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| A cross section of participants at the workshop |
A
stakeholder’s workshop on facilitating women living with Disabilities/Albinism
access to economic opportunities has been organized by the Seed for Economic
Empowerment of the Vulnerable (SEEV-Ghana) in the Upper East Region.
SEEV-Ghana’s
aim is to contribute to positive change based on mutual interest and values.
They support children, women groups, persons with Disabilities (PWDs), their
associations/networks and community leaders to work in partnership with duty
bearers on the development of a more inclusive, open and unwavering societies.
Persons with Disabilities PWDs who constitute majority of the beneficiaries of
SEEV-Ghana in the Upper East Region so not fully benefit from the 3 percent
District Assemblies Common Fund allocations to PWDs. A situation where PWDs
suffer all forms of discrimination, exclusion in addition to District Assembly
restricting support for PWDs, further disempowers them economically.
It was
against this backdrop that SEEV-Ghana, with funding and technical support from
the Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) Fund and its donors Danish
International Development Agency (DANIDA), United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) and the European Union currently undertaking
an advocacy action to influence Bolgatanga Municipal and Bongo District
Assembly to facilitate access to economic opportunities for Women Living with
Disabilities/Albinism in the communities.
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| Vincent Subby BUSAC Fund Monitor and Robert Nintand Programmes Manager SEEV-Ghana |
Speaking to Radio Ghana, the
Programmes Manager Robert Nintang, indicated that, the workshop intended to create
a platform to deliberate on findings of a research conducted in the Bolgatanga
Municipality and Bongo District as part of the advocacy action and step that
could be taken to resolve the issue.
He added, with the provision of skills and
established social facilities, it will bring enormous economic benefits to PWDs
in the area and also increase income generating capacities to members of PWDS, create employment opportunities which will lead to economic independence and
self reliance.
The BUSAC Fund monitor Vincent Subby stated that, SEEV-Ghana has
applied and met the criteria for funding from BUSAC. Therefore BUSAC will
monitor every activity to ensure that their choice of fighting for PWDs to give
some leverage and sustainability in the disbursement of the District Assembly
is achieved.
SEEV-Ghana came in to being as a result of peer discussion amongst
development students and the constant contact with women and children in
distressed communities in the Upper East Region and Ghana as a whole.
