Projects
The Girl Power Project 4 Change
Funded by STAR-Ghana Foundation, and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, The Girl Power Project 4 Change seeks to build the capacities of selected young girls and women on their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, as well Gender-Based Violence. Primarily targeting girls and women, the project will employ activities such as radio discussions, community outreaches, colloquia, social media campaigns, outside broadcast sessions, and stakeholder engagements for the young girls and women to regularly engage on issues of SRHR and GBV.
RFSU Project
The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU) in partnership with CYIB-Curious Minds is implementing a 5 years project on Research and Media Advocacy for Comprehensive Abortion Care in Ghana.
Sustainable Development Goals
The SDGs project started in 2015 in West and Central Africa. The beneficiaries of this project are young people’s organizations and policy makers. The expected effect of the project is to build the capacities of young people to influence the SDG processes. The project is funded by ARROW (Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women).
ASK-Ghana
The ASK-Ghana project ran in the Upper East and Northern regions. It was implemented with other local partners of the Ghana SRHR Alliance Between 2013 and 2015 it has provided about 6000 children, both in and out of school young people, with comprehensive sexuality education. This way it contributed to the reduction of unwanted and unplanned pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and it increased the demand for sexual reproductive health services. The project was funded by dance4life through the Ghana SRHR Alliance for Young People.
CAC (Comprehensive Abortion Care)
The CAC (comprehensive abortion care) Project ran in the Greater Accra region from 2011 to 2020 with support from Ipas Ghana. Young people (mainly young women) and policy makers are benefitting from the project through educative and informative broadcast radio programmes. As a result, the demand for sexual and reproductive health services is increasing and young people who listen to the programme are increasingly becoming aware of the availability of CAC and other sexual and reproductive health services in health facilities near them.
Dance4life
The Youth and ICPD project has run since 2014 nationwide, it addresses young people and policy makers. The aim of the project is to give young people a better understanding of the ICPD programme of action and to strengthen the young people’s advocacy on Sexual Reproductive Health issues. dance4life is funder of this project.
NO YAWA
NO YAWA was a project led and funded by DKT International Ghana, in cooperation with Marie Stopes International Ghana and the Grameen Foundation. It took place in 2014, in the Greater Accra region. Curious Minds played a role in the project by organizing radio programmes for young people (mainly women) and policy makers. Through the radio programmes we created demand for Sexual Reproductive Health services, sensitized and strengthened the knowledge of young people on Sexual Reproductive Health Rights.
ROC (Rights Of the Child)
The ROC (Rights Of the Child) Project took place in the Central & Eastern regions in about 20 communities. It started in 2005 and ended 2010. The target group was children in rural communities. They benefitted from the project in terms of capacity building in the area of their rights. The project empowered the children to speak up for their rights and it facilitated their participation in processes related to their development. PLAN Ghana was the funding organization.
O3 Project
The Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future (O3) project (2020 -2021) implemented in the Central and Upper East regions of Ghana worked to ensure that young people in Ghana realize positive health, education, and gender equality outcomes through sustained reductions in new HIV infections, unintended pregnancy, and sexual and gender-based violence.
The project thus employed strategies to enable young people reach their full educational potential and contribute more effectively to the growth and development of Ghana.
With support from UNESCO, Curious Minds Ghana engaged diverse stakeholders in Talensi (Upper East region) and Asikuma Odoben Brakwa (Central region) through community durbars, fun and educative radio programmes outside broadcasts with community members, (and at the national level) youth-focused social media campaigns, virtual capacity building training/webinars, and essay competitions among others, we engaged young people across the country with Reproductive Health Education (RHE), while advocating for policy and practice changes to make communities safer and inclusive for young people, particularly girls. Through the project, we worked to institutionalize health and well-being programs for young people while engaging leadership for long-term commitment and sustainability.