The CSSP seeks to provide long term support to civil society in Ghana, and in effect, enhance their resilience, responsiveness, and effectiveness in delivering the priorities of its constituents.
He said the performance between boys and girls have not been the best despite efforts by the government, civil society organisations (CSOs), development partners, traditional authorities, parents, and others to improve the situation.
Mr Ibrahim-Tanko was speaking at a forum on girls’ education organized by STAR-Ghana Foundation under its Gender Rights and Empowerment Programme (G-REP). The forum which was held for stakeholders in the northern sector took place in Tamale on 2nd February 2023.
The Executive Director said there is an interplay of several causes such as poverty, traditional and religious beliefs, and practices that affect education of girls, particularly in the northern part of the country.
“So, when we talk about girls’ education, we are looking at access which has improved - enrolment has improved- we could gain gender parity. It is the retention from primary to junior high and senior high school, and the performance that is a problem.
for its effort and commitment to the development of Northern Ghana,” he said.
He said education remains the key to the development and progress of any society which also demands that premium be always paid on it.
The search of new ways of working that promote community voice and involvement in social development is imperative and has become an agenda pursued by many development actors, recently. In this spirit, two organizations, supporting civic space strengthening STAR-Ghana Foundation and the West African Civil Society Initiative (WACSI) are initiating steps towards rolling out the long-term civil society support programme-Civil Society Strengthening Programme-ShiftThePower. The Comic Relief funded project seeks to build institutional resilience of CSOs in Ghana by providing a more progressive, negotiated, participatory and widely owned solution to social development work.
The team onboarding, aims at supporting the CSSP-StP implementation teams to reconnect, renew energy and re-create enabling ways of working to optimise resources and deal with potential issues that can pose risks to effective delivery of the programme
The Civil Society Strengthening Project seeks to provide long term support to civil society in Ghana, and in effect, enhance their resilience, responsiveness, and effectiveness in delivering the priorities of its constituents. The CSSP-StP is implemented by STAR Ghana Foundation and the West African Civil Society Institute as Anchor partners for Ghana.
