The African Development Initiative
The African Development Initiative (ADI) is a non-profit organization founded by students at Harvard University dedicated to bringing together NGO’s, local governments, and international development groups to create sustainable development at a grassroots level. Through research, innovation, and collaboration, ADI promotes sustainable development at the community level. ADI hopes to continuously improve the ways we use development to empower African communities to provide all of its members with basic human rights and the opportunity for change.
Water Aid Ghana works to help some of the poorest communities gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. In Ghana, Water Aid helps over 50,000 people a year and also seeks to influence national water and sanitation policies so that more people gain access to these basic needs.
Akuapem Community Development Programme (ACDEP)
Since 1985, ACDEP has been working in the Akuapem / Akropong region to alleviate the region’s overwhelming water issues by promoting sanitation and hygiene as well as providing water provisions. The local NGO is apart of the TREND (Training, Research and Networking for Development) network.
Ghanaian Ministry of Water Resources, Works, and Housing
“The Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing has as its main functions the formulation and co-ordination of policies and programmes for the systematic development of the country’s infrastructure requirements in respect of Works, Housing, Water Supply and Sanitation and Hydrology. The Ministry co-ordinates and supervises, by way of monitoring and evaluation of the performance of both public and private agencies responding to and participating in the realization of the policy objectives established for the sector.”
