The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), in partnership with the Asutifi North District Assembly (ANDA) and the Global Alliance for Development Foundation (GADeF), initiated a Local Economic Development (LED) project dubbed “Building Local Entrepreneurial Skills to support the rural poor for sustainable economic self-reliance”. With financial and technical support from the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Ghana, the project commenced in January 2019 and ends in December 2022.
The project sought to build local entrepreneurial skills of the rural poor to ensure that they were economically self-reliant. It also sought to harness local resources, knowledge, ideas, skills, and other comparative advantages to stimulate local economic growth and development with the aim of creating self-employment and job opportunities.