Fair Trade Ghana Network

FTGN is membership-based organization championing sustainable agriculture and handicraft production in the fair trade environment in Ghana. It is a national network of fair trade certifed farmers, handicraft producers and hired labour organisations. The network focuses on programmes in the following areas for the benefit of its members:

Capacity Building
FTGN seeks to build the capacity of its members in entrepreneurship, development of business models, marketing, technology, organic farming, climate change etc. These will be facilitated through training courses, seminars and workshops leading to the gradual, positive and sustainable transformation to member’s operations and livelihood and fair trade in general.

Policy and Advocacy
FTGN engages in producer driven policy formulation and advocacy actions to amplify the producers’ voice on issues affecting their activities and trading fairly. Members will benefit from advocacy trainings to develop and build on their skills in this area to enable them influence policies and challenges in their various sectors.

Partnerships
The network seeks to develop strategic partnerships, affiliations and alliances with both international and national institutions to support the objectives of the organisations in order to achieve its goals.

Market development and access
FTGN seeks to engage in the development of a strategy together with other relevant stakeholders to begin trading in fair trade certified products in Ghana. It is the network’s expectation that this will create market access locally for its members.

All of these lead to a transformed and strengthened Producer Organisations