Community and Family Aid Foundation

Context

Community and Family Aid Foundation (NGO) is a Ghanaian National Non-Governmental Organisation with a global and local content thinking currently exclusively identified with promoting the empowerment of women, communities, young people to manage issues concerning their development and to advocate for and work towards adolescent and sexual reproductive health, rights and well-being; to advocate for and on behalf of young people, in the area of mental health ,reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, environment, health, education, climate change, and other related issues that affect their total development. Aim at hosting the largest effort of reaching out to youth of Ghana to appreciate and respond to their sexual health rights needs for a bright future and promoting their development toward the nations building.

Website:
www.cafaf.org

Area of Work:
Ghana, West Africa

Contact Person:
Executive Director

Approaches to implementing Community monitoring/accountability

• As organisation we have learnt to appreciate the collective approach of solving problem by identifying the right stakeholders who counts as far as meeting our demands are concern. Using the right communication channel counts a lot including knowing well who whose task is to effect the necessary changes. We have the polices in place which guides our entire operations and directions. 
  
• From top level management to juniors these are well communicated to our team and so everyone knows what to do and what not at the right time. Clear description of tasks and duties are shared with effective and efficient monitoring to achieved the right impacts.
  
• At the community level we are very careful and mindful of what really we want and who counts far as brining development and changes in communities are concern. This we approach with the right information, because without the right and the need to effect change to reflect in the lives of people accountability becomes questionable. And so we direct our accountability to a specific cause where in the end we expect the necessary response and feedback to track in the end.
  
• Depending on the approaches agreed to use for instance over hear we have been using largely the print media by writing on specific issues directed at specific organizations which are published to alerts them about our problems what our recommendations are to foster change.
  
• We approach this both direct and indirectly they yield the needed results. We are prepared to share pictures and articles with you.
  

Results and lessons

• Due to prudent measures put in place during the monthly review meetings, likely challenges were addressed.
  
• Due to prudent measures put in place during the monthly review meetings, likely challenges were addressed
  
• Continues engagement of key stakeholders also help to have access to the members of the community
  
• We have set up a task force who conducts community feasibility studies before planned events are held and so this helped to solve hosting of the programmes challenges most of the time.
  
• We put up a team to conduct a research where we can have large community members before planned events are held.
  
• We engaged stakeholders in the community for mobilization during performances.