Friends of the Nation (FoN), established in 1993, is a legally registered socio-environmental rights-based advocacy, not-for-profit organization, based in Adiembra in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region of Ghana.
We are committed to a thriving planet and prosperous people, building fair and resilient communities.
OUR CAMPAIGNS
Environmental Justice, Accountability and Sustainability
We promote environmentally just and accountable practices for sustainable natural resouces management, climate resilence, and equitable governance.
Mining
Developing capacities of communities affected by mining on land and crop compensation, community rights and environmental governance.
CLIMATE INTERVENTIONS
Advancing climate smart interventions to combat climate change
Sustainable Agriculture
Promoting innovative and sustainable agriculture to improve food security.
Oil & Gas
Enhancing the capacities of coastal communities affected by oil and gas operations in Ghana.
OUR CAMPAIGNS
OCEAN JUSTICE AND LIVELIHOODS
We champion equitable ocean governance, conserve marine life, and promote sustainable coastal livelihoods.
Improving Fisheries Governance in Ghana
An advocacy for improving the governance of the fisheries sector in Ghana and some ECOWAS member states. The action highlights the ecological justification of fisheries laws and compliance, campaigns for fisheries stock recovery, improved transparency in fisheries management, capacity strengthening of fisher-associations for enhanced roles in fisheries governance, and application of science-based management regimes for small pelagic stocks.
Open Government Partnerships
An integrated participatory-development initiative under the auspices of the Global Open Government Partnership and six sub-national governments in Ghana to bring governance closer to citizens. The initiative which began with the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) in 2016 has enabled inclusivity and co-creation of priority actions that improve gender roles, transparency, and accountability in public infrastructure delivery. Extractive sector governance, Planning and budgeting,
Power of Voices in Partnership (Fair4All)
Advocacy focusing on strengthening local civil society to collect evidence of rights abuses in cocoa, and the extractive value chains (petroleum and gold) and support communities in seeking redress, and hold public and private sector actors to account. This action brings civil society actors, extractive companies and their suppliers on a multi-stakeholder platform to have conversations/dialogues on advancing women’s economic empowerment.
OUR CAMPAIGNS
GENDER JUSTICE
We defend equality, challenge systemic injustices, ensure representation, participation, and transformation of marginalized groups.
30 Percent
A campaign in partnership with Oxfam for at least 30 percent of the Mineral Development Fund to be allocated for women economic empowerment in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality and the Ellembelle District of the Western Region of Ghana. The campaign will also…Read more
Gender Model Family concept: The empowering story from Aowin municipality.
The Gender Model Family concept promoted under the Women’s Economic Advancement for Collective Transformation (WEACT) has been accepted and is being practiced by residents in the Aowin Municipality of the Western North Region.