Strategy, goals & governance
The YWCA-Ghana Goal 2035 – Strategic Plan 2022-2026 are designed to establish a clear objective for the future sustainability of YWCA Ghana. The Goal-Strategy is culled from the World YWCA mission statements and adopts elements of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The YWCA-Ghana Goal 2035 – Strategic Plan 2022-2026 are designed to establish a clear objective for the future sustainability of YWCA Ghana. The Goal-Strategy is culled from the World YWCA mission statements and adopts elements of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
GOAL 2035
“By 2035, three million young women and girls in Ghana will have been reached to transform their lives and societal power structures for improved health, social and economic status; they will be leading a sustainable YWCA movement, inclusive of all women and will be involved in creating justice, gender equality and a country without gender-based violence.”
This bold, transformative goal establishes a clear objective for the centering of women and young girls and for the sustainability of the YWCA movement in Ghana directly reflecting our commitment to the future. Through our work pursuing this vision, we continue to assert our commitment to human rights-based, feminist, faith and intersectional leadership that is inclusive, grounded in local communities, and grassroots-driven.
As we continue building a strong, intergenerational network of women leaders, this singular pledge to expand our reach and impact on young women and girls as leaders and for social change is not only integral to sustaining a bold, progressive women’s movement, but it is also vital to building a better world.
Through our leadership approach, authentic engagement with on-the-ground leaders, direct investment, advocacy work, and strategic collaboration within and outside the YWCA movement, we are working each and every day to make this collective goal a reality.
STRATEGIC PLAN
At the Ghana YWCA, we create opportunities for women to connect, learn, mobilise, and inspire each other to take action to protect their rights, address inequalities, and promote justice around important issues like gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and economic security.
This five-year plan is aimed to meaningfully engage with people to realise the Ghana 2035 Goal.
A movement from the past, in the present, for the future, our aim is to develop the leadership and collective power of women and girls in Ghana. #Continuing seventy (70) years of action, YWCA Ghana is:
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- Collaborating with YWCAs around the world, as well as partners, allied organizations, and local NGOs.
- Investing in and building young women’s leadership.
- Providing vocational and income generating skills, capacity building, imparting knowledge, and information
- Connecting, mobilizing, and consulting with on-the-ground leaders in local communities;
- Ensuring that YWCA leadership efforts are community-driven and informed by local, community, district, regional and national realities.
- Amplifying young women’s voices and creating safe spaces for young women to thrive.
- Advocating for gender responsive policies and practices that underscore women’s rights as human rights.
In 2022-2026, YWCA Ghana, its member associations and YWCA leaders will:
- Manifest a high level of commitment in strategic, tactical and day to-day actions towards our shared Goal 2035.
- Demonstrate a high level of communication, transparency and accountability towards measured success based on feminist, faith based and human rights principles.
- “Develop co-created and consultative campaigns, projects, publications and solutions that are customizable, replicable, scalable and rooted in community.”
- Form strategic partnerships and sensibly invest towards sustainability and vitality of the YWCA movement to positively impact the lives of women, young women, and girls around Ghana.
This will be achieved through three (3) strategic priorities/pillars:
Engagement, Vocational Training, Skills Transfer, Mobilisation, Projects, Solutions for Girls, Young Women and Women
We will create, expand, and replicate effective models of leadership and advocacy which value the legacy approaches and principles of the YWCA and inspire innovative and low-cost solutions for issues identified in communities. Our work includes – use of technology and acknowledgment of the digital divide, facilitating access to health information and financing and the environment.
Activities:
- Training/Education: our Core sessions include Catering, Fashion, ICT,
Income generation skills: Small scale backyard farming, Hair dressing, food processing, other local initiatives
- Finance: Access to Finance/credit, financial management,
- Counselling and Social Skills: Mental Health, Reproductive Health, Violence against women, other human rights issues
Strategic Partnerships and Communication
Confirm and position YWCA Ghana’s strength and identity in the women and girl’s movement by actively and intentionally pursuing external strategic partnerships that share a common desire to build young women’s (and men’s) abilities and leadership to transform economic and power structures for gender equality.
Activities
- High Level Advocacy and Communication
- Building effective partnerships, private sector, government, CSO, NGOs , individuals(“Our Priorities -World YWCA”)
Management and Governance Excellence
We will showcase high accountability and standards of good management by tending to the business viability and mission impact of our work; collaborating with relevant oversight institutions and with young women to ensure trends of intergenerational engagement are understood and utilised towards modernisation of the YWCA movement, focusing on fulfilling our goals as a Ghana wide movement and remaining committed to human rights principles.
Activities
- Institutional strengthening, governance structure,
- Administration: Administrative policies, rules, regulations, and guidelines
- Human Resource: Organisational structure, HR policies Job Descriptions,
- Procurement and Contracting Modalities
- Finance Module, Fund raising – Monitoring and Evaluation – Documentation and knowledge management