PAST PROJECTS

TIDA has successfully mobilized over 20,000 rural poor people from 15 poor communities in the Nanumba District, and equipped them with the knowledge and skills for improved reproductive health attitudes and practices through the reproductive health project supported by Save the Children, which ended in 2004. The beneficiaries are also utilizing modern family planning methods as well as safe motherhood practices, which has led to reduction in maternal and child deaths among poor households in the communities.

Between 2001 and 2005, TIDA has mobilized 269 rural poor communities to receive water and sanitation facilities in the Nanumba, Yendi, Zabzugu/Tatale and Savelugu/Nanton Districts of the Northern Region. The communities received boreholes, hand-dug wells, household latrines and institutional latrines with support from CIDA, Agence Francaise de Development, and Government of Ghana. TIDA also trained the local water and sanitation committees from these communities on operation and maintenance as well as management of the water and sanitation facilities. We again carried out hygiene and sanitation education and sensitization on hand washing in all the communities.

In the Tamale Metropolis TIDA has, between 2003 and 2005, mobilized and sensitized 20 rural and peri-urban communities on issues of streetism, child labour and HIV/AIDS. TIDA through this project prevented some 400 children (youth in and out of schools) from running into street life in the cities. The organization has also successfully facilitated the re-integration of 100 hard-core street children with the families, in collaboration with our partners in the Metropolis. TIDA has trained and equipped 40 volunteers from the communities who are monitoring the incidence of streetism in their communities and also providing house-to-house sensitization and education support to families and households.

Under our livelihood project, which was funded by Action Aid Ghana between 2004-2005, we mobilized and trained 15 women economic groups involving 150 rural women in the Nanumba District and provided them with micro-credit to capitalize their income generating activities. This has led to significant improvement in their incomes. They have since been able to repay their loans back and sustain their businesses, due to our favourable terms.