North-Code Ghana has on Tuesday 12th March 2024 organized a one day consultative meeting on dry season vegetable cultivation at the Bole in the Savannah Region of Ghana.
Mr. Aaron Atinpe the Northern Ghana Project Manager for Star-Ghana Foundation speaking at the meeting said the intervention here in the Bole District is part of their Security in Northern Ghana project, which seeks to work with Stakeholders across different levels of governance to build the capacity’s to address the drivers of conflicts and insecurity in Northern Ghana especially on the back of the threat of radicalization and violence extremism.
The Project Manager again mentioned that at the National level they have been working with some key Ministries including the National Security on main streaming, Security strategies in to the medium term development plans and they have been working with the Regional Ministers of the five regions in the North to facilitate effort at coordinating all the different interventions and the actors that works on Peace and Security across the North.
Mr. Aaron, noted that they have been working with civil societies like North-Code Ghana across different District and regions in the Northern part of Ghana to test and sometimes up scale community driven approaches to resolving conflict and insecurity.
The Project Manager add that, this is the first time that we are working in the Bole district under this project and the are interventions here is geared towards addressing mining induced vulnerability to radicalization and Violence Extremism.
Again Mr. Aaron added that the package in the Bole District is in two fold, first phase is advocacy and sensitization aspect and so they are working with community Stakeholders to build their capacity.
Second phase is the livelihood support which includes constructions of fence gardens in communities within the Bole District where irrigation farming is taking place and the intention is to use as preventive measure to ensure that the young people have access to alternative sources of livelihood so that it will switch them from getting lured into illegal mining which exposes them per their research to attempt by terrorist and other criminals networks to recruit them in to their force he said.
The project started in August of 2023 and will end this phase of the project by the end of March, and they providing 40 Gardens (Units) for the District.
The project is being finance by Star-Ghana Foundation.
Source: yagbonradioonline/ Fataw Diwura
