Women’s Economic Advancement for Collective Transformation Project (WEACT)

The five-year Project, Women’s Economic Advancement for Collective Transformation (WEACT) was approved in February 2020 which has the ultimate outcome of enhancing economic empowerment, well-being and inclusive economic growth for women in the Northern, Savanna, Upper East, Upper West, Western North and Western Regions of Ghana. The project is part of the Innovations for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Ghana (IWEEG) Programme being sponsored by Global Affairs Canada (GAC). Oxfam alongside its civil society, governmental and corporate partners will take a systemic approach to tackle the barriers women face seeking to increase the leadership of women to be economically empowered through multiple entry points – individual, collective, formal and informal.

This is the heart of the systemic approach combined with a multi-stakeholder strategy (women’s rights organizations, governments, private sector, civil society, primary change agents, etc.) will lead to sustainable transformations and shift in attitudes and behaviors across the agricultural sector in promotion of Women Economic Empowerment (WEE).

WEACT specifically works with women in the shea and cocoa value chains. Oxfam plays a facilitating, supporting and convening role to ensure the success of this initiative bringing together seven key partners who have co-created this project: SEND Ghana, Friends of the Nation (FoN), Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF), TungTeiya Women’s Association, Shea Network, NORSAAC and Viamo.

These partners share responsibility for the implementation of the project in their operating districts across the six selected regions SNG will Focus on empowering women in the Shea value Chain in the Mion, West Gonja, Sissala West and Garu Districts in the Northern, Savannah, Upper West, Upper East regions respectively under the WEACT project. The Project is Scheduled to be implemented in eight (8) communities with twenty-one (21) cooperative groups targeting a total of one thousand and fifty (1050) women.