Improving Economic Opportunities

HerStart: Innovate the Future is a 7-year initiative designed by Youth Challenge International (YCI), in partnership with leading local organizations, with the goal to foster and create innovative solutions for a more equitable and prosperous economy within Ghana, Zanzibar and Uganda. In Ghana, project is co-implemented with Norsaac and YEFL- Ghana located in Tamale.  HerStart aims Support over 3,000 young women to become social entrepreneurs over the 7years period and build an enabling environment for social innovation and women’s social enterprise development, while increasing awareness of and support for social ventures.

Project Duration: 7 years

Donor: YCI

USAID/Ghana Performance Accountability Activity

The USAID/Ghana Performance Accountability Activity (PAA) is a 5-year initiative aimed at supporting the Government of Ghana (GoG) in delivering high-quality local public services and enhancing accountability to civil society. This program seeks to build upon existing Ghanaian strategies, programs, and capacities, leveraging support from USAID and other donors to strengthen ongoing efforts to foster transparent, accountable, and inclusive local governance.

Funded by USAID and implemented by Democracy International (DI) in close collaboration with Norsaac and other Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), the PAA operates in 70 districts across 10 regions in Ghana, including the 5 regions in Northern Ghana.

The PAA centers around three primary result areas: The PAA is anchored on three main results areas as:

1. 1. Increase citizens’ demand for responsive service delivery by supporting the capacity of local organizations to connect citizens and promote citizens’ preferences to government bodies.
2. Improve the efficiency of government service delivery by promoting more rigorous regulatory standards and good governance capacity.
3. Embolden public service providers at the local level to adhere to quality standards by deepening the link between core Ghanaian values and standards of performance.

Norsaac Scope

Norsaac, a sub-awardee to DI, has the responsibility for leading in regional and districts levels stakeholder engagements, and community mobilization in 30 out of the 46 implementation districts in the 5 regions of Northern Ghana. Norsaac will be held accountable for improving accountability for the delivery of basic education, health, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), agriculture, and fisheries services in these 30 districts.

Duration: 5 years

Donor: Democracy International 

Strengthening Civil Societies and Media for Fiscal Justice (FAIRTAX)

The Strengthening Civil Societies and Media for Fiscal Justice (FAIRTAX) Project is a project implemented in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda under the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation Funding.  

In Ghana, the project is being implemented by Norsaac, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP).

Project Goal: The program will see to it that Tax revenue and public budgets are expanded and made significantly more progressive and gender sensitive by increasing the capacity of Civil Societies and Investigative Journalists to demand fiscal justice, increase Progressive and Gender sensitive Domestic Revenue Mobilization and enhance pro-poor and public budgets and address the debt crisis. 

Duration: 3 years

Donor: Oxfam in Ghana