Youth Skills Training and Facilitation: The essence of this focus area is to empower young people with relevant skills and techniques in identifying, strategizing, planning and implementation of youth policy actions at the local level. This thus build capacity of our beneficiaries to become active citizens through volunteerism
Youth Action Research and Documentation: At AFES-Ghana, our work is driven by data as means of demonstrating evidences of the issues that we advocate on. We do so by deploying our host of youth volunteers whom we refer to as Citizen Journalists and Community reporters to collect data often through public surveys. Our documentations are usually in the form of resolutions, communiques, outcome statements, petitions, manifestos, status reports and so on
Youth Policy Advocacy Campaigning: AFES-Ghana, we do data-driven, evidence-based advocacy to ensure that young people are placed at the centre of policy decision-making processes at the community level. We do this by using primary data collected from our own public surveys and secondary data from external sources
Citizen Engagement: We organize and facilitate spaces that afford citizens especially young people the opportunity to engage duty bearers involving District Assemblies & decentralized departments such as the District Education Office and the District Health Management Team (DHMT) so as to demand transparency and accountability. We collaborate with state institutions such as National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) and the National Youth Authority
Women and Girls Empowerment: We empower women and girls by promoting sexual and reproductive health education. Whilst we campaign against school-related gender-based violence and social norms that advantage boys and men over women and girls, we also advocate for women and girls participation in local decision making processes through our Gender Transformative Education and Advocacy (G-TEA) clubs
Social Auditing: We do social auditing of public expenditures by tracking and monitoring how budgets of District Assemblies and decentralized departments are expended. By so doing we promote participatory budgeting processes as well as open contracting to ensure greater transparency and accountability in public financial management
We do monitoring and reporting on the implementation of four social protection programmes that are being executed by the Government of Ghana in support of children, pregnant women, persons living with disability and the elderly to ensure that the services reach the final beneficiaries. Social inclusion programmes that we monitor include
Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme:
The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) is a cash transfer programme introduced by the Government of Ghana (GOG) in 2008, for extremely poor and vulnerable households with the aim of reducing poverty by increasing and smoothening consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extremely poor and vulnerable. Below are the three categories of eligible members:
Education Capitation Grant
The Capitation Grant Scheme in Ghana is a program that provides a per capita grant to public schools to help address the issue of children not attending school due to fees. The program was introduced in 2005 to increase access to education by replacing school fees and levies with a government-funded grant
Ghana National School Feeding Programme
The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) is a program that provides children in public primary and kindergarten schools with a hot meal each school day. The GSFP aims to improve nutrition, reduce hunger and poverty, and enhance food security. It also seeks to increase school enrollment, attendance, and retention
National Health Insurance Scheme
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is a social intervention program introduced by government to provide financial access to quality health care for residents in Ghana. The NHIS is largely funded by:
OTHER SERVICES
Organizational and Community Development Consultancy
PMBOK-based Project Management Consultancy