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Field notes from Northern Ghana.

How we work, what we are learning, and what community-led development actually looks like on the ground.

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Women sorting shea nuts in large basins beneath a shea tree in Northern Ghana
Our Approach

What “Just Transitions” means in a Northern Ghana village

The phrase turns up in every climate strategy document. Here is what it actually asks of us when we arrive in a community that has been asked for its opinion many times before.

Zakaria Iddi, Executive Director 2 min read

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A woman marking a community mapping chart on the ground while residents observe
Field Notes

Why we start with a map drawn on the ground

Before any programme begins, we sit with a community and map what is actually there. It is slow, it is public, and it changes what we build more often than anyone expects.

Fuseini Issah 2 min read
Women and youth roasting cassava into gari over open fires in a rural community
Livelihoods

After the harvest: why processing decides the year

A good harvest and a good year are not the same thing. What happens in the days after the crop comes out of the ground usually decides which one a household gets.

Victoria Bidnakin 2 min read

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