Eight years of organising, training and advocacy across three countries.
Founded in Accra in 2017. Working across Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Singapore. Reaching 2.5 million people through evidence-led programmes and community-rooted advocacy.
When we gathered in Accra in the spring of 2017, the word coalition would have felt too grand for what we were. Ten people, a borrowed projector, and a clinic that had agreed to lend us its waiting room on a Saturday morning. Eight hundred and forty people came to be screened for hypertension and diabetes that day.
Development work, I have learned since, is less about big visions than about small, stubborn habits — showing up when the funding is uncertain, writing down the number that disappoints you. The seventeen Goals belong to no single organisation. The work of advancing them is mostly the work of keeping faith with what one community asked for, then the next.
What follows is an account: of what we believe, who we are, what we have done, and — in a section we publish every year — what we got wrong.
— Joshua K. Adzakpa
Convenor & Lead Analyst
The seventeen Goals are not a horizon visible from any window. They are seventeen specific demands, made on specific districts, in specific decades. Our work is translating that abstraction into something a community in Gomoa East or Ahanta West can recognise as theirs.
We are not asking for utopia by 2030. We are asking that progress on climate not be quietly purchased with regress on equality; that growth not require us to look away from the children it leaves behind. The Goals are indivisible.
Three habits. Show up — the visit nobody scheduled, in the off-season, with no donor in tow. Listen first — specifically before speaking. Measure honestly — we publish the figures that disappoint us alongside the ones that please us.
The Goals interlock. We refuse to trade poverty against climate, or gender against growth — because the trade is precisely what creates the next decade's problem.
Our programmes are shaped by the people they will serve. Slower than the alternative. Produces work that survives the funder.
Communities have been failed often by short projects with long press releases. We commit for years, not quarters.
Good Deeds Day. Eight hundred and forty people screened for diabetes and hypertension. No coalition yet, no letterhead — just ten people who decided this was worth doing again next month.
On 29 March, we co-convene with the Ghana CSO Platform on SDGs and G3iD Geneva the country's first National Dialogue on the SDGs — 150 stakeholders at the Kofi Annan ICT Centre, the framework that became Ghana Global Goals Innovation Day. Later that year, Gomoa East District Assembly signs our first formal partnership outside Accra.
An advocacy delegation to Côte d'Ivoire. The work becomes regional, not just national.
The pandemic. Field work stops. We pivot to remote training and emergency PPE distribution.
Sixty inaugural fellows. The first programme designed around an outcome rather than a deliverable. Three years on, 320 women have come through.
Cumulative reach passes a million. The Singapore partnership signs in the same month.
Eighty-four hectares pledged in phase one of the Coastal Resilience Initiative. The impact dashboard goes public.
Two and a half million people reached. Twelve active programmes, fourteen districts, forty-eight partner organisations.
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Founding convenor. Background in business analytics and sustainable development.
Co-founder. Holds the relationships with district assemblies — many of them since 2018.
Holds the calendar, the budget, and the truth of where every programme actually stands.
Cohort two fellow turned full-time staff. Now leads the campaigns she once attended.
Anonymised excerpts. Full attribution available to journalists and evaluators on request.
Every annual report is reviewed by an external auditor. The methodology paper sets out exactly how every figure on the dashboard is derived.
Each card shows the goal and where it sits in our work. Tap to flip and see our active programmes against it. Use the filter to focus on one of the five P's: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, Partnership.
Every Alliance programme is mapped to one or more of the 169 UN SDG targets and reported against the official indicator framework.
We do not claim impact without a measured baseline. Every programme begins with a community-validated baseline survey.
Our annual results are reviewed by an external M&E auditor and published openly on the Impact dashboard.
Filter our active and completed programmes by theme. Click any card for the full brief, including outcomes, partners and how to get involved.
Every figure on this page is verified by attendance records, partner attestations and an independent monitoring & evaluation audit. We publish the methodology, the limits, and what we still do not know.
Seven sections, expandable in any order. Tap any title to read the detail — from goal-by-goal progress to the methodology behind every number.
Of the seventeen Goals, ten sit at the centre of an active Alliance programme. Several others are addressed indirectly through partner work. Goals 14 and 17 are pipeline priorities for 2026–27.
Progress percentages reflect Alliance-specific 2030 targets, not national or global SDG progress.
A spreadsheet is not a community. Three case studies from the past year — one each from health, equality, and climate.
Akua walked into the screening tent expecting a blood-pressure check. She left with a referral to Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, where she was diagnosed with stage-2 hypertension and started on treatment within a week. She now leads a small WhatsApp group of nineteen neighbours who message before each caravan visit.
Adjoa joined cohort two with a half-finished maths degree and a part-time job at a phone repair shop. Three years later, Bantaba Tech employs seven people and has delivered analytics tools to two district assemblies — including, by way of full-circle, one of our own M&E dashboards.
The community kept records before we arrived; what was new was the weekly satellite verification. When the floods came in June, the restored mangrove fringe absorbed water that would otherwise have reached the school. Nana Kojo's notebook, kept in pencil, agreed with the satellite to within four percent.
Our footprint deliberately concentrates in fewer districts for longer, rather than spreading thin. Numbers below are cumulative since each district's first programme.
Since 2017 · founding region
Home to She Leads, the Quiz Bowl, Urban Greening, and our head office on Independence Avenue.
Since 2024 · Western Region
Coastal Resilience Initiative; a ten-year mangrove restoration commitment.
Since 2018 · Central Region
Screening caravans and the Market Women Skills Pipeline.
Since 2024 · Eastern Region
STEM Scholars, with a 22-point pass-rate uplift since baseline. Community reach via family and peer networks runs into low thousands.
Since 2019 · Côte d'Ivoire & Singapore
Voices of Disability across three countries — campaign engagement counted separately from direct programming.
Three districts under assessment
Tamale Metropolitan, Hohoe Municipal, and one to be announced.
Anonymised excerpts from formal partnership reviews and donor reports — not solicited testimonials. Full attribution available to journalists and evaluators on request.
The Alliance's M&E discipline is, frankly, ahead of much of the sector. We have begun adopting their baseline protocols in three of our own programmes.
They show up. Eight years ago, ten years ago — same coordinator on the same WhatsApp, asking the same patient questions. That continuity is rare.
What I value is the honesty about what hasn't worked. Their 2023 report has a section called "What we got wrong." I wish every one of our partners would write one.
Issued by GH-Audit Partners, February 2026. No qualifications, no recommendations beyond minor process notes.
Two Alliance staff hold Associate Fellowships of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust.
Recognised among the first cohort of African champions for the Empower Women campaign.
The Ghana Statistical Service uses Alliance baseline data in three of its district-level SDG dashboards.
We have published this section every year since 2023. Honest accounting builds the trust that makes the next year's work possible.
Of 2,150 people referred from screenings, only 1,820 (85%) completed follow-up. Travel cost — not awareness — was the binding constraint. Course-corrected by adding referral transport stipends from Q4 2025.
First-quarter survival on the Akwidaa pilot plot was 41%, well below our 70% threshold. We replanted with two indigenous species and revised the monitoring cadence; twelve-month survival is now 78%.
Cohort 2 lost 18% of fellows by month six — almost twice cohort 1. Root cause: rigid monthly Saturday sessions clashed with family obligations. Cohorts 3 and 4 use a flexible Saturday/Sunday rotation; retention has returned to 93%.
"Reach" includes everyone who participated in or directly benefited from an Alliance-led intervention — verified by attendance records, partner attestations and, where applicable, biometric registration. Indirect reach (e.g. household members) is reported separately, never combined.
A person is counted as reached only when they have personally participated in a verified Alliance activity. Co-branded events count toward our number only when our staff designed or delivered the intervention.
Every reach figure must be supported by at least two of: signed attendance sheets, partner-organisation attestation, or biometric/SMS-verified registration. A discrepancy of more than five percent triggers an internal review.
GH-Audit Partners reviews all reach claims against source records each February. The 2025 audit reviewed a random sample of eight percent of programme records and confirmed all within tolerance.
We measure reach and proximate outcomes. We cannot, with current methods, attribute long-run wellbeing or income changes solely to our work. We say so plainly in every report.
Programme updates, partner reflections, and analysis from our research desk in Accra.
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Audited annually. Last reviewed by GH-Audit Partners in February 2026.
Overhead ratios are widely misunderstood and we don't claim they measure effectiveness — they tell you something narrow about how money is classified, not how well it's spent. We publish the breakdown because donors ask for it, alongside the methodology and audit letters that do more honest work.
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