children in particular
•    Encourages parents and guardians to provide moral, fiscal and mental support for the education of their children
•    Collaborates with heads of educational institutions to secure admission and support for needy children.

3.3.3    Coordination of Northern Network for Educational Development (NNED) Activities
•    Leads the process towards achieving the Education For All (EFA) Goals in the Upper East Region
•    Collaborates with partners, especially the Regional Directorate and District Directorates towards ensuring quality basic education for all children of school going age with emphasis on the girl child and other children hard to reach
•    Provides a platform for learning and sharing on educational issues both local & national
•    Sensitize community members on the importance of education and on their roles towards the education of their children
•    Offer training and related capacity building activities to other NNED members and the District Education for All Teams (DEFATs) to carry out advocacy for the achievement of the EFA goals.

3.4    VIOLENCE & VIOLENCE SURVIVORS SUPPORT (VIVISS)
•    Engages ‘power’ in communities and other stakeholders to prevent and end violence against women.
•    Strengthens male and female relationships through dialogue and conversation.
•    Provides an immediate and comprehensive response to reported cases of violence against women (VAW) and witchcraft accusations
•    Provides follow-up mechanisms that ensures victim safety and encourages the sanctioning of perpetrators. We are currently raising funds to build a shelter for abused and battered women
•    Guides the establishment of a comprehensive system of response that unites all relevant community offices (police, social services, hospital, etc) in responding to VAW cases.

3.5    EQUITABLE COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (ECOREMS)
•    Strengthen the capacity of women and poor land users to continue to advocate for the equitable distribution of land, time, finance and other productive resources
•    Increase access and control of fertile land for women by increasing the quantity of arable land available in the three communities
•    Increase household food security by assisting 60 female and male farmers in three communities with farm inputs and improved agricultural knowledge and skills
•    Support and leverage land advocacy in favour of women by documenting and sharing the success stories from pilot communities in ways that lead to a replication of this effort in many more communities
•    Increase access and control of time for women by introducing appropriate technology that encourages men to share in household and childcare chores
•    Increase access to and control of financial resources for women with a revolving fund
•    Support female youth to engage in tangible livelihood economic activities.

3.6    GENDERED DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (G-DRR)
•    Provide food aid when there is a disaster to affected men and women for at least 6 months
•    Support male and female farmers and most vulnerable households to engage in dry season garden as recovery crops and poultry and livestock rearing respectively.
•    Provide dried Anchovies and soup ingredients to people who receive food aid during disasters
•    Assist with the reconstruction of model houses most vulnerable and displaced female and male victims
•    Train vulnerable women and men in micro-business management and give them micro-credit
•    Build up the emergency management capacity of CENSUDI and local communities