The challenges
Productivity loss from moderate or severe psychological distress is estimated tobe about 7% of Ghana’s GDP. Psychological distress is also strongly...
The challenges
Low- and middle-income countries have limited resources to support mental healthservices. Our research found that 85-98% of people experiencing mental healthconditions...
Why this is important
Insufficient financing limits disability and mental health service provision in Ghana.Funding from aid and philanthropy is short-term and driven...
This is an eighteen-month (August 2023 – July 2025) project, funded by the UNDP Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator (UNDP-AFCIA) supporting dry...
BasicNeeds-Ghana, with all humility, prides itself as the trailblazer of maternal mental health matters in Ghana. With its pioneering ‘New Initiatives in...
The Civil Society Engagement Mechanism for UHC2030 (CSEM) in collaboration with BASIC NEEDS GHANA has organised a UHC consultation with stakeholders to...
BasicNeeds Ghana , a mental health and development advocacy non-governmental organisation is 20 years today. The Organisation was set-up and registered with...
On Tuesday April 5, 2022, BasicNeeds-Ghana, a Mental Health and Development advocacy organization organized an Interdisciplinary forum among stakeholders in the Tamale...
BasicNeeds-Ghana is a mental health and development advocacy organisation that implements and promotes initiatives to transform the lives of people with mental illness or epilepsy by providing access to integrated mental health care, social and economic services in the communities of Ghana.
In the process, we empower individuals and their families and involve communities and partner with government and other organisations to influence public opinion and policy and enable people with mental illness or epilepsy to live and work successfully in their community.