Six interconnected strands of work driving human rights and sustainable development across Northern Ghana.
Every intervention is rooted in a rights-based approach, ensuring communities are not just beneficiaries but active drivers of their own development.
Empowering children, communities, influencers, service providers, and duty bearers to leverage local and international policy frameworks — the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the African Charter, and Ghana's Children Act — to create an enabling environment where the best interest of the child is prioritized. We promote education, prevent child marriage, and advance the bill of rights for children.
Using the human rights PANEL principles — Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination, Empowerment, and Linkages to Human Rights — alongside the SDGs and Ghana's Governance Act, we mobilize and empower poor people's movements, civil society organizations, and citizen groups to meaningfully engage their governments for transparency, participation, and quality service delivery at local and national levels.
Creating an enabling environment where women, adolescents and girls can exercise and claim their rights to live free from violence, abuse and neglect. Interventions include microcredit/Village Savings and Loans schemes, capacity building on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention, promoting access to sexual and reproductive and mental health services, championing adolescent health, and challenging unequal power norms that perpetuate GBV.
Strengthening all six building blocks of a health system — service delivery, workforce, information, medical products/vaccines/technologies, financing, and leadership/governance — using national, regional and international commitments as accountability tools. We partner with institutions and donors to provide basic infrastructure that improves quality of care, promotes human rights, and reduces risk, with emphasis on maternal and newborn health, adolescent health, and mental health.
Working with partners and local state and non-state actors to create platforms for marginalized groups — women farmers, Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), and smallholder farmers on marginal lands — to access services, information and technology to improve productivity and incomes in a sustainable manner, while protecting fragile lands and ecosystems.
Promoting citizen capacity to monitor government procurement and service delivery to identify, report and seek remedy to petty and grand corruption in the delivery of social protection and essential services such as education, health and water.