The Northern Regions of Ghana are the poorest regions. They are located in the savanna belt of the country with a tropical climate and one rainfall peak in the year while the southern parts experience rainfall throughout the year. This part of Ghana initially three now further divided in to six also manifest other unenviable statistics such as high poverty rate, illiteracy, rapid population growth, unemployment as well as environmental degradation.
Although Ghana was the first country in Africa to gain independence in 1957, seventy percent of the country’s over 28 million people (according to 2018 estimates), still depend on subsistence farming for survival. BUT even this thus not come without problems especially with the unpredictable weather patterns commonly resulting in droughts and floods, and subsequently affecting many families livelihood activities leading to a reduction in food availability and its attendant poverty, malnutrition, child mortality and rural-urban migration ,to mention but a few have worsened the already bad situation.
It is against this background that the Arena for Equal Opportunity and Development (AREOD) was conceived in 2016 to challenge the status quo. Currently, Arena for Equal Opportunity and Development(AREOD) works with people living in poverty in the northern region of Ghana.
Arena for Equal Opportunity and Development (AREOD) additionally work with government, local gatherings, partners and others to make approaches that upgrade the personal satisfaction or change strategies and practices that influence the lives of the poor. We underpins the fundamental needs and privileges of individuals living in poverty by working with networks, individuals, communities to reinforce their own endeavors, taking advantage of their insight and experience, to improve their entrance to administrations.
AREOD utilizes a rights-based methodology to improvement to help manufacture people group’s capacity to consider obligation bearers answerable, ensure the privileges of poor people and open to the desire for defeating poverty.
AREOD uses a rights-based approach (that is working within the human rights framework) to development to help build peoples power to hold duty bearers to account, protect the rights of the poor and vulnerable with the hope of eradicating poverty