CDD-Ghana

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)

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)

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.