Mwananchi Ghana Updates

Oil drilling leads to a harvest of weeds for Ghana’s fishermen

Mwananchi — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:05:25 +0000

An article written by Kwesi Johnson, coordinator of Mwananchi partner organisation, Friends of the Nation, has been published on Thomson Reuter's new Sustainability platform.

How do you say 'accountability' in your language?

Mwananchi — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:29:56 +0000

Media for good governance in Ghana

Capacity building process report: Mwananchi partners convene in Ghana

Mwananchi — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:13:30 +0000

Mwananchi Ghana held a capacity building workshop for partners implementing Mwananchi projects in June 2012. The event served to update partners on the activities others had been undertaking, and refresh their understanding of strategy and outcome mapping.

Mwananchi partners took the opportunity to discuss the challenges and successes they have experienced implementing their grant, and developed ideas for joint work to consolidate and sustain the outcomes of the Mwananchi programme.

Read the full report here.

Newsletter from Mwananchi partner, SocioServe Ghana

Mwananchi — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:40:51 +0000

Mwananchi partner organisation, SocioServe Ghana, which works with disabled and disempowered people, using drama and information to help constituents understand their rights and engage with their representatives.

In this newsletter, they revisit an older project to follow up on how the project has impacted on the Customary Land Secretariat public services. They also present their 'Get Involved Platform', part of the 'Know Your MP' project, which aims to help ensure free, fair and violence-free elections.

Read the newsletter here.

Oil spills off Ghana's coast damage wildlife and local livelihoods

Mwananchi — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:36:37 +0000

Mwananchi partner, Friends of the Nation (FoN), works with local communities in the coastal Western Region of Ghana, where it empowers fishing communities to participate in decision making that affects their livelihoods. FoN has become increasingly concerned by the impact of offshore oil drilling on the coastal environment and the communities who make their living there.

Mwananchi Ghana annual report 2011-2012

Mwananchi — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:56:24 +0000

Mwananchi Ghana is pleased to present its Annual Report for 2011-2012. The report reviews the main activities and achievements during the year, and learning from the programme and some of the innovative projects that are funded.

Concerned youth of Asuogyaman express displeasure with operations of the district administration

Mwananchi — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:16:24 +0000

A group calling itself ‘Concerned Youth of Asuogyaman District’ presented a petition to the Asuogyaman District Assembly expressing dissatisfaction with what they termed as greed and corruption at the district assembly, which they said has led to underdevelopment of the district. The demonstrators, numbering about 200, presented the petition to the District Chief Executive Hon. Johnson Ahiakpor during a peaceful demonstration organised on Thursday, May 30, 2012. This action is likely to have resulted because of Socioserve-Ghana’s capacity building programme for Assembly Members and vulnerable groups in the Asuogyaman District with support from PDA/Mwananchi Ghana.

BasiNeeds uses photobook to influence policy-making on mental health

Mwananchi — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:04:58 +0000

BasicNeeds is a mental health advocacy organisation based in Tamale, Northern Region. They work in several districts in the Upper East, Upper West, Central and Greater Accra regions. BasicNeeds was started in Ghana in 2002 and is a member of BasicNeeds International. BasicNeeds promotes a model for mental health and development which centres around community involvement. The charity has produced a photo book charting the needs of people affected by mental health, which they shared with politicians and policy-makers before the passage of Ghana's mental health Bill. The photo book is now available here.

Mwananchi Ghana profiles Friends of the Nation

Mwananchi — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:44:30 +0000

Mwananchi Ghana's host organisation, Participatory Development Associates, profiles one of the Mwananchi grantees, Friends of the Nation. FoN under the Mwananchi project is focused on improving the decentralization of the fisheries sector which is the main source of greater portion of the population living in their two operating districts (STMA, Shama Ahanta District). The project seeks to further enhance coastal fishing communities’ participation in forming and implementing policies which directly affect them. In addition, it seeks to see livelihood rejuvenation and closer engagement between the government and coastal communities where fishing is the backbone of the economy. The project was carried out in the Shama District and Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis (STMA) of the Western Region of Ghana. The beneficiaries of the project were fishing communities threatened by declining fishing stocks, who are mostly poor and illiterate and government officials within the fisheries sector.

Workshop report: Media and traditional authorities

Mwananchi — Sun, 27 May 2012 09:27:00 +0000

In its role building capacity among interlocutors, Mwananchi Ghana hosted a workshop to facilitate relationship building between media players and traditional authorities. The workshop aimed to provide a platform for media and traditional authorities to interact and understand one another's perspectives and to give Mwananchi grantees in the Northern sector an opportunity to build closer relationships with media and traditional authorities.

This workshop report summarises Mwananchi Ghana's work, and the presentations from media professionals and traditional leaders. The report provides a very useful summary of the challenges and opportunities for journalists to engage with traditional authorities and vice versa. Participants discussed practical ways to engage the media in community issue via traditional authorities.

Read the report.