CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP ORGANIZES FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS AND MEDIA PRACTITIONERS
A Civic Organisation called BudgIT Ghana has Launched it’s Simplified 2025 Budget Statement and organized a day Workshop of Capacity Building for Civil Society organizations (CSO’s) and Media practitioners in Accra recently which brought together about 36 participants.
Speaking at the event,Ms. Jennifer Moffat,the Country Manager of BudjiT Ghana,revealed that, the workshop and the official launch of the BudgIT Ghana’s Simplified 2025 Budget was aimed at Strengthening and discussed issues to enhanced advocacy skills, including policy influence, strategic knowledge sharing and civic innovation was led by the Global Director of BudgIT Ghana Foundation,to empower stakehoders engagement to make National Budget accessible, interpret, simplify and visualise public budget data for broader citizen-centred engagement to support drive for inclusive development under the theme:Enhancing Stakeholder Capacity for Inclusive Development
In Furtherance, Ms. Jennifer Moffat,stated, the initiative reaffirms BudgIT Ghana’s commitment in ensuring that every Ghanaian advance accountability, transparency and inclusive development whiles, encouraged the CSOs and the Media to participate more to improve the quality of policymaking as they are important stakeholders when it comes to making critical fiscal information accessible to non-technical citizens’ voices to influence public financial decision.
On his part, Mr. Oluseun Onigbinde,the BudgIT Ghana Foundation Global Director,on his turn stressed, to enhanced advocacy Skills, Policy influence and Stakehoders engagement, the Participants can analyze budgets and identify the gaps that affect service deivery, especially to strengthen the capacity of CSOs to visualise data for their community engagement to impact marginaised groups to strengthen colaboration among CSOs for joint efforts to equipped with practical tools for budget tracking and also identify the genuine/root causes of problems that affects the life of the people.
Story by Janet Kwaakye
