Name of Project : Plan B
About Project
Plan B Club is an organization dedicated to establishing support systems and opportunities for 2,000 young, vulnerable footballers. It aims to assist them in developing alternative career paths.
Football remains the most popular sport and aspirational pathway for young men in Ghana—but increasingly also for girls and young women. The FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023 generated global momentum around women’s football, and in Ghana, this has prompted many clubs to invest more intentionally in developing female talents. Despite this progress, both male and female grassroots players remain largely unprotected within informal football systems, with limited access to education, safeguarding, or viable career alternatives. Many faces injury, exploitation, or early dropout from both sport and school, reinforcing cycles of exclusion and vulnerability. The purpose of the programme is to enable vulnerable youth footballers in Northern Ghana to build dignified, alternative life paths by strengthening their rights, economic agency, and collective voice. It is rooted in the lessons and momentum from Phase II and builds on a tested partnership between HOPin Academy and FANT. The programme aims not only to support youth in navigating life beyond sport but to empower them as informed actors in their own development. Rather than treating footballers as passive beneficiaries, the programme positions them as active agents capable of influencing their own futures and shaping the environments around them—whether in football, education, employment, or civic life. Through a combined approach of hands-on skills development, safeguarding, rights awareness, and youth-led advocacy, the programme addresses both personal and systemic barriers.
The programme pursues three interlinked objectives:
(1) To promote sustainable economic opportunities and alternative livelihoods for vulnerable football players through entrepreneurship, employment, and skills development;
(2) To strengthen rights and protection mechanisms for grassroots footballers through institutional reforms, club-based policies, and safeguarding practices; and
(3) To transform learning from Plan B Phase II into structured tools, platforms, and advocacy mechanisms that influence football governance and youth development policy in Ghana.
Donor/Partners
CISU / FANT
Name of Project : Climate smart
About Project
NSEN is launching the Climate-Smart Social Entrepreneurship Program. This program leverages NSEfD’s strengths to empower 300 additional SMEs with climate-smart practices and empower 20 climate change ambassadors across 10 communities in the Northern Region.
Donor/Partners
CISU / BTG
Name of Project : Village Input Fair
About Project
The Village Input Fair innovation offers a private-sector solution to enhance the quality of agricultural input markets, which remain largely underdeveloped in Ghana. The initiative brings together farmers, input dealers, and microfinance institutions to create a sustainable, efficient ecosystem by addressing input supply and demand-side constraints within the Savannah and Northern regions.
Donor/Partners
Innovation for Poverty Action.
Name of Project : Youth empowerment for peaceful elections
About Project
Youth Empowerment for Peaceful Elections,aims to reduce electoral violence in Northern Ghana by empowering young people, by establishing a network of youth peace ambassadors in five communities.
Donor/Partners
CISU / BTG
Name of Project : Boosting Digital Entrepreneurship through Capacity Building, Sustainability and Collaboration in Northern Ghana
About Project
This Collaboration between HOPin Academy and GIZ-DTEG is to enhance support,mentorship and resources for entrepreneurs,enhance support, mentorship, and resources for entrepreneurs, ensure long term viability and economic self-sufficiency amend paramountly establish partnerships among innovation hubs and nurturing a dynamic digital entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Donor/Partners
GIZ-DTEG
Name of Project : Fix that Pump
About Project
Fix That Pump, is a social enterprise that seeks to solve the chronic challenges of non-functionalities of hand-pumps in Northern Ghana through regular maintenance and repairs.
Donor/Partners
Grundfos Foundation
Name of Project : UPshift
About Project
An opportunity to support the youth and adolescents, especially the most vulnerable, to become a force for positive social and
economic change, contributing to a competitive labor force, sustained economic growth, improved
governance, and vibrant civil societies.
The UPSHIFT program blends leading approaches to youth
and adolescent development with social innovation and social entrepreneurship.
OUR OBJECTIVES
The overall objective of this project is to pilot the UPshift program in three regions of the North of Ghana supporting 200 adolescents and youth in these areas with marketable skills for employment and exposure to social innovation and entrepreneurship which will promote a vibrant youth workforce and sustainable economic growth.
Donor/Partners
UNICEF GHANA
Name of Project : Grow Northern Ghana
About Project
We are thrilled to launch the Grow Northern Ghana project. This project is in cooperation with GIZ and supported by The State Chancellery of North Rhine Westphalia.
The goal of this project is to create more investment opportunities and increase visibility and networking amongst startups and SMEs in Ghana which will contribute to a more vibrant entrepreneurship ecosystem in Northern Ghana and promote economic growth.
Donor/Partners
GIZ | THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA
Name of Project : Promoting Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Tackle Child Labour
About Project
Donor/Partners
UNICEF | Jobberman Ghana
