CDD-Ghana
For A Project To Provide Citizens With Information On The Performance Of Public Officials In Ghana
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Amount$274,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/29/2011
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Term18.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
This grant will support the establishment of a data facility center to assemble, archive, and disseminate social, economic and electoral data at the district level in Ghana. Armed with basic information on the state of public goods and services, citizens and the media will be able to assess and evaluate the degree to which public officials are fulfilling their obligations, and thus hold their representatives accountable. Over the next 18 months, CDD will identify data sources, collect and process data into accessible formats, and make data available to citizens through regular bulletins, an established website, and strategic partnerships with key media outlets.
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 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 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
This project tests the hypothesis that public service delivery for the poor may be improved by increasing citizen access to socioeconomic data at the district level in Ghana. The Ghana Center for Democratic Development will collect, analyze, archive, and disseminate data on the quality of public services alongside other publicly available information on quality of life and development outcomes. Empowered with this objective and comparable information, citizens, researchers, and the media will be able to evaluate whether public officials are effectively using public resources. The Center will then measure the degree to which citizen demands for greater public official accountability result in improved service delivery.
