Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana

Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) is a volunteer-based nongovernmental organization established in 1967 to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights in Ghana. It is affiliated with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and works across access to information, community education, service delivery, youth engagement, and advocacy. Its activities address family planning, HIV and sexually transmitted infections, adolescent reproductive health, safe abortion information and services, unintended pregnancy, child marriage, and related gender and social issues. PPAG operates through a broad network that combines permanent clinical facilities, mobile clinics, community-based service points, trained distributors, peer educators, volunteers, and youth structures. The organization has been described as having 11 permanent clinics, 54 mobile clinics, and more than 1,000 community-based service points among a total network of 1,356 service points. Its reported human-resource and community network includes 103 staff, more than 1,000 volunteers, 300 peer educators, and 551 community-based distributors. These figures illustrate a delivery model that extends beyond conventional clinics and brings information, commodities, counselling, referrals, and education into communities. Young people are a central audience for PPAG. Its Youth Action Movement, known as YAM, provides a youth-oriented platform with reported membership of 810 young people. Through peer education and community-based programming, PPAG addresses adolescent pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, sexual and gender-based violence, child marriage, and barriers that may prevent young people from seeking confidential and respectful care. The organization also promotes comprehensive sexuality education and has launched the KnowItOwnItLiveIt manual for young people, encouraging parents and communities to strengthen age-appropriate sex education. PPAG also uses digital channels to broaden access to sexual and reproductive health information. Its Yenkasa contact centre, a name meaning “let us talk” in Akan, provides information, counselling, and referrals to young people and the wider public. The service covers concerns including sexually transmitted infections, unplanned pregnancy, sexual and gender-based violence, and mental health. It is designed to operate in English and several Ghanaian languages, including Ga, Twi, Ewe, and Dagbani. The association works with civil-society organizations, community groups, public stakeholders, development partners, and international institutions. It has also engaged stakeholders to challenge myths and misconceptions surrounding family planning. In 2026, PPAG partnered with the United Nations Population Fund on a Youth Open Day in Keta in Ghana’s Volta Region under the theme “The Clinic is Yours.” The initiative was intended to improve adolescents’ access to free sexual and reproductive health and rights services in a setting designed to reduce fear and intimidation. PPAG is therefore best understood not as a commercial consumer brand, but as the public-facing identity of a national reproductive-health organization. Its positioning rests on community reach, youth participation, confidential information and care, peer-led education, and collaboration with partners to improve access to reproductive-health services in Ghana.

Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana was established in 1967 and developed as a volunteer-based nongovernmental organization focused on sexual and reproductive health in Ghana. Its institutional model combines service provision with community education, advocacy, youth participation, and collaboration with civil-society and development partners. The organization is affiliated with the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Over the decades, PPAG has concentrated on three broad areas: improving access to information and services related to HIV and sexually transmitted infections, supporting access to safe-abortion information and care, and addressing adolescent reproductive health. Its work has included education and empowerment for women and adolescent girls on child marriage, adolescent pregnancy, family planning, and safe abortion. The organization has used partnerships with civil-society organizations, community-based education, and peer-led activities to address social barriers and misinformation. A major feature of PPAG’s operating model is decentralization. Rather than relying only on fixed clinical facilities, it has built a network that includes permanent clinics, mobile clinics, community-based service points, community-based distributors, volunteers, and peer educators. The reported network comprises 1,356 service points, including 11 permanent clinics, 54 mobile clinics, and more than 1,000 community-based service points. Reported personnel and volunteer figures include 103 staff, over 1,000 volunteers, 300 peer educators, and 551 community-based distributors. Youth engagement has become an important part of the organization’s identity. The Youth Action Movement gives young people a dedicated platform for participation and peer education. PPAG has also promoted comprehensive sexuality education through the KnowItOwnItLiveIt manual, which presents information for young people and supports calls for parents to discuss sexual health with their children. These efforts are directed at reducing misinformation, sexually transmitted infections, and teenage pregnancy while making services more approachable to adolescents. PPAG has extended its communication model into digital and telephone-based support through Yenkasa, whose name means “let us talk” in Akan. The contact centre provides sexual and reproductive health and rights information, counselling, and referrals. It addresses issues such as sexual and gender-based violence, sexually transmitted infections, unplanned pregnancy, and mental-health needs. The service is intended to reach callers in English and Ghanaian languages including Ga, Twi, Ewe, and Dagbani. The organization continues to engage stakeholders on family-planning myths and misconceptions and to work with partners to improve access for underserved groups. In 2026, it partnered with UNFPA on a Youth Open Day in Keta in the Volta Region. Held under the theme “The Clinic is Yours,” the activity sought to provide adolescents with free sexual and reproductive health and rights services in a less intimidating environment. PPAG’s continuing role is consequently defined by the combination of clinics, community outreach, youth networks, educational materials, multilingual counselling, and reproductive-health advocacy.

• 2026

  Youth Open Day held in Keta

  [1]Planned Parenthood Association of Ghanaen.wikipedia.org

  PPAG and UNFPA organized a Youth Open Day in Keta, Volta Region, under the theme “The Clinic is Yours.”

• 1967

  Association established

  [1]Planned Parenthood Association of Ghanaen.wikipedia.org

  Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana was established as a volunteer-based nongovernmental organization working in sexual and reproductive health.

• Community service network developed

  [1]Planned Parenthood Association of Ghanaen.wikipedia.org

  PPAG developed a service-delivery network incorporating permanent clinics, mobile clinics, community-based service points, community-based distributors, volunteers, and peer educators.

• Yenkasa contact centre established

  [1]Planned Parenthood Association of Ghanaen.wikipedia.org

  The organization established Yenkasa, a multilingual digital contact centre providing sexual and reproductive health information, counselling, and referrals.

A community-based Ghanaian sexual and reproductive health organization emphasizing accessible services, youth participation, peer education, multilingual counselling, and partnerships.

• Digital sexual and reproductive health service

  Yenkasa

  Yenkasa is PPAG’s digital contact centre for sexual and reproductive health and rights information, counselling, and referrals. It is intended for young people and the general public and addresses issues including sexual and gender-based violence, sexually transmitted infections, unplanned pregnancy, and mental-health needs. The service supports English and the Ghanaian languages Ga, Twi, Ewe, and Dagbani.

• Comprehensive sexuality education

  KnowItOwnItLiveIt

  KnowItOwnItLiveIt is a comprehensive sexuality-education manual for young people launched by PPAG. The initiative promotes informed discussion of sexual health and encourages parents to intensify sex education in order to help reduce sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancy.

• Sexual and reproductive health services

  PPAG clinic and community service network

  PPAG delivers sexual and reproductive health services through permanent clinics, mobile clinics, and community-based service points. The network supports information, counselling, family-planning access, referrals, and other reproductive-health services through professional staff, community-based distributors, volunteers, and peer educators.

• 2026The Clinic is Yours Youth Open Day

  Keta · Volta Region · Ghana

  PPAG partnered with UNFPA to organize a youth-focused open day intended to make free sexual and reproductive health and rights services more accessible to adolescents and to reduce fear or intimidation associated with seeking care.

  Outcome. The available reference describes the event and its access objective but does not provide independently verified attendance or outcome figures.

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• KnowItOwnItLiveIt sexuality-education initiative

  Ghana

  PPAG launched a sexuality-education manual for young people and promoted stronger parent-child discussion of sexual health as part of efforts to reduce sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancy.

  Source

1. 1Planned Parenthood Association of Ghanaen.wikipedia.org