We are excited to bring you our newsletter for the third quarter of the 2023 work year.
This issue primarily covers the launch of our 5th Anniversary commemorations, and work activities for July, August and September. Our work for this quarter was in the area of Active Citizenship, Action for Youth Development, Security in Northern Ghana, and capacity building for staff among others.
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Building community resilience against security threats: farmers in border communities trained on modernized Agri-skills and marketing, others to benefit from mechanized boreholes and water pumping machines under Livelihood Enhancement project.
Over 100 farmers in three border communities in the Upper East Region have received training in modernized agriculture and irrigation farming. The training, carried out in collaboration with the District Departments of Agriculture of the Kasena-Nankaka and Pusiga districts is part of STAR-Ghana Foundation’s Community Livelihood Enhancement project funded by the IOM. At Kulungungu, Paga and Pusiga, farmers were trained on modernised irrigation farming, farm preservation and marketing among other relevant skills. The farmers are also getting mechanized boreholes, fenced gardens, improved seedlings for selected crops of their choice, and fertilizer to support dry session irrigation farming.
Northern Ghana Projects Manager for STAR-Ghana Foundation, Aaron Atimpe explained that the project and the livelihoods support it is offering is in addition to series of dialogue and capacity building interventions being implemented by the Foundation in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Ghana to build community’s resilience to border security threats such as violent extremism, which, he explained has grown ever closer to Ghana due worsening insecurity situation in neighbouring countries that share land borders to Ghana’s north. He said “interventions like these have become necessary to improve livelihoods and reduce the susceptibility of vulnerable populations and communities to infiltration and radicalization. He added, the elders say when your neighbour’s beard is on fire, you take proactive steps to guard yours.” “Given the reality of insecurity in neighbouring counties and the potential of spillovers, it has become extremely necessary for us to take proactive such as these in our most vulnerable points”. He added in his introductory remarks at Kulumgungu during one of the three-day training sessions with the farmers, beyond these interventions, communities themselves had the biggest duty and responsibility to ensure that they collaborate with the right authorities to ensure that they continue to enjoy peace and stability.
In Pusiga, the District Director of Agriculture, advised farmers to always prioritize getting a ready market before going ahead to farm in commercial scale. He also urged them to give the initiative their best to ensure its sustainability and possible expansion to cover more beneficiaries. In all locations, farmers were trained on how to control pests and weeds, application of the right mix of fertilizer, preservation and reducing losses amongst others.
Also, hundreds of other residents in the selected communities will benefit from water pumping machines as well as mechanized boreholes aimed at providing alternative livelihood support to build the communities resilience and reduce the susceptibility of vulnerable populations to radicalization and other border security threats.
