{"id":87108,"date":"2015-01-30T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T17:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=87108"},"modified":"2015-01-30T17:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T17:50:27","slug":"iea-meets-chairmen-general-secretaries-political-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=87108","title":{"rendered":"IEA meets chairmen and general secretaries of political parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Ghana Political Parties Programme (GPPP) has held two separate meetings for the Caucus of Political Party Chairmen, and the Platform of General Secretaries and Policy Analysts.<\/p>\n<p>The meetings were held on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at the\u00a0institute to\u00a0plan the activities of the IEA-GPPP for 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting of the Caucus of Political Party Chairmen was attended by the National Chairmen of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Paul Afoko, The Peoples National Convention (PNC), Alhaji Ramadan and the Convention People&#8217;s Party, Ms. Samia Nkrumah.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87115\" style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-87115 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Meeting-of-the-Caucus-of-Political-Party-Chairmen-at-The-IEA.jpg\" alt=\"Meeting of the Caucus of Political Party Chairmen at The IEA\" width=\"361\" height=\"242\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meeting of the Caucus of Political Party Chairmen at The IEA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The newly-elected Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who doubles up as Chairman of the Caucus, Mr. Kofi Portuphy, was unable to attend the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting of the Platform of General Secretaries and Policy Analysts was attended by Mr. Asiedu Nketia (NDC), Mr. Kwabena Agyepong (NPP), Mr. Bernard Mornah (PNC) and Mrs. Suzan Adu Amanquah (CPP). Also in attendance were Policy Analysts of the various Political Parties.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87116\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87116\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Meeting-of-the-Platform-of-General-Secretaries-and-Policy-Analysts-at-The-IEA.jpg\" alt=\"Meeting of the Platform of General Secretaries and Policy Analysts at The IEA\" width=\"348\" height=\"233\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meeting of the Platform of General Secretaries and Policy Analysts at The IEA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The IEA Ghana Political Parties Programme (GPPP) has since 2003, regularly brought together leaders of the Political Parties with representation in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Through its monthly meetings, party leaders are able to discuss policy issues of national significance in a non-partisan atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>This has helped broker consensus and led to key policy reforms in Ghana. Key outcomes of this collaboration include the Presidential Transition Act (Act 845), Revised Political Parties Bill (2007) and the Public Funding of Political Parties Bill (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Another key outcome is the Political Parties Code of Conduct which guides the conduct of party officials before, during and after elections. Overall, the IEA-GPPP has sought to minimize the political polarization and acrimony that existed among party leaders in the country.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that subsequent meetings of the IEA-GPPP in 2015 will focus on issues such as corruption, ghost names on the government payroll, electoral reforms, the role of Parliament, restoring public confidence in the institutions of state, management of natural resources and \u00a0political polarization among others others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: IEA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Ghana Political Parties Programme (GPPP) has held two separate meetings for the Caucus of Political Party Chairmen, and the Platform of General Secretaries and Policy Analysts. The meetings were held on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at the\u00a0institute to\u00a0plan the activities of the IEA-GPPP for 2015. The meeting of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}