Country strategy

Disability situation in Ghana

Presently, the disability movement in Ghana is represented mainly by GNAD, GSPD and GAB. A few other disability groups are represented by very weak ‘for’ organisations or are or-ganised loosely around a school or day-care centre. DPOs have, for a number of years, focused on establishing themselves as strong national or-ganisations with well functioning national secretariats with some decentralised service delivery. So far DPOs have been able to establish branches in a number of districts, but in terms of capacity, it is highly questionable how many of the branches can live up to the new demands and tasks resulting from the general decentralisation in the country.

DPOD's focus areas in Ghana

Based on the situation analysis the key focus areas of work for DPOD funded programme in Ghana are identified as:

Administrative capacity building of partner organisations
Establishment of new diagnosis groups and parent’s organisations
Improving the cooperation and coordination between DPOs at national level
Advocacy and lobbying at the District and National Level
Promotion of gender sensitive policy and budget making within the disability sector

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