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Field update
Wacam Trains Women, Youth as Paralegals to Demand Rights, Accou…
Est. 1998 · Tarkwa, Ghana
Over 170 mining-affected communities and groups supported to demand the protection of their rights and environment.
Wacam works alongside mining-affected communities across Ghana — paralegal training, litigation support, policy submissions, and the long, patient work of community organising.
- Years of advocacy
- 28
- Mining-affected communities
- 170+
- Community paralegals trained
- 900+
- Community people shaping responsible mining practices
- 4000+
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What we do
How we work
Community Mobilization & Rights Education
Training and equipping community paralegals, peer educators, and youth advocates in mining-affected districts.
Legal Advocacy & Litigation Support
Filing strategic cases, joining amici, and backing community plaintiffs in claims against mining harms.
Policy & Regulatory Engagement
Submissions to Parliament, EITI, the Minerals Commission, and partner agencies on mining governance.
Research, Media & Knowledge Sharing
Independent research, journalist training, and documentary work that surfaces the lived costs of mining.
Where we focus
Explore each focus area
Six fronts. One commitment to dignity.
Education for Empowerment
Building rights literacy and civic capacity in mining-affected communities so residents lead their own advocacy.
Human Rights
Defending the rights of communities facing displacement, contamination, and uncompensated loss.
Community Livelihood
Restoring and protecting the farming, fishing, and trading economies that mining concessions disrupt.
Environment & Human Health
Documenting water, soil, and air harms and demanding remediation from operators and regulators.
Youth, Gender, Mining and Oil & Gas
Centering young people and women in shaping how extractive sectors operate in their communities.
Mining and Climate Change
Connecting Ghana's extractive footprint to the climate crisis facing the communities WACAM serves.
Our story
Twenty-eight years of advocacy, rooted in Ghana's mining belt.
Wacam is a premier community based human rights and environmental mining advocacy NGO in Ghana with a community-based focus. Formed in 1998, Wacam has worked to respond to the social, environmental and economic problems that had resulted from the increased mining investment of the third gold rush. Our …
We do not negotiate dignity. We organise for it. Community organising principleOur story since 1998
