| Areas of expertise & Fields of activity: |
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
- Advocacy and outreach
- Capacity building
- Education and training of women
- Human rights of women
- Indigenous women
- Information and communication technologies
- Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
- Men and boys
- Millennium Development Goals
- Policy advice
- Research
- Service provision
- The girl child
- Trafficking in women and girls
- Violence against women
- Women and HIV/AIDS
- Women and armed conflict
- Women and health
- Women and poverty
- Women and the economy
- Women and the environment
- Women and the media
- Women and the media
- Women in power and decision-making
Sustainable Development:
- Agriculture
- Atmosphere
- Biodiversity
- Biotechnology
- Capacity-building
- Climate change
- Consumption and production patterns
- Demographics
- Desertification and Drought
- Disaster management and vulnerability
- Education
- Energy
- Finance
- Forests
- Freshwater
- Gender equality
- Health
- Human settlements
- Indicators
- Industrial development
- Information for decision-making and participation
- Institutional arrangements
- Integrated decision-making
- International cooperation for an enabling environment
- International law
- Land management
- Major Groups
- Marine Resources
- Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.)
- Mining
- Mountains
- Oceans and seas
- Partnerships
- Poverty
- Protecting and managing the natural resources
- Rural Development
- Sanitation
- Science
- Sustainable Tourism
- Sustainable development for Africa
- Sustainable development in a globalizing world
- Sustainable development of SIDS
- Technology
- Toxic chemicals
- Trade and environment
- Transport
- Waste (hazardous)
- Waste (radioactive)
- Waste (solid)
- Waste Management
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| Geographic scope: |
Local
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| Country of activity: |
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Achieve universal primary education
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve maternal health
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Develop global partnership for development
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established (YYYY): |
1994 |
| Year of registration (YYYY): |
1995 |
| Organizational structure: |
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, PROGRAMME OFFICERS |
| Number and type of members: |
IMPROVED STOVE MANUFACTURERS, GENDER SENSITISATION.
Primary Initiatives, Target Populations, and Scope of Work:
Dissemination of LPG stoves has been started. Education on Gender and HIV/AIDS has been initiated in target communities. The initiative targets households using traditional forms of fuel and all street food vendors in Ghana without improved stoves starting from Tema. Women agro-processors in rural communities have also been targeted. These women play major roles in the small-scale sector not just as employees and self employed part time workers, but as entrepreneurs who cater indirectly to the bulk of workers in the formal sectors. They cook from the homes and carry the food for sale outside the homes. The operations of these women could be strengthened through the provision of improved clean energy sources. The stoves are provided and payment is done by installment. Awareness on climate change issues for rural/urban women has been done for fifty women and some have received LPG stoves already. Thus fifty women street food vendors and heads of households were sensitized with the support from the Ministry of Local Government.
Design and production of institutional clothing. |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
GENDER AND ENERGY NETWORK, GHANA, CHRISTIAN MOTHERS ASSOCIATION, LADY TECHNICIANS, WOMEN STREET FOOD SELLERS AND AGROPROCESSORS |
| Funding structure: |
- Product sales and business services
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| Funding structure other: |
N/A |