All About ALF
Geographical Areas:
The Peri-urban and Rural Ghana: Ashanti, Bono, Ahafo, Northern, Upper East, Upper West regions.
Areas of Operations:
Our areas of operation largely focuses on Agricultural and Enterprise Development and heavily dwells on Accountability and Inclusion where we build Social Networking Systems that always makes room for everyone regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, town of origin, disability, age, or socioeconomic background.
Training:
We provide our beneficiaries with different types of training and capacity building to enable them create and build sustainable lives. The training we offer them are:
- Life Skills Training
- Business Skills Training
- Confidence Building Training
- Participatory Skills Training
- Peer Leadership Training
- Advocacy and Institutional System Building Training
- Village Savings and Loans Training
- Community Water and Sanitation Training
- Education and Skills Training
- Value Chain Development Training
Aims & Objectives
To build the capacity of local government structures and organizational systems for accountability and transparency.
- Mapping of development partners' resource inflow and building synergies to achieve effective impact.
- Stakeholders share openly on economic and social issues that make the Social accountability mechanisms.
- Civil Society Strengthening through networking and pooling of resources such as Village Savings and Loans and access to Financial Services.
- Strengthen citizens’ capability to gather the requisite information to hold public officials accountable, and demand better services on a day-to-day basis.
- Efficiency and equity of local government capital budgeting and execution while improving citizen perceptions of the quality of governance knowledge management.
Build capacities of community members.
- Peer leadership to champion their development process.
- Establish Advocacy working groups (Innovation Platforms) that will lead the course to attain equity and justice and all-inclusive development.
- Identify and train role models that will support and guide communities to be motivated and confident to reduce poverty.
- Facilitators/Trainers from the communities help in a better understanding of the local solutions management and the appropriate cultural nuances that promote new technologies and approaches.
- Entrepreneurs- Mitigating high unemployment rates by encouraging incubations of youth teams to develop innovations for business plans.
- Build all- inclusive environments by reducing social and economic exclusion of vulnerable community members.
To promote increased Agriculture products value chains.
- Work through lead farmers to support small holder farmers in all aspects of production - Good Agricultural Practices (GAPS).
- Build market resilience along the value chains and the systems to promote efficient marketing systems for Agribusinesses.
- Link farmers to financial services and input credit.
- Collaborate with interested banks and mobile network operators to support women farmers with mobile phones to enhance digital financial services.
- Collaborate with department of Agriculture, department of cooperatives, Business Advisory centers and other NGOs and development partners to support farmers in the “hard to reach areas” where major farming activities are taking place.
- Liaise with relevant organizations to promote dry season farming along natural and man-made water bodies and also promote other livelihood alternatives.
- Liaise with Water Commission, Forestry Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, beneficiary communities and relevant institutions for the protection of water sheds.