WEE-North Network is a registered non-profit organization (NPO) for young women (aged 18-35) in northern Ghana who are working in industrial trades. The Network provides platforms for women’s economic empowerment, leadership, advocacy, and peer support in 55 districts to promote gender equality and end gender stereotyping for women in engaged in the industrial trades
The young tradeswomen who are members of the WEE-North Network have benefited from the WEE-North Project through the Government of Canada’s contribution agreement with Alinea International. WEE-North’s training-to-employment program provided support for trades training and workplace experience learning, leading to contracts, jobs, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
The network’s over 2,000 members share common goals: to promote women’s economic empowerment through actively working in industrial trades; and to advocate for greater participation of women in industrial trades.
We are a network of women’s multi-trade associations available in all 55 districts in Northern Ghana – a women-led, youth-led organization promoting women’s inclusion in the industrial trades. Visit our district Service Centers where you can call upon skilled and certified women artisans to do the work you need in your home or on your site. We also have tools and equipment for rent for your construction or repair work.
WEE-North Network envisions an association in which every member is economically empowered to contribute to her community, reducing poverty and leading the way to a gender-equal world.
WEE-North Network’s mission is to serve as a platform for tradeswomen that provides employment, entrepreneurship support, access to finance, and specialised training, and that represents their interests in decent work and gender-sensitive workplaces that are free from exploitation, abuse and harassment.
WEE-North Network tradeswomen are available in every district in Northern Ghana. Most districts have Service Centers which function as the WEE-Group’s meeting place, office, and workshop.
Over 2,300 young women have skills in their chosen trades and are available to provide services in:
Hire our tradeswomen, equipped with certified trades competencies, PPEs, toolkits, and health and safety knowledge, for contracts, jobs, maintenance and repair work
At a reasonable cost, hire our tradeswomen to check your building, equipment, or motorized vehicle, do an estimate, bill of quantities, or have our Energy Commission electricians sign off on your electrical wiring
Our Service Centers have equipment for rent for your construction projects: ladders, wheelbarrows, water tanks, electric drills, tile cutters, and more, at a modest cost
Our tradeswomen love volunteering their services for worthy causes in their communities and do 1-2 projects per year
Our WEE-Groups welcome young women who are interested in learning the industrial trades. Training and attachments are available with group membership
WEE-Groups are supported by Focal Points and Community Support Groups in their communities. They promote the group and provide contacts for jobs
