At NABOCADO, we believe that sustainable development can only thrive where justice, peace, and human dignity are protected. Through our Justice, Peace & Humanitarian Response Directorate, we work with communities, government institutions, and development partners to promote peaceful coexistence, strengthen social cohesion, uphold human rights, and provide timely humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations affected by conflict, disasters, and displacement.
Our interventions focus on peacebuilding, conflict prevention and resolution, governance and civic participation, social accountability, disaster preparedness and emergency response, refugee protection, and livelihood recovery. We also support vulnerable households with life-saving assistance while helping communities build resilience to future shocks.
By fostering inclusive dialogue, empowering communities, and responding swiftly to humanitarian needs, NABOCADO is helping to create safer, more resilient, and peaceful communities where every individual can live with dignity, security, and hope.
This includes the INPEACE project, conflict prevention and mediation, refugee integration at the Tarikom settlement with UNHCR, and emergency flood relief with CRS.
KEY COMPETENCIES
Strengthened Community Leadership for Peace and Security
Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention
Emergency Response
Non-violent approaches
School Peace Clubs
Protection
Psychosocial Support
Operational Community-Specific Peace Frameworks enhancing Cohesion
Functional Neighborhood Watch Committees (NWCs) Established
Institutionalization of Conflict-Sensitive Development Planning
Social cohesion
Our approach
We use a Non-Violent Approach to Peacebuilding (NVAP) that works in communities, with institutions and across the border at the same time. NABOCADO is the only locally rooted organisation in northern Ghana with a structured, field-tested approach of this kind. It rests on long-standing trust, on Catholic social teaching and on the endorsement of both the Bishop and traditional rulers. In northern Ghana that endorsement decides whether an organisation can enter a community, which matters most for work on gender-based violence, child protection and violent extremism.
What we deliver
- Mediation and conflict prevention through parish Justice and Peace Committees
- School Peace Clubs and Neighbourhood Watch Committees
- Prevention of violent extremism in border communities
- Health, nutrition, livelihood, protection and education services for refugees and asylum seekers
- Support for families displaced by the Bawku conflict
- Emergency cash, food and household items, and rapid deployment when crises hit
Caring for vulnerable children
Our Centre for Child Development in Bolgatanga provides education, health care and skills training for vulnerable children aged 4 to 18. The Mother of Mercy Babies Home in Sirigu cares for infants from birth to age 3. You can support them through the Centre for Child Development and Mother of Mercy Babies Home appeals.
Recent projects
- Livelihood for Peace, with UNDP, 2026: livelihoods for at-risk women and young people, and stronger social cohesion in a conflict-affected border community.
- INPEACE, with MISEREOR (Germany), 2023–2026: community-owned peace structures in conflict-affected districts.
- UNHCR–Caritas Ghana Programme, 2023–2025: services for asylum seekers from Burkina Faso at the Tarikom Reception Centre and in host communities.
- PEACE-PROTECT, with the European Union through COGINTA, 2024–2025: preventing violent extremism in Bawku West.
Who we work with
MISEREOR (Germany), the European Union through COGINTA, UNHCR, Caritas, UNDP and Kindermissionswerk. In Ghana we work with the Ghana Refugee Board, the Ghana Immigration Service, the Department of Social Welfare and the National Commission for Civic Education. We take part in the CSOs Peace and Conflict Prevention Platform, the Upper East Interfaith Advocacy Network and the UNHCR Protection Monitoring Platform.