1. Education (Access to quality basic education, literacy, and skills training)
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2. Health (Maternal and child health, reproductive health and rights, preventive health)
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3. Child Rights (Child Survival and protection, child development and participation and disability)
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4. Environmental Conservation (Empowering people to protect their environment)
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Additionally, CARE NET will principally focus this programming on a limited number of targeted communities in twenty (20) Districts in the Volta, Eastern, Greater Accra and Northern Regions. These communities will represent areas only where CARE NET has strong local knowledge and expertise, and where assessment surveys have determined a high need for CARE NET services. This focused strategy allows CARE NET to leverage its background in these four core areas, while serving our constituents in its targeted communities more deeply.

In addition, CARE NET plans to pursue other additional issues affecting women and children in its targeted communities. Such issues include: HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), women empowerment, water and sanitation, vocational training and life planning skills.

These additional issues overlap and reinforce the four problem areas that CARE NET will target with its programming. However, using partnerships to address some of these additional issues will allow CARE NET to focus its own resources and knowledge most effectively. In addition, by focusing its expertise on specific issues and locations, CARE NET will be better able to monitor and assess impact of our programs on a regular basis and also avoid duplication of activities.

MANAGEMENT OF CARE NET GHANA

As an organisation CARE NET GHANA is led by a seven member Board who formulates broad operational policies, approve projects and budgets for the organisation. The secretariat is headed by the Executive Director who is responsible for the day to day running of the organisation with the support of other staff and volunteers.

ACHIEVING THE MDGs

CARE NET has the under listed Millennium Development Goals as the driving forces behind each of our projects;

Goal 1: Achieve Universal Primary Education

Ensure that children everywhere will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling by providing safe and private sanitary facilities, decent and safe classrooms thereby reducing school absenteeism.

• Rainwater harvesting improves school attendance and reduced water carrying burdens especially for girls
• Private toilets, hand wash facilities and water tanks in schools improves health for the children, especially sexually maturing girls in schools
• Safe classrooms and furniture provide a good atmosphere for learning and teaching
• Textbooks and other educational materials including recreational equipment help children stay in school

Goal 2: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Ensure girls have the same access to schooling as boys by provision of sanitary towels and training on sexual health and rights to adolescent girls in primary schools. This provides privacy and safety to girls, promotes convenience, comfort and social dignity

• Reduced time and health burdens  through rain water harvesting and springs protection leading to more balanced gender roles

Goal 3: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty

To halve the proportion of people earning less than US$ 1 a day by initiating Income Generating Activities (IGAs)

• Initiating women and youth managed stores, public barbering shops and vegetable farming using compost that contributes to sustainable development.

Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality and Improve Maternal Health

To reduce under five and maternal mortality by training local and village health care providers to be able provide basic maternal health care and be able to identify complications and make prompt referrals

• Training practicing but untrained traditional birth attendants (TBAs) will increase access to anti-natal, delivery and post natal services in villages and rural areas
• Reduce maternal deaths through timely and appropriate care
• Facilitate community participation to ensure timely and appropriate utilization of health services
• Improve coverage of and access to emergency obstetric care
• Reducing maternal mortality as a result of Malaria, Anemia from hemorrhage and still births through medical outreach
• Access to appropriate reproductive health information will improve women’s reproductive health

Goal 5: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

To halt the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources and reduce the proportion of people who are unable to access safe drinking water

• Youth managed modern carwash yards, reduce the pressure on treated water and pollution of rivers and generate income for the young people
• Community owned eco-tourism will serve as alternative source of income for communities
• Environmental conservation clubs in schools and communities will create awareness among young people and the larger community
• Anti bush fire campaign in communities will help reduce the destruction of natural and designated reserves
• Conservation education will give people the knowledge and power to work out what is in the best interest of their society and its natural environment

Promoting Youth Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education and Counselling

CARE NET implements an innovative peer education program in over 30 Junior and Senior high schools in the Volta Region through Health and Life Planning Clubs. These clubs are coordinated by trained peer educators and teachers, and provide a forum for young people to acquire and share factual information on issues of youth health and development. The positive results of the peer education program are seen in the ever-increasing demand to establish similar clubs in other schools. CARE NET also runs a multi-purpose youth centre in Hohoe where young people have access to wide range of services including counselling, library, audio-visuals, training, recreation and referrals.

CARE NET program on reproductive health and rights is aimed at providing culturally appropriate sexual and reproductive health information and services to young people so they can make informed choices about life. In doing this, CARE NET uses a multidimensional strategy that targets the different stages at which adolescent reproductive health can be effectively addressed.

• Advocating for action on adolescents’ needs and access to care with policy makers, Health institutions, Educational sector, parents and community leaders.
• Increasing access to comprehensive sexuality education, peer education and counseling, to enable adolescents make healthy and responsible decisions about their sexuality.
• Promoting access to resources materials, including adolescents’ health journals, books, training and video films.
• Providing reproductive healthcare and referrals services to adolescent-friendly institutions for further care.

CHILD RIGHTS

CARE NET is committed to the principles enshrined in the UN Convention on the rights of the child, the African Charter of the rights and welfare of the Child and the 1992 constitution of the Republic of Ghana.

Our mission under this programme is to promote and protect the inherent dignity of every child and drawing attention to the fundamental needs of children and the need to provide support for their survival, protection, development and participation in their everyday life.

Our program activities on child rights include formation of child rights Clubs, Theatre/Drama Clubs, and Young and wise Clubs, News Paper (Young Voices) publications among others.