Election 2024: The NDC and NPP Proposals to Address ‘Galamsey’
The galamsey issue is once again featuring in our public square conversations. In my September 5th op-ed piece, I summarized public sentiments on the issue, drawing on data from the Afrobarometer survey (Round 7, 2017) and CDD-Ghana’s pre-election survey (October 2020). As per the data, Ghanaians say – a) citizens should not engage in ‘galamsey’; […]
Election 2024: The Cost of Manifesto Promises
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) released a Youth Manifesto with the main one coming in a few days. Yesterday, Sunday, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) released its 2024 Manifesto. From these manifestos, if elected, our political parties promise to do a lot for the people of Ghana. That, in and of itself, is good. Given […]
The 2024 Elections and Ghana’s Youth
The 2024 Elections and Ghana’s Youth On International Youth Day, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) released their youth manifesto. Typically, the political parties release just one manifesto covering all sectors and persons including the youth. It was therefore a unique way, especially on International Youth Day, to demonstrate the party’s commitment to addressing the pinch […]
The Manifesto Project
The Promoting Responsive and Responsible Manifestos for Inclusive Development Project was launched by Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) in the last quarter of 2019 with an aim, among others, to inform and influence national agenda-setting and policy for inclusive development by gathering and synthesizing data and evidence from diverse sources, actors, interests, and stakeholders […]
