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”
Category Archives: Youth Empowerment
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”
Weekly Update: SWIDA-Gh ED Partakes in Women Advocacy Activities
Panelist; representing women, girls and farmers on the “Ghana We Need” by the Economic Governance Platform and Oxfam in Tamale. Key speaker on the topic: Securing Women’s Economic Independence and Resilience at the Launch of Golden Inspires Foundation GIF-Ghana in Yendi. Panelist; representing women, girls and farmers on the “Ghana We Need” by the EconomicContinue reading “Weekly Update: SWIDA-Gh ED Partakes in Women Advocacy Activities”
More than two million vulnerable groups to benefit from SIGRA project
More than two million vulnerable groups from the Northern and Volta Regions are to benefit from a gender-responsive adaptation project on climate change. The project dubbed: “Strengthening Investments in Gender Responsive Adaptation”, (SIGRA) is being implemented in three Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the Northern Region and two Assemblies in the Volta Region.Continue reading “More than two million vulnerable groups to benefit from SIGRA project”
Women Voices Needed in Conflict Resolution – Hajia Alima
Stakeholders involved in peace building have been entreated to include women voices in conflict resolution, as part of measures towards sustaining peace in the country. Executive Director for the Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-Ghana), Hajia Alima Sagito-Saeed who made the call said the involvement of women in conflict resolution is critical in actually findingContinue reading “Women Voices Needed in Conflict Resolution – Hajia Alima”
SWIDA-Gh Director Honored as an Achiever by NYA
The Executive Director for SWIDA-Ghana, Hajia Alima Sagito-Saeed, has been honored at the recently held Northern Youth Achievers and Mentors Awards. The event was held as part of a special joint sitting by the Northern and Upper West Youth Parliaments, where the Chief Executive Officer for the National Youth Authority, Pius Enam Hadzide presented aContinue reading “SWIDA-Gh Director Honored as an Achiever by NYA”
SWIDA-Gh at the 2023 Entrepreneurial Youth Summit
This year’s series of the Entrepreneurial Youth Summit which took place in Tamale, Northern Region and Wa, Upper West Region brought together stakeholders to deliberate and to draw actions on how the youth can be supported to make them productive. The Entrepreneurial Youth Summit is a programme through the USAID’s Market Systems and Resilience Activity.Continue reading “SWIDA-Gh at the 2023 Entrepreneurial Youth Summit”
SWIDA-Ghana’s key Activities in the past Week
Observation of Menstrual Hygiene Day – 2023 Review meeting with interns Media interview Review of staffs’ May performance and June Planning Meeting WFP IP Review meeting for May Community stakeholders’ engagement on unpaid care work and SGBV Installation of solar energy for mechanized borehole drill Maternal health and malaria prevention in Gushegu Mentoring session withContinue reading “SWIDA-Ghana’s key Activities in the past Week”
Fight Against SGBV Cannot be Won Without Involving Men – Miss Khadijah
The fight against Sexual and Gender Based Violence has seen various twists and turns, with the introduction of a myriad of strategies and innovation over the years. The angle, perhaps not given adequate attention, is the involvement of men and young men, as key stakeholders in the fight. This is why the “KASA! Ending SexualContinue reading “Fight Against SGBV Cannot be Won Without Involving Men – Miss Khadijah”
SWIDA-Gh Partnership to Ending SGBV in Karaga District
SWIDA-Ghana in partnership with state actors and international partners have intensified the ‘UNiTE’ Campaign to end Sexual and Gender Based Violence against women and girls in Karaga, targeting women, adolescents, chiefs, youth leaders and religious leaders. The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-Gh), with support from the World Food Programme (WFP), UNFPA and the MinistryContinue reading “SWIDA-Gh Partnership to Ending SGBV in Karaga District”
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