Empowerment for Sustainable Livelihood

Organization

Mission

The Empowerment for Sustainable Livelihood (EFSL) is a NGO established for the purpose of facilitating the development and promotion of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs), sustainable trade, gender empowerment, environmental management, capacity building and sustainable development in Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

In pursuit of its mission, EFSL: Assists and supports the improvement of the environment of small and medium scale enterprises in the communities of Sub-Saharan Africa; provides advisory services.

Organizational Expertise

Adoption / Behavior Change, Capacity Building, Climate/Environment, Gender / Womens Empowerment, Health, Heating, Humanitarian/Emergency Response, Livelihoods, Marketing, Microfinance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Policy Development, Research, Standards, Technology and Fuel R&D

Technologies & Fuels

Biomass (Ag. Residue, Processed Biomass, etc.), Charcoal, Crop residues, Solar, Wood

Clean Cooking Activities

Our organization is known as the Empowerment for Sustainable Livelihood (ESFL). It is a registered Non-Governmental organization in Ghana. It has six main objectives, namely to:

1. undertake training and capacity building programmes that would help empower local people economically.
2. provide advisory services for the creation, development and promotion of advocacy, gender empowerment and sustainable development
3. undertake projects and services that would contribute significantly in improving the quality of the environment.
4. engages in massive and vigorous education on deadly but preventable diseases such as AIDS/HIV, Malaria, Guinea Worm and Tuberculosis at the deprived rural communities.
5. champions the course of poverty reduction activities such as assistance in basic technical and vocational skills to both the urban and rural poor, engagement in non-timber forest resource farming activities in the rural areas.
6. Operation of Susu/Microfinance Schemes

Partnership

By way of introduction, we came across your organization from www.cleancookstoves.org a couple of days ago. Upon reviewing your programmes of activities, we realized that they were consistent with ours. We are therefore exploring the possibility of collaborating with your organization in the area of global partnership program and any other that you may deem it fit.

Regions Operating In

Sub-Saharan Africa

Country Based In

Ghana

Address

"H" Street Adjorman Greda Estate P73b

Accra, 233

Website

https://www.efslivelihoodghana.org

Primary Point of Contact

Name: Mr. William Jacob Ocran

Title: Founder

Email: efslivelihood.gh@gmail.com

Phone: 233244220050

Secondary Point of Contact

Name: Bridget Boothe

Title: Project Officer