{"id":4818,"date":"2019-08-22T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","slug":"action-aid-initiates-a-5-yr-project-to-empower-vulnerable-rural-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/22\/action-aid-initiates-a-5-yr-project-to-empower-vulnerable-rural-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Aid initiates a 5-yr project to empower vulnerable rural women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Samuel Akapule, Bolgatanga<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The childcare centers put up\nby Action Aid Ghana (AAG), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in some\nregions in the country are offering ample time for many women to carry out\ntheir farming and other economic activities to generate income for their\nhouseholds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was made known during a\ndissemination workshop on a project dubbed, \u201cPromoting Opportunities for Women\nEmpowerment and Rights (POWER)\u201d held at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region on\nMonday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The five-year POWER project,\nbeing implemented by AAG with funding support from the Dutch Ministry of\nForeign Affairs, begun implementation in 2016 in seven regions in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the beneficiary regions\nare Volta, Brong-Ahafo, Northern, Greater Accra, Upper East and Upper West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whilst the project is aimed at\nempowering vulnerable rural women and influencing their ability to control\ntheir income, it is also to empower more rural women to practice climate\nresilient sustainable agriculture and have access to markets and other\nproductive resources. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanaiantimes.com.gh\/%EF%BB%BFaction-aid-initiates-5-yr-project-to-%EF%BB%BFempower-vulnerable-rural-women\/\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Akapule, Bolgatanga The childcare centers put up by Action Aid Ghana (AAG), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in some regions in the country are offering ample time for many&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}