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Where We Work
African Initiatives currently works in Ghana and Tanzania. In partnership with a number of small African organisations, we are working to strengthen communities to claim their rights to prosperous lives and to participate in democratic processes.
African Initiatives in Ghana
African initiatives has been working in northern Ghana since 1995 and has built up trusting relationships with many communities and local organisations, developing local knowledge and skills, fighting for rights and advancing community life and security.
African Initiatives currently support 2 programmes in Binduri District, Upper East region of Northern Ghana, where almost the entire population are subsistence farmers relying on small-scale farming to feed themselves and their families and to make a small income, by selling the surpluses.
Together with its partners, African Initiatives is working to improve people’s lives through, in particular, supporting sustainable agriculture, promoting women’s rights and empowering the local communities to fully participate in the decision-making processes that affect their lives.
African Initiatives’ Partners in Ghana
ZOVFA
CSRC
African Initiatives in Tanzania
African Initiatives works in northern Tanzania with pastoralist and hunter-gatherer communities (primarily Maasai) and their organisations in the Arusha region of Northern Tanzania. Pastoralists are facing increased poverty and marginalisation and there is little specific policy regarding these communities.
The predominant view from the Tanzanian government, the public and international NGOs is that pastoralists should settle down and integrate into Tanzanian society. African Initiatives believes that they are entitled to their livelihoods and has investigated innovative alternatives based on community and regional mobilisation and advocacy. During participatory workshops with our partners and community, land issues and education were continually identified as interrelated priorities in improving the social, economic and political status of pastoralist communities.