By Francis Kyei & Alberta Larkai
The European Union (EU) is supporting the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) with a 1.5 million euro grant to enable it carry out its planned activities and programmes towards ensuring a peaceful and incident free general election in December.
The Chairman of NCCE, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, who announced this at the launch of the new face of the Commission in Accra yesterday, said the amount is to support the capacity development of the commission to enable it carry out its activities effectively.
NCCCE also used the occasion to launch its new website as well as its year-long activities ahead of the December elections.
Mrs. Osei commended the EU for the noble gesture and entreated the business community to support the NCCE in the delivery of its mandate.
“Businesses stand to reap tremendous benefits from a peaceful and stable social environment and we cannot ignore or underestimate the negative impact that civic and social strife can have on the operations of businesses in Ghana,” she said.
The reason for the change of the logo of NCCE, she said, was to give the Commission a new position to carry out its constitutional mandate of promoting and sustaining democracy as well as inculcating in the Ghanaian citizenry, the awareness of their rights and obligations through civic education.
She said the two drums in the old logo of NCCE symbolized its core function of telling Ghanaians about the constitution and said that the constitutional mandate of the Commission went beyond informing the citizenry to sustaining democracy and imbibing a high sense of nationalism in the citizenry.
“The people must own the government and the democratic process. At the heart of our new logo are the people represented by their hands. But as we all know, the hands, and especially the thumb, are the heart of a democratic government,” she said.
As part of the change, she said the Commission now had a new organizational structure aimed at streamlining its internal operations effectively.
Mrs. Osei said the Commission now has a Gender and Equality Desk within its Programmes Department charged with the responsibility of ensuring that its programmes included the various segments of the population as well as collaborate with external organizations working towards a more inclusive and equitable society.
She gave the assurance that the Commission would collaborate with the Electoral Commission in any way possible and expressed optimism that the December election would be peaceful, credible and legitimate.
The Head of the European Union Delegation in Ghana, Mr. Claude Maerten, who unveiled the new logo and website of NCCE, said the Union would support Ghana to organize a peaceful and credible election in December.
The December election, he said, would be a defining moment in the history of Ghana and entreated all stakeholders to work hard to ensure a credible and incident free election.
The Deputy NCCE Chairman in charge of Operations, Mrs Augustina Akumanyi, said the theme for the Commission in its operations towards the December election is, “Stand Up for Ghana”
“This means whatever we do this year, we must be doing so in the national interest to make the presidential and parliamentary elections peaceful and maintain our enviable position as the beacon of hope in the troubled West African Sub Region,” she said.
In the first quarter of the year, she said the Commission would educate the public on the biometric voters’ registration while the second quarter would focus on inter-party dialogue aimed at sharing information, reducing tension, acrimony as well as promote tolerance and healthy political party campaign,” she said.
She said the third and fourth quarters of the year would focus on promoting tolerance for peaceful election and ensuring high voter turnout and effective citizens’ participation in the electoral process.
The Ghanaian Times, 7th February, 2012
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| The Chairman of NCCE, Mrs. Charlotte Osei |
The European Union (EU) is supporting the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) with a 1.5 million euro grant to enable it carry out its planned activities and programmes towards ensuring a peaceful and incident free general election in December.
The Chairman of NCCE, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, who announced this at the launch of the new face of the Commission in Accra yesterday, said the amount is to support the capacity development of the commission to enable it carry out its activities effectively.
NCCCE also used the occasion to launch its new website as well as its year-long activities ahead of the December elections.
Mrs. Osei commended the EU for the noble gesture and entreated the business community to support the NCCE in the delivery of its mandate.
“Businesses stand to reap tremendous benefits from a peaceful and stable social environment and we cannot ignore or underestimate the negative impact that civic and social strife can have on the operations of businesses in Ghana,” she said.
The reason for the change of the logo of NCCE, she said, was to give the Commission a new position to carry out its constitutional mandate of promoting and sustaining democracy as well as inculcating in the Ghanaian citizenry, the awareness of their rights and obligations through civic education.
She said the two drums in the old logo of NCCE symbolized its core function of telling Ghanaians about the constitution and said that the constitutional mandate of the Commission went beyond informing the citizenry to sustaining democracy and imbibing a high sense of nationalism in the citizenry.
“The people must own the government and the democratic process. At the heart of our new logo are the people represented by their hands. But as we all know, the hands, and especially the thumb, are the heart of a democratic government,” she said.
As part of the change, she said the Commission now had a new organizational structure aimed at streamlining its internal operations effectively.
Mrs. Osei said the Commission now has a Gender and Equality Desk within its Programmes Department charged with the responsibility of ensuring that its programmes included the various segments of the population as well as collaborate with external organizations working towards a more inclusive and equitable society.
She gave the assurance that the Commission would collaborate with the Electoral Commission in any way possible and expressed optimism that the December election would be peaceful, credible and legitimate.
The Head of the European Union Delegation in Ghana, Mr. Claude Maerten, who unveiled the new logo and website of NCCE, said the Union would support Ghana to organize a peaceful and credible election in December.
The December election, he said, would be a defining moment in the history of Ghana and entreated all stakeholders to work hard to ensure a credible and incident free election.
The Deputy NCCE Chairman in charge of Operations, Mrs Augustina Akumanyi, said the theme for the Commission in its operations towards the December election is, “Stand Up for Ghana”
“This means whatever we do this year, we must be doing so in the national interest to make the presidential and parliamentary elections peaceful and maintain our enviable position as the beacon of hope in the troubled West African Sub Region,” she said.
In the first quarter of the year, she said the Commission would educate the public on the biometric voters’ registration while the second quarter would focus on inter-party dialogue aimed at sharing information, reducing tension, acrimony as well as promote tolerance and healthy political party campaign,” she said.
She said the third and fourth quarters of the year would focus on promoting tolerance for peaceful election and ensuring high voter turnout and effective citizens’ participation in the electoral process.
The Ghanaian Times, 7th February, 2012
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