NCCE Chairman Visits Upper East Region

The chairman of the National Commission for Civic Education, (NCCE), Josephine Nkrumah has paid a two day working visit to the Upper East Region. 

She was accompanied by the Deputy Chairman in charge of operation, Samuel Asare Nkoamoah, together with the internal European Union EU team and some staff of the NCCE. 

Her visits which will cover the three northern regions forms part of an internal evaluation to run off the 2012 EU grant to the commission and to pave way for external evaluation by the EU team from Belgium.  

The EU has been supporting the NCCE in the discharge of her civic responsibility to the citizens of Ghana. 

In an interview with gbcghanaonline, she indicated that the 2012 grant was shared to all the Regional and District offices of the NCCE throughout the country, to carry out civic education as part of their core mandate. 

Ms. Josephine stated that under the 2012 grant, the Commission was able to organized both the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary debate, revived the inter-party dialogue committee, carry out extensive education on district level elections in collaboration with the Electoral Commission EC together with  other civil society organization and capacity building of staff of the Commission, engage activist of the various political party flash points areas and educate them on the use of intemperate language, violence and tempered discussions to tolerance and peace building. 

Ms. Josephine said the evaluation is to help identified the challenges encountered in carrying out the commission’s activities under the grant and to make amends in subsequent ones.  

On a courtesy call of the Upper East Regional Minister, Rockson Ayine Bukari, the chairman of the Commission lauded the Minister’s active role in the activities of NCCE and stressed that the non partisan nature of the commission to be upheld as such. 


Story by GBC's Emmanuel Akayeti  

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