CAPACITY BUILDING

– Support For African Parliament 

Beginning in 2002 to 2008, IPA-Ghana, in partnership with the Canadian Parliamentary Center, designed various modules for Training leadership of Parliamentary committees from African countries on how to partner with Civil Society Groups to undertake community monitoring of poverty, and to exercise Parliamentary Oversight, using evidence generated by Civil Society Organizations’ direct engagements with poor communities.  Over 4 years, these efforts led to:

  • Skills enhanced in 10 Parliaments, including Parliaments in Benin, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
  • Training and support for Civil Society Organizations and staff of those African Parliaments on how to collect and validate community-based evidence
  • Facilitating the interface between African Parliaments and Civil Society Organizations in supporting Parliamentary oversight of poverty reduction; and,
  • Providing professional support for 6 Parliaments – Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Benin, Botswana and Malawi to carry out participatory evidence gathering for oversight in their respective countries.

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR CSOs

Training CSOs on Evidence Gathering
– For CSOs Evident Gathering 

A core competency of IPA-Ghana is to support and strengthen civil society organizations to be leaders in the mobilization of citizen voices; and in helping to shape the demand for the rights of the poor and vulnerable in society.  Programs in building CSO capacity have included:

  • Mobilizing coalitions of civil society groups across Ghana to engage in evidence gathering in assessing the impact of Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategies and Programs (2005—2008)
  • Developing instruments to train and assist coalitions of local, community-based CSOs to conduct evidence-gathering among the most vulnerable persons with disabilities in demanding accountability from service providers in local government areas across the North of Ghana (2012—2014)
  • Training CSOs across selected African countries to support their Parliaments in the gathering of evidence about the performance of pro-poor initiative approved by Parliaments in Zambia, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda and Ghana
  • Facilitating the interface of civil society evidence, with service-providers and Parliamentary oversight committees.

© IPA-GHANA 2017