Community Cohesion and Livelihood Enhancement Projects

The Community Cohesion Project aims to enhance communal and social cohesion through the establishment of dialogue platforms for resolving salient security threats and challenges in six (6) border communities in the Upper East region of Ghana. The key strategies implemented are facilitating the formation and strengthening capacities of dialogue platforms, promoting public education and campaigns and facilitating the development of roadmaps for coordinated actions on mainstreaming human security, gender, and community engagements into border security strategies.  

The Community Livelihoods Enhancement Project complements the Social Cohesion project and aims to address the socio-economic drivers and vulnerabilities to violent extremism and radicalization in border towns by providing small-scale livelihood enhancement projects to selected border communities. By providing a socio-economic base to at-risk border community members, this project takes a human security approach to prevent radicalization and susceptibility of communities to extremist recruitment. The Social Cohesion and Community Livelihood Enhancement projects are funded by the International Organizations for Migration (IOM).