Ongoing Programs & Projects

Promoting Resilience for improved Incomes through Capacity Enhancement (PRICE) for Women Project. (PRICE for Women Project) – Phase II

TADO is receiving funding support from Misereor to implement the Phase two of the PRICE for Women Project targeting communities under the Eastern Corridor. The Phase two of the project is working towards the following specific objectives:

Key Achievements under the PRICE for Women Project:

1. Recruited additional project staff
2. Procured of Project vehicle
3. Formed new VSLA groups in underserved communities
4. Trained new women groups on the VSLA concepts
5. Capacity assessment of women VSLA groups in entrepreneurship carried out
6. Promoted the dissemination of Gender Equality information

Building Resilience for Improved Development and Growth of Pupils’ Education (BRIDGE Project)

The BRIDGE Project is working towards an overall goal of the improved performance and health of basic school pupils in deprived communities by 2021.

Specific objectives of the BRIDGE Project are listed below:

1. Ensure that retention and academic performance of children in 20 schools increased by 70% by 2021.
2. All pupils in targeted 20 schools have access and practice proper personal hygiene and sound environmental sanitation by 2021.

Key achievements under the BRIDGE Project

1. Carried out health screening of over 4,600 school children spread across 22 Basic Schools and 7 districts under the Archdiocese
2. Provided handwashing and waste disposal facilities to all 20 Basic schools under the Project. Items provided included waste bins, veronica buckets and stands and basics.
3. Constructed five (5) mechanized boreholes for 5 Basic Schools
4. Constructed six (6) institutional latrines with changing rooms for girls for 6 Basic Schools.
5. Carried out handwashing demonstration in all 22 Basic Schools under the PRICE for Women Project
6. Trained district and Regional SHEP Coordinators on the SHEP Policy
7. Developed and disseminated school health manuals to School Health Clubs

Ghana Extension Systems Strengthening Project (GESSiP)

The Catholic Relief Services in Ghana in partnership with TADO is implementing the GESSiP Project in the Savelugu and East Gonja Municipal Assemblies. The project seeks to improve the limited agricultural extension and financial literacy services among smallholder farmers in the Northern regions of Ghana to improve agriculture productivity, incomes and food security. The Catholic Relief Service (CRS) is collaborating with Catholic Church Partners (Catholic Diocesan Development Offices – DDOs) with funding from AGRA to implement GESSiP interventions in 14 districts. Other key stakeholders of GESSiP are the Districts Department of Agriculture and Farmerline; the technology partner of the project. GESSiP is being implemented in the Savelugu and East Gonja municipalities in the Northern and Savannah regions respectively by the Tamale Archdiocesan Development Office (TADO).

Key Achievements under the GESSiP Project

1. Trained Field Agents (FAs) on the SILC methodology
2. Carried out a diagnosis of VSLA groups in the Savelugu and East Gonja Districts
3. FAs capacity to deliver on SILC Methodology enhanced.
4. Over 2,000 smallholder farmers’ access to sustainable rural financing opportunities increased.
5. Extension services to rural smallholder farmers expanded and strengthened.

COVID-19 Relief Interventions

TADO received support from Caritas Ghana with funding from the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DPIHD) and Caritas Internationalis to provide relief services in the form of food, blankets, mats, hand sanitizers, liquid soap and hand washing facilities for the poor and vulnerable and also Catholic Health facilities.

Key achievements

1. Donated food items to over 250 vulnerable groups
2. Donated PPEs to Catholic Health facilities under the Archdiocese
3. Humanitarian donation to Persons Living with Disability

Strengthening Capacities for Peaceful Coexistence in Tamale Archdiocese (SCOPE) Project.

The overall goal is to “create an enabling environment and develop capacities of youth, women, and national institutions to prevent and sustainably manage conflict in Tamale Archdiocese.”

• that rail guards were fixed on the said bridge to ensure the safety of road users.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Christ the King Parish, Jamboi – Through the efforts of the JPC, a long-standing conflict which separated a couple for six years has been resolved at Jirandogo. The JPC also spearheaded efforts for the creation of a new zone for Lonto/Kpajai communities. Their efforts have yielded results as plans are now underway to create the zone.
• Isidore the Farmer Parish, Kabonwule – A land dispute on Buya land between Kabonwule and Ketejel,i has been withdrawn from the Law Court and resolved. The two communities have also agreed to respect the demarcated boundaries.
• Saints Peter and Paul Parish, Tamale – A JPC meeting was held to resolve a protracted conflict that existed between two parishioners. The two have since reconciled and now co-exist peacefully.