The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Internal Audit Agency (IAA) to institute a public financial accountability index, dubbed: “The District Accountability Index (DAI)”. The DAI project is a public financial accountability performance index that will present information on financial irregularities […]
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), in collaboration with the Youth Bridge Foundation (YBF), has launched the “Youth Speaks Forum,” an initiative aimed at stimulating the interest of Ghanaian youth in national politics and governance processes. Themed ‘Engendering National and Local Level Conversations on Youth Issues ahead of Ghana’s […]
Ghanaians have indicated high costs, a bias in favour of the rich and powerful, and long delays as the three most important barriers that prevent citizens from using the formal justice system. According to a recent Afrobarometer survey released by CDD-Ghana and presented jointly by Lionel Osse and Gildfred Boateng […]
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has adopted the Senior Correctional Centers in Accra – the Boys Senior Correctional Center (formerly known as the Ghana Borstal Institute) at Roman Ridge and the Girls Senior Correctional Center at Osu. The initiative, which is in line with the Center’s 20th anniversary […]
CDD-Ghana has called on the government to, as a matter of urgency pay serious attention to the correctional centers that play a key role in the reformation of these young offenders. According to CDD-Ghana, it is very much concerned that senior correctional centers have been neglected and that the Ghana […]
Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD) has announced the appointment of Clara Kasser-Tee to its Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2019. Ms Kasser-Tee brings to the CDD Board a wealth of insight drawn from her diverse experiences as an academic, a consultant, a private legal practitioner, an engaged citizen, […]
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has cautioned government and its agencies against any interference in the upcoming referendum process which will undermine the integrity of the polls. “In the next two weeks, as the nation prepares for the exercise, it is the expectation of the Center that the EC […]
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) wishes to congratulate the Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations (GFD), National Disability Council, Civil Society advocates of the rights of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) and Ghanaians as we mark this year’s International Day for PWDs. The day, being commemorated under a laudable theme: […]
Deputy Minister for Education in charge of General Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has disclosed that thirteen community day senior high school (SHS), popularly known as the E-block schools have been completed and are ready to come on stream at the beginning of the next academic year in September. The […]
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has called on the government to seize the current pro-anticorruption political moment to take decisive and concrete action on the growing list corruption cases in the country. On the occasion of this year’s International Anti-Corruption Day, which is being commemorated under the theme, […]
