September 15, 2025 In Newsroom By WACSI
WACSI Undertakes Coaching Visits to CSOs in Northern Ghana
[Northern Region, Ghana – 25 August 2025] – Women entrepreneurs are expanding their livelihoods, farmers are entering new markets, and young people are mobilising for cleaner communities.
These exciting stories were recorded in August 2025 during follow-up coaching visits conducted by the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) with three community-based organisations in Northern Ghana.
The visits built on the organisations’ participation in WACSI’s Mobilising Support training in 2024. They provided an opportunity to assess progress, capture stories of change, and explore solutions to challenges as the groups worked to sustain their initiatives.
The journey began in Tamale on 18 August 2025, where WACSI met with Inspire to Act (ITA), a youth-led organisation. ITA has been applying lessons from the training to strengthen advocacy and empower communities to take ownership of their development.
“Most of the youth did not know where to locate the various state agencies, but through our visits and engagements with them, they now know where to locate them,” explained Salifu Wunpini, Communications Officer.
Group Picture with Inspire to Act
Yet progress has not been without obstacles. According to Abdul Rashid Imoro, Executive Director, “What we are facing now is a systemic issue, and the socio-cultural factors are largely at play, and we are doing our best to encourage women in our advocacy to accept top positions when they are given.”
For ITA, the biggest shift has been in mindset. “We now use the mobilising support approach instead of the service delivery approach. We now promote community ownership by engaging the constituents to take the lead on their interests and wants,” added Munifatu Imoro, Project Officer.
From Tamale, the team proceeded to Walewale on 21 August 2025 to meet the Centre for Social Mobilisation and Sustainable Development (CENSODEV). Here, women entrepreneurs were turning training into tangible gains.
Group Picture with CENSODEV
“We have supported 75 women to register their businesses with the Registrar General so that their businesses are legally recognised and accepted,” said Braimah Sanjage, Executive Director.
The results have already begun to show. “As a result of these interventions, some of the women have now broadened their horizons. They now engage in the trade of dried peppers and other agricultural outputs and export them to urban markets.
This has largely improved their financial ability and consequently the livelihood of their families,” he added.
The final stop was in the Kusa Naba community in August 2025, where the Morigit Women Foundation shared its journey. Initially, the organisation relied solely on its own limited resources, but the training gave them new tools and perspectives.
When WACSI visited Morigit Women Foundation on 22 August, the team learned how the organisation is scaling up women’s empowerment in rural communities. Through a partnership with Vision Fund under World Vision, Morigit secured GHS 20,000 in loans for 30 women in the Kusa Naba community, alongside financial literacy training.
Group Picture with Morigit Women’s Foundation
The women successfully repaid the loan within six months, paving the way for a second batch scheduled for November 2025. The project has since expanded to reach 118 women across four communities, with additional bakery training provided to diversify income streams.
“Before, we were doing this with our own money and had many challenges, but after participating in the Mobilising Support, we have now improved,” said Project Officer Sakina Abdulai.
She also highlighted how the organisation had embraced digital tools to extend its reach: “From the training you gave us, we’ve now built a website.” These innovations are helping Morigit expand its women’s empowerment programmes, including access to loans and skills training in multiple communities.
Despite the successes, Morigit continues to grapple with seasonal income fluctuations, cultural resistance, and limited funding partners—challenges that WACSI encouraged them to tackle by exploring local philanthropy and rural banking collaborations.
Together, the August 2025 coaching visits revealed a powerful story: grassroots organisations are not only applying lessons from the Mobilising Support training but also reshaping lives and communities in lasting ways.
From mobilising youth in Tamale, to strengthening women’s businesses in Walewale, to expanding empowerment programmes in Kusa Naba, the ripple effects are clear.
WACSI’s follow-up support is helping sustain this momentum and ensuring that training translates into real change on the ground. The Mobilising Support training is part of the Change the Game Academy series, implemented by WACSI in West Africa with the support of the Wilde Ganzen Foundation.
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