Community Health Education and School Sanitation (CHESS) E Centre
Setting Up a Community Health Education and School Sanitation (CHESS) Electronic Commerce Centre to improve women livelihoods.
About You
Contact Information
Title
Ms
First name
Rosemary Olive
Last name
Mbone Enie
Your job title
CEO/President
Name of your organization
International Assistance for Community Development (INACOD)
Organization type
NGO
Annual budget/currency
10.000 USD
Location
Project Street Address
INACOD Ghana, P O Box NW 428, Nsawam, Eastern Region Ghana
Project City
Nsawam
Project Province/State
Eastern Region
Project Postal/Zip Code
NW 428
Project Country
Ghana
Your idea
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Other
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Multi Sport Program
What approach does your initiative incorporate?
Other
Year the initiative began (yyyy)
2007
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Plot your innovation within the discovery framework:
Barrier
Lack of parity in facilities, equipment and funding
Insight
Visibility multiplies participation
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Name Your Project
Community Health Education and School Sanitation (CHESS) E Centre
Describe Your Idea
Setting Up a Community Health Education and School Sanitation (CHESS) Electronic Commerce Centre to improve women livelihoods.
Innovation
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence?
Setting Up a Community Health Education and School Sanitation (CHESS) Electronic Commerce Centre to improve women livelihoods.
How many people does your innovation serve or plan to serve? Exactly who will benefit?
50,000 women across Ghana within the next 3 years. The entire Ghanaian population 24 million.
Do you have any existing partnerships? If so, please list and describe.
Yes Sky Fox Ltd, Helping women in small business management to manage their finance through cashless payment methods.
In which sector do these partners work? (Check all that apply)
How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing?
The CHESS Centre is an E Commerce Centre that will be run my women as a social enterprise. Sports would use as a tool to provide health and financial services for the women and the society at large but the women being the main stakeholders.
Impact
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact
For the women of Ghana to see the importance of sports as a tool for better health and livelihoods.
What does impact/success look like? Please list any tangible measures of the impact of your innovation
The use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the E Commerce /Telecentres hence bridging the IT divide in Ghana by 2015 to about 50 %.
Improve the health and livelihoods of the women and using Sports as a tool to achieve this.
Making more women part of the Formal Business sector than the informal where most women in Ghana are today.
Is there a chance that your project could change policy (within an institution or government)?
The education policy, trade policy and ICT Policy in Ghana today do not support women. Hence the project would provide more support for women in Ghana hence making institutions and the government to review the negative policies affecting women in this area.
Aside from financial sustainability, how do you plan to grow the initiative or expand your intended impact?
We need to promote the initiative as a business model under the social entreprise approach so that through sports the women can access better health facilities, improve their livelihoods, generate income and other social and economic benefits.
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Sustainability
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)?
We are proposing a small business financial model that would enable the women to get loans and grants to set up the CHESS E Commerce centres and would pay back with a small percentage interest. We shall therefore be working with the local banks in Ghana through the Ghana Investment Finance Trust (GIFT) Fund.
Financing source
Annual budget
Our Annual Budget for 2008 was 10,000 USD.
Annual revenue generated
We have not started any income generation yet.
Number of staff (full-time, part-time, volunteers)
Full Time: 3
Part time: 2
Volunteers: 3
What are the main barriers to financing your initiative, and how do you plan to address these barriers?
The main barrier is to get the initial finance to kick-start the projects. This is one of our main barriers and why we are applying for the program.
What are the major challenges with regards to partnerships?
At the moment we are look to set up constructive and sustainable partnership since the concept is new in Ghana it is very difficult to set up such partnerships but with the success of the project we hope we shall over come this.
The Story
What stage is your project?
Ongoing project .
What was the motivation or defining moment that led to create this innovation? Tell us the story.
I have had over 17 years experience working in the Water, Health , Environmental Education and Management sector. But the social entreprise models is one think I had always thought would make a great difference to promote trade not aid in Ghana and across Africa.
Please tell us about the social innovator behind this initiative
While addressing social issues other issues such as health, finance, income generation and others can also be addressed to improve women's livelihoods and that of their families.
(Optional) To be eligible for an additional prize, please select age range
18 – 22
 | 176 weeks agoRosemary Olive Mbone Enie said: Hello Nike, Thank you for your comments. It is both ways. Women coming together to play sports and also using sports to market the ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 176 weeks agoStephani Kobayashi Stevenson said: Dear Inacodghana, Thank you for entering this competition! Your idea sounds needed and something that the women of Ghana would be in ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 176 weeks agoRosemary Olive Mbone Enie submitted this idea. |
