ACHIEVEMENTS

FIDA Ghana has achieved a lot since its formation in 1974. The organisation has to a large extent not only seen to but also to helped in the achievement of many milestones in the empowrment of women and also the liberation of women from cultural practices that are harmful to them.

FIDA has through its Legal Aid Clinics managed to enforce the law as to maintenance of children and spouses by many a recalcitrant father and husband in thousands of cases.

FIDA played a great role in the passage of the new intestate Succession Law PNDCL 111.Since the enactment of this law, the plight of the Ghanaian widow, whose husband died intestate has improved greatly.Hitherto,a woman whose husband died without leaving a will was practically stripped of all her possessions such that she was left with no means of support for either herself or her children.

During the last presidential and parliamentary elections in Ghana in December 2000, FIDA played a vital role in organising all the women candidates of the different Political Parties to ensure that the were given fair chances by their various parties.

They also organised a seminar after the elections to find out the problems encountered by the women thereafter came out with a white paper so as to craete a better environment for future elections.

FIDA is also playing a great role in putting pressure on the current parliament to pass a Domestic Violence Bill to help women and children who are subjects of abuse.

In the year 2000, when there was an upsurge in the brutal killings of Ghanaian women in Accra, FIDA played a very vital role in getting the government in taking positive steps to protect the women in Accra.

Finally FIDA Ghana if nothing at all has attained such notorierty that all a women has to say is that she is taking her case to FIDA and that is enough to get things done.

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