Improving Healthcare Delivery
| To Norsaac, timely delivery of information is the best way to go in providing health care delivery to people. Thus, most of Norsaac’s interventions cater for the improvement of health via prevention through social and behavioral change approaches and channels at all levels of the chain. |
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The Power to choose (P2C) is a seven-year Sexual Reproductive Health and Right (SRHR) project, which seeks to have increased enjoyment of health-related human rights by the most marginalized and vulnerable right holders, particularly women, adolescent girls, and children in the Savelugu and Sagnarigu municipalities.
Currently, Norsaac works with government institution such as GHS, GES, department of Gender, Community development and social welfare to increase knowledge and skills of adolescents and young people on SRHR through awareness creation, increase access and utilization of quality SRHR information among adolescents in Northern Ghana and create an enabling environment for Adolescent Girls and Young Women to exercise their SRHR.
The project is implemented in partnership with five local organizations in Ghana, (Norsaac, PPAG, SEND GHANA, WILDAF and PRADA).
Project Duration: 7 Years
Donor : Global Affairs Canada through OXFAM IN GHANA
The Championing Nutrition and Gender Equality (CHANGE) project is a 5-year project in partnership with Children Believe and funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC). The primary objective of the project is to enhance nutritional outcomes for the most vulnerable populations, with a specific focus on pregnant and lactating women, along with their children, in disadvantaged regions of Ghana and Ethiopia.
The project will be implemented in three regions: the Northern, Savannah, and Upper East Regions of Ghana, encompassing a total of 108 communities.
The Project Objectives are:
Ultimate Project Outcome
Improved nutrition for the poorest and most marginalized (especially women, adolescent girls and children) in Ghana and Ethiopia.
The intermediate outcomes of the CHANGE project are as follows:
Outcome 1: Improved women’s leadership and control over resources for community and individual gender equitable nutrition practices
Outcome 2: Strengthened gender-equitable integrated nutrition and health services for the poorest and most marginalized especially women, girls and children.
Outcome 3: Improved effectiveness of key stakeholders to provide gender responsive community-based nutrition specifics activities for women, adolescent girls and children locally.
Project Duration: 5 Years
Donor: Children Believe
Young Female Platforms (YFP) was established in 2009 by Norsaac and its partner ActionAid Ghana to address the broad challenges of low participation of women and girls in leadership and decision-making processes especially in senior high schools. It serves as a learning platform for young girls in the Northern and North-East Regions to deliberate on various developmental and governance issues, particularly those affecting their growth, education, and overall development of young girls and women. YFP membership usually consist of 30–40 young females, including girls with disability at the SHS levels with ages ranging from 16 to 19 years. The project is currently implemented in twenty-four (24) schools across the Northern and North-East regions of Ghana.
Over the past years, YFP with funding support from ActionAid Ghana has influenced the leadership of females in 24 senior high schools in the Northern and Northeast regions with over 10,000 young females benefiting in the areas of leadership, human rights, reproductive health, and advocacy skills. The project has designed a training manual with technical guidance from Ghana Health Service and Ghana Education Service on the above topic areas that guides the engagements of YPF members and their selected mentors within the 24 beneficiary schools.
As part of efforts to strengthen the agency of these young girls, the YFP and their alumni have always been supported by ActionAid and Norsaac to identify key issues impacting young women in their schools and create gender sensitive solutions to enhance learning facilities for girls and members of YFP. To promote equal opportunities for all, Norsaac supported the Ghana Education Service Gender to institute the Gender Friendly Leadership Structure in all second cycle institutions in the Northern region and two other schools in the Northeast region to encourage more female participation in school leadership.
Project Duration: 2009 till date
Donor : ActionAid Ghana
Catalyzing stakeholders’ response to teaching of Reproductive Health Education (RHE) in Northern Ghana is a project which seeks to support the delivery of safer, healthier and inclusive schools and community environments for all young people as well as ensure the delivery of accurate, rights-based and good quality RHE programs that provide knowledge, attitudes and skills essential for safer behaviors, reduced adolescent pregnancy, and gender equality in the district. The project is implemented in 15 communities, one Municipality and 2 District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Northern and North East regions specifically Gushegu Municipality, Zabzugu and Mamprugu Moaduri Districts.
The main objectives of this project are;
Objective 1: To deliver accurate, rights-based and good quality RHE programmes that provide knowledge, attitudes and skills essential for safer behaviors, reduced adolescent pregnancy, and gender equality
Objective 2: To support delivery of safer, healthier and inclusive schools and community environments for all young people
Target beneficiaries: Adolescents, young people and persons with disability
Project Duration: 2022-2027
Donor: UNESCO