Project Description:

The Centre for Communities Education and Youth Development (CCEYD)and Challenging Hight organized an event to commemorate the World Day Against Child Labour. This event aims to raise awareness about the issue of child labour and mobilize action to eliminate it. Through cultural performances, a short drama, and other engaging activities, the event highlights the importance of ensuring every child’s right to education, play, and a safe environment.

Project Objectives:

1. Raise awareness about the negative impacts of child labour.

2. Mobilize action to eliminate child labour in Northern Ghana.

3. Engage the community in discussions and activities to promote child rights.

4. Advocate for policies and measures to protect children from exploitation.

Project Activities

1. Cultural Dance: Showcase of traditional dances to celebrate the rich cultural heritage of Northern Ghana.

2. Short Drama on Child Labour: A theatrical performance to depict the challenges faced by children subjected to labour.

3. Interactive Sessions: Engaging in discussions and activities to educate participants about child rights and the importance of education.

4. Community Engagement: Outreach activities to involve the local community in the fight against child labour.

5. Advocacy Campaign: Promoting the #EndChildLabour and #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour hashtags to raise awareness on social media.

Expected Outcomes

1. Increased awareness about the issue of child labour in Northern Ghana.

2. Mobilized community action to combat child labour and protect children’s rights.

3. Advocacy for stronger policies and measures to prevent child labour.

4. Strengthened partnerships with stakeholders and organizations working towards child welfare.

Project Impact

By organizing this event, CCEYD aims to create a platform for dialogue and action to eliminate child labour in Northern Ghana. Through awareness-raising activities and community engagement, the project seeks to contribute to a future where every child is free from exploitation and able to reach their full potential.

Date: 11th June 2024

Venue: Compound of Choggu Naa Palace

Partners: CCEYD, Challenging Hight, and other two partners

A literacy project to imbibe reading culture in children and help them make good choices for a better future. Our innovative literacy project aims to instill a robust reading culture in children, fostering a lifelong love for learning. By providing diverse and engaging reading materials, we aspire to empower young minds with knowledge and critical thinking skills. Beyond literacy, our program is designed to guide children in making thoughtful choices that contribute to personal growth and a brighter future. Through interactive workshops and community engagement, we aim to create a supportive environment that nurtures curiosity, instills values, and equips children with the tools they need to navigate life’s challenges successfully.

Donor – Global Pioneers/TWTH Foundation

INTRODUCTION

Developing and distributing a safe and effective SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) vaccine has garnered immense global interest. Less than a year after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, several vaccine candidates had received emergency use authorization across a range of countries. Despite this scientific breakthrough, the journey from vaccine discovery to global herd immunity against COVID-19 continues to present significant policy challenges that require a collaborative, global response. We offer a framework for understanding remaining and new policy challenges for successful global vaccine campaigns against COVID-19 as well as potential solutions to address them. Decision-makers must be aware of these challenges and strategize solutions that can be implemented at scale. These include challenges around maintaining R&D incentives, running clinical trials, authorizations, post-market surveillance, manufacturing and supply, global dissemination, allocation, uptake, and clinical system adaption. Alongside these challenges, financial and ethical concerns must also be addressed.

MOJOR OBSACLES FACED RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING OF COVID-19:

Anti-vaccination activists and other people in many countries have spread a variety of unfounded conspiracy theories and other misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines based on misunderstood or misrepresented science, religion, exaggerated claims about side effects, a story about COVID-19 being spread by 5G, misrepresentations about how the immune system works and when and how COVID-19 vaccines are made, and other false or distorted information. This misinformation has proliferated and may have made many people averse to vaccination. This has led to governments and private organizations around the world introducing measures to incentivize/coerce vaccination, such as lotteries, mandates and free entry to events, which has in turn led to further misinformation about the legality and effect of these measures themselves

The project has Key Activities Carried Out:

Introduction of GAVI CDS Project to Tolon Health Team; Community Entries Orientation of faith based and community leaders on COVID-19 Vaccines to support covid -19 vaccination campaign.

Educate the Community on COVID 19 through volunteer outreach sessions

Engage communities (10 on appropriate information on COVID-19 and its vaccines

Mobilize and convey the aged, disabled and marginalized persons in the communities to vaccination Centre

Background:

The Support for Decentralization Reforms Project is a technical cooperation between the Republic of Ghana, the Federal Republic of Germany, USAID, and Global Affairs Canada.  SFDR works with local institutions and systems and is being jointly implemented by GIZ and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.  The programme plans to engage CSOs to roll out interventions centered around citizens’ participation and social accountability.

The objectives, which are increased citizens’ participation in the planning process, will involve the sensitization of citizens in the planning processes of MMDA Medium Term Development Plan (MTDP) preparation.  Citizens’ knowledge of the content of the MTDP and how it affects their development will be increased for their active participation.  This will include sensitizing citizens to participate in the MTDP processes as well as mobilizing citizens for the public hearings.

The intervention will occur in 48 out of the 60 participating districts.  These are made up of districts yet to roll out their public hearings or yet to conduct the final public hearing.  District-based CBOs will be identified to lead the process in each district.

Donor: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)  

2-year funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development (“DFATD”) to implement the Play for the Advancement of Quality Education (PAQE) program, a fund targeted at improving educational attainment and participation of boys and girls aged 2-15 in Ghana.

Providing more effective support for an integrated play-based program that motivates in-and-out-of-school children, particularly girls to attain their development needs.

Background

Most school-going children from poor and vulnerable communities and especially girls lack the motivation to attend school hence do not complete basic education. Many factors including negative perceptions, early marriage, broken homes, parental neglect, economic hardship, and a general lack of proper hygiene and sanitation facilities in schools severely limit the ability of children especially girls to attend school regularly. Ghana is making some progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goal 2 on education, to improve this, efforts will require multiple approaches such as an innovative and creative program that motivates both boys and girls to attend school and learn.

BACKGROUND

School Feeding as a Nutritional Intervention Strategy

SFPs are said to have 3 major impacts (Bennett 2003; Hall 2007). The 1st impact is the improvement of the nutritional status of school-going children and the reduction of malnutrition rates. The 2nd includes the improvement of school enrolment, school attendance and cognitive performance, also reducing the gender gap herein. The 3rd impact is the effect of school feeding on the demand for locally produced foods. Since many of the nutritional and growth problems occur in the first 2 years of life, it is appropriate to mention that a life cycle approach is needed to improve nutritional status. Improving nutritional status is thought to require a range of interventions, varying from supplementary feeding for mothers and young children to school feeding and other food based strategies (Bennett 2003; Allen 2001; Hall 2007). This may indicate that school feeding programmes on their own may not be sufficient to improve nutritional status of primary school children. Some studies however indicate an improvement of Body Mass Index (BMI) in primary school children participating in breakfast supplementation programmes of 0.62 (Ahmed 2004) and 0.23 and 0.28 in undernourished children and adequately nourished children respectively (Powell 1998). An evaluation of an SFP in Vietnam by Hall et al. (2007) showed that children in the SFP schools gained significantly more weight (0.24 kg, p=0.001) and height (0.27 cm, p=0.008) than children in the control group, but these increases could also be attributable to seasonal variation in food consumption and occasional de-worming and not only the food supplements. Whether the improvement of nutritional status is due to improved nutrient intake through SFPs has not been studied in much detail. A study by Meme et al. (1998) indicated a higher lunch time caloric intake in children participating in an SFP compared to the control group, but no significant difference in stunting percentages could be determined.

The Dubai Cares Nutrition project is aimed at supporting the education, health and nutrition of school going age children living in poverty and food insecure regions.  To enhance the benefits that communities and school children will derive from the project, PCD is providing technical support to the government of Ghana, in the implantation of the project.

The project has three main components:

Improving the quality of school feeding ration
Behavior Change Communication and
Deworming

It is therefore, in view of the BCC component which is also sub-divided into two – mass media campaign and inter-personal communication that CCEYD is chosen to implement the inter-personal communication which involves the use of community base volunteers to educate the people within their communities.

Eventually, the project activities reached out to 16,092 people within the district. The number of people reached is segregated as follows

Donors: Partnership for Child Development and Dubai Cares -2014 -2016