A multi donor funding pool, STAR-Ghana which funds media projects has called on the media to focus on issues that affect Ghanaians as the country goes to the polls in November.<\/p>\n
According to them, it is only such reportage that will ensure that the real challenges of the people are brought to the fore to be addressed by government and other political actors.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”cwEH6LCc2AnsHmNDdE9FFqTTK1cU66Ya”]STAR-Ghana has initiated a series of activities to inject \u00a322 million to develop a vibrant, well-informed and assertive civil society, able to contribute to transformational national development for all Ghanaian citizens in an inclusive manner.<\/p>\n
STAR-Ghana, a multi-donor funded initiative supported by DFID, DANIDA, and the EU is aiming\u00a0to support the creation and utilization of spaces for collective civil society engagement in order to increase the responsiveness of the Executive and key state institutions at both local and national levels.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a ceremony to announce the award of grants to selected media houses, including Citi FM<\/strong>, to cover this year\u2019s election, the Program Manager of STAR-Ghana, Ibrahim Tanko Amidu admonished the media to play its role professionally in a bid to sustain Ghana\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n According to him, the media should provide an outlet to the voices of citizens as well has hold the politicians accountable.<\/p>\n \u201cThe media provides a space for citizen\u2019s voices to be articulated. The media also are agents to hold all those who make kind of promises accountable for the promises that they have made.”<\/p>\n Mr\u00a0Amidu stated that the grants being given to the select media houses was to enable the media houses match up to the standards of a democratic society.<\/p>\n “So the media component is actually to support the media to do what the media is supposed to do in a democratic society.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A multi donor funding pool, STAR-Ghana which funds media projects has called on the media to focus on issues that affect Ghanaians as the country goes to the polls in November. According to them, it is only such reportage that will ensure that the real challenges of the people are brought to the fore to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2647,2648,58],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n