About this area

We work to improve health outcomes for women, newborns, children and adolescents through strengthened primary healthcare systems, nutrition, disease prevention, sexual and reproductive health and rights, mental health, health innovation, and climate-resilient healthcare.

Our approach is behaviour-led — we ask who needs to do what to reach a healthier outcome, and measure success by behaviour change. We deliver this work in close partnership with the Ghana Health Service, UNICEF, Gavi and the Positive Action for Children Fund, so that every woman and child has equitable access to quality, affordable and life-saving care.

ImmunisationCoverage lifted from 65% to 74% in 7 districts
Adolescent HIV~15,700 reached with testing & education
RecognitionRegional Newborn & Child Health Champion, 2016
Projects & programmes

Our health work

Research & reports

Evidence from this area

Health & Well-being

Maternal & newborn quality of care — end of project report

This end-of-project report presents results from a behaviour-led effort to reduce preventable maternal and newborn deaths through improved quality of care. Delivered…

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Health & Well-being

Petty corruption in healthcare delivery in Ghana

This study documents how everyday, low-level corruption restricts poor communities’ access to essential healthcare across parts of Ghana. It analyses the drivers…

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Health & Well-being

Annual report on HIV interventions

This annual report reviews a Ghana–Togo–Nigeria collaboration to expand paediatric HIV testing and treatment among children and adolescents. Progress is framed around…

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Health & Well-being

Health & Nutrition Learning Review 2025

This learning review distils results and lessons from a year of community health and nutrition work across the Upper West Region, drawing…

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Stories of change

The people behind the work

Story

The volunteer who brought immunisation to her village

A trained community health volunteer took immunisation to the last mile, moving household to household to reach children who had been missed.…

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From market girl to community health volunteer

At sixteen, Aisha spent her days selling vegetables at the roadside and had rarely visited a health post. When CDA-Ghana’s community health…

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