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About CBMS-
Ghana
The objective of the local government
system in Ghana is to ensure that people are directly involved in the
decision-making process and responsible for their own development. To
achieve this goal, the district assemblies are to identify their
respective community problems and development issues.
There is currently no consistent and
timely data on poverty at the district and unit committee levels making
it difficult for the district assemblies to identify the needs of the
local people and address them sufficiently. A community-based monitoring
system (CBMS) can offer the district assemblies the opportunities to
assess policies they have implemented at the local levels, identify
problems and basic needs at he village/ community levels, and how best
these can be addressed.
The CBMS work in Ghana generally aims
to inform policy makers, on a timely basis, of the effects of policies
on people's standard of living at the community level. It also intends
to complement the efforts of the decentralized system and help the local
people directly involved in the design of policies that best address
their needs.
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Project Activities
- Development of a set of simple and
easy-to-collect poverty indicators to determine the prevailing
standard of living in Ghana
- Development and pilot test of a
locally feasible data collection and processing system
- improvement of the district and unit
committee levels' capacity in data collection, processing and analysis
of data at the local levels.
- Documentation of the results of the
project in the local levels.
- Documentation of the results of the
project in the local and national workshops
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Partner Institution
The CBMS work in Ghana is being
implemented by the Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA), an independent,
nongovernmental think-tank, which provides rigorous analysis and
perspectives on economic policy issues in Ghana and teh developing
world. The centre is mandated to promote a non-partisan, informed debate
on key policy issues on Ghana's economy with emphasis on macroeconomic
management, growth and poverty alleviation issues. Its vision is to
become a center of excellence in economic policy analysis in Africa, a
repository of sound credible database on Ghana's economy and a
definitive authority of economic policy issues affecting Ghana and the
Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS)
In particular CEPA aims:
- To provide options to policy options
to policymakers and other stakeholders through rigorous research and
policy analysis.
- To enhance capacities of other
institutions in Ghana through training and networking.
- To disseminate and publish economic
reports so as to raise public awareness of economic and developmental
issues.
- To consolidate the institutional
base of CEPA so as to enhance its performance.
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Contact Information
Inquiries regarding CBMS-Ghana may be sent to:
Dr. Nii Kwaku Sowa
CBMS-Ghana Project Director
Address: P.O. Box AN 19010 Accra- North Ghana
Tel#: (23321) 779-365/ 778035
Fax#: (23321) 773-3670
E-Mail:
niisowa@cepa.org.ph
Research Team Members
Felix A. Asante
Abena D. Oduro
Clara Fayorsey
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