Create an enabling environment to empower civil society organizations and communities to facilitate the linkage between micro and macro levels of society for sustainable development.
Mission
Actions
- Human security: community building, conflict transformation, inclusive local governance
- Environmental security: CREMA, conflict management related to natural resources, biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, conservation agriculture, ecotourism
- Economic security: development of economic groups, inclusive value chains in agriculture, cultural ecotourism, financial education through village savings and credit associations
- Policy work on sustainable development: research, advocacy and dialogue
History
The Development Institute was established in 2003 by a multi-disciplinary group of University of Ghana graduates (agriculture, environment, natural resource management, development planning) to bridge the gap between underserved communities’ natural resource potential and the limited policy interventions needed to translate these assets into sustainable development. It began with community mobilisation and resource management programmes across Ghana’s mountainous and coastal ecosystems, promoting the Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) approach, grounded in Ghana’s decentralisation framework (PNDC Law 208, 1988) and national forest/wildlife policies.
About
The Development Institute
Ghana
Accra-North