CiCoNet introduces Ghana media to mining company devastation in Eastern Region villages
On July 6, 2023, the Citizens Committee Network (CiCoNet), a group of concerned community members in the Eastern Region of Ghana, led a group of journalists to tour three towns that have been badly affected by mining activities. The field trip, which took the...
Koidu residents disappointed and devastated by ECOWAS court ruling
Koidu City, Sierra Leone (June 20, 2023) Koidu and its surrounding communities could not hide their utter shock and dismay over a judgement announced on Monday June 19, 2023, in Abuja, Nigeria, by the ECOWAS Court of Justice, regarding gross human right abuses they...
Press Release – ACA Partners Ghana Government to Accelerate Development in 100 Communities
Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA) has launched a massive expansion of its community-driven development (CDD) work to one hundred communities in Ghana. The project will put communities threatened by extractive development in control of their own development...
ACA trains university students in citizen science approaches to soil and plant analysis
More than 60 soil science students and technicians at the University of Ghana have benefitted from a three-day workshop on community-based agricultural science. Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA) organized the workshop with the university’s Department of Soil...
Communities hold Third FCAP meeting
Ahead of the execution of development projects under ACA’s community-driven development (CDD) module, beneficiary communities have held their third weekly meetings to further deliberate on their collective futures. These communities, which include Abompe,...
2022 ACA Update
2022 was an amazing year, during which ACA’s internal investments increasingly paid off in terms of concrete results for communities and civil society partners across West Africa. At ACA, we help West African communities that are threatened by the destructive impacts...
Reclaiming farmlands destroyed by mining activities, Osino residents show the way
Published October 5, 2022 in The Daily Statesman, pg 10 Above: Minerals Commission officials photograph an abandoned mining pit in Segyimase, Abuakwa South Municipality during an inspection in July The devastating effects of mining in parts of Ghana continue to bring...
10 years on, Zoghota Massacre survivors still struggle to get justice
Survivors of an August 2012 attack against the village of Zoghota, Guinea by state security forces organized a press conference last month on the 10-year anniversary of the attack to demand that the Republic of Guinea comply with an order issued by the ECOWAS Court...
NGO supports development in Fanteakwa
Published by the Daily Times Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA), a non-profit making organisation, is spearheading the implementation of Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP) in all the 34 key towns in the Fanteakwa South district as part of efforts to...
Conférence annuelle PILIWA 2022
L'Initiative d'avocats d'intérêt public pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest (PILIWA) est un réseau professionnel d'avocats, de juristes et d'autres défenseurs d'Afrique de l'Ouest qui utilisent le droit pour promouvoir la justice sociale. Nous partageons une volonté commune à se servir du droit pour protéger ...