Changing Lives in Innovative Partnerships (CLIP)

Changing Lives in Innovative Partnerships (CLIP) formerly called Community Life Improvement programme (CLIP) is a Non-Governmental Organization. It started as a rural development programme with the aim to increase self-help capacity and improved living conditions for the populations in rural communities in the Yendi, Gushegu and Karaga Districts in the Northern Region of Ghana. Before its establishment, reports, research and observations showed that, some parents and guardians in the Northern Region were not allowing their children, especially girls to go to school because parents, particularly, mothers needed their girls to serve as babysitters, fetch water and perform other domestic chores as well as other on-farm activities such as cooking for farmers among others. CLIP was thus, established as a package to promote children’s education, especially girls and provide livelihoods support to families in the Northern Region of Ghana. The overall goal and mission of CLIP is to empower people to influence and drive their socio-economic development in a sustainable environment. The organisation envisions a society free of hunger where local communities have sustainable skills and opportunities to improve their livelihoods. CLIP works in six thematic areas namely; Food Security and Livelihoods, Nutrition, Climate Change, WASH, Agro-pastoralism and Inclusive Growth. The organization has been providing services to deprived communities through water provision (construction of hand-dug wells), rural and urban sanitation improvement, facilitating sanitation and hygiene dialogues and waste management.