About NEWIG NEWIG was founded on 8th January 2002 as a skills development and gender employment, non -government, non-profit organization working in peri-urban and rural communities in Ghana to provide opportunity to women to develop their potentials and contribute to the development of their communities. NEWIG provides vocational and entrepreneurial training, specialist advice and help to a wide range of clients in the area of small scale enterprise development.

The two additional thematic areas the NGO works on are women’s political participation and women’s human rights. NEWIG began to operate on a full time basis in April, 2004, after being registered at the Registrar-General’s Department on 22nd April, 2004.

It was issued with a certificate, numbered G-12,117 as well as a Certificate of Incorporation. Additionally, it registered with Department of Social Welfare to operate as an NGO and was issued with a certificate numbered DSW./2408. NEWIG has created autonomous spaces for strengthening the voice and organizing power of women.

Within this space, particular groups of women have been able to organize around specific issues, including economic wellbeing. The organization has strengthened women to organize as activists, thereby expanding grassroots organizing as well as enabled women, especially young ones to forge new alliances with each other. The organization uses strategies like political consciousness raising, capacity building, skills training, and communications to achieve its goals.

NEWIG is one of Ghana’s lead NGOs in delivering entrepreneurial capacity building programs. We are contracted on regular bases to run entrepreneurial trainings for international and bigger local NGOs’ clients.

NEWIG’s strength lies in providing hands on structured and practical skills training with mentorship and practical support to its beneficiaries. NEWIG is one of a few organizations in Ghana providing entrepreneurial development with the aim of moving women’s business initiatives along the value chain. NEWIG programs are implemented nation-wide.

NEWIG Women Empowerment Centre (training) is located in Tefle in the Volta Region of Ghana whilst the administrative office is in Accra. CORPORATE STATEMENT VISION NEWIG has a vision of a society in which self-organised women actively creating a just, democratic and sustainable world without poverty,inequality or any system which erodes their confidence, economic wellbeing, rights, dignity and capacity for self-determination. MISSION NEWIG’s mission is to support women’s self-organisation for full autonomy over their lives, freedom from violence and for full social, economic and political participation and empowerment. GOALS  To get women into gainful employment.  To give women the tools of empowerment through functional literacy and entrepreneurial skills training  To give women the tools of empowerment to attain and play leadership roles in society.  To make women aware of human and legal rights. VALUES Commitment; Dedication; Self-drive; Honesty; Hard work; Volunteerism PROGRAM & ACTIVITIES NEWIG implements its programs through practical training and advocacy in the following functional areas:Our Entrepreneurial Development Programs cover the five basic components of successful entrepreneurship, namely Business skills; Technical skills; Life skills; Mentorship; Access to tools and materials as well as economic governance programs. Under our Gender / Women Rights Programs we organize seminars and workshops on Gender Trainings, Domestic Violence, Gender& HIV/AIDS.

Our third functional area covers Leadership & Women in Political Participation where fora, seminars and workshops on Political Leadership Skills Building and Good Governance capacity building programs are organized. NEWIG also runs Leadership Trainings for the Youth to take up and sustain leadership positions.

Our constituency is the vulnerable and marginalized women including the youth. NEWIG creates spaces where women talk about their issues, expose them to other women and other communities and support them to attend meetings of other organizations. What makes the spaces created unique is that they open opportunities for women to come together to reflect on what they want to change , develop common political agendas and action strategies, re-group and engage in critical analysis of their lives, society and the world at large. Currently NEWIG operates as a social enterprise.

It has opened a business branch known as D’SHE NEWIG Ghana. .