Citizens’ Coalition End of Year Report_2022
This report captures in brief the Citizens’ Coalition’s activities in pursuit of its objectives and overall progress made over the past six (6) months, since the official launch in July 2022.
Our attitudes about women running for elected office
The Afrobarometer Survey has over the years captured Ghanaian attitudes about certain gender norms. Over five rounds (2005, 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2022), Ghanaians were asked the extent to which they agreed or disagreed with the following statement – Statement 1: Men make better political leaders than women, and should be elected rather than women. […]
Reflections on Nigeria’s Elections: Threats, potential outcomes and relevance to democracy in West Africa
The upcoming presidential election in Nigeria has generated huge interest and enthusiasm within the sub-region. The election has been described as the most competitive since returning to multi-party democracy in 1999. This paper reflects on the prevailing context barely one month into the election. It discusses the relevance of the election to the sub-region, major […]
Election 2024 – The Primaries
The announcement of the timetable for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) primaries, tells us that Election 2024 season is formally opened. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is yet to come out with its timetable, but I do anticipate it will be sometime soon. The NPP Field Five names have emerged so far – officially or […]
Proposals for Reducing the Size and Cost of Running Government
Every other sector of the economy has had to incur substantive inconvenience or financial loss in efforts to return the sovereign debts to sustainable levels. Every other sector of the economy, except government itself. Against this backdrop, this paper reiterates some of the measures that have been proposed to reduce government spending and examines them […]
The Call and the Cost to be Active and Engaged Citizens
The late Prof. Kwame Gyekye once said this about democracy: “I think it means, equally importantly, that democracy is a government whose form of practice derives in its entirety from the historical and cultural experiences of a people and is in conformity with their vision of how they want to be governed or govern themselves; […]
Martin Kyere to Testify in a German Court on Massacre of Ghanaians in the Gambia
Martin Kyere, a survivor of the unlawful killings of about 44 Ghanaians in The Gambia in 2005, is scheduled to testify before a German court this week against Bai Lowe, one of the alleged perpetrators of the killings. Lowe, who had left the Gambia to seek asylum in Germany was arrested in Hanover, Germany, in […]
The 1992 Constitution and Public Financial Management: Challenges and Opportunities for Reform
Ghana’s remarkable progress in the area of democracy has not been matched by similar progress in constitutionalism. The distinction is a significant one. Democracy and constitutionalism are not synonymous with one another, although they work best as a complementary pair. With democracy, we are concerned with the question “Who ought to exercise the public power?” […]
Enhancing Citizen Participation in Cross Border Security in Ghana
This desk review discusses the conceptual underpinnings of the projects and further provides the rationale for counter-terrorism activities in Ghana. The state of terrorism in the West African sub-region and the Sahel is presented after which the Ghanaian context is laid out alongside the vulnerability situation and the measures put in place to respond to […]
‘Money Over Human Lives’ a Corruption Watch Documentary
As we draw the curtains on the year, let us remember to put safety first, work together to fight corruption, and join the fight to eliminate the corrupt systems that prevail in our public institutions. Click the link below to watch the full exposé on some corrupt DVLA officials in Accra and Tamale. https://bit.ly/3WAy2ff
