Call for Expressions of Interest
6th February 2024
Baseline study for the Building Resilient and Active Communities in Extractive Landscapes in Ghana (BRACE)
Background
Building Resilient and Active Communities in Extractive Landscapes in Ghana (BRACE), is a three (3) year project funded by the European Union. The project is being implemented in Ghana by A Rocha Ghana in partnership with Nature Development Foundation and Wacam. The initiative targeted at mining landscapes of Eastern, Ashanti, Western North, Western and Ahafo Regions seeks to contribute to sustainable and equitable environmental management and natural resource governance in Ghana.
This is planned to be achieved through four specific objectives
- Build the knowledge, capacity and skills of target groups to hold state and private sector actors to account over violations to communities’ environmental human rights, lands, and natural resources by damaging extractive developments
- Provide access to justice systems for local communities whose environmental rights, lands and natural resources have been violated or are threatened by extractive sector activities
- Establish mechanisms for communities to engage directly with duty bearers to defend their environmental human rights
- Build the capacities of CREMA Executive Committees (CECs) to implement their CREMA Management Plans with their CREMA communities (Community Resource Management Area, CREMA).
The target groups are:
- Community-Based Organisations (50)
- Women’s Groups (30)
- Civil Society Organisations (10)
- Traditional Councils (10)
- Media Houses (20)
- CREMA Executive Committee (6) and their 108 CREMA communities
- 200 rural communities affected or threatened by mining.
THE ASSIGNMENT
The team (consortium/firm) will be expected to assess, design and report on a baseline study that will be used to measure project progress.