Area of Intervention

About

Africa Center for Inclusive Development (ACID-GHANA) is an indigenous non-governmental organization operating in the Northern of Ghana.

The organization is operating with two offices one in Sagnarigu Municipality and the other one in Nanumba North. We are working to address the needs of vulnerable children, their families, women and youth in the remote areas for them to realize their full potentials in the society.

OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANISATION

To promote access to inclusive health services for vulnerable groups.

To promote full participation of vulnerable groups including their rights to decision making in the society.
To promote Children with disabilities and affected children access to inclusive and equitable education

To promote young men and women for self-reliance through agro-processing, skills training and enterprise development.

To improve climate resilience and livelihood to address food insecurity, biodiversity conservation and social cohesion.

Areas of intervention

HEALTH

Provide corrective surgery and rehabilitation to children with disabilities
Increased access to family planning and reproductive health with HIV and maternal and child health (MCH)
Improved rural communities’ access to portable water, sanitation and hygiene facilities

EDUCATION SECTOR

Increased enrolment, retention and completion of children with disabilities in mainstream schools through appropriate strategies for quality basic education in mainstream schools
Established literacy and numeracy Centers
Strengthened the capacities of DPO’s and PSGs to track and monitor implementation of inclusive education through Community-Led Monitoring

ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE

To build an innovative practice to address climate change
To improve food security through sustainable agriculture practices and technology
To restore degraded lands through integrated tree planting and management to improve livelihood and biodiversity conservation.
To strengthen social trust and cohesion to mitigate violent extremism, community resilience, self-reliance and community investments policies

WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPOWERMENT

Mobilized and strengthen women into cooperative groups for agro-processing and enterprises development

Enhanced self-reliance and livelihood of youth through employable skills training.

Developed ACID-Ghana incubations and acceleration program to offer training and digital incubation services to young men and women

ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY AND PARTICIPATION

Citizens participation increased in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of local government policies and program.
Capacity of civil society organizations strengthened and mobilized to engaged in evidence based advocacy on service delivery
Developed knowledge and learning platform as a core program for best practices and learning sharing