GCNM Editorial Team
January 31, 2025
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Who we are
The Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Malaria (GCNM) is a Civil Society organization alliance founded in 2008. Its membership consists of NGOs, FBOs and CBOs in communities throughout Ghana. The coalition was set up to oversee the operations of NGOs in the fight against malaria in all the communities in Ghana with emphasis on behavioral change communication to various stakeholders. This came about as result of witnessing the negative impact of the long-standing Malaria endemic on the Ghanaian society especially children under five years and pregnant women. Campaigns on the reality of malaria and behavioral changes are needed to deal with the issue and malaria related NGOs constituted themselves into a coalition to provide these soft skills to support health institutions in the prevention and control of malaria. The coalition is officially registered at the Registrar General’s Department.
GCNM, since its formation has collaborated with National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) executing malaria interventions at the lowest level of the health delivery system in the communities. GCNM has about 254 memberships with 123 members in good standing and result-driven NGOs spread across all the 16 regions of the country, some of which are implementing partners of malaria interventions. GCNM has equally identified human right, gender and social accountability issues as affecting vulnerable populations at the point of health service delivery which conform to a key strategy of the Global Fund. GCNM is therefore, taking a bold step to champion advocacy and community led Monitoring of health services delivery at the communities across the country and will advocate strongly for human right and gender issues in the next 5 years 23-2028. With the Covid 19 pandemic, GCNM is integrating pandemic preparedness into all its programming and educational programmes to ensure communities are safe and know what to do in pandemics.
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What we do
The core values remain the pillars on which strategies will be initiated to;
- Re-ignite the spirit of volunteerism to build a new cadre of committed male and female human resources for the health, social, and community work, with special emphasis on youth involvement
- Mobilize human resources with necessary knowledge, skills, experience, and expertise for upgrading, marketing, and providing income-generating services for private sector, non- governmental, governmental, community, and faith-based
- Advocate for constitutional reform, repeal of legislation against religious intolerance perpetuating stereotyping, stigma, discrimination, exclusion, marginalization, and criminalization of individuals and
- Collaborate with key stakeholders for community development
Through its work and association with promoting partnership and inclusivity, the membership of the GCNM over the years have been working assiduously to employ strategies and tactics to reduce Malaria prevalence, communicable and non-communicable diseases and discrimination of all forms against marginalized groups. A wide cross section of audiences that included policy makers, service providers and those accessing services were direct beneficiaries. In order to ensure the outcomes of these interactions remain positive implementation is guided by the GCNMs core values of;
- Legitimacy
- Accountability
- Inclusivity
- Respect, and
- Integrity
Lending a strong support to any malaria intervention in Ghana by focusing on social Behaviourial Change Communication at the community level.
OUR MISSION
- Build Synergy with malaria-endemic communities, increase collaboration with public, private and development partners to strengthen community health systems against the effects of malaria.
- Engage in advocacy to ensure duty bearers provide quality health services and are accountable with integration of gender and human right issues to leave no one behind.
OUR VISION
GCNM envisions a resilient community health system with empowered communities in achieving a malaria free country.
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