PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES

GDCA currently carries out the following projects and programmes.

Empowerment for Life Programme (E4L)

The E4L programme is being implemented in cooperation with GDCA’s Danish partners, Ghana Venskabsgruppernr i Danmark or Ghana Friendship Groups in Denmark (GV). E4L is a block funding from the Danish International Development Assistance (Danida) that has come to replace four single projects used to be implemented between GDCA and GV. The first phase of the programme, which began on 1 January 2010, has three components namely,

• Complementary Basic Education and Youth Employment
• Civil Society Strengthening and
• Community Managed Livelihood Improvement

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Support for women’s Participation in Elections (SWOPE)

SWOPE is a three-year project being supported by the European Union for the enhancement of women’s participation in decision-making. The focus of the project is on creating awareness and building capacities of women to participate in and to be elected to District Assemblies and Parliament. Read more.....

Literacy for Life Change Project

This project is a replication of the school for Life approach being sponsored by the UK Department for International Development (DfID). The project is being implemented in Central Gonja District in the Northern Region, Bawku West District in the Upper East Region, and Nadawli and Jirapa Districts in the Upper West Region. Read more.......

Ambassadors Girls Scholarship Programme (AGSP)

AGSP is scholarship programme for brilliant but needy girls in basic school. The programme is being supported by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through World Education. The programme is in its sixth year. In the past six years more than 4,000 scholarships have been disbursed to needy boys and girls in basic schools.

GoG/UNDP MSME Capacity building project

The GDCA Micro-credit scheme is benefiting from support under this project. The support has been in the form of establishing an MIS system, capacity building of staff and some grant for on-lending to clients.

MiDA/ACP

The two micro-credit schemes of GDCA are benefiting from the Agricultural Credit Programme of the Millennium Challenge Compact support from the US Government. Under the programme, the two schemes are enjoying loans on concessional terms based for on-lending to Farmer-based Organisations (FBOs) trained under the programme.