Building Resilient and Active Communities in Extractive Landscapes in Ghana
(BRACE)
BACKGROUND
The Building Resilient and Active Communities in Extractive Landscapes in Ghana (BRACE) project, funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by Arocha Ghana, Nature and Development Foundation, and Wacam. The BRACE project aims to promote responsible mining practices, safeguard the environment, and empower individuals living in mining areas to advocate for their human right to a healthy environment. In Ghana, mining communities face numerous challenges, including environmental degradation, social injustice, and human rights violations. The BRACE project seeks to address these issues by engaging with local communities, traditional leaders, and other stakeholders to promote responsible mining practices and empower communities to demand their rights.
Objectives
1. To empower 50 CBOs, 30 WGs, 10 Tas, 10 CSOs, and 20 media to hold state/duty bearers and private sector actors to account for environmental damage, poor governance, and environmental rights violations in Ghana’s extractive sector through evidence gathering, advocacy, and media reporting by early 2025.
2. To build the capacity of 90 women and 90 youth from target CBOs, WGs and CSOs in host mining communities to use community-based courtroom advocacy to seek redress over environmental Natural Resources and Environmental violations in the extractives sector by training them as Community Paralegals and Establishing a sustainable financial mechanism CCA by mid-2026.
3. To enable 50 CBOs, 30 WGs, 10 CSOs, and 10 TAs to engage state actors/duty bearers and seek redress over violations of their environmental rights using Ghana’s Business and Human Rights Action Plan and complementary initiatives by the end of 2025.
4. To strengthen local environmental protection and natural resource management by building the capacity of 6 Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) Executive committees (CRC) to implement their Action Plans with their 108 CREMA communities for sustainable Natural Resources use, monitoring, management, and protection by mid-2026.
Activities
- Education and skills training workshops
- Community exchange visits
- Establishment of a legal access fund and database
- Online monitoring platform
- Community awareness and engagement
Expected Outputs
- Trained community paralegals and community-based organizations
- Established legal access fund and database of legal practitioners
- Online monitoring platform for tracking environmental and human rights violations
- Increased awareness of the government’s Business and Human Rights Action Plan
- Strengthened community-based initiatives for environmental protection and natural
Expected Outputs
- Trained community paralegals and community-based organizations
- Established legal access fund and database of legal practitioners
- Online monitoring platform for tracking environmental and human rights violations
- Increased awareness of the government’s Business and Human Rights Action Plan
- Strengthened community-based initiatives for environmental protection and natural
Duration
01/02/2024 To 31/12/2026.
A 3-Year European Union (EU) Funded Program
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