National review workshop for NCCE staff held in Kumasi

Kumasi, April 12, GNA – Over 20 National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) staff drawn from districts in the Ashanti Region have attended a National African Peer Review Mechanism Government Council (NAPRM-GC) training of trainers workshop on the functions of the District APRM Oversight Committee in Kumasi.
The workshop, the first in a series of regional workshops, was to obtain a deeper appreciation of the critical role of the District Oversight Committee in the implementation of the national programme of action and the preparation of semi-annual progress reports to the APRM panel that would be held in South Africa this year.
It was also to give a progress report on developments after Ghana’s review of the APRM and to solicit the support of the NCCE to implement the District APRM Oversight Committees.
Opening the workshop on Wednesday Professor Samuel Kwasi Adjepong, Chairman of the NAPRM-GC, said the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning has charged all Metropolitan, Municipal and District assemblies to ensure that APRM activities reflect in their annual budgets.
He said he was happy that some tertiary institutions had incorporated the APRM into their programmes and appealed to all institutions to teach the APRM.
Pro Adjepong said the Governing Council has developed a monitoring and evaluation framework to monitor the progress of implementation by all stakeholders.
The framework has been aligned to existing monitoring and evaluation systems to ensure sustainability and avoid duplication in the collection and processing of data.
Mr Kusi Aboraah, the Ashanti Regional Director of the NCCE, said apart from the three new districts in the region, District Oversight Committees have been established in all the 18 districts.
He said he was happy about the deepening collaboration between the two organizations in dissemination of the APRM Country Review Report and asked the staff to let this encourage them to give off their best to ensure the success of the programme.

12 April 07