Video: iWatch Africa review of GoG commitments in the health sector

Tracking Government Promises

Gideon Sarpong September 2, 2017

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iWatch Africa as part of our mandate to promote accountability and transparency has conducted a review of areas Government of Ghana has promised capital expenditure in the health sector for 2017.

The Government of Ghana in its effort to achieve equitable access to health care services has committed to undertake certain capital investments in the health sector.

Below is a review of government’s health commitments by iWatch Africa’s Policy and Content Analyst, Gideon Sarpong.

Gideon Sarpong September 2, 2017

Less than a minute

Gideon Sarpong

Gideon Sarpong is a policy analyst and media practitioner with close to a decade of experience in policy, data and investigative journalism. Gideon is a co-founder of iWatch Africa. He is an author; a fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Thomson Reuters Foundation, Commonwealth Youth Program ,Free Press Unlimited and Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative. Gideon is the Ghana Hub Lead of Sustainable Ocean Alliance. He was a 2021 Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute, School of Trans-national Governance in Florence, Italy and 2020/21 Open Internet For Democracy Leader. Gideon was also a 2021/22 Visiting Scholar/Reuters Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK and was selected as a 2022 TRF/Trust Conference Changemaker. Email: gideonsarpong@iwatchafrica.org