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Ghana

Country Director: Felix Dery
Programme start: 1994
Population: 22m
% living on less than US$1 a day: 45%
Adult life expectancy at birth: 59 years

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In disabled people’s organisations in the areas where ADD works, membership has increased from 3,666 at the end of 2001 to 9,797 at the end of 2004, a rise of 167%.

ADD works with disabled people’s organisations in the three northern regions of Ghana to ensure that disabled women play a full part in their associations. Most disabled people’s organisations no have established women's wings, where disabled women are encouraged to explore and raise issues of concern to them, and to develop their own activities. This work ensures that disabled women are developing the confidence and skills they need to play a more active part in the decision making process within both the disability movement and the mainstream women's movement.

Through campaigns for inclusion in electoral processes, the Ghana National Electoral Commission put a programme in place to ensure that disabled people had access to the electoral processes, including the use of the tactile ballot guide for blind and visually impaired voters and deployment of disabled people for election monitoring, during the 2004 Ghana Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

As a result of ADD Ghana collaborating with the The Department of Social Welfare, 72 disabled people in the Jirapa/Lambussie and Lawra Districts were registered and now benefit from a micro-credit scheme.