Strengthening structures for a deepened grassroots-based entrepreneurial movement for young females in the Bono region of Ghana

Project period:

01.02.2022 - 30.04.2023

Granted amount:

492,243,- DKK

Total budget:

492,243,- DKK

Organization:

Civil Connections Community Foundation (CCCF)

Partners:

Inspinest Foundation

Pool:

Civilsamfundspuljen

Grant type:

Medborgerindsats

World goals:

Goal 1: No Poverty

Goal 5: Gender Equality

Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Efforts take place in:

Ghana

Resume

Our project’s aim is to contribute to the cultivation and mainstreaming of a strong grassroots’ female entrepreneurship culture in rural Ghana, where unemployment, underemployment, and job market exploitation/discrimination of females remains persistently rampant. We aim to mobilise, motivate, and capacitate young females and local stakeholders to create better work opportunities for young women. To this end, our project entails piloting a female entrepreneurship and changemaker program across five rural municipalities in the Bono Region of Ghana, which will include the establishment of female entrepreneurial hubs at 5 girls-only senior high schools (SHSs), and that will act as incubation/epicenters of a blueprint for others. This will be complemented by a strategic mobilization and lobby of local stakeholders’ support to the project objectives, which will translate in a localized and deepened long term acceptance & ownership.