Ghanaian Danish Community Programme

'Strengthening the Civil Society'

The Ghanaian Danish Community Programme (GDCP) developed as a result of cooperation between the Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA) in Ghana and the Ghana Friendship Groups (GV) in Denmark.

In addition to GDCP the GDCA-GV cooperation is implementing two other programmes in the Northern Region. These are the School for Life (SfL) and the Community Life Improvement Programme (CLIP).

GDCP is an integrated rural development programme operating in Northern Ghana.

GDCP was the first of the GDCA programmes to be established.

GDCP has received funds from Danida through GDCA?s partner organisation GV in Denmark since 1986.

GDCP is currently in its sixth phase. Phase VI has a duration of 4 years i.e. 2005 ? 2008. As in the previous phases the programme activities will be implemented through four sectors, each sector is staffed and equipped to implement their specific activities.

The four sectors are:

Dagbon Ninneesim Karimzong (DNK), the Dagbon Adult Education Centre;

Tinkpansi Lebgimsim (TL), Community Development/Capacity Building;

Simli Pong (SP), Micro-Credit Scheme;

Simli Radio (SR), a Community Radio.

Read more about the four sectors.

Achievements as of September 2008

DNK trains and provides training facilities to more than 1300 people annually. The total number of course days at DNK is about 10,000 days annually.


TL has built the capacity of 31 CBOs, trained 122 traditional youth leaders in leadership skills, registered 141 CBOs in the programme area as partners in development.


Collaborative Projects
GDCP collaborates with other organisations and funding agencies such as Unicef micro-credit-with-education scheme.

The GDCP support sector
The administrative sector of GDCP consists of an accounting section, transport section, maintenance section and a Catering and Accommodation sub-sector (CA). The CA plays an important role in providing food and facilities for the trainees, course participants and visitors coming to GDCP.

GDCP Staff strength:
Implementing staff - 31
Support staff ? 22
External staff - 20

GDCP hires external resource persons e.g. as facilitators/ trainers for courses requiring specific expertise (DNK and TL); loans facilitators (SP); and volunteers in the communities (SR).


Contact Person/Address:
The Centre Coordinator
GDCP
P.O.Box TL 764
Tamale
Telephone   +233 (0)71 22776   E-mail gdcp_(at)_africaonline.com.gh
Webside: www.gdcp-ghana.com             

Physical location:
Dalun about 32 km Northwest of Tamale