COUNTRYWISE GHANA WORKING WITH NORSSAC TO PROMOTE GENDER AWARENESS

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Countrywise GHANA Filming A Documentary for NORSSAC in Tamale.
ISMAT IN BLACK, RAYMOND THE D.O.P AND RAFIU FISHBONE HOLDING THE SCRIPT, AND SITTING ON THE FLOOR

 Northern Ghana is the third poorest region in the country and recent research shows that only 60% of young people under 15 years of age living in the north qualified to enter secondary school. Regional education disparities have health impacts: 23% of young women age 15-19 with no education in Ghana’s Central and Northern regions have begun childbearing compared with 7% in the Western and Greater Accra regions. There is an unemployment rate of 42-46% among out of school youth in these areas. While 70% of the population relies on bicycles for transport; bike repair services are only available in cities. 
Organization: The Northern Sector Action on Awareness Center (NORSAAC) was founded in 2002 as a gender focused community-based advocacy organisation mobilizing youth to discuss and find ways of addressing sexual and reproductive health issues in schools. Since then, NORSAAC has taken a greater interest in sustainable livelihoods for youth and women, while integrating reproductive health issues and women’s rights and participation.

Mission
To work with communities and community structures to build the capacity of the marginalized in order to empower them to access their needs on a sustainable basis. 

Vision
To have a society in which every human being enjoys equal rights including their sexual rights.

With funding support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, ’’NORAD’’,  ActionAid Ghana partnered with NORSAAC in the Northern Region and Ark Foundation in the Greater Accra region. to ensure that in ‘’ 2 and half years, 2000 young women aged between 15 to 25 years in Ghana will have greater dignity through  economic independence, control over their bodies, and their voices will be heard and recognized in international forums. The project focuses on three thematic areas; sexual and reproductive health rights, decent work and unpaid care work.

The project goal is been achieved using 3 strategies. 
-Empowerment
-Campaigning
-Solidarity 

The 1000 young women are into 40 groups and each group consist of 25 members, each group meets twice in a month at the resource center located in Tuutingli. 

The Young Urban Women Project in Tamale also works with the Tamale Metropolitan Health Directorate, Tamale Central Health center, Vittin Health Center and the Beilpela Health Center to increase young women knowledge and access to friendly Sexual and Reproductive Health Services. 
The efforts of young women have yielded significant changes in the Bilpiela Health Center. Hajia Awabu Abubakari is a Mid Wife at the Bilpiela Health Centre, she added



'' Participating in training on Youth Friendly sexual and reproductive health service provision
Technical support for the center for Marie Stoppes International Ghana to provide equipment for Adolescent Center with NORSAAC providing a deck stand.
Young urban women support to run the center Increased access to Sexual and Reproductive Health services for young women ''

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