PVP FAIR FOR ALL

Agric & Extractive Value Chains in Ghana

Project Overview

The ‘FAIR for ALL’ program is a ‘Power of Voices’ partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a consortium with SOMO, Third World Network- Africa (TWN-Africa), the Huairou Commission and Oxfam Novib. With a budget of 71 million euros, ‘FAIR for ALL’ is the largest investment in an influencing program on fair value chains. The program aims to address Social and environmental rights abuses in agricultural (cocoa) and extractive industries (gold, salt & petroleum), overreliance on export commodities, Redundant/weak fiscal and trade policies, labour activists branded as criminals, restrictions on civil society space in the agricultural (cocoa) and extractive industries (gold, salt & petroleum) value chains. The vision of the program is to have a systemic change. Global Trade and Value Chains can be fair for all. Current inequalities and the wealth gap are a consequence of political and economic choices. The ‘FAIR for ALL’ program believes that a systemic change is crucial and within our reach. Around the world, we work for a change which ensures that:

• Global Trade and Value Chains are more inclusive of women and small-scale producers.
• Private-sector abuses are stopped by better regulation.
• Tax revenues and returns are channeled back into developing countries’ economies and social sectors.

The ‘FAIR for ALL’ program is implemented in 14 countries worldwide: Brazil, South Africa, Mozambique, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, OPT, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, and the Netherlands. FAIR for ALL is also implemented at the Asia and Africa regional and global levels. This is to align activities and leverage influencing agendas across local, national regional and global levels.

With funding through OXFAM Ghana, SEND Ghana is implementing the program along with

• Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP)
• Women in Law and Development Africa (WiLDAF)
• Wacam
• Friends of the Nation (FoN)
• The Centre for Public Interest Law (CEPIL)
• National Coalition on Mining (NCOM)
• Network for Women’s Rights (Netright)
• Ghana Mineworkers Union (GMWU)
• Ghana National Association of Small-Scale Miners (GNASSM)
• Women in Mining (Ghana)

SEND Ghana is implementing the “FAIR for ALL” program across 2 regions of Ghana in 7 MMDAs. Operational districts in the Eastern region are; Birim Central Municipality, Akim Achiase, Asene- Manso – Akroso, Akyemansa-   Buadua and Birim North. Operational districts in the Central region are; Twifo Atti Morkwa and Twifo Hemang.

Project Objectives

• STRATEGIC COUNTRY OBJECTIVE – GHANA

To strengthen civil society to create space for a more inclusive and sustainable trade and value chains in the cocoa and extractive sector (gold, salt, oil and gas) that respects human rights, protects the environment, and promotes women’s health and economic empowerment. The project also focuses on building a constituency that calls for an economic transformation of Ghana towards being more locally owned and equitable in processes and outcomes.

• PROGRAM FOCUS – GHANA

To strengthen local civil society to collect evidence of rights abuses in cocoa, petroleum and minerals (gold, salt) value chain, support communities in seeking redress and hold public and private sector actors to account

To strengthen civil society to advocate towards mining companies, agribusinesses and their suppliers and traders, primarily through multi-stakeholder engagement and new business models; to advance women’s economic empowerment, prevent right abuses and ensure living incomes, specifically in cocoa and artisanal gold mining.

To promote fiscal and trade regimes that enable better domestic capture of value in value chains; ensure value is redistributed to support local value chains that are led by domestic enterprises.

To support civil society to influence budgetary processes leading to a fairer and more equal distribution of gains from cocoa, petroleum and minerals (gold)

Key Achievements:

• Increased cocoa community developments because of co-created Community Development Agreements between cocoa companies and cocoa communities as well as other private stakeholders in the value-chain.
• Increased access to specialized credit facilities to cocoa farmers boosting productivity and enhancing livelihoods.
• A more open civic space and strengthened civil society in the cocoa space as well as a more united cocoa coalition network.
• Significant increase in cocoa farmgate price through sustained strategic dialogues with state and non-state actors and media advocacy.

Project Duration: January 2021 – December 2025

Donor

Funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA)