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• 1 • TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ACRONYMS 5 1. PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS – FACT SHEET 7 2. PRESENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME 8 2.1. Description 8 2.2. Background 11 3. PROGRAMME PROGRESS TO DATE 16 3.0. Country Context Developments 16 Corruption and Anti-Corruption 16 Rule of law 18 Justice delivery 19 Environmental governance 20 3.1. International Context 21 3.2. Programme Implementation Summary 22 Programme Management 25 3.3. Activities Description - ARAP in Figures 34 Activities by Stakeholder 34 Participants 35 Participating Institutions 36 Experts engaged 36 3.4. Activities Analysis: Main Results and Future Perspective, per Stakeholder 44 National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) 44 Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) 45 Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) 45 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 48 Legal Aid Commission (LAC) 50 Ghana Police Service (GPS) 53 Office of the Attorney General (OAG) 56 Judiciary and Judicial Service 58 International Relations 59 3.5. Mid-term Evaluation 62 3.6. Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. 63 3.7. Coordination Unit 64 3.8. Communication and Visibility 64 4. THE WAY FORWARD 66 ANNEXES 68 LIST OF ACRONYMS AIS Activities Information System ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution ARAP Accountability, Rule of Law and Anti-corruption Programme CHRAJ Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice CU Coordination Unit DPD Directorate of Public Defenders DPP Director of Public Prosecution (Office of the Attorney General) EC European Commission EG Environmental Governance EOCO Economic and Organised Crime Office EPA Environmental Protection Agency EU European Union EUD European Union Delegation FIIAPP International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies GSGDA II Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda GIZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH GPS Ghana Police Service HQ Headquarters IMS Information Management System IT Information Technology JS Judicial Service KE Key Expert KRA Key Result Area LAC Legal Aid Commission LADA Law and Development Associates LAS Legal Aid Scheme LI Legislative Instrument ANUAL REPORT 2019 • 5 • M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MONICOM Monitoring Committee (MONICOM) NACAP National Anti-Corruption Action Plan NACoRD National Anti-Corruption Action Plan Reporting Dashboard NAO National Authorising Officer NCCE National Commission for Civic Education NKE Non-Key Experts OAG Office of the Attorney General PAD Public Affairs Directorate PIAC Public Interest and Accountability Committee PPSB Police Professional and Standards Bureau PRCU Public Relations and Complaints Unit STAR-Ghana Strengthening Transparency, Accountability and Responsiveness in Ghana SC Steering Committee ANUAL REPORT 2019 • 6 • 1. PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS – FACT SHEET Programme Title Ghana Accountability, Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Programme Programme Ref. Number GH/FED/037368 (11th European Development Fund) Country Ghana Reporting Period 1st January 2019 – 31st December 2019 Overall Objective To promote good governance in Ghana by reducing corruption and improving accountability and compliance with the rule of law, particularly when it comes to accountability, anti-corruption and environmental governance. Specific Objective and Intended Key Results To contribute to current reform processes in the area of rule of law, accountability, anti-corruption and environmental governance through support to key institutions, while at the same time increasing the ability of the public, civil society organisations and the media to hold government to account. • KR1: Accountability is enhanced, leading to increased accountability, a reduction in corruption and increased environmental governance. • KR2: Compliance with and respect for the rule of law is enhanced, particularly in the areas of accountability and anti-corruption. Programme Start Date 6 May 2016 Programme Duration 56 months and 23 days Total Budget 3.010.000 € Implementing Agency FIIAPP SC Chair Institution GPS Contact Person Ana Esther Sanchez. Team Leader (ARAP-CU) ANUAL REPORT 2019 • 7 • 2. PRESENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME 2.1. Description 1. The Programme’s overall objective is to promote good governance in Ghana by reducing corruption and improving accountability and compliance with the rule of law. In addition, the Programme is also intended to promote good environmental governance in Ghana. 2. Corruption is a complex, multidimensional problem, deeply embedded in social, political and economic dynamics. The complexity of the issue has profound implications for the strategy to adopt to tackle same. The Programme therefore uses a multi-level, multi-stakeholder approach to support national efforts ad- dressing, both the supply and demand sides of the accountability and anti-corruption chain. 3. Hence, the focus includes raising awareness among citizens and civil society actors to hold the government to account, demand greater accountability, and to be less tolerant of corruption. The efforts on the supply side seek to enhance the capacity of the criminal justice system to be more accountable and better equi- pped to deal with cases of corruption. Demand: Supply side: Improved capacity of citizens More accountable institutions & civil society to hold the are better equipped in th e government to account and criminal justice system to report more corruption cases fight corruption 4. The intervention is expected to enable citizens to be more demanding and active, requesting information and reporting corruption. It is also expected to strengthen state institutions to be more responsive and accountable, responding to citizens’ demands, facilitating availability of information, and prosecuting cor- ruption cases purposefully. 5. The Programme identified five direct stakeholders the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), the Ghana Police Service (GPS), Office of the Attorney General (OAG), Judicial Service (JS) and the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE). In addition, the Programme identified three initial indirect stakeholders including the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO). The indirect Stakeholders were initially envisaged to participate in activities (training, public education, etc), organised and led by the direct stakeholders. Also, taking into account the pivotal role of the Legal Aid Commission in ensuring the ANUAL REPORT 2019 • 8 • respect for the rule of law and the fight against corruption and waste of public resources from a con- stitutional perspective, the Commission was added as an indirect stakeholder of the Programme. These indirect stakeholders have however, evolved to become very much involved in the implementation of the Programme, executing significant activities and delivering results towards the ultimate goal of ARAP. 6. In view of the above over-arching goal of the Programme, two interlinked key results are expected to be achieved at the end of the Programme, working collaboratively with the direct and indirect stakeholders identified. These results are captured in the table below. Key Result Area (KRA) 1: Key Result Area (KRA) 2: Accountability is enhanced, leading to increa- Compliance with and respect for the rule of sed accountability, a reduction in corruption law is enhanced, particularly in the areas of and increased environmental governance. To accountability and anti-corruption. The main achieve this result, the main activities are: activities under this KRA are: – Building the capacity of civic education provi- – Building the capacity of prosecutors to pro- ders (National Commission for Civic Education secute corruption and related offences. (NCCE), Commission on Human Rights and – Building the capacity of the Judiciary to hear Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), civil society or- and decide corruption cases and related ganisations (CSOs) and the media) to conduct offences and to hold government to account. campaigns, advocate and lobby for increased – Establishment of a free web-based library/ accountability and a reduction in corruption. resource centre for all stakeholders and – Supporting the NCCE to conduct joint civic users of the justice system. education and awareness on accountability – Supporting the police and Judiciary to com- (implemented by NCCE). bat corruption amongst their ranks. – Supporting CHRAJ to conduct anti-corruption campaigns and activities in line with the Na- tional Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP). – Supporting CSOs, the media, Parliament and selected Parliamentary Committees to en- hance their accountability, anti-corruption, and lobbying and advocacy roles and func- tions. (implemented by STAR-Ghana) 7. The logical process to achieve these key results of the Programme were at the outset outlined in the Pro- gramme Logical Framework annexed to the Action Document of the Programme. This Logical Framework is attached to this Report as Annex 1. 8. As may be observed from the Programme Synopsis - the Fact Sheet above, the Programme commenced in May 2016 for a 56 month period. Hence, by mid 2018, a Mid Term Evaluation was commissioned by the European Union Delegation to Ghana. The Mid Term Evaluation Process concluded with a Final Report issued in October 2019. The Conclusions and Recommendations of the Mid Term Evaluation are discussed under the Programme Implementation Section of this Annual Report. ANUAL REPORT 2019 • 9 • 9. Critical among the recommendations was the need
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