CUSTODIANS OF PEACE AND UNITY: THE CHIEFTAINCY INSTITUTION AND THE 2020 GENERAL ELECTIONS
With the eighth consecutive elections in Ghana scheduled to take place on 7th December, 2020, there are expectations from the government, political parties, relevant stakeholders including traditional authorities, civil society organisations, citizens and the internatio...
Snap Report: IDEG ROUNDTABLE ON “STRENGTHENING, REPRESENTATION, PARTICIPATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY: THE ELECTION 2020”
BackgroundGhana is lagging behind in addressing issues of inclusion and representation for active participation of chiefs, women, youth and people with disabilities (PWDs) in politics and development. During the campaign for the amendment of Article 55 (3) that seeks to...
THIRD HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PEACE PACT - 2020
1. We the presidential candidates of the two major political parties in the country, namely the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), having met at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel on this 4th day of December 2020, at the instance of the...
LOSING OUR DEMOCRATIC VALUES BY VIRTUE OF POLITICAL POLARISATION IN GHANA
When a West African country that embodies democracy is mentioned anywhere, it is often Ghana that comes to mind. Since the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1992, Ghana has gradually solidified its status as a beacon of democratic principles and its application to nation...
REPORT SECOND HIGH LEVEL MEETING (HLM 2) OF NATIONAL LEADERS (ACCRA PEACE ACCORD)
The historic Kumasi High Level Meeting (HLM 1) of November 2012 delivered the Declaration against Electoral Violence, Impunity and Injustice, which the media subsequently re-named the Kumasi Peace Pact. With only a few days to the 7th December 2016 elections the ne...
DE-MONETIZING ELECTORAL POLITICS, STRENGTHENING ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE: WHICH WAY FORWARD FOR GHANA?
Since the 2004 general elections, Ghana has experienced a rise in monetization of electoral politics. In a 2017 survey, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) found that it cost approximately US$87, 000 or about GHC 500,000 to get elected to Parliament (Asante a...