Ghana Center for Democratic Development
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
E. GyimahBoadiExecutiveDire
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Board of Directors
Kwasi Abeasi (Chair)
Baffour Agyeman-Duah
Seth K. Dei
Angelina Domakyaareh
Audrey Gadzekpo
Henry Kwasi Prempeh
Therese Striggner Scott
William Asiedu Yeboah (Secretary)
African Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations (African PMOs) Call for
Strong Partnerships
African Parliamentary Monitoring Organisations (African PMOs) are
recommending strong networking among parliamentary monitoring
organizations in Africa to enhance the sharing of information, ideas,
experience, knowledge and best practices in order to be effective in
their monitoring activities.
This is one of several recommendations by the PMOs in a new baseline
report released by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development
(CDD-Ghana) at the on-going international conference for African
Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations (PMOs) being held in Accra.
The two-day conference brought together representatives of civil
society organisations from African countries that have been engaging
with parliaments on the continent with the objective of enhancing the
transparency and performance of African parliaments. It also aims at
strengthening parliamentary openness and accountability by enhancing
the capacity of African PMOs to monitor the functioning and the
effectiveness of African Parliaments, as well as to promote citizenparliament engagement on the continent.
The report, among other things, also calls for the training of PMOs in
the use of information communication and technology tools to create a
virtual democratic space of interaction between PMOs and
parliamentarians and other soft skills such as lobbying to forge good
working relationships.
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Tamale Office
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The ongoing conference for African Parliamentary Monitoring
Organizations forms part of a CDD-Ghana’s project titled “Enhancing
Transparency and Openness in African Parliaments: The African
Parliamentary Monitoring Organization (PMOs)”, which is receiving
funding from the Open Society Foundations (OSF), in particular its
West African body, the Open Society Initiative of West Africa
(OSIWA). The Accra conference is being organized by CDD-Ghana in
partnership with the African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs
(ACEPA).
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Fax: +233 3720 277 59
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.cddgh.org
For further information, please contact Regina Oforiwah AmanfoTetteh at [email protected] or 0244693581.
Monday, February 23, 2015