In Ghana, NIMD supports a programme that has delivered a home grown democratic reform agenda.
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With Ghana partner, the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), NIMD supports a political party programme, which has delivered a home grown democratic reform agenda (DCSP), and contributed to free and fair elections in December 2008 and a smooth transition of power.
• Convention Peoples Party (CPP)
• New Patriotic Party (NPP)
• National Democratic Congress (NDC)
• Peoples National Convention (PNC)
• Enactment of the Representation of the People (Amendment) Act (ROPAA), which enfranchises Ghanaians in the diaspora.
• Party primaries for the election of presidential candidates.
• Free and fair General Elections held in December 2008, won by the NDC and its Presidential Candidate John Atta Mills
• Consensus reached on national political reform agenda.
• DCSP finalised and adopted by the government as a national strategy for democratic consolidation.
• Electoral Code of Conduct enhanced with Enforcement Body
• A series of televised debates with presidential candidates taking questions from the public helped enhance the legitimacy of the electoral process.
• Attracting external funding for the Ghana programme proved difficult. Although IEA managed to attract a substantial amount of external funding in 2008, these funds where dedicated to election-related activities. No concrete commitments have been secured towards implementing the DCSP despite positive responses from a various donors. In 2009, NIMD and IEA will embark on a joint lobby strategy to seek additional funding for the roll out of the DCSP and to ensure that IEA’s funding base is sufficiently diversified.
• Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)
• Electoral Commission
• Law Reform Commission
• National Commission for Civic Education
• National Peace Council
• Finance, Constitutional and Legal Committee
• Royal Netherlands Embassy
• Ghana Research and Advocacy Programme (G-RAP, an initiative of Canada, Denmark, The Netherlands and United Kingdom)
• European Commission