“SEND stood out as an exceptional organization that educates and empowers citizens to take part in the political process and access the services available to them. What impressed us even more was SEND’s model of citizen engagement, education, training and advocacy which is backed up by policy research. It not only promotes sustainable development but more importantly can also be replicated in different regions and countries.”

SEND Sierra Leone will soon be launching a strategic plan for 2019 to 2024, themed Empowering Citizens to Make Sierra Leone Work for Equality and SEND Ghana Will scale up its strategic plan of Making Ghana Work for Equality, to run for another five years.

“SEND contributed immensely to the Ghana School Feeding program, identifying issues such as poor targeting, which currently has led to the retargeting of policy to benefit the most impoverished areas that were initially not covered and which did not benefit from the programs.”

“SEND GHANA has helped in demystifying the district assemblies for the ordinary citizens.” Now, people who have participated in SEND activities walk into the district assemblies, they go to the [District Chief Executive}; ask the DCE questions. They do it realizing that it is their right.”

“For four years, The USA, through the USAID, has been a steadfast partner by your side. We don’t do this lightly. In fact, USAID considers SEND to be a strategic partner.” “SEND continues to demonstrate that solutions to development challenges cannot be solved with one sector alone. SEND takes a holistic approach that we at USAID model, such as SEND’s livelihood empowerment program.”

“The last project we worked on through the FOSTERING project, SEND GHANA with the Co-operative Development of Canada and the Credit Union Association of Ghana contributed to increasing sustainable food security for about 42,000 women and men farmers in the Eastern Corridor of the Northern Region.” “The project contributed to increasing the annual income of the principal by 700 percent for women.”