FIDA Ghana in order to meet the needs of Ghanaian women and children who are unable to afford legal services has adopted the concept of legal aid clinics.

These clinics are organised twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.They provide counselling sessions and also use various Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR) methods. Some of which are mediation, concilliation and arbitration.

The volunteers at these clinics are lawyers who are members of FIDA and offer their services pro bono.In the instances where resolutions are not found to these issues at the FIDA offices, these lawyers readily take on the cases of these clients and represent them in court pro bono.

The success of these clinics can be seen in the increasing number of cases each year. At the end of the year 1985, when FIDA began these Legal Aid Clinics there were 25 new cases,as at the year 2000 the number of new cases had increased to as many as 2000.

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