African Assistance Plan (Sunyani)
African Assistance Plan is a Christian organization working in the areas of education, health, water and sanitation and micro-finance, particularly in the Brong Ahafo and Northern Regions. Established in 1986 and firmly grounded in the principles of Christianity, AAP works from a ministry outreach approach to provide uniforms, books and scholarships to needy school children and construct school buildings. In the area of health, they provide preventative health education and medical care, immunizations and food supplements. They also provide water well drilling, and micro-finance loans. Furthermore, they have established a leadership college in Sunyani and radio ministry with various FM stations across the country.
http://www.africaassistanceplan.org/
Afrikids (Bolgatanga/ Sirigu)
AfriKids is a Child Rights organization working to improve life for Ghana’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged children in the Upper East Region. With origins tracing back to 1997, they became a registered charity in 2005. Their work includes foster homes, schools and street child centres and initiatives that tackle complex cultural issues including child trafficking, child labour and the spirit child phenomenon. They work with the local people to uncover their needs and attempt to provide sustainability for their programs through the ownership and operation of a number of businesses including a medical centre, an eco-lodge and several ethical trade programs.
AwaaWaa2 (Accra)
AwaaWaa2 is a registered charity set up to provide specialist services to children and young people with communication disabilities and their families. The service started shortly after 2005, addressing the need within Ghana to provide speech and language therapy services to children with such disabilities. Through early intervention in the form of language groups, outreach services, assessments, reviews and individual therapy AwaaWaa2 seeks to alter the effects of these disabilities and provide an opportunity for children to succeed in school and their communities.
Challenging Heights (Winneba)
Challenging Heights rescues and helps provide education for children who have returned from slavery and the worst forms of child labour. Founded by a survivor of child trafficking and child labour, its mission is to ensure a secured, protected and dignified future and life for children and youth by promoting their rights, education and health. Established in 2007, it also supports at-risk and poor families and communities to ensure that children are protected from slavery and the worst forms of child labour through education. This organization also helps families improve their income levels to ensure school attendance of returned children and to enable fishing communities and home communities reject the sale and exploitation of children, especially in the Central and Volta Regions.
http://challengingheights.org/ch/
Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) (Accra, Takoradi and Tamale)
CHRAJ is a quasi-governmental (autonomous) organization that focuses on human rights and freedoms (both macro and micro) as well as administrative justice through public education and investigation of human rights abuses. Furthermore, CHRAJ acts as an anti-corruption agency and investigates cases of abuse of public office and unjust treatment by the government and its officers. CHRAJ is described as a quasi- judicial institution in the Ghanaian Constitution. The Commission has branches in the ten regional capitals and ninety- nine district offices across Ghana.
National Council on Persons with Disabilities (Accra)
The National Council on Persons with Disabilities is a government institution that was established in 2006 by the Persons with Disability Act and is an umbrella organization of all disability movements in Ghana. It works under the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare with a secretariat in Accra and collaborates with local and international organizations. This organization has the objective to propose, coordinate, monitor and evolve policies, programs and strategies to enable persons with disability to enter and participate in the development of the country.
NORST- Northern Region Small Towns (Tamale)
NORST is a CIDA funded program focused on increasing access to sustainable water and sanitation services in Northern Ghana to achieve the availability and consumption of sustainable, locally managed, potable water in 30 small towns. This includes capacity building at the local, district and regional levels to ensure effective delivery and support of potable water and sanitation services.
Northern Region Planning and Coordinating Unit (Tamale)
The NRPCU is a government institution that coordinates development activities in the Northern Region by liaising with development partners that operate there. This includes advising development partners on projects and investments, supporting the district planning process of the district assembly and providing policy advice for development in the Northern Region. As well, the NRPCU performs monitoring and evaluation of development projects and programs
Regional Advisory Information and Network Systems (RAINS) (Tamale)
Established by a group of social development activists in 1996 RAINS operates in the Northern Region with local community members and development partners to improve the quality of life for vulnerable groups, especially women, children and the disabled. Using grassroots institutional capacity building RAINS engages with local and international partners to promote human rights and basic education, create sustainable livelihoods, support natural resource management, reduce child exploitation and provide health education, among others.