The Adwuma Pa Project is a 4-year initiative to reduce the risk of forced labor and other violations of labor rights for youth, especially girls and young women, working within Ghana’s cocoa supply chain. Adwuma Pa therefore targets vulnerable youth with an integrated package of interventions designed to improve youth's economic participation and improve business practices by private sector actors to protect against forced labor and other violations of labor rights. Adwuma Pa Project operates in six municipal/district assemblies: Tano South and Asunafo North Municipalities in the Ahafo Region, Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Municipality in the Western North Region and Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, Mfantseman, Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese in the Central Region with the targets 5,000 vulnerable girls and young women aged 17-20.

KEY OUTPUTS AT-A-GLANCE

In undertaking this assignment, JMK:

a) Collected socioeconomic profiling of potential beneficiary youth (including information on demographics, education and employment history, leadership position, participation in groups, control over household income and productive assets etc.) to obtain a clear picture of the challenges and barriers that girls and young women are facing within the cocoa supply chain, and in accessing specific business, vocational employment and self-employment opportunities in the target areas.

b) Collected data from 5,200 household data to identify girls or women into forced labour in the target districts.

c) Produced the consultancy report.