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 PROGRAM MONITORING

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. These include the following

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. The categories of eligible members beneficiaries include Orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC), 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 enrolment, 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 jointly funded through the National Health Insurance Levy (NHIL), Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) 

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

We participate and contribute to the attainment of Africa Union’s Agenda 2063. Working through Office of the African Union Chairperson’s Youth Envoy (AUCYE) and African Union’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) secretariat

African Union Agenda 2063: https://au.int/en/agenda2063/overview

We also participate and contribute to the attainment of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 5, 8, 10 and 13 in Ghana. Working through the Ghana Civil Society Organizations platform on SDGs

UN Sustainable Development Goals: https://sdgs.un.org/goals