The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-Gh), has held a Town Hall meeting to deliberate on issues of climate change, and how the youth can play a major role in the issues of climate resilience in the Northern Region. The Town Hall meeting, which brought together youth groups and major stakeholders, also pushed for clearlyContinue reading “SWIDA-Ghana’s Town Hall Meeting Highlights the need for Youth involvement in Agriculture and Climate change issues”
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SWIDA-Gh ED On Consequences of Migration Due to Climate Change
Executive Director, Hajia Alima Sagito-Saeed shares her experience on the real life changing consequences of migration due to climate change on women, girls, youth, the very vulnerable and communities in general. She was speaking in an interview with the Award Winning Climate Change Journalist in Ghana for a feature story Mohammed Fugu. Check out theContinue reading “SWIDA-Gh ED On Consequences of Migration Due to Climate Change”
SWIDA-Gh Holds Empowers Community Champions on Climate Adaptation
A two-day workshop has been held in Tamale, aimed at building the capacity of some selected community champions on climate change adaptation and mitigating factors. The other objective was to introduce participants to some local and international guidelines and key concepts on climate change and how the youth can leverage the guidelines to advocate forContinue reading “SWIDA-Gh Holds Empowers Community Champions on Climate Adaptation”
UNDP and Partners review Ghana’s national framework to enhance response to violent extremism
In response to emerging challenges and the evolving landscape of terrorism threats in the West African sub-region, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with the Ministry of National Security, with funding from Governments of Australia and German, has initiated a comprehensive review of Ghana’s National Framework for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism andContinue reading “UNDP and Partners review Ghana’s national framework to enhance response to violent extremism”
SWIDA-Gh Begins Process towards the Implementation of Climate Action Project
The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-Gh), has secured funding to implement a project on climate action, aimed as the project title indicates, “Building Bridges: Empowering Youth as Green Champions for Climate Resilience in Northern Ghana”. The climate action project seeks to directly empower 25 youth groups from the Tamale Metropolis and Savelugu and SagnariguContinue reading “SWIDA-Gh Begins Process towards the Implementation of Climate Action Project”
SWIDA-Gh provides skill training to women in the North
A total of thirty young women have been trained in Tamale by SWIDA-Ghana, in various entrepreneurial skills, aimed at empowering them to be independent. The training, which was part of take-off activities for the launch of the project “Young Women Entrepreurship and Skills Training”, sought to empower the young women, making them think as entrepreneurship,Continue reading “SWIDA-Gh provides skill training to women in the North”
CSOs want an environment free from threats to engage citizens on elections – Hajia Alima
The Executive Director for the Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-Gh), Hajia Alima Sagito-Saeed, has called for an enabling environment free from threats, with full protection for CSOs and the people, where information can be shared, to ensure a violent-free election in 2024. Hajia Alima made this call during the 2024 Harmattan School, an annualContinue reading “CSOs want an environment free from threats to engage citizens on elections – Hajia Alima”
SWIDA-Gh Holds Workshop on Advocacy and unpaid care work for women
SWIDA-Ghana has held a workshop to empower women to understand unpaid care work and how efficient they can be at investing in their economic activities for income. The workshop was also aimed at improving women’s skills in engagement with household and family members to support in the home, to reduce and redistribute care work toContinue reading “SWIDA-Gh Holds Workshop on Advocacy and unpaid care work for women”
SWIDA-Gh Trains Young Women to Drive Entrepreneurial Development
The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-Ghana), has registered young women to be trained in various skills development, as a means of empowerment, aimed at inculcating in them the need to be entrepreneurial and independent. The young women, from across the northern region of Ghana, numbering thirty in total, are expected to receive training inContinue reading “SWIDA-Gh Trains Young Women to Drive Entrepreneurial Development”
SWIDA deeply concerned 6.8% of women experienced physical violence while pregnant
On Friday, November 24, 2023, the Ghana Statistical Service reported, as part of its preliminary findings from the 2022 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS) Report, that two in every five (41.6%) women aged 15 to 49 who have ever had an intimate partner have experienced at least one form of intimate partner violence (IPV),Continue reading “SWIDA deeply concerned 6.8% of women experienced physical violence while pregnant”
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