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OUR IMPACT AT A GLANCE

OLIVES has made a significant impact in improving livelihoods and fostering sustainable development in Ghana. Through initiatives such as strengthening local economic development in Weija-Gbawe, providing essential sanitation facilities for students in Tarkwa, and conducting feasibility studies for artisanal hubs in mine-affected communities, OLIVES is actively addressing critical social and economic challenges

Rose Denkyiraa’s Journey of Resilience Amidst Change

Rose Denkyiraa is a 61 year old resident of New Abirem. She is the head of her household of seven sons and three daughters whose ages range between five and 22 years. Five of her children are students and three are unemployed.
For the most part of her life, all she has ever known and valued is farming to support herself and her family. When her six acre palm and orange farm at Senserefa was impacted as a result of land acquisition for mining activities, she thought her life had literally come to a standstill. With 10 children and a husband depending on her for their livelihood, it was only natural that Rose would miss her pivot of support and her first love despite the very attractive compensation package.

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A Lifeline for Over a Billion People in Extreme Poverty

Over a billion people in the world live in extreme poverty with no security of their basic needs. Over 75% of these people live in rural areas as small producers, dependent on agriculture for their subsistence. The production, trade and processing of local crops is the foundation and the driver for their own economies and the economies at the local level and beyond.

Climate change and the growing need for land, water and other natural resources are threatening agricultural production and food security. OLIVES is working to make agricultural production more sustainable, and to increase the income and improve the position of small producers in agricultural change

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The OLIVES Approach to Development

Improving the lives of the world’s most vulnerable requires that governments have the capacity to deliver essential services. The Organization for Livelihood Enhancement Services (OLIVES) approach to development recognizes that effective state institutions are necessary to ensure that people’s lives are improved with better services, ranging from health to education to security to job creation.

For OLIVES, this means improving the supply of services from government institutions, empowering citizens and civil society to hold government to account and demand better service delivery and the protection of their rights, and improving government responsiveness to these citizen demands

Strengthening Sustainable Local Economic Development and Social Accountability in Weija-Gbawe Municipality, Accra

Establishing a vibrant piggery value chain (modern abattoir, breeding center, feed mill) to create 200 direct employment, building capacity of 200 SMEs within the municipal for increased profitability and taxability, improving IGF mobilization of the Municipal Assembly to 135% for improved service delivery and promoting social accountability and accountable governance within the municipality.

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Provision of 20-seater toilet facility and ancillary water and sanitation systems to Girls’ dormitory of Fiaseman Senior High School, Tarkwa, Ghana.

Supervision of construction of a 20-seater toilet facility and water systems and training of over 2000 students in Water Sanitation and Hygiene practices.

Feasibility studies for the establishment of an artisanal hub in Mine-affected Communities in Newmont mine Akyem, Eastern region, Ghana

OLIVES conducted a feasibility study to establish the possibility of setting up an artisanal hub for best practices, improved service delivery and minimizing environmental pollution and land degradation in the Akyem Mining communities

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