Partners: Lindt & Sprüngli Farming Program; ECOM Period: 2024 – 2025 Country of operation: Ghana Category: Women’s Economic Empowerment; Financial Inclusion (VSLAs); Cocoa Sector; Agriculture Project snapshot: The VSLA-GALS project is a financial inclusion and gender empowerment project which is aimed at building the economic and social capacities of cocoa farmers in selected communities…
Partners: theSOFTtribe; Mastercard Foundation Period: 2024 – 2025 Country of operation: Ghana Category: Youth Welfare; Agriculture; GESI; Employment; Education & Literacy Project Snapshot: The AgriConnect initiative is a US$14.7 million proof-of-concept partnership between theSOFTtribe and Mastercard Foundation aimed at empowering youth, particularly young women and persons with disabilities, by enhancing their participation in the…
Partners: Barry Callebaut Nyonkopa Period: 2025 – Country of operation: Ghana Category: Child Protection and Welfare; Financial Inclusion (VSLAs) Project Snapshot: PDA, in partnership with Right to Play and Nyonkopa, has been working to strengthen community and district-level child protection structures to safeguard children and improve response systems across several regions. Our collective efforts…
Partner: Alinea International Australia; Funded by the Australian Government Period: 2024 – Present Country of Operation: Ghana, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria Category: Climate-Responsive Agriculture; Research & Development; Livelihoods Project Snapshot Participatory Development Associates (PDA) is part of the Australia–Africa Partnership for Climate Responsive Agriculture Research (AAPCRA), an initiative funded by the Australian Government. Implemented…
Partner: Oxford Policy Management (OPM), Ghana Education Service (GES), Lively Minds Period: 2023 – 2025 Country of Operation: Ghana Category: Education & Literacy Project Snapshot Thrive is a multi-country research programme led by Oxford Policy Management (OPM) aimed at enhancing understanding of early childhood development (ECD) service delivery models. The initiative focuses on improving childhood health,…
Project Snapshot BRACE is a three-year project funded by the European Union, aimed at promoting sustainable environmental management in mining regions of Ghana. Implemented by A Rocha Ghana in collaboration with Nature Development Foundation and Wacam, the project focuses on enhancing community resilience in the Eastern, Ashanti, Western North, Western, and Ahafo Regions. Project…
Partners: Light for the World, Africa Disability Forum (ADF), Crosswise Works (CWW), Federation of Disability Organizations in Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal Period: 2023 – 2025 Country of Operation: Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal Category: Youth Welfare Project Snapshot “We Can Work” is an eight-year flagship initiative led by Light for the World in partnership with key…
PDA and Bath SDR are evaluating Global Affairs Canada’s five-year multi-million funding to Sinapi Aba Savings and Loans (SASL) for enterprise growth and development. Dubbed Financial Inclusion for Enterprise Development (FINEDEV), the project was expected to strengthen SASL’s capacity to provide enterprise loans to small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) that are unable to access credit…
PDA and Bath Social Development Research (Bath SDR) are working on a midline impact assessment for AgDevCo’s Irrigated Farming Hub at Babator in the Bole Bamboi area of the Savannah region. The evaluation combines both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. PDA is leading entirely on the quantitative assessment as well as leading the data collection phase…
