{"id":109415,"date":"2015-04-20T06:13:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T06:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=109415"},"modified":"2015-04-20T06:15:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T06:15:57","slug":"dfid-supports-cabinets-fight-against-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=109415","title":{"rendered":"DFID supports cabinet’s fight against corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United Kingdom\u2019s Department for International Development (DFID) says it will continue to support Ghana to fight corruption and strengthen state institutions.<\/p>\n

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Under the leadership of President John Mahama and with financial and technical support from the DFID an initiative was developed to restructure Government for greater efficiency.<\/p>\n

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Ghana\u2019s cabinet secretariat, as part of this programme, which is designed to complement existing interventions in policy and delivery\u2014and not to replace them—was tasked with the strengthening of the processes of policymaking and the tracking of the implementation of policy decisions reached by cabinet.<\/p>\n

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Delivering a presentation on how the service delivery model can assist in the tracking of cabinet decisions, an advisor on reform, change and delivery at the National School of Government International (NSGI-UK) stressed the DFID\u2019s commitment to providing more support to Ghana\u2019s cabinet so far it will yield the needed measurable results.<\/p>\n

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He further advised the presidency to \u201censure that using the service delivery\u201d clear cut goals \u201cwhich will make the needed impact are set\u201d for the various sectors to \u201censure sustainable development\u201d.<\/p>\n

For his part the secretary to Cabinet Roger Angsomwine praised the DFID for the project and stated that \u201cGhana has attained a lot of benefits from it\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Angsomwine also hinted that \u201cGhana has lined up a lot measures to ensure the cabinet structure strengthened and also the entire governance machine is improved\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Successes of the programme<\/strong><\/p>\n

The successful implementation of the first phase of the programme involved the wage bill verification which led to the immediate removal of over 2000 \u201cghost names\u201d from the government pay roll, and a cabinet set of decisions to deal with the canker.<\/p>\n

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There has also been enhanced coordination among the three key offices within the presidency–cabinet secretariat, Presidents secretariat and Policy Unit.<\/p>\n

The programme also assisted in the E-cabinet processes through the digitization of cabinet memos since 1992 and built the capacity of staff of the cabinet office on writing improved cabinet memos.<\/p>\n

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The programme also led to the redesign of the national results matrix at the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).<\/p>\n

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New focus of the\u00a0programme<\/strong><\/p>\n

The strengthening cabinet programme will now move into a new focus involving three key areas.<\/p>\n

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  1. The implementation of a series of diagnostic and capacity-building processes to strengthen the cabinet secretariat to vet and assist line ministries to produce better memos and streamline the effective tracking of the implementation of cabinet.<\/li>\n
  2. Facilitate the establishment and operation of a pilot private office at the Ministry of health to assist the minister to produce top of the range memos for cabinet.<\/li>\n
  3. Exemplify the tracking of the implementation of Cabinet\/Executive decisions by tracking the decision to improve healthcare outcomes especially for maternal and child health, through functional community-based health planning and Services(CHPS)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    By: Raymond Acquah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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