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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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