The programme seeks to promote community animation/public education, sensitization and awareness creation.
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Promotes Women’s Field Work activities where vulnerable women are mobilized into groups and empowered.
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Technical and Vocational Education and Training including Alternative Livelihood Activities to the youth .
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Guide the community to identify essential needs and undertake projects to satisfy these needs.
Support to government as well as Non-Governmental Agencies to enhance the implementation of various programmes.
Training programmes in Community Development and Social Protection for Change Agents.
The Department of Community Development exists "to promote and ensure improvement in the living standard of people in the rural areas and disadvantaged sections of the urban communities through their own initiatives and their active participation in a decentralized system of administration".
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The Department of Community Development (DoCD) is one of the Departments under the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) charged with the mission of promoting and ensuring the improvement in the living standards of the people in the rural areas and the disadvantaged sections of the urban communities through their own initiatives and active participation. The Department, therefore, promotes the socio-economic well-being of the rural communities, the disadvantaged and urban poor within a decentralized administrative system.
The primary focus is on assisting the vulnerable and socially excluded in order to improve their situation by building on their own initiatives and assets. The mandate of the Department of Community Department is charged with the responsibility of facilitating the enhancement of living standards of the communities in Ghana. However, the Department of Community Development and Department of Social Welfare are merged at the district level as one department.
