In their own words: CSTC Trainers Discuss VakaYiko’s EIPM Course

In their own words: CSTC Trainers Discuss VakaYiko’s EIPM Course

Ebenezer Rexford Amankwah and Anna Ofori are trainers from the Ghana Civil Service Training Centre who participated in delivering VakaYiko’s Evidence-Informed Policy Making Course. Ebenezer also acted as the coordinator between CSTC and the VakaYiko programme, working closely with GINKS. Nana Gyamfi is a Senior Accountant at CSTC and is also involved in traditional leadership as a chief of his community. He participated in the course first as a participant and has since become a trainer.

Evidence Spotlight – Development Planning in Ghana

Evidence Spotlight – Development Planning in Ghana

As part of VakaYiko’s recent event in Accra, GINKS hosted a National Stakeholder Forum on Evidence-Informed Policy Making (EIPM) in Ghana. Dr Isaac Mensa-Bonsu, the Director of Plan Coordination from Ghana’s National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) outlined four major national-level systems in Ghana that require evidence and described the role of the NDPC in each of these.

Series: ‘Q&A’ with Publishers for Development speakers

Dr Philip Antwi-Agyei is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist from Ghana who will be speaking at Publishers for Development in June....

VakaYiko – two years and already making an impact

Everyone is keen to know about the progress on the VakaYiko project, which aims to build the capacities of policymakers...

Reflections from the VakaYiko annual consortium meeting

Reflections from the VakaYiko annual consortium meeting

As Research Uptake Manager in the Evidence into Action team at the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), Ed Barney...

Why we need to take a collective action approach to research capacity building

Why we need to take a collective action approach to research capacity building

Sometimes it feels hard to keep afloat in the tide of thinking and debate about development – what to do,...

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