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The LDP was used to develop important competencies of beneficiary CSOs with the aim of increasing their legitimacy, mandate and sustainability in line with the Foundation’s strategy to empower CSOs to thrive and lead transformational and sustainable national development in the context of the changing aid and development landscape in Ghana.

According to the Programmes Director of STAR Ghana Foundation, Mr. Ibrahim Tanko, “the Foundation recognizes that it cannot realize its vision without a strong civil society and new cadres of leaders in Ghana”. The LDP was therefore expected to ensure a vibrant civil society that is engaging constructively with government and contributing to transformational and lasting solutions to Ghana’s development challenges.    

Madam Eunice Racheal Agbenyadzi, GESI and Capacity Building Manager at STAR Ghana Foundation noted that the LDP was in support of raising a critical mass of leaders with the capacity to navigate complexities in leading teams and organizations for sustainability. The topic of civil society sustainability remains the centre of discussion, and by investing in leadership that manages systems and complexities, civil society is enabled to respond to sustainability issues and demands better. She noted that Nkum Associates is the best for leadership and organizational development because they have demonstrated capacity to lead the LDP She noted that the LDP ran in 3 modules – leading self, leading others and leading change in large systems which “enabled participants to become more aware of themselves and deploy their presence through functional relationships in leading effectively”. She was convinced that participants were adequately supported by their peers through case consultations to resolve leadership challenges.

Beneficiary organizations of the 2018/19 LDP which were carefully selected from the Foundation’s grantees nationwide include: AWLA, ICDP, SILDEP, Songtaba, CEWEFIA, Odekro PMO, SAVE-Ghana, RISE GHANA, CEDEP, PTSIF, iWatch Africa, CALID, CDA Ghana, ASUDEV, SNG, SMAid International, and VEReF.

 At end of the training, participants were confident that the new skills and the awareness acquired would enable them to steer their organizations to sustainability and make lasting impacts on their communities and Ghana as a whole. Perhaps the best assurance to STAR Ghana Foundation is captured in the views of representatives of three beneficiary organizations. According to Tina, the representative of Volta Educational Renaissance Foundation (VEReF), her new awareness of “agility and ‘complex adaptive systems’ would enable VEReF to achieve sustainability”. To CEWEFIA, the new knowledge would ensure that CSOs are sustainable, so “leaders would not be afraid to leave or exit when the applause is still on since their organizations can thrive without them due to their good leadership.” In the views of Cosmos Kwame Akorli, the Programmes Manager at the African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA), he was “adequately enabled to help AWLA to thrive and impact the voiceless the organization exists to assist”.

About the 2018/19 Leadership Development Programme (LDP)

According to Reverend John Nkum, the Leadership Development Programme seeks to raise leaders for today who embrace multiple realities, difference, minority perceptions, who give value to what is not routine and bring into their leadership the concept of wholism, where every part and segment of society is enabled to grow and become their best. This is a little different from the traditional leadership programs that seek to reinforce hierarchy, authority, power and direction, the paradigms that traditional leadership models tend to use, pushing forward the leader as the agent of change rather than a facilitator who enables others to participate in the leadership act. So, the LDP concept is that leadership is a collective process that happens in the spaces between individuals and societal structures, where everybody plays a leadership and followership roles depending on the event being enacted. That is the dominant paradigm of the LDP.

He noted that,the group of participants that STAR Ghana Foundation assembled from the grant partners – executives and high-level officers and directors – provided the opportunity to work with practitioners. So, “a lot of the work we did in the LDP was experiential learning and not theoretical discourse. It was to enable people to practice and embrace difference, and multiple realities, how to be whole and function from that paradigm of wholism where the whole is different from the sum of its parts”. He noted that the program was helpful in enabling leaders to shift from the old perceptions and paradigms to the current situation where participants reported being able to use themselves as instruments of leadership rather than the positions they occupy.

He was very optimistic that participants would use themselves to bring change not only to the organizations they work in but also as civil society as a whole where people in civil society will begin to function from that perspective of being inclusive in other to allow others to flourish. Rev Nkum indicated that as the STAR Ghana program ends and results in the creation of the STAR Ghana Foundation, Nkum Associates hopes to be part of the transition process and the establishment of proper functioning civil society structures capable of pushing governance, transparency, and accountability forward.

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• Overall GDP growth rate of 6.8 percent;
• Non-oil GDP growth rate of 5.4 percent;
• End-period inflation rate of 8.9 percent;
• Average inflation rate of 9.8 percent;
• Fiscal deficit of 4.5% percent GDP;
• Primary balance (surplus) of 1.6 percent of GDP; and
• Gross Foreign Assets to cover at least 3.5 months of imports of goods and services

Similarly, the fiscal programme is firmly anchored on the ongoing fiscal consolidation. The prime focus is to ensure that the fiscal deficit, which remains the principal fiscal anchor, is programmed to decline to 4.5 percent of GDP from the projected 2017 end-year estimate of 6.3 percent. Over the medium term, the fiscal deficit is expected to stabilize around 3-5 percent of GDP.

The country will be faced with rising expenditures over the short to medium term, as the government invests more in programmes that will stimulate economic growth and generate jobs. The government will, therefore, need to boost domestic revenue through innovative channels that will not place an undue burden on the entire populace. In this vein, optimizing resource mobilization through improved tax compliance and efficient and effective revenue administration remains an important part of the government fiscal strategy to boost domestic revenue mobilization for 2018 and the medium term. Consequently, in addition to empowering the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to bring to book tax evaders. The government is equally investing in programmes and infrastructure to widen the tax net. This will include the implementation and rollout of a National Digital Address System (to help us track taxpayers especially in the informal sector), an acceleration of the implementation of the National Identification Programme, deployment of Electronic Point of Sale devices (to ensure that vendors are not under declaring VAT), and special audits, among others.

On expenditure front, the government has shown commitment to eliminate expenditure overruns and will remain committed to continuing with the design and implementation of the Public Financial Management reforms with the aim of eliminating inefficient and ineffective allocation of resources.

The proposed 2018 budget has total revenue and expenditure an estimated GH¢51 billion and GH¢62 billion respectively (see infographic).

Government Revenue Mobilisation for 2018

Total Revenue and Grants for the 2018 fiscal year has been conservatively estimated at GH¢51 billion based on the Government’s projection of the level of economic activity in 2018, policy on taxation and donor grant disbursements. Domestic Revenue is estimated at GH¢50.5 billion, representing an annual growth of 26.9 percent. The following are components and estimates of government revenue for 2018 (see infographic);

• Total Receipts from upstream petroleum activities amount to GH¢3.2 billion and estimated at 6.2 percent of Total Revenue and Grants. This is about 1.3 percent of GDP and represents a per annum growth of 24.8 percent over the 2017 projected outturn.
• Non-Tax Revenue is estimated at GH¢8.0 billion, equivalent to 3.3 percent of GDP. Of this amount, internally generated funds to be retained by IGF-generating institutions amount to GH¢3.8 billion.
• Grants from Development Partners mainly in support of projects are estimated at GH¢586.8 million, equivalent to 0.2 percent of GDP. We do not expect to receive any programme It is important to note that, as a Middle-income country, these donor resources will cease with time, emphasizing

Government Expenditure for 2018

The Total Expenditure, including provision made for the clearance of arrears, is estimated at GH¢62 billion, equivalent to 25.7 percent of GDP. The estimated expenditure for the year represents an annual growth of 14.5 percent. The subsequent bullets are the major components and estimates of government expenditure for 2018 (see infographic);

• Compensation of Employees continues to represent the single largest item of government expenditure; it is estimated at GH¢19.6 billion (8.1 percent of GDP). Of this amount, GH¢16.8 billion, equivalent to 6.9 percent of GDP has been provisioned for Wages and Salaries alone.
• Expenditure on Goods and Services is estimated at GH¢3.5 billion, representing 1.5 percent of GDP. The annual growth of 56.9 percent reflects a full provision made to cater for the Government’s priority programmes, including the flagship Free SHS policy which enters its second year of implementation in 2018.
• Interest payments are estimated at GH¢14.9 billion (6.2 percent of GDP). Of this amount, Domestic Interest Payment constitutes about 82 percent. As we consolidate our public finances, the annual growth of domestic interest payments is expected to decline considerably. It must be noted that the debt reprofiling exercise is having a positive impact on interest payments.
• Transfers to Statutory Funds as well as all other earmarked funds which are backed by the relevant Laws are estimated at GH¢12.1 billion. the objective of the Statutory Funds is to provide secure funding to implement critical programs and projects in the relevant sectors. Over the years, these sectors have been exerting a lot of pressure on the limited available resources despite allocations to the Statutory Funds. In consonance with the PFM Act, 2016 (Act 921), and Earmarked Funds Capping and Realignment Act, the earmarked funds will be realigned to national priorities.
• Allocations for Capital Expenditure is GH¢6.9 billion. Of this amount, domestically financed Capital Expenditure is estimated at GH¢3.3 billion or 1.4 percent of GDP. This represents an annual growth of about 219 percent. An amount of GH¢3.6 billion has been budgeted from foreign-financed capital expenditure and this will be funded by a combination of donor project grants and project loans.

Overall Budget Deficit and Financing for 2018

Based on the estimates for Government total revenue and total expenditure, the 2018 budget will result in an overall budget deficit of GH¢10.9 billion, equivalent to 4.5 percent of GDP (see infographic).

Financing of the fiscal deficit will be from both domestic and foreign sources. Net Foreign Financing will amount to about GH¢3 billion  (including a Eurobond of up to GH¢1.0 billion), equivalent to 1.2 percent of GDP. Net Domestic Financing (NDF) will constitute about 73 percent of total financing and includes financing from bank and non-bank sectors, other domestic sources such as divestiture proceeds and mineral royalty prepayment.  The total NDF is estimated at GH¢8 billion or 3.3 percent of GDP.

It is worth noting that in 2018, the primary balance, which is an indication of our fiscal effort will be grown to a larger surplus of about 1.6 percent of GDP from the projected 2017 outturn of 0.2 percent. This signifies our resolve to “breaking the back” of a growing public debt from the previous year.

Reference: 2018 Budget Statement by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta accessed on 14 November 2017

Article prepared: Moro Seidu| iWatch Africa

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MMDAs are responsible for irregularities of GH¢70,173,645.97 for the year 2016 which represents a 32% rise of GH¢16,955,282.83 over the 2015 figure of GH¢53,218,363.14. The Auditor General Report (2016) revealed that; recurring internal control weaknesses and lapses under cash management, contract administration, procurement and stores management and tax administration are the major cause of these irregularities. However, most of the irregularities are due to cash management, about 47 % of monies that lost via the MMDAs is through cash management while the least is through tax administration (0.44 %).

Components of MMDA’s Irregularities

Refer to the infographic below for further details

Causes of the continuous increase in irregularities among MMDAs

• Poor attitude, interest, and dedication to duties and responsibilities
• Recurring internal control weaknesses
• Poor commitment on the part of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and management of MMDAs in the implementation and enforcement of audit recommendations towards mitigating infringements of the laws.
• Non – imposition of sanctions to minimise the violations

Recommendations to curb/reduce irregularities among MMDAs

• Effective supervision and monitoring
• Enforcement of existing statutory and regulatory frameworks, together with the imposition of sanctions should be made paramount to curb the infractions.
• The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and management of the MMDAs to impose sanctions where necessary to serve as a deterrent to others.

Credit: Moro Seidu |  iWatch Africa

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“Capitation grants are delayed sometimes for a year. For the 2016/2017 academic year, government has now released the capitation grant for two terms’’ the source said.

The capitation grant which was introduced in the 2014/2015 academic year was to help abolish all levies paid by parents in basic schools. But with time, the government gave basic schools the leeway to collect some amount of monies from parents once they are approved by the mayor of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA). According to sources within the GES, this directive of the government has helped public mission schools because its managers are able to influence the PTA to pay monies to enhance the smooth management of the schools. Therefore delays in the release of capitation grants do not really affect the management of public mission schools. However, the case is not the same with KMA schools. Most parents prefer to send their wards to public mission schools rather than KMA schools and are also willing to pay some amount of money to help in the management of the schools.

Checks by iWatch Africa revealed that most pupils who attend the KMA schools are children who have been brought to the city from the villages and are not living with their biological parents.

There are very few KMA schools which at the moment still have some financial muscles to withstand the harsh conditions which have been bestowed on them by government delay in the release of capitation. Some of these school include; Opoku ware basic school, Prempeh basic, and State Experimental basic schools.

Report by: Gemma Appiah

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However, the government has committed to absorb teacher motivation fee which used to be a component of PTA dues. As captured in the implementation plan the government will pay GH₵20.00 per student for the motivation of teachers.

As part of the preparation towards the full implementation of the programme, there’s an ongoing training for all heads of SHS to explain further the processes involved in the roll out of the program. Again, head teachers of the various SHS will be provided with a laptop which will help them to access placement records.  This according to our source is to help forestall the challenges that head teachers face during admissions. “So that at a click of a button the head teachers can access the details of a student in order to prevent the challenges they faced previously in relation to placement records,’’ the source said.

In addition, students cannot change schools as it was done previously, once the placement records are released. When asked about how protocols will be factored in, the source said they would have to be dealt with before the placement record is finally released.

Reported by: Gemma Appiah| Organised & Edited by: Moro Seidu (Monitoring & Evaluation) | iWatch Africa

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Most of these kayayeis have migrated from the northern part of the country particularly the Northern region to seek for greener pastures in the city. The over 15 kayayeis who were randomly selected for the interview, expressed their interest in either going back to school or learning a skill like dressmaking or hairdressing. Their plan is to go back to their towns to work after gaining the skill.

Ten-year-old Mariam is a kayayei. She came all the way from Yapei in the Northern region leaving her family to seek for greener pastures in the city. According to her, she is not interested in schooling but is saving up money from the kayayei business to buy a sewing machine to help her learn dressmaking. She will return home to start a business on her own after learning the skill in Kumasi. Out of the GH₵300.00, she needs to buy the sewing machine, she has made only GH₵100.00.

Reported by: Gemma Appiah| Organised & Edited by: Moro Seidu (Monitoring & Evaluation) | iWatch Africa

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In order to salvage the challenges faced by students, parent and guardians as well as administrators of schools, the government in his 2017 budget statement committed to make basic education truly free and ensure participation by all. The budget statement further disclosed that the government will redefine basic education to include secondary education, covering technical, vocational and agricultural education. This technically implies that Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) will be used as a tool for placement of students into second cycle schools and not for certification. iWatch Africa summarized the government measures to adopt in fulfilling the promise of free Senior High School education for the first term of the 2017/18 academic year in an infographic in the quest of making basic education truly free and ensure participation by all.

As the month of September is only a few days away iWatch Africa will link the citizenry to the real issues on the ground by updating Ghanaians on all the happenings of the Free Senior High School education via it dedicated field staff.

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