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Ghana Parliamentary Committee Support Project

Building on the partnership for capacity-building in governance between the parliamentary centre and the Parliament of Ghana, ongoing since 1994, the Ghana Parliamentary Committee Support Project phase II (GPCSPII) aims to strengthen accountability, transparency and participation in the parliamentary governance of Ghana, with particular attention to achieving more effective poverty-reduction efforts in the country.

Through a multifaceted set of mechanisms to build committee capacity and impact, the CIDA-funded project of a value of 3.2 Million (Cdn) over 4 years, which was launched in May 2004, targets key parliamentary committees related to poverty reduction efforts in Ghana - including the

  •  Finance Committee
  •  Public Accounts Committee
  •  Gender and Children Committee
  •  Committee on Local Government and Rural Development
  •  Government Assurances Committee
  •  Committee on the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy.

The project components include:

  •  Monitoring the Growth and  Poverty Reducion Strategy
  •  Building Community Civil Society Linkages
  •  Coordinating Information Resources 
  •  Strengthening Parliamentary Committee Capacity 
  • Forging Partnerships And External Linkage

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    1 Monitoring The Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy
    2 Building Community Civil Society Linkages
    3 Coordinating Information Resources
    4 Strengthening Parliamentary Committee Capacity
    5 FORGING Partnerships And External Linkages