Thursday, 05 March 2020 13:43

POLICY ADVOCACY WORKSHOP FOR CSOs IN GHANA

 A 3 days workshop for civil societies in Ghana is underway in Accra at Addo - Do hotel, North Kaneshie, Ghana. The workshop aims at building the capacity of civil society organizations in Ghana in POLICY & POLICY ADVOCACY.  The workshop started yesterday 4th March and is expected to end on 6th March, 2020. The objectives of the workshop is to build the skills of participants in 

¶ Policy and advocacy skills

¶ Develope policies

¶ Write policy briefs

¶ Write research documents

¶ How policy works

¶ Core components of policies

¶ Importance of policy Advocacy  and many more.

Policy is supposed to be solution - driven with sustainability in mind. Policy Advocacy is aimed at 

√ Behaviour change

√ Institutional change

√ State of life change

The workshop was organized by the Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Health and being facilitated by Dr. Patricia Akweongo, HPPM, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon. The workshop brought together 33 civil society organizational leaders across the 16 regions of Ghana. 

Source: Eye witness & participant

Jefferson Agbotro Kwasi

MSC OD

www.fohaghana.org

www.founder.fohaghana.org

www.jakconsultant.com

 

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