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IMPACT OF THE NORTHERN GHANA FOOD SECURITY RESILIENCE PROJECT (NGFSRP)
Thursday, 06 June 2013
Ghana implemented food security project in Northern and Upper West regions between January 2010 and August 2011. The Northern Ghana Food Security... Read more...
ADRA GHANA IMPLEMENTS A THREE-YEAR PROJECT TO REDUCE POVERTY IN NORTHERN REGION
Thursday, 06 June 2013
Integrated Agricultural Productivity Improvement and marketing project (INTAPIMP) is a three-year project being implemented by ADRA Ghana in the... Read more...

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The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is the development arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that demonstrates God's Love and Compassion, particularly to the underprivileged. ADRA Ghana belongs to a network of 125 ADRA countries offices including thirty-eight in Africa.

ADRA Ghana broadened its mission from relief to include sustainable community development programs. The agency searches out deprivation, social injustice and then works to eliminate them in partnership with stakeholders. ADRA Ghana has worked in all the ten regions of Ghana by investing in the potential of individuals through advocacy and training, supporting families, promoting health, providing food and water, establishing livelihoods and responding to emergencies. Activities are designed to contribute to poverty reduction through improved social services, education, economic empowerment, primary health care and nutrition, water and sanitation, food security and natural resources management and disaster preparedness and response. ADRA Ghana's development interventions receive donor support. Our donors include;

  • EUROPEAN COMMISSION (EC)
  • THE GLOBAL FUND ROUND 8
  • UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID)
  • UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (UNDP)
  • UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR POPULATION ACTIVITIES (UNFPA)
  • DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (DfID)
  • UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT FOR AGRICULTURE (USDA)
  • CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CIDA)
  • ADRA NETHERLANDS
  • ADRA UK
  • ADRA INTERNATIONAL
  • WORLD SOY FOUNDATION (WSF)
  • WORLD INITIATIVE ON SOY IN HUMAN HEALTH (WISHH)

ADRA Ghana assists rural people, urban and suburban dwellers to overcome the shackles of poverty, preventable diseases and illiteracy.The agency goes to where the need is and works with communities and collaborating government agencies in achieving stated objectives. ADRA provides support to the needy and the vulnerable irrespective of ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

RECOGNITIONS:

  1. 2005: International Development Partner Award for excellence presented by  Millennium Excellence Foundation-Ghana
  2. 2006: Best Collaborating NGO presented by Chartered Institute of Marketing -Ghana
  3. 2010: International Development Partner Award for excellence presented by Millennium Development Partner Foundation-Ghana
  4. 2010: Best Practices and Innovation (BPI) Award presented by  InterAction; an Alliance of International NGOs- Washington DC; USA,

 

  • EC Food Security Project Northern Ghana with ADRA-UK: On-Line Video

 

 

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 Postal Address: P. O. Box GP1435, Accra-Ghana
 
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

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  • Basic Education
  • Disaster Response
  • Econ Dev't
  • Food Security
  • MiDA Project
  • Primary Health Care

ADRA Ghana’s basic educational program seeks to achieve the goal of breaking the cycle of poverty and empowering individuals by sourcing for educational materials such as books, pencils, pens, and erasers for donation to schools.

Read More: Basic Education


Just as the rate of emergencies is increasing, so is ADRA Ghana's response. Our objective is simple: to save lives. This means being agile and pro-active in responding to the different and changing needs of people in crisis and chronic distress.

Read More: Disaster Response Preparedness


ADRA Ghana’s Micro-Finance program aims at stimulating economic growth at the grass roots level by providing small loans to groups of individual (mostly) women who cannot access credit at formal banking institutions for factors such as lack of collateral security.

More: Economic Development

Food security is the single most important challenge to every human society,

and it lies at the heart of ADRA’s human development efforts.

 

 

 

 

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The goal of the Ghana Compact is to reduce poverty, improve food security and accelerate economic growth through private sector led agricultural and agribusiness development. The CDFO activity aims at commercializing agriculture through training farmer- based organizations (FBOs) in order to change the mindset and move them from “farming as a way of life” to “farming as a business” or business-oriented agriculture production.

Read More: MiDA AGRIC PROJECT


ADRA Ghana’s Primary Health Care program addresses the most basic healthcare problems in the target communities by providing prevention education and raising community awareness of local health problems such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, STIs, environmental sanitation, nutritional intake, and access to clean water. ADRA also sources for medical equipment and supplies to support local health care facilities.

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