Projects been undertaken by GINKS

The links provided are links to partner organisations working with GINKS in promoting Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) and sustainable Development.

GAINS
http://www.gains.org.gh
Ghana Agricultural Information Network System (GAINS)

Ghana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA )
http://www.epa.gov.gh
Ghana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA )

3. Business Development Support Services for SMEs using ICT (PEPS-C)
http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-peps-c
Organisation: Producer Enterprises Promotion Service Centre (PEPS-C) Place: Wa Contactperson: Bro. Gracious Sangber-Dery, peps-cwa@africaonline.com.gh Project description In the project a Business Development Centre will be established in the office of PEPS-C in Wa, located in the Upper West region of Ghana to support and promote small and medium size private sector businesses. The centre will provide capacity building in business skills, gives access to the internet, will provide market information and establishes a platform to share knowledge. Around 400 small business men will use the centre. IICD has supported this project since November 2007. More details: http://www.peps-c.org http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-peps-c

CIC Initiative
http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-cic
Organisation: Ministry of Communications (MOC) / Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC) Place Participating CIC’s: Salaga, Bimbilla, Yendi, Bolgatanga, Navronga, Zebilla, Bongo, Damango, Wale Wale and Sandema Contact person: Stephen Agbenyo: agbedela@gmail.com, Ken Kubango: kkubanga@gmail.com Project description: Ghana’s Ministry of Communications is constructing 230 Community Information Centres (CICs). These centres serve as electronic libraries where people from remotely located areas can look up information about topics such as farming, education and healthcare. Depending on the needs of District Assemblies, the support from IICD will target ten Community Information Centres in the Northern part of Ghana. IICD will also provide strategic advice to the Ministry and Assemblies in terms of the technical, organizational and financial sustainability of the CICs and technical and business development training for CIC staff members. Advice is also given about connectivity solutions, deploying monitoring and evaluation tools. More details: http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-cic CIC Bimbilla: http://cicbimbila.blogspot.com CIC Bongo: none CIC Damango: http://cicdamongo.blogspot.com CIC Bolgatanga: http://cic-bolgatanga.blogspot.com CIC Navrongo:none CIC Salaga: http://salagaictcentre.blogspot.com CIC Sandema: none CIC Wale Wale: CIC Yendi: http://yendicic.blogspot.com/2009 CIC Zebilla:

Connect 4 Change Ghana
http://ginks.akvoapp.org/en/
Connect4Change is a consortium of five Dutch development organisations (Akvo, Cordaid, Edukans, ICCO, IICD and preferred partner Text to Change ) who joined hands to accelerate the development of people in Africa and Latin America by using Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The consortium works in economic development/agriculture, education and healthcare. GINKS's role as partner organisation is to train and build capacity of all C4C Ghana partners in using online applications to share updates and news about their projects to share knowledge with the world. Since Ghana’s growth doesn’t reach every Ghanaian yet, our programme therefore focuses on the Northern part of the country in rural areas where exposure to ICT is still very low in comparison to capital city Accra. The education programme in Ghana has three main pillars, namely the use of ICT tools for school management, the establishment of small ICT labs for practical training of the students and the integration of ICT in classrooms for improved teaching and learning. The health programme in Ghana has three very divers large projects. CHAG, a large network organization, focuses on the implementation of HMIS and of e-learning in a nursing school. ACDEP has a focus on community health outreach via clinics with multi media materials and a mobile health programme for traditional birth attendants and on reproductive health information for adolescents. While SEND Foundation has developed a data collection and e-research system to monitor pro-poor policies in the 50 poorest districts of Ghana with a focus on health policies at the moment.

Establishing Information Centers (ACDEP)
http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-acdep
Organisation: Association of Church Development Projects (ACDEP) Place: Tamale and 5 pilot sites at Langebensi, Nalerigu, Sandema, Tumu, Chereponi Contact person: Mr Norbert Apentibadek, norbert@acdep.org Project description IICD is supporting this project since January 2008. This project establishes a multi media centre at the headoffice of the Association of Church Development Projects (ACDEP) in Tamale that will create audiovisual and visual information. This information will be disseminated to five rural information centres that will be established within five member organisations of ACDEP. In this way the rural communities have access to relevant agricultural, educational and health resources. More details: http://www.acdep.org/

Ghana Agricultural Information Network Collaboration Using ICTs (GAINS)
www.gains.org.gh
Organisation: CSIR-INSTI GAINS project, www.gains.org.gh. Place: Accra Contactperson: Joel Sam, Email: mallam@hotpop.com Project description This project has established an Agricultural Information Centre with 10 computers, based at the Institute for Scientific and Technological Information (INSTI) in Accra. This Centre acts as the referral centre for information requests on agriculture. It also links electronically with eighteen participating libraries and information centres of agriculture-related research institutes. The objective is to provide effective and efficient information delivery to 150 researchers and extension workers by giving them the opportunity to access, share, and publish agricultural information on a web platform. IICD has supported the project between 2002 and 2007 and it is now mainstreamed into the general activities of the institute. More details: www.csir.org.gh http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-gains

Global Teenager
http://www.globalteenager.org.gh/
A site for teenagers worldwide

Global teenager project – Ghana
http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-gtp
Organisation: Rescue Mission Ghana Place: Accra Contactperson: Ebenezer Malcom, emalcom@ghana.com, malcolmgh@yahoo.com Project description: The Global Teenager Project (GTP) Ghana links students from Ghanaian schools through a virtual network with 10,000 students in 32 to countries. In Learning circles they can share knowledge with each other. Alongside enabling classroom discussions, GTP Ghana gives secondary schools a kick-start in the use of computers and internet. The project enlivens the educational process as teachers incorporate new ideas and methods into their classes. One of the exciting activities linked to GTP-Ghana is the bi-annual Global Teenager Website competition, as a way of teach students how to develop a website. GTP Ghana is used by 350 teachers and students in 14 schools in 3 regions of Ghana namely the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Northern regions. IICD has supported the project together with Rescue Mission since 2003. More details: http://www.globalteenager.org.gh/ http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-gtp

Health Foundation of Ghana (HFG)
http://www.hfghana.org
Health Foundation of Ghana (HFG)

ICT Capacity Development Centre For Enhancing The National Portal
http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-mino
Organisation: Ministry of Information and National Orientation, www.ghana.gov.gh Place: Accra Contactperson: Alphonse Koblavie, doekob@hotmail.com Project description: This project establishes an ICT Training Centre for the Ministry of Information and National Orientation (MINO). In the Training Centre the staff of the Ministry and its affiliated organisations can acquire basic and advanced ICT skills. The project especially aims to train 230 Information Officers for the newly formed Community Information Centres (CICs). They will be trained in the development and management of content at the CIC. IICD supports this project at MINO since January 2007. More details: www.ghana.gov.gh http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-mino

ICT Support for Rural Agricultural Literacy (WADEP)
http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-wadep
Organisation: Women and Development Project (WADEP) Place: Nkwanta Contact person: Patricia Formadi, formadip@yahoo.com Project description The project was supported by IICD since 2007. The The ICT Support for Rural Agricultural Literacy programme focuses on agricultural market access for about 15,000 farmers in the Volta Region. Through this project, small-scale producers (the pilot starts with yam, cassava and cowpea farmers) are supported by the Women and Development (WADEP) organisation with technical information on production. They are also supported with marketing skills and opportunities, and access to timely information. Their gained knowledge allows them to improve their negotiation position with buyers and traders, which will contribute to their improved livelihood. More details: http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-wadep Leverage Project

IICD
http://www.iicd.org
Link to IICD website

Improving Primary Health Care (ACDEP)
http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/acdep-health-programme-phase-ii
Organisation: Association of Church Development Projects (ACDEP) Place: Tamale and 12 pilot sites in primary health care Contact person: Mr Norbert Apentibadek, norbert@acdep.org This project (ACDEP Health Programme Phase II: 2010 -2012) is a follow-up on the recommendations of the pilot phase with 2 Primary Health Care (PHC) Centres. The project will impact on the lives of more than 20,000 rural people, improve the performance of at least 15 of the ACDEP-member PHCs, build their ICT capacities and bring new approaches to the government health sector through active policy influencing activities. It will be implemented in close collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) at the district and regional level and other international health organizations in Northern Ghana. The project will develop an integrated adolescent health service and traditional medicine into the current PHC system. The data collected in the system will be used to get adolescent reproductive health and traditional medical practice on the health agenda of ACDEP-member PHCs, Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Service and international health organizations operating in Ghana (UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO). More details: http://www.acdep.org/ http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/acdep-health-programme-phase-ii

INASP
http://www.ginks.org/ICT4D-Stories.aspx
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publication(INASP) - www.inasp.info GINKS has been working with INASP in the past one and half years by building capacities of policy makers, NGOs and Research Scientist in Information Literacy, E-resources and Evidence Informed-Policy Making.

Market Access Promotion Network (Mapronet)
http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-mapronet
Organisation: Market Access Promotion Network Place: Tamale and pilot sites in Ho and Bolgatanga Contact person: Mr Bale Ibrahim, mapronetghana@yahoo.com Project description IICD has supported the project since 2004. Market Access Promotion Network (Mapronet) supports its affiliated small and medium sized cooperatives with information and capacity building. This project establishes 3 basic business information centres. In these centres, farmers can access market information and other relevant agricultural information. Through the Tradenet platform (a trading platform using internet and mobile phones) members of Mapronetwould broaden their scope of collecting and disseminating market information for their beneficiaries. Members in the Volta Region will be the first to register on Tradenet. During the pilot phase, this system will be implemented together with three member organisations that represent 150 small scale farmers. More details: http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-mapronet

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PART ME)
http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/participatory-monitoring-and-evaluation-part-me
Organisation: Social Enterprise Development Foundation of West Africa (SEND): Place: 21 districts in Upper West, Northern Region and Upper East Ghana Contact person: Mohammed Mumuni, bonnayoo@yahoo.com SEND Foundation Ghana is a non-governmental organization that operates in many of the rural districts in Ghana. SEND has developed an innovative programme known as the Grassroots Economic Literacy and Policy Advocacy Programme (GELAP). GELAP main implementation tool is a Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E;). The PM&E; is an advocacy tool that allows citizens especially the marginalized groups in society to participate in decision making at different levels of governance. In this project SEND will monitor the National Health Insurance Scheme in 21 districts were they are active. SEND will do this with a software tool called “Open Source Monitoring & Evaluation Tool (OSMT)” that will be developed for this project in order to meet the urgent need for collecting current and reliable information at the point of the health facility and other institutions. A portable, relatively inexpensive mobile device will be used with OSMT by the monitoring extension worker with immediate access to questionnaires and information and further to customized software to facilitate this monitoring process. After the data have been collected and analyzed, key issues will be identified and appropriate strategies adopted to improve on the implementation. These strategies will include education or sensitization of communities that have low rate of enrolment and to engage key stakeholders at either district or regional level where appropriate in the discussion of the monitoring findings for them to take concrete steps to address them. For this pilot phase, 21 districts will be selected from the 50 districts that SEND-Ghana is working with and this will be done in consultation with the Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Networks in the various regions. More details: http://www.sendwestafrica.org/ http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/participatory-monitoring-and-evaluation-part-me

Rescue Mission Ghana
http://www.rescuemission.org.gh/
Rescue Mission Ghana

SEND Foundation
http://www.sendfoundation.org
Social Enterprise Development Foundation of West Africa.

Social Enterprise Dev. Foundation of West Africa - Eastern Corridor Agro-Market Project (Ecamic)
http://www.sendwestafrica.org/ http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-ecamic
Organisation: Social Enterprise Development Foundation of West Africa (SEND): Place: Tamale and offices in Salaga and Kpandai Contact person: Mohammed Mumuni, bonnayoo@yahoo.com Project description The Eastern Corridor Agro-Market Information Centre (ECAMIC) project focuses on supporting 24 cooperative farmer communities with around 15.000 members in the Eastern Corridor. Price Information collected at the local district markets is combined with relevant other agriculture information at the ECAMIC office and distributed to district offices through e-mail. Cooperative Information Officers in these district offices use motorcycles to distribute the information to the farmer communities. The officers write the price information on a notice board and explain the other information in face-to-face meetings with community leaders. But more and more farmers are now using mobile phones to receive SMS alerts of district market prices or they request by SMS prices of their produce from various market centres. The ECAMIC project uses the Esoka Platform (formerly known as TradeNet Platform, a trading platform using internet and mobile phones) for this. This platform is also used to send offers to sell produce, but the challenge now for farmers is to meet the demand of buyers in terms of stating the quantity (weighing their produce) coupled with a guaranteed quality. The ECAMIC project started in 2003 and is run by the Social Enterprise Foundation of West Africa (SEND). More details: http://www.sendwestafrica.org/ http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-ecamic

Support to ICT for Accelerated Development (ICT4D) Process
http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-nici
Organisation: National ICT Policy and Plan Development Committee -, Place: Accra Contactperson: Issah Yahaya, policy@ict.gov.gh Project description: After conducting nation-wide consultation with representatives of government, private sector and civil society the National ICT Plan and Development Committee (NICI) has produced a Policy Framework document. This was followed by the Ghana ICT for Accelerated Development Policy that received overwhelming endorsement from the National Legislature in 2004. Following adoption, the policy document ‘ICT Implementation Strategies’ will be developed (phase 3) for the following selected programmes and initiatives: • Ministry of Communication • Physical infrastructure • eAgriculture and agribusiness • ICT and Gender • ICT and Health • eNational Security Law & Order More details: http://www.ict.gov.gh/ http://www.iicd.org/supported-projects/ghana-nici

The Republic of Ghana
http://www.ghana.gov.gh
The Republic of Ghana