Over the last decade, Ghana has developed and implemented several anti-corruption initiatives, passed a number of anti-corruption laws and ratified international conventions. Ghana has also established accountability institutions and a National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP) has been developed recently. Despite these efforts, corruption has persisted and there has been little progress in reducing it.<\/p>\n
It against this background that SEND-GHANA<\/a>\u00a0in partnership with Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII<\/a>) and Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC<\/a>) is currently implementing the Strengthening Accountable Democratic Institutions and Systems through Citizen Engagement (SADISC<\/a>)\u00a0project to renew and build upon efforts to increase the abilities of anti-corruption Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in order for them to motivate the public to apply pressure to policy makers and institutions with the view of reducing corruption in Ghana.<\/p>\n Through a number of targeted, focused initiatives, the Consortium will invigorate citizens to engage more actively in anti-corruption reporting and advocacy.<\/p>\n In the Upper West Region the project is being implemented in 5 districts (Wa Municipal, Nadowli, Jirapa, Lawra and Sissala East and as part of the project implementation, the Upper West Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Network (PM&E) is organising a day\u2019s meeting to strengthen and align five (5) existing citizen groups (Anti-Corruption Champions).\u00a0<\/p>\n In all fifty five (55) District Citizens Monitoring Committee (DCMC) members will be involved in the training.\u00a0<\/p>\n The meeting will take place at Wa Municipal Hall on Monday, 27th April, 2015 at 9:00am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the last decade, Ghana has developed and implemented several anti-corruption initiatives, passed a number of anti-corruption laws and ratified international conventions. Ghana has also established accountability institutions and a National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP) has been developed recently. Despite these efforts, corruption has persisted and there has been little progress in reducing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}