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Ghana National NGOs Coalition for Youth

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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 in power and decision-making Public Administration: Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Governance and Public Administration Knowledge Systems and E-government Public Financial Management Public Service and Management Innovation Socio-Economic Governance and Management Social Development: Conflict Disabled persons Employment Information and Communications Technologies Poverty Social policy Technical cooperation Youth Sustainable Development: Agriculture Atmosphere Biodiversity Capacity-building Climate change Consumption and production patterns Desertification and Drought Disaster management and vulnerability Education Energy Forests Freshwater Gender equality Health Human settlements Information for decision-making and participation Institutional arrangements Integrated decision-making Marine Resources Mining Oceans and seas Partnerships Poverty Protecting and managing the natural resources Rural Development Sanitation Sustainable Tourism Sustainable development for Africa Technology Trade and environment Transport Waste (hazardous) Waste (solid) Waste Management
Geographic scope:	National
Country of activity:	Ghana
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
Mission statement:	1. The Vision of GHANCY is: To be widely recognized in the near future, as a sustained and vibrant Civil Society Institution ( CSI) contributing to the building of a Ghanaian nation and society in which young-women and young-men are seen as active and positive actors-a society in which young-people can realize their potentials, and are viewed and recognized as useful individual citizens, as acceptable members of their communities, youth organizations, political and social action groups, and as active contributors to the well-being of the societies and cultures in which they live, and that of the national Ghanaian community as a whole. 2. The Mission of GHANCY is: To design, undertake and manage social development initiatives ( SDIs), that aim at networking, empowering and strengthening member-organizations and the GHANCY Secretariats to enable them take steps and actions to stimulate and promote in, and among the youth the following: • Social Youth Empowerment (SYE)-made possible by working to create enabling conditions for youth empowerment to chance and to happen • Productive Youth Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Employment Dev.( PYED); • Positive Youth Development (PYD); and • Progressive Youth Citizenship ( PYC) 3. Strategies For Achieving Mission: GHANCY hopes to achieve its mission through the adoption and application of a three-pronged ABC action strategies of: • Advocacy(A)-to influence for positive, affirmative and acceptable changes in policies, development actions, attitudes and behaviours of individual, groups and institutions • Bridge-building( B)- Building collaborations, coalitions, partnerships and networks, • Catalysis/Capacity-Strengthening ( C)-relates to empowerment through knowledge-building, information and skills transfer, Guidance and Counselling, and allocation of resources for social development and for human and national progress. 4 .Strategic Organizational Responsibility and Commitment ( SORC): Working within our stated Vision and Mission, GHANCY has chosen a strategic organizational responsibility and commitments ( SORC), of designing and undertaking social development initiatives ( SDIs)-(i.e.-programmes, projects, activities and schemes ) that have high potential for benefitting young-people, their care-givers and youth service providers. 5..GHANCY’s Goal of Social Development Initiatives( SDIs) For Young-People: GHANCY’s goal of SDIs for young-people is to stimulate policies and actions to promote, protect, safeguard and advance the well-being, livelihood, human rights, survival, positive growth and development, empowerment ,peace and harmony of young-people, their care-givers and their communities. 6. GHANCY’S Sectors of Work (SOW): Cover all Social Development Sectors, and so cut across the Policies and Agenda of all Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (GMDAs)i.e: Environment/Natural Resource/Energy Governance; Education; Health; Gender/Women’s Empowerment; Poverty Reduction; Employment; Enterprise/Entrepreneurship Dev.; Politics/Democracy; Sector-wide Governance; Agriculture and Livelihood; Human Rights; Peace Promotion/Social Integration; Tourism and Culture; Youth Volunteering/International Exchange Programme; Human Resource Development; Sports and Recreation/Entertainment
Year established:	2004
Year of registration:	2008
Organizational structure:	1. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ( OF ALL MEMBERS) 2. NATIONAL COUNCIL( NC) MADE UP OF: (a). NATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE (NSC)-whuich is also made up of: i) National President and Two Deputy Nnational Presidents ii) Gneral Secretary and Two Deputy ecretaries iii) Four 94) Zonal Operational Overseers (ZOOs) iv) Nnational Tresurer ASnd Depuity Nnational Treasurer/Financial; Scetretary v) National Media and Communication Coordinator vi) National Programmes Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator vii)Human Resource Development Manager/Ppersoneel Ccvapacity Development) viii) Nnational Administrative Officer (Paid-up/ NO Voting Rights) b) Operational SDub-Committees ( OSCOMs)-MADE UP OF i) Gender and Women's Empowerment Initiatives( GWEI) II) Infrastructural Dvelopment iii)Advocacy ASnd Accountability Engagements in Governance iv)Networking and Institutional Development v) Regional Presidents of Regional Bbranches of GHANCY
Number and type of members:	1. Number-120( INDIVIDUAL NGOs)-making up the Coalition 2. GHANACY is a umbrella lorganization of 120 individual NGOs which focus on young-people( children and youth)
Affiliation with NGO networks:	1. GHANA HIV/AIDS NETWORK( GHANET)

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