Who we are
Development Solutions Centre (DSC) is the brainchild of three versatile Ghanaian development practitioners with a wealth of experience across Africa and the Americas. DSC was registered at the Registrar Generals Department of Ghana in 2003 as a company limited by Guarantee.
Vision
Local development organizations comfortably engaging their counterparts from developed countries and donors alike on an equal footing in assuring holistic development of Africa, and all concerned fully aware that DSC made it possible.
Mission
To empower communities, grassroots organisations and individuals through the provision of quality services, to enable them to take their destiny in their own hands and become caring, competent, responsible partners who value development as a lifelong process.
DSC is registered as a National NGO and is therefore allowed to operate throughout Ghana. DSC implemented projects in several regions of Ghana that empowered various community members and kept family units together.
The regions covered to date include Volta, Oti, Eastern, Greater Accra, Upper West, Upper East, Savannah, North East, Northern, Ashanti, Central, Bono, Bono East, Ahafo and Western. Additionally, have also had sub-offices in Inchaban (Western Region), Bole (Northern Region) and Penyi (Volta Region) to facilitate its operations.
Additionally, DSC works with a sister limited liability company, Genuine Products & Services Limited (GP&SL) to address the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), equipment and hardware needs of its SME interventions.
Our Programmes
Community Development
Historically, most communities in Ghana are perpetual and passive recipients of donor largesse irrespective of the level of need and relevance.
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Business Development Services
Although Africa abounds with people of high intellect and is resource rich, we have failed to cater for our basic needs of food, clothing and shelter.
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Capacity building for effective NGO/CBO governance
In Ghana, and across Africa, there is limited capacity for indigenous organizations to plan
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Agriculture, Food Security and Health
Chronic rural poverty, tenuous environmental conditions, and lack of access to adequate healthcare
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Acted as a Facilitating Agency (i.e. Implementer) for the livestock component of the IFAD/AfDB Northern Rural Growth Programme (NRGP)
• Country counterpart for design and roll out of a Social Returns on Investment (SROI) assessment strategy for the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership in Ghana.
Supported the Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP) to build the capacity of selected First Call beneficiary commercial farmers to better plan and manage the resources obligated to them.
Supported Enterprise for Development International (EfDI) of Nigeria, to develop a Corporate Social Investment Strategy for British Gas Nigeria (BG-Nigeria).