SWIDA GH

Benjamin Dimongso Kafari happy birthday wishes to you. Benjamin is the Executive Director of Aserd-Ghana, one dynamic Women's Right Organization in Northern Ghana.
Birthday Benjamin.

SWIDA GH was invited to the SNV and Partners 2Scale Project Inclusive Agribusiness Club launch and exhibition together with UDS.
The invitation included a stand for our women and youth in Agribusiness to come and exhibit their products.
The opportunity was taken and four entrepreneurs were able to take the chance to increase sales, networking and opportunities for market linkages.

The women exhibited shea products, dawadawa, honey, rice, snacks and beverages.

Meet some of the women that feed Ghana.

SWIDA GH is at Mariam Hotel for a workshop on Preventing Violent Extremism through Social Accountability. This is by CRS.

Some proud change makers in the North of Ghana. Knowing each of you is value addition.

Key note speaker Hajia Prof Adiza Sadik Dean of Faculty of Science and Technology Tamale Technical Universities (TaTU). She is speaking under the theme Breaking Barriers, Leading Change: Celebrating 25 years of Technical Advancement.

Girls Model JHS this week with our EWN Ellevate train. Mentoring started with 3rd Year JHS students. The visit was by courtesy Sagnarigu Naa.

He specially mentioned that we add the Sagnarigu Girls Model School to the list of EWN Ellevate schools after he launched the project in Tamale.
EWN ELLEVATE is a social Responsibility project to be implemented by the Executive Women's Network (EWN) starting with six schools (one JJS, three SHS, two tertiary) in Northern Region. This is to reach over 5000 girls with mentoring, skills development, educational opportunities among others.

Executive Women Network (EWN).

We are inspired by the "Suglo Group", one of our VSLA women's group in the Nyingali Community in the Karaga District who put together their Social Fund contribution to construct wooden beehives. With the help of trained beekeepers, the women were taken through a refresher training on the installation process. The group looks forward to a great harvest which they can sell to sustain their savings association and businesses.

Most importantly, they show that it is possible to have benefeciaries sustain investments made in them by development partners..

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In the last two weeks we have joined the world mark two significant international days; International Day of the Girl Child and International Day of Rural Women. We took advantage of these days to work with the Ghana Education Service. and the National Youth Authority to highlight issues of advancing women's economic empowerment, communal support in ending sexual violence against girls and the need for governments to prioritise gender mainstreaming at all levels.

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Please everyone need to spend time to educate a woman on screening for breast cancer. This will ensure early treatment if found.
Breast cancer is kills.

Sights from our International Day of Rural Day Celebration at the Nalung Naa Chief's Palace.

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Over the weekend SWIDA honoured the invitation to the 3rd GJA awards. Our presence was to physically appreciate the media as a positive partner in our programming and particularly setting the agenda for policy engagement.

Congratulations to the GJA leadership Northern Region, and especially to the Award winners.

Our week started today with a meeting at the Kaladan Chief Palace. The purpose was to thank the Chief and his Elders for supporting women in their communities to improve their economic activities. We also discuss more support to women and girls including protecting them from any form of abuse.

They are worth our celebration!

How we mark the day today!

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Project Officers in Karaga working with women to take advantage of the financial inclusion services.
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Chairing GhaFFaP National Executive Committee meeting. This meeeting brought together 15 Forest and Farm Producer Organisations in Ghana and the secretariat.
The meeting discussed our audited accounts for 2022, the approval of workplan for 2023/4, capacity building plans for the coming year and approval for of workplan.
Ghana Federation of Forest and Farm Producers

Yesterday we climaxed our International Day of the Girl Child Celebration across our community schools with a debate competition at the Bulpiela AG School. In attendance was the Regional Girls Education Officer, GES, Madam Linda Amoah.

The debaters raised very key issues on the motion "The Government of Ghana has done enough to promote Girls Sexual Rights." This was drafted under the our theme for the celebration "Investing in Girls Sexual Rights: Our Leadership and Well-Being." We continue to thank our funding partner African Women's Development Fund for their immense support.

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Today all actions in Yendi Municipal. Went to support the National Youth Authority to celebrate the IDGC2023 under the theme
Leasing with Grace and Grit: Highlighting the resilience and strength of women leaders.

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Celebration of the International Day of the Girl Child at Yendi.

We are celebrating the Girl-Child today. Packed programme to reach over 1500 girls from basic, JHS and SHS. This is supported by African Women's Development Fund under

Our Executive Director will be at Yendi Senior High as a Chairperson for the celebration

How we'll be marking International Day of the Girl Child 2023! We are glad to be marking the day with our state partners National Youth Authority and Ghana Education Service thanks to African Women's Development Fund.

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The week is starting well with partnership discussions. We met with officers from the Ghana Technical and Vocational Education (GTVET) from Savannah and Northern Regions and also officers from Tamale Metro National Youth Authority (NYA).
All the discussions were on partnering to increase impact.
TEVT is a sustainable and decent sources of employment for women and youth. Securing economic security and rights of women.

The discussion with NYA was on the two organisations partnership to organise the International Day of the Girl Child on Wednesday 11th October.
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Last week 1st and 2nd October, Abdul Samed Khadija, the Communication and Gender Manager for SWIDA was the main rapporteur for the Northern sector CEDAW NGO Shadow report consultative workshop.
The workshop was organised bg WiLDAF Ghana with support from Plan Ghana/WVL.
At the same meeting the Executive Hajia Alima Sagito made a researched presentation on the New Land Act; its intersection for food security and climate change.
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Last Thursday, SWIDA was invited to the UNDP Ghana Policy Dialogue on Women's Leadership in Local Governance in Ghana.
The key note speaker was Dr. Esther Offei-Aboagye.
The highlight of her presentation that is calling for everyone's attention and committee to change are;
1. Female elected Assembly members - less than 5%
2. Female appointed members 26%
3. MMD Chief Executives 15%
4. Female members of Parliament 14.5%
5. MMD Coordinating Directors 13%
6. Chief Directors in the regions 12.5%
7. Local Government staff 36.7%.
These are the realities of women in leadership.
is at the corner and we must be committed to the mantra
Please action is important by YOU.

The Executive Director for SWIDA made the point that the realities of North and South of Ghana are not the same when it comes to issues affecting women and girls Empowerment. So it is important that the NGO Northern sector consultative workshop for the Ghana Shadow report on CEDAW is important and timely.

She called for participants to give recommendations that will be transformative and speaks to the realities of the North.
She thanked WiLDAF Ghana and Plan International Ghana/WVL-GHANA for the Northern sector consultation.

Another important stage in the production calender is harvesting. SWIDA team and the Agric Agent together are on the field, providing extension advice to women to harvest their crops.




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This week, our Executive Director Hajia Alima Sagito was engaged by WiLDAF to do a presentation on the new Land Act 2020; its intersection with Food Security, climatechange and importantlysecuring Women's Economic justice.

The presentation highlighted all the three sections of the land act
1. INTEREST AND RIGHTS IN LAND
2. LAND ADMINISTRATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT
3. OFFENCES AND MISCELLANEOUS
4. Women role in Food security and food systems and economic Empowerment
5. Land and climate change management approaches.
It was obvious that the presentation was informative and educative which equipped the over 40 CSOs, Women right organisations (WROs), Women Led Organisations (WLOs) and NGOs participants ready to increase advocacy on women and land issues better.
This presentation was at the 2-day Northern Sector CEDAW NGO Shadow Report Consultative Workshop in Tamale.

The Dialogue was an excellent one. SWIDA is proud to have been invited and we attended in person.

Today at the UNDP Ghana Women in Local Governance Policy Dialogue

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Agricultural Policy Advocacy is important to secure the economic security and rights of women. This radio discussion emphasized achieved that.
Under a project on Advocacy Actions for Women Economic Security in Agric with AWDF, the media is a strong ally.