Programs

Awla's programs are varied depending on the Donor funding or categories of project under implementation.

UNICEF
The project targets the training of Police personnel in the junior rank[nco's].
The program started in the year 2000 and would be completed in 2004.
It is envisaged that at the end of the period at least one personnel in every police station in the country would be trained in issues relating to child rigths and handling cases relating to domestic voilence.

DANIDA.

Police Project.
The training started in 1999 and targeted the senior police officers mostly crime officers,prosecutors,investigators and some commisioners of police.

Dissemination of Legislation.
It involves the compilation and simplification of Laws on Domestic Violence to all P olice stations in Ghana and additionally Laws on Gender relating to issues affecting Women,

Training of Magistrates:
Training of magistrate son Domestic Violence and gender issues.

Domestic Violence:
National training program for security agencies on Domestic Violence and preparation of manuals on Domestic Violence for the Ghana Police Service.

Gender Advocacy:
Gender awareness and sensitisation programs for Distrit Assemblies in Ghana.

Save the Children [ Sweden]
Intergrating child rights and child protection into the military curricula and training syllabi of the Ghanaian military in line with I nternational Instruments.

International Human Rights Law Group[ US]
Advocacy on inheritance rights- including organising annual Day of Action to sensitise policy makers,legislators and communities on the inequitable inheritance rights which is inical to the rights of women in Africa.

Human Rights Fund [ US Embassy]
Conducting national survey on the incidence of sexual harassment in Ghana and to come out with appropriate advocacy strategies to sexual harassment in the workplace and in academia.

Property Rights.:
Advocacy on equitable property rights legislation for women in Ghana.