Objectives & Strategy

Objectives

 

To provide micro-credit to women cooperatives which use this captial for their own businesses and for their economic empowerment.

To provide entrepreneurship skills training to rural women cooperatives in the areas of group formation, accounts, records keeping, savigns, marketing and business management.

To provide entrepreneurial (self-employment) and leadership skills training to girls aged 16-23 who are school drop-outs and to provide credit to them as capital for their own businesses. These girls are given training at the Self-Employment Skills and Leadership Training Centre of WABA.

To promote the civic empowerment of women and girls and provide information on the importance of women in politics and public decision-making offices.

To provide information on human rights awareness, protection of reproductive health and rights of women with particular respect to family planning and the use of contraceptives, as well as HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention and information regarding the care for women and children living with HIV/AIDS.

To achieve its goals and objectives, WABA has equipped itself with certain strategies, including:

Effective policy direction and organizational review by an able board.

Swift and efficient decision-making by members in general and especially the CEO.

Targeting rural, peri-urban, out-of-school and unskilled women to whom our projects are most beneficial.

Forming strategic alliances and collaborating with organizational bodies to bring empowerment to underprivileged women.

Encouraging self-employment and self-help among communities for their own social well-being and that of their families.

Offering micro-credit, training, and education to target groups for their general development and improvement in knowledge of pressing issues such as human rights, HIV/AIDS, health, etc.

WABA also receives a broad publication from various media houses, including The Daily Graphic, The Ghanaian Times, The Spectator, The Statesman, GTV, Metro TV, TV3, TV Africa, Peace FM, Happy FM, Joy FM, Adom FM, Evening News, etc.

Strategies

To achieve its goals and objectives, WABA has equipped itself with certain strategies, including:

  1. Effective policy direction and organizational review by an able board.
  2. Swift and efficient decision-making by members in general, and especially the CEO.
  3. Targeting rural, peri-urban, out-of-school and unskilled women to whom our projects are most beneficial.
  4. Forming strategic alliances and collaborating with organizational bodies to bring empowerment to underprivileged women.
  5. Encouraging self-employment and self-help among communities for their own social well-being and that of their families.
  6. Offering micro-credit, training, and education to target groups for their general development and improvement in knowledge of pressing issues such as human rights, HIV/AIDS, health, etc.
  7. WABA also receives a broad publication from various media houses, including The Daily Graphic, The Ghanaian Times, The Spectator, The Statesman, GTV, Metro TV, TV3, TV Africa, Peace FM, Happy FM, Joy FM, Adom FM, Evening News, etc.