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By Alexander Nyarko Yeboah, GNA
Accra June 12, GNA – The Prime Minister has
held consultations with Ghana's development partners on the Ghana Beyond Aid project
Government policy Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo had hired stakeholders to seek their contributions at
enrich the policy and make it more adaptable to its formulation
and implementation regime with respect to their relations with Ghana.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency
(GNA) after the consultation held Tuesday at the World Bank's Ghana office,
Osafo-Maafo said the stakeholder meeting was important because "when you
you talk about Ghana beyond help, you talk about our development partners,
their understanding of politics is therefore crucial. "
Mr. Osafo-Maafo explained that some of
partners had misconstrued the policy as meaning that Ghana did not need or was not
interested in help.
"We say that, yes, Ghana can demand
help, but it must be adapted to our priorities. We must be in the
we need to decide which areas we need help with, what kind of help we
need and how we want to use the help. So we need to discuss it with everyone, "
he explained.
In this regard, he observed that no nation
ignore the aid because even advanced countries needed help in terms of
transfer of technology and exchanges, it is therefore necessary to examine the aid
cooperation envelope which corresponds to the ideals of the recipient and his development
agenda.
He believed that with the kind of natural
and the human resources that Ghana possessed, the nation should be able to transform it
situation should she use correct standards to do things and go
policies that have not worked for the nation in the past.
Mr. Osafo Maafo said that to do this,
there was the need to change the Ghanaian mentality about aid and that Ghana
Beyond the help, the agenda was designed to do exactly that.
The president of the development partners and
Heads of Mission, Ambbadador Christoph Retzlaff, declared development partners
agreed after the consultation that the Ghana Beyond Aid document was very useful
good visionary work and they fully supported him, especially the
economic transformation program and the focus of the paper on Ghana
achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ambbadador Retzlaff said: "Germany is ready
support Ghana in this ambitious journey, and it is now important that
Government is addressing civil society organizations, all stakeholders for
development partners to ensure that Ghana, beyond strategy, is a strategy
approved by all Ghanaians. "
In answering the question of whether the
the success of the policy would threaten relations between Ghana and its
development partners, the Ambbadador indicated that Germany would not be
concerned about the success of the agenda that was to be realized in 2028,
"Because it was basically what we also want to achieve in our cooperation with
Ghana."
After the consultation with the development
Prime Minister intends to consult the State Council and others
concerned actors from Ghana beyond the aid agenda, after which the parliament
debate and vote on it, then the final document will be put in place.
Key representatives from Ghana attended the meeting.
development partners, which included Heads of Mission from the Netherlands,
Brazil, Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan.
The Minister of Justice was also present.
Planning and other members of Ghana's Beyond Aid Committee.
GNA
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