What We Do

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

Youth Skills Training and Facilitation:

By equipping young people with strategic skills to implement local policy actions, we empower them to become active citizens and community leaders through volunteerism.

Youth Action Research and Documentation:

At AFES-Ghana, we drive our advocacy with data-driven evidence collected by our network of youth Citizen Journalists and Community Reporters through localized public surveys. We transform these insights into actionable documentations, ranging from petitions and manifestos to formal resolutions and status reports.

Youth Policy Advocacy Campaigning

AFES-Ghana conducts data-driven advocacy by leveraging primary survey data and external research to ensure young people are central to community-level policy decision-making.

PARTICIPATORY LOCAL GOVERNANCE

Citizen Engagement;

We facilitate engagement spaces where young people and citizens directly challenge duty bearers, including District Assemblies and decentralized departments, to demand transparency and accountability. Through strategic partnerships with state institutions like the NCCE and NYA, we strengthen these platforms for effective civic oversight and governance.

Women and Girls Empowerment:

We empower women and girls through sexual reproductive health education and G-TEA clubs that challenge discriminatory social norms while advocating for their active participation in local decision-making processes.

SOCIAL PROTECTION

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.  Pictures supporting this claim. Pictures supporting this claim.

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:

  • Orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) or,
  • Persons with severe disability without any productive capacity and
  • Elderly persons who are 65 years and above

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:

  • The National Health Insurance Levy (NHIL), which is 2.5% levy on goods and services collected under the Value Added Tax (VAT).
  • 2.5% of Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) contributions per month
  • Return on National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) investments
  • Premium paid by informal sector subscribers.