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The LRC in its dedication to developing “human rights cities” in Bongo, Walewale and the Nima/Mamobi communities embarked on a project in collaboration with Rights and Voice Initiative (RAVI) to strengthen the capacity of community based organisations operating within these areas to do effective citizen government engagement.

The LRC is working with eight Community Based Organisations(CBOs):

  1. Ayawaso Sub-metropolis
      • Federation of Youth Clubs (FYC)
      • Muslim Family Counselling Services
      • Red Cross Mothers’ club of Nima and Mamobi
      • Gender Action Unit
  1. Walewale
      •  Walewale Human Rights City
      • Neighbour in Need
  1. Bongo
      • Gowrie United Front for Development
      •  Bongo Human Rights City

CBOS’ TARGETED ISSUES

Each of the CBOs that the LRC is working with is focusing on at least one issue. Some of these issues require engagement with opinion leaders, landlords, community member, local authorities, and established state institutions.

Below is a summary of the issues each CBO is working on:

  • The Bongo Human Rights City is concerned with making the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) pro-poor, and plans to educate the community, encourage de-politicized popular support, and increase the effectiveness of channels of communication.
  • The United Front for the Development of Gowrie confronts the challenge of low school attendance, and its strategies include educating the public and developing relationships with government and NGO’s.
  • Neighbour in Need plans to address the challenge of low registration in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NIHS), and plans to proceed primarily through organization of key community leaders, who will serve as vehicles for mobilization and dissemination of information.
  • The Wale wale Human Rights City (WHRC) is focused on (1) community education regarding the details of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and the importance of enrolling; (2) engagement with the District Assembly and Members of Parliament to demand effective implementation of the NHIS; and (3) ensuring that an adequate supply of medications is available in the district hospitals and clinics.
  • Mothers’ Club: The mothers club is a women group and they are working towards addressing the issue of poor sanitation in the Nima/ Mamboi community and its attendant effects o health. This group has actually started engagement with local authorities, landlords and landladies within the Nima/Mamobi community to educate landlords to provide sanitary facilities including toilets, and garbage containers in their houses and to get local authorities to enforce existing regulations and bye laws on sanitation.
  • Muslim Family and Counselling Services (M.F.C.S): The MFCS is working in the area of Reproductive health and Reproductive Rights. In its quest to bring on board every member of the community in which it operates, the MFCS has organized series of Focus Group Discussions (FGD) for stakeholders within the community to discuss reproductive health issues and how to address them. This group is currently making arrangement to meet with service providers in the area and to engage the appropriate to address the challenges of accessing effective reproductive health care.
  • Federation of Youth Clubs (FYC): The Federation of Youth Clubs (FYC) membership is made up of young men and women. Their focus is on the Nima-Mamobi Drainage System. There is a big gutter that bisects Nima Mamobi, which is not constructed and harbours a lot of garbage. The group see the gutter as a death trap and it seeks to get the appropriate governmental agencies to construct this gutter.
  • Gender Action Unit: This is a women group, which is working on girl child education with special focus on the capitation grant. The capitation grant is an educational policy of the government of Ghana, which makes elementary education free for all children of school going age.