CDD-Ghana
For A Project To Inform Citizens About The Quality Of Public Service Delivery
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Amount$950,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/16/2018
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Term42 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) promotes an active citizenry and more responsive government through better use of evidence to improve public policies and service delivery. This grant will fund CDD-Ghana’s I Am Aware program, which compiles and shares data on how district governments are performing in delivering key services including health, education, and water and sanitation. CDD-Ghana will work with other civil society organizations, government officials, national and local media, and citizen volunteers to raise awareness and take appropriate action to improve services. CDD-Ghana will strengthen its monitoring and evaluation capacity and share lessons with others in the transparency, participation, and accountability field.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.cddgh.org
Address
No. 95 Nortei Ababio Loop North Airport Residential Area, Accra, Ghana
Grants to this Grantee
for Ghana Cities Monitor: Measuring and Ranking the Quality of Governance and Service Provision
The Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) is a nonpartisan, nongovernmental, not-for-profit research and policy advocacy think tank working to promote democracy, good governance, and inclusive development in Ghana and Africa. With this grant, CDD-Ghana will continue the implementation of the Ghana Cities Monitor — an index designed to assess, monitor, and report periodically on service delivery and provision of public goods in major Ghanaian cities based on the quality of governance and the provision of goods and services. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for a project to inform citizens about the quality of public service delivery
The Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) is a nonpartisan, nongovernmental, not-for-profit research and policy advocacy think tank working to promote democracy, good governance, and inclusive development in Ghana and Africa. With this grant, CDD-Ghana will continue the I Am Aware initiative, which aims to improve the provision of quality public goods and services through an informed, citizen collective action and engagement with local government authorities in Ghana. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for strengthening local government policy actors’ capacity to use evidence to improve the quality of public policy for inclusive development in Ghana
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) is an advocacy think tank that seeks to advance democracy, good governance, and inclusive economic growth and development in Ghana and Africa. With this grant dubbed “Evidence for Development” (E4D), the center will strengthen the capacity for evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) as a mechanism to enhance governance and accountability relating to the use of public resources and service delivery improvement at the subnational district level. CDD-Ghana will strengthen connections and coordination across the emerging community of actors advancing the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy in Ghana.
