About Us

The Cooperative Agency for Research and Development (CARD), previously called: Cooperative Agency for Development (CAD); from its original name: Research On Community Challenges and Development (ROCCAD), was founded in 2006 as a Community Based Organization (CBO) in the Chereponi District of the North East Region of Ghana, but officially registered and formed in 2014 and 2019 respectively under the Registrar General and Social Welfare Departments of Ghana, as a National Non-Profit Organization (NGO); by a group of distinguished personalities with various Academic backgrounds and varied experiences in their respective disciplines. We work to achieve target objectives under a set of Module Programs under our Services, with clear mission and vision statements.

Our Mission: To empower rural communities and marginalized people for sustainable development and self-support; through capacity building and resource supports.

Our vision: To achieve sustainable development and alternative sources of income for the rural communities and the marginalized people; in the society for poverty eradication, through capacity building and resource supports.

Our Focus Area: Community Development, through Education, Agriculture, Health, Environment and Peace Building.

Our Target Beneficiaries: Deprived/rural communities, poor households, orphans/children, widows/needy women youth and people with disabilities.

Our Geographical Areas of Operation: We are currently operating in the Chereponi District of the North East Region of Ghana, Tamale Metropolitan Assembly in the Northern Region, and the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

Our Partners: Local and Traditional Authorities, Donor and Charity Organizations as well as.

Our Source of Income: We depend of Self-Support through investment, Donor funding through proposals, Charity Organizations and Individual Philatelists within Ghana and outside, as well as the general public; through appeals.

Our Location (s): CARD has its offices at Chereponi District as the headquarters in the North East Region, Tamale in the northern Regional Capital, and Accra, the National Capital of Ghana.