GIVING SMILES TO GIRLS AND WOMEN IN WEAVING TRAINING CENTRE
The proposed project seek to address institutional challenges faced by Kpahama women weaving centre in the sagnarigu Municipality of the Northern Region of Ghana. The Kpahama women weaving group was formed in 2004 with less than 5 trainees to train women and girls with employable skills in weaving traditional materials used in making smocks and women clothing. Currently, the group is having 25 trainees and more applications are pending for the master approval. However, due to lack space at the skill training centre, inadequate materials, lack of standardization of the products and limited materials for the centre. FoRD- Ghana project team will mobilize and build the capacity of the training centre by providing technical skills. The project will also strengthen the group capacity with working machines liking wiping mail and broad room machines. The proposed project will last for one year.
The project will empower women and girls with employable skills, build their capacity on women rights and local level participation in decision making at the household, community and national level. The leadership of the group will support with technical skills in business development, financial literacy management and product certification and standardization.
The Kpahama women weaving group was formed in 2004 with less than 5 trainees to train women and girls with employable skills in weaving traditional materials used in making smocks and women clothing. Currently, the group is having 25 trainees and more applications are pending for the master approval.
FoRD - Ghana operates with management board with a chairperson that oversee and provide strategic direction to the management team towards the attainment of the organizational goals. The management board design and formulate policies and programmes that guides the operations of the organization and approves annual plans and budget.
The management team headed by the Executive Director who implement annual and strategic plan and report to the board for review and approval. The Executive Director sees to the day –to – day management and running of the organization. She serve as a signatory to the organizational accounts and authorize all transactions for the finance and Administration Manager to make payment. The finance manager will prepare financial report and bank reconciliation statements and keep financial records of the project. The M&E officer will design M&E plan and monitor project indicators.
- Make it easier and more affordable for individuals and MSMEs to make investments and transfer payments, across geographies and across different types of platforms
- Ghana
- Growth: An organization with an established product, service, or business model that is rolled out in one or more communities
Currently, the group is having 25 trainees and more applications are pending for the master approva
The Kpehaman women weaving training are applying for assistance to held solve the problems due to lack space at the skill training centre, inadequate materials, lack of standardization of the products and limited materials for the centre. FoRD- Ghana project team will mobilize and build the capacity of the training centre by providing technical skills. The project will also strengthen the group capacity with working machines liking wiping mail and broad room machines. The proposed project will last for one year
- Business Model (e.g. product-market fit, strategy & development)
- Financial (e.g. accounting practices, pitching to investors)
- Legal or Regulatory Matters
- Product / Service Distribution (e.g. delivery, logistics, expanding client base)
- Public Relations (e.g. branding/marketing strategy, social and global media)
- Technology (e.g. software or hardware, web development/design)
The project is an innovative one in the sense that it is a multi-facet approach intervention, which will provide equipment for the selected women groups, train them on entrepreneurship skills, financial literacy and numeracy skills, including trainings on Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) skills.
Women are noted to be very effective in business management and when they are empowered the benefit is enormous because they will have power, control and recognised to effectively participate in decision making process
The project will empower women and girls with employable skills, build their capacity on women rights and local level participation in decision making at the household, community and national level. The leadership of the group will support with technical skills in business development, financial literacy management and product certification and standardization.
This will help the project achieve it short and long term goals
1. Increase the number of enrolment of trainees from 25 to 75
2. Improve the production level of products that will increase the income level of the beneficiaries
3. Expand the number of training centers to benefit more girls and women by passing them out after graduation.
- 1. No Poverty
- 5. Gender Equality
- 6. Clean Water and Sanitation
- 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- 10. Reduced Inequalities
The project will use a jointly develop M&E by FoRD- Ghana and MIT Solve team to monitor the project. The organization M&E officer will central in the project monitoring. Stakeholders review will be organize to take feedback from beneficiaries and stakeholders to improve on the project outcomes. The MIT Solve will play part in monitoring the outcomes of the project and evaluate it to measure its impact on the women groups livelihoods and female students educational outcomes
Result
Indicator
Definition and Specification
Data Source
Responsible person
Data Disaggregation
Frequency of Data Collection and Reporting
Increase public awareness to enroll their girls and women in weaving skills center
Number of people enrolled
Education during community mobilization, orientation and sensitization of community members
Project file
Field report
Project Coordinator
Male, female (18 – 24yrs) and teenager(13 – 18yrs)
Quarterly
Provide Business Entreprenuerial Training And Back - Up support for training center
Number of groups supported
Number of women trained
Support in the form of technical advice, business development services and financial literacy training,
Project file
Training reports
Project Coordinator
Female (18 – 24yrs), teenager(13 – 18yrs)
Quarterly
Empowerment through the use facebook, whatsapp, zooms, teams and internet application to market the products and services.
- A new business model or process that relies on technology to be successful
- Internet of Things
- Software and Mobile Applications
- Ghana
- Ghana
- Nonprofit
It also exists to establish an effective collaboration with the state and non – state agencies especially the decentralized departments at the national, regional level like Ministry gender, children and social protection, National Business and Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) and Ghana Standard Board. and non – state agencies like Alliance for Future Generations in Ghana (AFG-Ghana), Coalition for Empowering Socially Excluded in the Northern Region (CESEN).
The project is an innovative one in the sense that it is a multi-facet approach intervention, which will provide equipment for the selected women groups, train them on entrepreneurship skills, financial literacy and numeracy skills, including trainings on Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) skills.
- Individual consumers or stakeholders (B2C)
The capacity building training would be provide to the 4 groups for efficient management of the facility and technical support from NBSSI and GSB for expansion and certification. Also other sources of funding shall vigorously be pursued by FoRD-Ghana to source funding to continue with the project activities in the project communities and other communities in our project area.
We always source funds from donor organizations to achieve our financial sustainability. Below in the table are few ones we are successful for far
S/N
NAME OF PROJECT
PROJECT LOCATION
PROJECT DURATION
PARTNER
DONOR
AMOUNT (GH₡)
1
Community Women Income and Livelihoods Improvement Project (COMWILIP)
Gushegu Municipality
On – going
February to December, 2023
Plan International Ghana
Global Affairs Canada
95,000.00
2
The HIV/TB Community Systems Strengthening Program in support of COVID-19 Vaccines Uptake activities at the Community level
Gushegu Municipality
On-going
July, 2022 to June, 2023
Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) and Ghana HIV/AIDS Network (GHANET)
Global fund
56,000.00
3
Cost Effective Strategy Influencing Mass Response to COVID-19 Vaccines (CEsMASPRD) Project
Savelugu Municipality
On-going
December, 2021 – May, 2023
WUZDA/AFG GHANA
DIFAM
85,205.00
4
Promoting Community Based Enhances Health Systems Management Approach Preventing Contracting COVID-19 (ProBESPCoD) Project
Sagnarigu and Savelugu Municipalities
August, 2020 – January, 2022
WUZDA/AFG GHANA
DIFAM
56,260.00
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