ACA team meets Similimi community over ECOWAS Court ruling amidst rich cultural display
Similimi Community welcomed Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA) staff for a combination of jubilation and serious discussions on the outcome of a recent ruling by the ECOWAS Court of Justice, which condemned the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire for failing to halt the...
Njala University in Sierra Leone benefits from ACA’s Community Science training
About 50 students and faculty members of Njala University in Sierra Leone have benefitted from a day’s training on Community Science facilitated by Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA), Ghana-based NGO which supports West African communities facing threats to...
Sierra Leone Court of Appeal to hear Koidu Community’s human rights claims
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sierra Leone Court of Appeal to hear Koidu Community’s human rights claims Freetown, Sierra Leone Thursday, February 29, 2024 Koidu Community’s human rights claims will be heard by the Sierra Leone Court of Appeal, thanks to a ruling today that...
Financiers warned of huge risks to communities and biodiversity as Rio Tinto approves world’s biggest mining project
The Board of Directors of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is exposing Guinean communities and the company’s shareholders to grave risks by approving a $6.2 billion investment in the Simandou iron project without adequately studying and mitigating environmental...
Newly trained Community-Based Facilitators poised for action
In line with its resolve to continue impacting positively on communities, Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA) has trained 66 Community-Based Facilitators (CBFs) drawn from 19 communities in Atiwa West and Abuakwa South districts of the Eastern region of Ghana...
Bosuso soap-making factory project on course
Residents of Bosuso, a farming community in the Fanteakwa South district, are anxiously waiting for the successful completion of a soap-making factory in the town to turn their economic fortunes around. They have no doubt that the project, when completed, will offer...
Abompe embarks on economic transformation journey through poultry business
More jobs are expected to be created soon in Abompe and its environs through the poultry business value-chain and turn around the socio-economic fortunes of residents, especially the youth. To this end, the entire community of Abompe led by Barima Kwabena Addo, the...
ACA supports Saamang community to renovate local R/C school block
Renovation works on eight classrooms and an office for the local Roman Catholic basic school at Saamang in the Fanteakwa South District of the Eastern region of Ghana are progressing steadily under the Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP), a partnership...
SIMILIMI
What happened? The inhabitants of Similimi, a village in the sub-prefecture of Bondoukou, about 430 km from Abidjan in the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, mainly grew cashew nuts, planted other fruit trees, legumes and vegetables on plots of land before manganese mining...
Work progresses on Kplandey water project under FCAP
The lack of adequate sources of potable water in the Eastern region town of Kplandey will soon be a thing of the past following the on-going works on the provision of two mechanized boreholes under the Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP), a partnership...