ActionAid Ghana (AAG) invests heavily into programmes dealing with specific issues of women’s rights. ActionAid Ghana works closely with women’s rights organizations from grassroots to the national level. AAG’s campaign in this thematic area is geared towards inclusion of women’s rights as priority issue within key development policies such as the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy and advocate for space where voices of women, particularly poor women, can be heard.

 

Furthermore, AAG seeks to ensure that women have appropriate access and control of productive resources such as credit, land, training and education.

 

In furtherance of AAG’s women’s economic empowerment agenda, three women’s groups from Bansi in the Bawku municipal, Sakote and Duusi in the Talensi Nabdam district have been supported by the UERDP with grinding mills and shea butter processors. This support is geared towards empowering the women to be economically independent, and confident to demand and claim their rights.

 

Management committees which were formed by the groups have been trained in basic operation and maintenance as well as basic book keeping. This support from AAG to the groups has led to improvements in savings of the groups. For example, the Bansi group has increased their savings from GHc100.00 to GHc 350.00 soon after the training. This is evidenced from the bank deposit records of the group.