Each year the Canadian High Commission in Ghana provides funding assistance to reputable, local non-governmental organizations and community groups for small-scale, community-based initiatives through the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI).
On Dec 15, 2010, Canadian High Commissioner, HE Trudy Kernighan met with the recipients of the 2010-2011 Canada Fund for Local Initiatives. The recipients included the Advocacy and Legal Advice Center (ALAC) of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Ghana Reflect Network-Pamoja, and Swift Aid. This meeting provided a chance for the High Commissioner to learn more about the projects receiving Canadian support and the people behind these projects. It was also an opportunity for the recipients to interact and identify the possibilities for networking among themselves to help in achieving the project outputs.
In 2011-12, the Canada Fund supported projects that sought to address a variety of problems including women’s low participation in governance, limited radio broadcasting of gender issues, difficulties in reporting corruption and the abuse of child labour.
Visit our links to the recipients to learn more about the work of organizations that aspire to promote all forms of human rights and good governance in Ghana.
The Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC) of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), seeks to inform and empower citizens, especially victims and witnesses of corruption and then translate their concerns into structural changes for better local and national governance.
As a Canada Fund recipient in both 2009-10 and 2010-11, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Swift Aid manages a series of activities in an effort to reduce the number of children being employed as kayayei.
The Media Foundation for West Africa is a regional non-governmental organisation established in 1997 to defend and promote the rights and freedoms of the media.
The Ghana Reflect Practitioners’ Network, also known as, Pamoja Ghana is a Network of REFLECT Practitioners
Each year the Canadian High Commission in Ghana provides funding assistance to reputable, local non-governmental organizations and community groups for small-scale, community-based initiatives through the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI).
