The KASA! Ending Sexual Violence in West Africa project, implemented by SUFOD across 15 communities in Tolon District between March 2023 and February 2025, represents a significant achievement in grassroots feminist organizing and community-based sexual violence prevention in Northern Ghana.
Across two phases and nearly two years of sustained community engagement, SUFOD established a comprehensive movement-building architecture — from girl-child clubs and drama groups in schools, to women’s advocacy groups and radio campaigns in communities, to formal by-laws and Community Working Committees as accountability structures. The project has meaningfully shifted community narratives on sexual violence, empowered hundreds of girls and women as active advocates, and created formal community-level mechanisms to prevent, report, and respond to sexual violence.
The KASA! Experience in Tolon District demonstrates that long-term, multi-layered, communityowned feminist approaches can generate real and measurable change in communities where sexual violence has long been normalized and silenced. The structures, relationships, and norms built through KASA! Provide a strong foundation for sustained impact and a replicable model for communities across Northern Ghana and beyond.
SUFOD is grateful to AWDF, the Ford Foundation, and OSIWA for their transformative support and to the communities, girls, women, traditional leaders, teachers, and district stakeholders of Tolon District for their partnership, trust, and commitment to a world free of sexual violence.
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In addition, the report is supported by community-developed by-laws aimed at safeguarding women and children. You can review these by-laws in the attached document below.
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