The STAR-Ghana programme was established as a multi-donor pooled funding mechanism in 2010 supported by UK aid, DANIDA, the EU and the USAID (2010-2015). Since then, STAR-Ghana has supported 233 grant partner organisations to articulate citizens’ concerns to the state, resulting in positive changes to policy, services and practice.
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STAR-Ghana is implementing a non-grant strategy to enhance civil society sustainability. The objective of the strategy is to advance the sustainability of civil society organisations with regard to their legitimacy and mandate, organisational competencies and financial resources. Sustainability in this sense entails reforms and shifts in the way civil society organisations are doing business. Some of these reforms will include formulating and implementing institutional and financial sustainability strategies, leadership succession planning and capacity building to make civil society organisations and the sector more robust in the long term.
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STAR-Ghana has been awarded for its contribution of funding, partnership and commitment towards the Justice for All Programme (JFAP) and the Reformation of the Criminal Justice System in Ghana. This was at an awards dinner in Accra organised by the Judicial Service of Ghana, in collaboration with the POS Foundation and DANIDA to mark the 10th anniversary of the JFAP. The event was held on the theme: “JFAP: A unique model for fair trial and prisoners decongestion — Achievements, challenges and prospects” In attendance were H.E. Akuffo Addo and Justice Sophia Akuffo, President and Chief Justice of the republic of Ghana.
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Citizen representatives of the Asunafo North Municipal Assembly – majority of whom are women and people with various forms of disability (PWDs) have been sensitized on the local governance system and their role in the governance process.
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The third in the series of STAR-Ghana’s national convenings on the sustainability of Ghana’s Civil Society has begun in the capital city of the Western Region of Ghana, Takoradi. The event, organised in collaboration with the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), forms part of STAR-Ghana’s series of convenings with the broader range of stakeholders for dialogue, and to support the identification of opportunities and critical entry points for action and engagement
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The STAR Ghana Foundation (SGF), to be launched in November 2018, is a national centre for active citizenship and philanthropy. The Foundation works to strengthen civil society and enable citizens to engage with the state to ensure accountable, transparent and responsive governance at both local and national levels (see the Foundation’s Vision & Mission Statement in Section 2 below). It builds on the successful STAR-Ghana programme (Strengthening Transparency, Accountability and Responsiveness in Ghana), a multi-donor civil society initiative established in 2011. The establishment of the STAR Ghana Foundation as a Ghanaian-owned and led national institution follows from an intensive process of planning and public consultations with a wide range of stakeholders. It constitutes a major development in the landscape for active citizenship, civil society and philanthropy in Ghana and Africa as a whole.
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