ABANTU for Development and Development Education Centre trained 153 Community Development Committee (CODEC) and new Animators in Suhum District to ensure that the Cocoa Life programme objective of “Empowered and thriving communities” is achieved.
ABANTU for Development and GIZ embarks on “Strengthening the Women’s Empowerment Mandate of the Green People’s Energy Project”.
ABANTU for Development and GIZ is implementing a project titled Strengthening The Women’s Empowerment Mandate of The Green People’s Energy Project. ABANTU as part of it’s activities of the project, embarked on a field visit to Afram Plains South and North Districts to collect baseline data in communities that benefited from the installation of PV […]
COCOALIFE & ABANTU For Development embarks on a 3-Day Training in Amansie West and Sekyere East Districts in Ashanti Region.
ABANTU For Development & Cocoalife engaged with members of Amansie West and Sekyere East Districts to provide training on the four (4) member groups in each district, namely, Gender Dialogue Platform, Farmer Union, Youth and Key Institutional Representatives. This blog post provides a summary report of activities undertaken under the training.Day 1 : Cocoalife training […]
THE WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2021 THEME: Ecosystem Restoration
World Environment (WED) is on June 5th every year. This day is supposed to an environmental awareness day set aside by United Nations with the aim of raising awareness on environmental issues. The theme of this year’s celebration is on Ecosystem restoration. All parts of an ecosystem— animals, plants, microbes, and humans—are interconnected. In order […]
Training of Gender Dialogue Platform members and Farmer’s Society
Training for Gender Dialogue Platform members and Farmer’s Union was organized by Abantu and Cocoa Life to enhance women’s participation in key decision making spaces at the community level in Bia East District.At the end of the training ABANTU has successfully established a Gender Dialogue Platform in the Bia East District with the election of […]
ABANTU FOR DEVELOPMENT & COCOA LIFE TRAINING FOR YOUTH AND INSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVES ON GENDER ISSUES
ABANTU FOR DEVELOPMENT & COCOA LIFE engaged the youth and institutional representatives in the Bia East District of Western North Region, Ghana on Gender issues and leadership. The youth were taken through various models on leadership and presented with various challenges hindering gender inclusion in Ghana and what roles they play in effecting change. They […]
Report On 2020 Parliamentary And Presidential Election Observation
1.0 Introduction On Friday, July 17, 2020, ABANTU for Development with support from STAR-Ghana launched a project titled “Strengthening Women’s Capacities for Effective Participation in Elections 2020”. The projectisintended to increase the effectiveness of citizens’ actions for an inclusive, credible and a peaceful General Elections 2020. It focuses on empowering marginalised groups, specifically women and […]
A Report on the Training of Young Women on Effective Election Observation
1.0 Introduction Ghana has organized seven (7) successive elections since the country’s return to multi-party democracy in 1992. These Elections have been considered peaceful, competitive, credible, free and fair. However, the participation of vulnerable groups, especially, women has remained woefully low within these Elections. This low participation is evidenced in the fact that women constitute […]
Report on Press Conference on Enhancing Women’s Effective Inclusion in Election 2020
Date: 17th November, 2020. Venue: Accra International Press Centre Opening by Kinna Likimani The press conference began with some welcome remarks from the facilitator for the day; Kinna Likimani. She welcomed everybody to the event and thanked Star-Ghana and Abantu as the hosts for making it possible. She went on to speak about the woeful […]
Strengthening Advocacy for the Passage of an Affirmative Action Law in Ghana
Report On Consultation with Sector Ministries and Other Key Stakeholders OPENING Abantu for Development in collaboration with African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) organized a consultation forum with sector ministries and other key stakeholders at the Sunlodge hotel in Tesano. The forum began with an introduction session where people in attendance had to state their name, […]