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GFD MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTNERS



Click on the name(s) BELOW to visit the official website of some of our Development Partners and Member Organizations to learn more.


Member Orgainsations

Ghana Association of the Blind (GAB)
The Ghana Association of the Blind is a non-governmental organization set up to see to the needs of blind and visually impaired people in Ghana. It was established purposely to mobilize and develop their skills and income building activities.Website: www.gabonline.org/


Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled (GSPD)
GSPD has been championing the cause of its members who are disadvantaged, in terms of access to health, education, employment and cultural activities.

Website:
http://gspd.webs.com

Ghana National Association of the Deaf ( GNAD)
To promote equal life and economic participation for deaf and hard-hearing people in Ghana
Website: www.gnad.dk/

Parents Association of Children with Intellectual Disabilities (PACID)

Society of Albinos Ghana (SOAG)

Share Care Ghana (SCG)
Sharecare Ghana (Sharecare4u) was started in 2006 by a group of people in Ghana with rare neuro-immunological diseases. Website: www.sharecare4u.org

   
 
Development Partners
Action on Disability and Development (ADD)
ADD was established in 1985 as a development agency working with disabled people’s organisations in developing countries, and positioned itself alongside other international agencies working towards the reduction of poverty through self-help initiatives. Website: www.add.org.uk/
Danish Association of the Physically Disabled

Disabled Peoples' Organisations - Denmark (DPOP)
The overall goal of the DPOD Mini-programme is to improve the opportunities for persons with disabilities in the developing countries so that they can implement and achieve their rights as human beings.
Website:
www.disability.dk/

Danish Association of the Blind (DAB)
The Danish Association of the Blind, "Dansk Blindesamfund", in short called DAB, is an all-blind organisation. This means that DAB is formed and run by people who suffer from blindness or severe visual impairment. Website: www.dkblind.dk/dab/


Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC)
It is an organisation who works in Research, Advocacy, Capacity Building, Training, Consultancy and Networking.
Website: www.isodec.org.gh


Sight Savers International
We are an international charity which works with partners to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote equality of opportunity for disabled people in the developing world
Website: www.sightsavers.org

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)
Since 1958 we've been sending volunteers to fight global poverty by sharing their skills and experience with people in developing countries. Website: www.vso.org.uk/

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP is working with a wide range of partners to help create coalitions for change to support the goals at global, regional and national levels, to benchmark progress towards them, and to help countries to build the institutional capacity, policies and programmes needed to achieve the MDGs.
Website: www.undp.org

Rights and Voice Initiative (RAVI)
The Rights and Voice Initiative (RAVI) is targeted at strengthening the voices of people living in poverty and who are marginalised to engage with Government on fundamental human rights issues. Website: www.ravighana.org

Disability Right Fund (DRF)
In 2007, an anonymous donor initiated DRF with a grant to the Fund for Global Human Rights to hire a consultant to develop structure and build relationships with other donors and the disability rights field.
Website:
www.disabilityrightsfund.org


Ghana Research and Advocacy Initiative (G-RAP)
The Ghana Research and Advocacy Programme “G-RAP” provides grants to Ghana based institutions engaged in pro-poor public policy research and advocacy.
Website: www.g-rap.org

Center for Democratic Develpment (CDD) - Ghana
The Center is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit research-based and policy-oriented think tank in Accra, Ghana. Founded in 1998, it is dedicated to the promotion of  democracy, good governance and the development of a liberal political and economic environment in Ghana in particular and Africa in general.

Government of Ghana
Ghana, a country on the West Coast of Africa, is one of the most thriving democracies on the continent. It has often been referred to as an "island of peace" in one of the most chaotic regions on earth.
Website: www.ghana.gov.gh


Department for International Development (DFID)
When the Department for International Development (DFID) was set up in 1997, it made fighting world poverty its top priority.
Among its key objectives, DFID set out to make global development a national priority and promote it to audiences in the UK and overseas, while fostering a new ‘aid relationship’ with governments of developing countries.
Website: www.dfid.gov.uk


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