African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs
For A Project To Enhance Data Use In Monitoring Progress Toward The SDGs In Ghana
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Amount$1,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/21/2021
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), based in Ghana, provides parliamentary-strengthening support to representative parliaments in Africa. Under this grant ACEPA, with its partners INASP and the Ghana Statistical Service, works to (a) strengthen the Parliament of Ghana’s access to and use of data to monitor Ghana’s progress on the Sustainable Development Goals and other national development priorities; and (b) foster learning among the broader evidence-informed policymaking community about parliamentary use of data to enhance representation and oversight functions. This grant advances the Evidence-Informed Policymaking goal that governments in East and West Africa use evidence to improve policy decisions.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
acepa-africa.org
Address
No. AGR/2B Farmland, Beach Road, Accra, Ghana
Grants to this Grantee
for a collaborative anti-corruption and good governance survey
The African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), based in Ghana, provides parliamentary-strengthening support to representative parliaments in Africa. Under this grant, ACEPA, partnered with the Ghana Statistical Service to implement a project that aims to enhance good governance in Ghana through regular publication of public perception on the responsiveness and inclusiveness of governance and citizens’ experiences of corruption with public institutions, as well as data to monitor the country’s progress on SDG #16. This grant is a collaboration between the Evidence-Informed Policymaking and Inclusive Governance teams.
for logistics management of peer-to-peer convening for Evidence-Informed Policymaking grantees
The African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs is a not-for-profit organization housed in Accra, Ghana, that provides parliamentary strengthening support to representative parliaments in Africa. With this grant, the organization will help plan and deliver a convening of grantees under the Hewlett Foundation’s Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy to take place in Accra.
