ACHIEVEMENTS

• The achievements of the Ghana Poultry Network are many. These include:
• Provides technical assistance for women in the Afram Plains District in the Eastern Region and Sefwi Wiaso District in the Western Region in small-scale commercial poultry production and to improve the village poultry. The projects are being sponsored by Recerca and Cooperazione, an Italian NGO working in Ghana
• Conducts annual vaccination of village chicken against Newcastle disease to reduce high mortalities caused by the disease in Kwaekese and Agyata in the Afram Plains District as pilot villages.
• Collaborates with the Danish Network for Smallholder Poultry Development, Heifer Project International, Ricerca and Cooperazione, Ghana-Denmark Community Programme and other NGOs in the improvement of productivity of the village chicken
• Forms School Poultry Network Clubs in Primary, Junior and Senior Secondary Schools in the Afram Plains District and other parts of the country
• Members participated in the 10th conference of the Association of Institutions of Tropical Veterinary Medicine (AITVM) in Copenhagen from 24-27 August, 2001
• Participated in the 2nd Workshop on Smallholder Poultry Projects in West Africa in Burkina Faso at Tenkodogo from 24-28th September, 2002
• Organised a district rural poultry workshop in Donkokrom from 1-3rd November, 2001 for women and school children
• Organised a national workshop on rural poultry for NGOs, research institutions and individuals working in Ghana in Accra in February, 2002
• Participated in the 3rd Workshop on Smallholder Poultry Projects in West Africa in Benin at in Benin at Possotome from 8-11th September 2003.
• Provides training to men and women in smallholder poultry production in Aworapataa near Techiman in Brong Ahafo Region. The Project is being sponsored by Heifer Project International
• Provides training to women keeping local fowls in Yua in the Kassena-Nankani District in the Upper East Region.