Agency for Health and Food Security

Agency for Health and Food Security

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The Agency for Health and Food Security (AHEFS) is a Ghana-based Civil Society Organisation (CSO) registered and incorporated in May 2007 to promote research and provide services in project implementation, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and capacity-building services in gender-sensitive and human rights-based development environment in West Africa.


As a development organisation in health, climate change and agriculture, AHEFS runs three programmes namely;


Preventive Health Programme (PHP),

Environmental Protection Programme (EPP) and

Food Security Programme (FSP)


As part of its activities, AHEFS supports institutional capacity building in the area of operations research, quality improvement, development project planning, implementation and M&E. AHEFS is endowed with a strong research and project management teams who consistently provide behavioural change education services to its target populations most of whom reside in rural and hard-to-reach communities employing participatory approaches of focus group discussion (FGD), participatory learning and action (PLA) and problem-based learning (PBL) simultaneously with analytical approaches of cause-effect analysis, cost-benefit analysis and root-cause analysis in the facilitation of behavioural change communication (BCC) activities.


Principally, the aims and purposes of AHEFS are as follows;



1. To contribute to the reduction of morbidity and mortality associated with HIV and AIDS, malaria and


Tuberculosis.


2. To advocate for and contribute to good governance and gender equity in Ghana and the West African


Sub-region.


3. To contribute to evidence-base and share lessons learned through action and operations research.


4. To promote the adoption of biotechnology among farmers towards ensuring food security and poverty


alleviation in a gender-sensitive environment.


5. To contribute to indigenous development towards promoting social cohesion and sustainable development.


6. To advocate and strengthen systems for reducing land degradation and biodiversity loses towards


contributing to environmental sustainability.

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Manager\'s Name

Mr. Kwaku Asante

Establishment Year

2007

Number of Employees

201-500

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