OUR APPROACH
The Ghana SRHR Alliance for young people is an enabler for its members, convening, coordinating, catalyzing, and amplifying the voices its members’ work and operate in the following ways
Convenor
The GH Alliance continues to build its legitimacy to act as a convener of different organizations and groups by maintaining a focus on SRHR and young people’s rights issues and initiatives. As an Alliance, the GH Alliance uses its influence to call together decision makers and other relevant stakeholders
Catalyst
The GH Alliance plays a catalytic role in forging effective collaboration among and between its members and supports members’ organization to perform their jobs well. The Alliance is a “knowledge-based” entity, fostering SRHR knowledge production and sharing. The Alliance facilitates and strengthens members’ organizational performance, development practice, influence, and impact as well as provides a range of learning and development opportunities for members, staff, and volunteers.
Coordinator
The GH Alliance provides coordination and facilitation support to enable collective action among the members’ organization and other stakeholders. It plays the role of coordinating and facilitating joint processes (stakeholder and partner engagement; continuous joint programme review, learning and adaptation. We act as a trusted broker of collaboration, partnerships, analysis, and knowledge
Policy Influencer
As an influencer, the GH Alliance represents members’, public and community interests in policy; Promoting pro-adolescent policies; Negotiating public SRHR standards and approaches; Building policy consensus, disseminating policy positions; and enhancing public support for SRHR and rights policies.
Added Value of Working Together
1. Partner organizations’ individual goals have been impacted positively by the joint achievements and successes chalked.
2. Visibility and recognition and credibility have also improved for the Alliance within a wider network of government agencies
3. Partners have become more efficient and effective because of increased access to greater Partners have also increased their reach in terms of target beneficiaries through working with other organizations.
4. variety of experiences, ideas, knowledge, expertise and resources through joint activities and engagements among GH Alliance partners.
5. Working in the GH Alliance presents a more viable framework for resource mobilization.
6. Partners together have a bigger and louder voice and influence for national and international advocacy.
7. Leveraging one another’s expertise, experiences and resources has enhanced the quality of SRHR programming in the interventions of the Alliance.
8. Overall, working in the GH Alliance has offered partners a bigger and better opportunity to achieve more together.