PDA facilitated a 2-day country strategy workshop with Ibis Ghana, involving all programme staff and partner organizations. The workshop focused on assessing the current and emerging social, economic, and political landscape and collectively identifying strategic priorities for the upcoming programme period.
This project aimed to scale up quality Kindergarten education across Ghana by developing a comprehensive, fully costed 5-year operational plan. Building on earlier work—including literature reviews, stakeholder consultations, and inputs from technical working groups—the plan was designed for seamless integration into the Government of Ghana’s policy, planning, and budgeting processes.
PDA facilitated a two-day annual programme review workshop with staff and partners from Ghana Trade and Livelihoods Coalition (GTLC) and Christian Aid. The workshop provided a structured forum to review programme performance, assess challenges, and collectively chart a path forward for the coming year.
The iMPACT Project, funded by Mars Incorporated as part of the Mars Partnership for African Cocoa Communities of Tomorrow, targeted rural cocoa-dependent communities in Ghana. Piloted in 18 communities across two districts—Wasa Amenfi West (Asankrangwa) and Assin North (Assin Fosu)—the project aimed to demonstrate that an integrated approach combining agriculture, environment, education, and health can transform community incomes and welfare. By enhancing the capacity of cocoa farming communities to identify and improve their social, economic, and environmental conditions, the project sought to make cocoa farming a profitable, socially rewarding, and environmentally sustainable livelihood, while also positioning it as an attractive occupation for future generations.
PDA participated in an independent 5-year external evaluation of the Millennium Village Project in Northern Ghana, led by an ITAD UK consortium. The evaluation used mixed methods and consisted of three rounds of qualitative assessments using Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA) and Reality Check approaches.
This project was part of an 18-month initiative aimed at protecting children from sexual exploitation and abuse in informal gold mining communities. It was implemented in 10 communities across three districts in the Ashanti Region: Obuasi Municipality, Adansi North, and Amansie Central. The project sought to engage community members in actively reducing child exploitation by leveraging local culture, education, and research.
PDA co-facilitated a two-day stakeholder workshop for IUCN and WEDO, gathering women organizations, gender experts, and policy makers from the forestry and environment sectors. The participatory sessions generated key insights that formed the basis of a Road Map aimed at integrating gender considerations into Ghana’s REDD+ processes.
This workshop addressed the challenges of integrating small-holders into commercial agriculture in Ghana. By assessing the pros and cons of large-scale farming and socially inclusive models, the workshop aimed to propose initial principles that would inform the design of a World Bank-financed commercial agriculture project geared toward avoiding enclave investments.
Commissioned by The World Bank, this research analyzed the complex interconnections between poverty, environment, gender, and infrastructure in Ghana. The study sought to understand local perceptions of the gender-poverty-environment nexus and its interaction with infrastructure and sustainable development initiatives, aiming to identify ways to transform negative linkages into positive outcomes.
This project focused on introducing cocoa certification to farmer associations in Ghana. PDA implemented the initiative across 8 districts in the Ashanti and Western Regions by engaging with 27 associations for certification and restructuring 29 additional associations to enhance their organizational development under the EU/CSSP 2 framework.
