WOM in partnership with OXFAM and Wildaf with funding from the European Union continued to work in the Bongo and Nabdam districts of the upper east region under the Enough project which focuses on empowering women, girls, boys, and men to take positive action in ending Sexual and Gender-Based violence (SGBV).
Key Achievements for the year included:
- WOM facilitated processes that led to the establishment of a district Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana police service in the Pelungu town of the Nabdam District.
- WOM facilitated processes with state agencies such as the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), DOVVSU, the Department of Social Welfare, the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) and the Department of gender that led to the establishment of a functional support fund for victims of abuse in the Upper East Region. The first of its kind in Ghana.
- Eighty 80% increase in the knowledge of trainers and trainees on the updated gender-responsive workplace policy in the Nabdam and Bongo District. Commits made by trainers and trainees to institutionalize the gender-responsive workplace policy.
- Two (2) new informal sector associations (hand textiles and Design) in the Nabdam District have adopted the gender-responsive workplace policy.
- Eighty-80 % of the three hundred and sixty (360) women reached now have savings and are able to start and grow their businesses through the Village Saving and Loans Associates (VSLA).
- Sixty-four (64) sensitizations were conducted in the communities by the Legal.
- Literacy Volunteers (LLVs) reaching thousand seven hundred and forty-five (1,745) people. As a result, thirty-two (32) cases were recorded and out of these, twenty (27) cases were resolved while five (5) cases were referred to other institutions.
- Seventy per cent (70%) of the boys who are members of the boys’ clubs now participate in unpaid care work such as cooking.