In 2008 ADD Ghana worked with 43 partner disabled people's organisations to build their capacity to better advocate and provide institutional support in order to better deliver their activities.
ADD Ghana supported thier partners to organise and participate in various activities, meetings, workshops, seminars, conferences, programmes on air and forums to educate and influence the general public, media practitioners and relevant government agencies.
A lot of advocacy work was carried out on the Disability Act, District Assembly Common Fund and Domestic Violence law and the provision of physical access in new buildings, in particular banks and shopping centres, is gaining grounds. Public acceptance of disability is also growing achieved through awareness raising and sensitisation activities by disabled people's organisations.
Disabled people's organisations were involved in the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections as observers and active voters.
The National Federation, Ghana Federation of the Disabled (GFD) hosted a British political volunteer, Rt. Hon Keith Hill MP to advise on and support their lobbying and advocacy work around the Disability Bill and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
ADD International’s role is to advise, support and facilitate important relationships and to provide research, training, mentoring and encouragement to disabled people's organisations to apply for funding. In December 2008 GFD secured a grant from G-RAP to monitor the District Assembly Common Fund allocation for disabled people in 2009.
Updated August 2009.