{"id":274,"date":"2018-04-04T09:29:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T09:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/nu\/send-ceo-receives-national-philanthropy-forum-award\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:29:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T09:29:48","slug":"send-ceo-receives-national-philanthropy-forum-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/send-ceo-receives-national-philanthropy-forum-award\/","title":{"rendered":"COP for USAID People for Health Project receives National Philanthropy Forum award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Chief of Party for the USAID People for Health Project Siapha Kamara received the Outstanding Development Practitioner of the Year award from The National Philanthropy Forum on Friday for his work in livelihoods and policy advocacy in Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Ghana Philanthropy Forum President Dr. Ben Ocra presented a trophy and certificate to Kamara, who is also the SEND West Africa CEO, Kamara\u2019s wife Nancy Drost and SEND Ghana Senior Program Officer Harriet Nuamah-Agyemang. The ceremony took place among other 2018 award recipients and distinguished members of the philanthropic community in Ghana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201cOn behalf of the SEND-West Africa family, we are humbled, Dr. Ocra and your colleagues in the forum, for the honour done us, for this recognition,\u201d Kamara said in his acceptance speech, adding that the honour comes during the 20<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"> anniversary year of SEND.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u201cWe are challenged that you\u2019ve given us an opportunity to continue to do what SEND Ghana has done for the last 20 years \u2013 holding the government of Ghana, holding government in Sierra Leone, Liberia, in other parts of Africa, accountable,\u201d said Kamara. \u201cIf we are to go beyond aid, we at SEND are convinced that \u2026 we have to have good governance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Kamara said that every citizen in Ghana is vulnerable to corruption, and that improving governance means greater accountability in the public sector and at the grassroots level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u201cAs we celebrate, as we take this recognition from Dr. Ocra and his colleagues and his foundation, we will continue to remain the role model that you want us to be,\u201d said Kamara. \u201cTo shine light and to hold power accountable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">View the embedded video below for highlights from the ceremony and Kamara&#8217;s full acceptance speech.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Chief of Party for the USAID People for Health Project Siapha Kamara received the Outstanding Development Practitioner of the Year award from The National Philanthropy Forum on Friday for his work in livelihoods and policy advocacy in Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[230,231,232,233,234,235],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slides","tag-ghana","tag-liberia","tag-national-philanthropy-forum","tag-send-west-africa","tag-siapha-kamara","tag-sierra-leone"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}