Empowering women is essential to the social, economic and political development of families, communities and countries. When women are living safe, fulfilled and productive lives, they can reach their full potential. contributing their skills to the workforce and can raise happier and healthier children. Unfortunately, achieving women’s empowerment in Ghana is still far fetched. Women are still disadvantaged in access to productive resources such as land, credit, inputs, etc. Challenges to girls’ education are nowhere near resolution and women’s participation in governance and decision making is still very low. Only 40 out 275 (14.54%) Members of Parliament are women and only 11.02% of Chief Executives of State Owned Enterprises are women. In the local government sector only 216 out of 6,000 elected representatives (3.6%) are women.

Our programme on women empowerment focuses on women’s health, female access to education, women’s participation in governance and decision making and women’s access to finance and economic opportunities. This programme involves mobilising and strengthening capacity of women and girls to demand their rights and improve their wellbeing in society. We specifically provide trainings and coaching services on business management and facilitate linkage of individuals and businesses to financial institutions. We also improve capacities of institutions and duty bearers to appropriately respond to the needs of women and girls and strive for gender equity in service delivery. We further intervene in providing innovative services such as establishment of Agro-processing centres for women to improve upon value addition and marketing of their businesses.