ACDEP Association of Chur (ACDEP Association of Church Development Projects)

The Association of Church-based Development NGOs (ACDEP) is a network of over 40, largely, but not only, church sponsored development NGOs in Northern Ghana. The Development Secretariat of the network is located in Tamale, the capital of the Northern Region. Our primary focus is the socio-economic development of Northern Ghana as a whole and the rural poor in particular. The NGOs are engaged in the fields of Agricultural Development, Micro-finance, Primary Health Care, HIV/AIDS, Water and Sanitation, Rural enterprise development for women’s groups and Value chains / Market Access. Through these programmes, ACDEP works with rural communities to improve livelihoods, household food security, good health and poverty reduction in northern Ghana.

The ACDEP Secretariat is the nerve centre for all the NGOs in the network which are mainly located in rural communities. It is a reference point for information generation and knowledge sharing for the network, government agencies, and NGOs involved in similar development fields.

The Secretariat is also responsible for facilitating development programmes and capacity building for all the NGOs in the network and establishing linkages between the NGOs and resource institutions and individuals.