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TradeAID Integrated is a non-governmental organization in Ghana. The Registrar General Department and the Department of Social Welfare recognizes TradeAID Integrated with the certificate number G.6126 and D.S.W/4355 respectively. Ghana is often praised for one of the fastest rates of poverty reduction in Africa, the figures claiming a fall in poverty from 39.5% in 1998/99 to 28.5% in 2005 almost sufficient to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving poverty. It must however be noted that, this level of poverty reduction is not even across Ghana. For instance the internationally recognized threshold for extreme poverty of $1 per day of purchasing power, is assessed by the 2007 UNDP Human Development Report to capture 44.8% of Ghana's population, effectively unchanged from the 45.5% recorded in the baseline year of 1990. This inconsistency is linked to regional inequality between the north and south of Ghana which is universally acknowledged to be considerable. Whilst many areas of the south enjoy two crops season each year, the North, Upper East and Upper West regions have only one cropping season where the dry season invariable brings food shortage. All human development indicators are very poor for these areas.

This notwithstanding, the three northern regions are the least resource in terms of social infrastructure and institutional support to the informal sector. TradeAID Integrated identifies entrepreneurship as holding great potential for sustained poverty reduction. The idea is to build viable rural enterprises around the numerous indigenous livelihoods to generate employment and wealth for the poor.