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 community action world-wide
BE3/55 Main Market-Housing Road P.O. Box 308, Ho, Ghana
Telephone: 233-91-26945/25125 Website: www.caww.org
Welcome to Where the Action is!
Community Action World-Wide (CAWW) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to creating a better world through research, advocacy and training, guided by its core values of respect for life and nature in a just and equitable society with harmony among all people.
Community Action World-Wide s engaged in activities in Research, Advocacy, and Training in the areas of Information and Knowledge, Civil Liberties, Democracy and Governance, Grassroots Economic Growth, and Regional Economic Integration.
Community Action World-Wide is registered with the Registrar General with registration number G. 1628 (January 1997).
Organisation Structure
The Executive Council is the highest decision making body of Community Action. The Executive Council is composed of persons who have demonstrated passion for the values of the organisation and who are invited to sit on the council. It has six members, headed by a Chairman; the Executive Council sets out the organization’s general policy directions.
The Management team made up of an Executive Director, and other staff, carries out the day-to-day management.
The organisation relies on enthusiastic volunteers who share the organisation’s vision of equipping people to make a better world. Volunteers give their time and skills on the activities and projects of the organisation.
PRO-POOR POLICY ADVOCACY AND DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Our concern with equity and social justice is seen in our involvement in efforts to influence the shaping of public policy, and the advocacy we have conducted on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged.
We were closely involved in civil society consultations on the World Bank-Government of Ghana Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) 2000-2003, and made strenuous efforts to promote the cause of the poor and vulnerable. Community Action’s perspective on development and our engagement on policy issues placed us in a position to participate vigorously in regional and national deliberations on the draft NGO Policy Document in 2000. We actively promoted the principle of social justice and equity as the yardstick to measure the impact of adjustment programmes, during our participation in the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative (SAPRI), a tri-partite effort to assess the impact of the structural adjustment programme involving donors, the Government of Ghana and civil society.
We were one of the few voices to protest the human rights abuses of the 64 Infantry Regiment which was widely regarded as being untouchable because of its connection with the then President of the country.
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