Global Responses Initiative (GLORI) is a Registered Non Governmental Non-profit making organization dedicated to the welfare and empowerment of individuals, organizations and communities to improve on their health and social circumstances. G.7,850 and G-7,850 Department of Social Welfare no. DSW/1522 and the Wassa Amenfi West District Assembly. GLORI is made up of professionals from the health, ed
ucational, social welfare, and legal sectors. It has an executive committee headed by the Executive Director, supported by various project coordinators and directors of research as well as various patrons who make up the General Council. The general council meets twice in a year on policy review and assessment of organizational performance. The organisation has national secretariat, which is its administrative organ responsible for inter-agency collaboration, partnership and linkage with civil society as well as MDAs
The goal of the IA is to reduce the impacts of disease, ignorance, poverty, exploitation and underdevelopment through building capacity for appropriate individual, family and community responses; and to improve humanity through positive individual and community development, and child oriented responses. Its areas of intervention include child Labour, Early Childhood Development, Health Issues(Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Maternal Health, Nutrition, Environmental Issues(Toxicology- Agro Chemicals, Good Agric Practices) and Drug Abuse. The IA is based in the Wassa Amenfi West District in the Western Region with operational areas covering Tarkwa Nsuaem District, Prestea Huni Valley District and Sekondi Takoradi Municipality. GLORI has since its establishment has implemented various projects in the above-mentioned districts. In collaboration with Ghana Aids Commission and Save the Children’s Fund, GLORI in 2001, trained a total of four hundred and sixty (460) traditional and non formal carers in recognition and referral of STD/HIV/AIDS cases by providing care and alternative livelihood skills for additional 80 adolescent women in the Wassa Amenfi West and Aowin Suaman Districts. Members of the Organization have also worked in collaboration with the SCF, the Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine Ghana, and the Traditional Health Unit of the Ministry of Health in training non formal caregivers in advocacy and STI HIV control. From 2003 to 2006, the IA with support of WHO and in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Prevention of Maternal Mortality trained a total of eighty (80) community-Based Health Workers, also called SMILE (Safe Motherhood and Infant Life Education) to reduce maternal mortality from 541 per 100,000 live births to 214 per 100,000 live births in the Wassa West District. From 2007 to date, the agency has been involved in the prevention and elimination of child labour in 15 communities in Initiative. The key achievements have been:
• 15 communities have been assisted to draw up and implement CAPs,
• Child Labour Monitoring Committee established in 15 communities,
• Raised awareness and sensitised the populace on child labour and the rights of the child in the whole of Wassa Amenfi West District,
• assisted 10 communities to rehabilitate school infrastructure in 10 communities
• Strengthened the capacity of community leaders in advocacy, leadership, internal and external resource mobilisation for CAPs implementation
• Withdrew and enrolled 250 children in school resulting significant increase in enrolment and attendance,
• Supporting 15 communities to develop rules and regulations for the protection of children,
Members of the Organization worked in collaboration with CARE Int. NGO, in the development and implementation of the Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDs Prevention in Mining Areas (SAPIMA) project then later the development and implementation of the the Wassa West Reproductory Health Programme (WWRHP) in the Wassa west mining communities that significantly improved family planning prevalence in the mining communities of Wassa West District.The organisation’s strategic approaches and good practices include initiative driven, commitment, collaboration, consensus and partnership, community sensitization and involvement, focus group discussions, Information dissemination and sharing of best practices, training, tesearch, monitoring and evaluation
