SNV Ghana

06/02/2017

SNV Ghana and Fidelity Bank launched last week a Business Academy to equip MSME's operating in the WASH sector with the necessary technical and administrative expertise.
The Academy is a component of the P2P project aiming to scale-up access to finance and capacity development offered by MSME's.
Mercy Owusu is one of these entrepreneurs operating a solid waste incinerator in Kumasi for the management of waste from households.
She benefited from the loan services to purchase tricycle motors for house-to-house collection and now has 850 paying clients.
Read more about the project on the SNV website: http://www.snv.org/project/p2p-catalysing-wash-possible-profitable

06/02/2017

SNV launched a new project at the fringes of the Bia National Park in the High Forest Zone of the Western Region of Ghana,
where we are going to assist enthusiast cocoa farmers to rehabilitate their ageing cocoa farms through replanting of new cocoa trees as well as shade trees.
Jointly with private sector partners as PBC/Touton and Olam as well as the Forestry Commission and Cocobod we are working
on sustainable intensification of the cocoa sector in Ghana as well as combating deforestation. Read more about the project on the SNV website: http://www.snv.org/project/full-sun-shaded-cocoa-agro-forestry-systems

SNV is a not-for-profit international development organisation, working in Agriculture, Energy, and Water, Sanitation & Hygiene. Founded in The Netherlands in 1965, we have built a long-term, local presence in many of the poorest countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. We work with local partne...

06/02/2017

SNV officially presented a simple innovate picker in Northern Ghana which makes the picking of sheanuts by women a lot easier and faster.
After a successful trial in the just finished season women gave enthusiastic testimonies about the use of the picker.
Aiming for large-scale rollout of the technology next year. Sheanut is an important income generating value chain for women in Northern Ghana.
Read more about our shea nut project on the SNV website: http://www.snv.org/project/shea-butter-community-commerce-project

19/01/2017

On Tuesday, SNV Ghana welcomed the Dutch Ambassador Ron Strikker and his wife in the Accra office to discuss the current activities of SNV in Ghana as well as opportunities and challenges for public and private sector partners to engage and invest in the Ghanaian economy, contribute to sustainable development and employment generation. An animated discussion and exchange of ideas emerged with the representatives of the SNV project team.

19/01/2017

SNV's fish smoking stoves

23/11/2016

P2P Business Academy Officially Launched

SNV Netherlands Development Organization in partnership with Fidelity Bank Ghana Ltd is implementing the “Catalyzing WASH: From Possible to Profitable (P2P)” project; a project funded by The Embassy of The Kingdom of Netherlands (EKN). The project aims at increasing access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services at the household level by scaling up access to finance and capacity development of services offered by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country.

In a bid to materialize this objective, a capacity building component of the project dubbed P2P Business Academy, tailored to equip MSMEs operating in the WASH sector with technical and administrative expertise was launched by SNV and Fidelity on 3rd November 2016 in Kumasi. The launch attracted key participants from Government, financial institutions and the WASH sector. Key among them were the Ashanti Regional Minister, Officials of EKN, Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Fidelity Bank, Partner NGOs, Microfinance Institutions, artisans and individuals who have benefitted from the project.

It is expected that 500 MSMEs throughout the country will receive training in business management and coaching from a selected network of business development service providers and consultants recruited nationwide.

Mrs. Agatha Quayson, the P2P project Manager, indicated in her welcome address that, a €4 million revolving fund has been set up by the project to provides credit facilities at reduced interest rates to both households and WASH Businesses. These funds are accessible through a wide network of Bank and Non-bank financial institutions. She also highlighted that a total of 3.6 million Ghana Cedis has already been disbursed to 250 households and 88 WASH enterprises nationwide to finance projects in the areas of hygiene services, liquid and solid waste management, water provision and household latrine construction.

The key note Speaker at the Official launch of the P2P Business Academy, the Ashanti Regional Minister Mr. John Alexander Ackon, lauded SNV and its partnership with the Fidelity Bank for the immense work done and highlighted the need for concerted effort to improve sanitation conditions and water delivery services.

He added that government would continue to partner the private sector to develop and implement initiatives that would help to make things better to prevent diseases caused by poor sanitation.

23/11/2016

SNV officially presented a simple innovate picker in Northern Ghana which makes the picking of sheanuts by women a lot easier and faster. After a successful trial in the just finished season women gave enthusiastic testimonies about the use of the picker.
Aiming for large-scale rollout of the technology next year. Sheanut is an important income generating value chain for women in Northern Ghana.

23/11/2016

SNV launched a new project at the fringes of the Bia National Park in the High Forest Zone of the Western Region of Ghana, where we are going to assist enthusiast cocoa farmers to rehabilitate their ageing cocoa farms through replanting of new cocoa trees as well as shade trees. Jointly with private sector partners as PBC/Touton and Olam as well as the Forestry Commission and Cocobod we are working on sustainable intensification of the cocoa sector in Ghana as well as combating deforestation

23/11/2016

SNV Ghana and Fidelity Bank launched last week a Business Academy to equip MSME's operating in the WASH sector with the necessary technical and administrative expertise. The Academy is a component of the P2P project aiming to scale-up access to finance and capacity development offered by MSME's. Mercy Owusu is one of these entrepreneurs operating a solid waste incinerator in Kumasi for the management of waste from households. She benefited from the loan services to purchase tricycle motors for house-to-house collection and now has 850 paying clients

23/11/2016

SNV adopts the value chain approach and other private sector-led
initiatives to strengthen economically viable value chains including nontimber forest products (shea, moringa, baobab etc.), rice, sesame, cocoa, fruits and vegetables. Through inclusive business, we foster equitable commercial relationships between smallholder producers and multinational companies.

23/11/2016

In Ghana, SNV addresses sustainability and equity issues that are key to ensuring scale and lasting results. Our Goal is to increase access to affordable WASH services for improved health, livelihoods and economic well-being in rural and periurban areas in Ghana. We focus on sanitation and Hygiene & functionality of drinking water systems.

23/11/2016

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene in Ghana

Sustainable WASH Solutions

The SNV Ghana WASH Programme aims at increasing access to and use of sustainable, equitable and affordable WASH services for improved health, livelihoods and economic well-being in rural and peri urban areas in Ghana. Since 2011, our WASH interventions in Ghana use the following approaches:

• Demand creation through community-led participatory approaches such as community-led total sanitation (CLTS) and school-led total sanitation (SLTS)

• Strengthening market-driven solutions such as WASH supply chain development and access to finance

• Working in synergy with local capacity builders (LCBs), clients, private sector and partners in the WASH sector for sustainability and up-scaling

• Promoting innovations such as results-based contracting/financing for improved accountability and performance

• Improving governance and accountability mechanisms and gender equality principles

• Knowledge development and dissemination including research