{"id":97525,"date":"2015-03-08T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=97525"},"modified":"2015-03-08T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:36:13","slug":"make-women-leaders-to-reduce-corruption-gii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=97525","title":{"rendered":"Make women leaders to reduce corruption – GII"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has suggested to government\u00a0to increase the number of women in critical positions to help curb corruption.<\/p>\n

According to GII, results from a research they conducted showed that men in leadership position would turn out to be more corrupt than women in similar positions.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”OYifHTAHmsndf8BF9J7eEOC7W0HG2HEC”]According to the report “a total of 498 respondents (81.5%) felt that there would be more likely less corruption if more women were put into positions of responsibility.”<\/p>\n

“Similarly, 61.2% of the respondents felt that a person likely to bribe another person is generally a man than a woman,” the report added.<\/p>\n

Corruption is said to have reached an epidemic status in the country<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Notable among such cases \u00a0includes misappropriation of funds at GYEEDA<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, SADA<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and most recent recruitment scam<\/a><\/span><\/strong> which allegedly involved some top notch in the Police administration.<\/p>\n

The GII released the report to mark the International Women’s Day which is being celebrated across the world.<\/p>\n

Below is the report:<\/strong><\/p>\n

REPORT OF \u201cWOMEN AND CORRUPTION\u201d STUDY<\/strong><\/p>\n

ISSUED BY GHANA INTEGRITY INITIATIVE (GII)\u00a0<\/strong>ON MARCH 8, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

To Mark the International Women\u2019s Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

On this International Women\u2019s Day, 2015, Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) salutes all women worldwide but more particularly, the poor and marginalized women in Ghana who struggle to take care of their children and other family members through school and in pursuit of other basic social services in the face of the ravaging corruption that has engulfed our dear nation. GII recognizes that women continue to play a great role in improving governance wherever they find themselves. They are care givers at home bringing up future leaders and training their children to be citizens par excellence to eschew and avoid every act that has a tendency to tarnish the reputation of their families and communities as well as their own image.<\/p>\n

In commemoration of the day, GII has released the Report of a study that it carried out in 2013 but which was finalized quite recently on \u201cWomen and Corruption\u201d. \u00a0The study sought to build some evidence on the link between GII\u2019s core mandate and how women and men can play an effective role in the fight against corruption. This study sought to make a contribution to the literature on \u201cCorruption and Women\u201d that have tried to establish a relationship between women and men\u2019s perceptions and experiences with corruption globally. The general conclusion from these studies is that \u201cwomen are more vulnerable to corruption than men\u201d while others have concluded that women are more trustworthy and less prone to corruption than men in all spheres of life. However, it is not clear if these findings equally apply to Ghana and Ghanaian women as there is no such research on the country.<\/p>\n

This is why GII carried out the study in collaboration with the Transparency International Secretariat and Transparency International Sierra Leone (TI-SL) as a follow-up to previous gender-mainstreaming programmes undertaken by GII that sought to build evidence and knowledge around the effects of corruption on women and the role women play or could play in the fight against corruption. Dubbed, \u2018Gender Perspectives on Corruption: A Focus on Women\u2019s Participation in the Fight against Corruption\u201d,<\/em><\/strong> the study was conducted to provide empirical data which is crucial to inform GII\u2019s advocacy strategies on mainstreaming gender in the fight against corruption nationally. The results of the study will, therefore, be used to create public awareness and education and to inform advocacy strategies and campaigns for the strengthening of legal and policy reforms in support of the fight against corruption, particularly aimed at reducing its negative impacts on women.<\/p>\n

Utilizing a methodological approach designed specifically to capture women\u2019s voices and experiences of corruption and anti-corruption, the study conducted a survey on respondents\u2019 perceptions through face-to-face interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) to learn women\u2019s experiences with corruption and to obtain a general overview of perceptions around women and corruption. Although the main target was women, a small number of men were included in the sample to serve as a control. The sample comprised a total of 618 respondents made up of 497 women and 121 men.<\/p>\n

The findings of the study are:<\/strong><\/p>\n