{More than 25 senior officials responsible for managing the highest level of government decision making in 13 African Cabinet Secretariats meet in Accra from Monday 13 April until Friday 17 April 2015.}
They will take part in the second Africa Cabinet Government Network (ACGN) Roundtable, hosted by the Cabinet Secretariat of the Republic of Ghana.
The Roundtable will be formally opened on Tuesday morning by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana, Mr John Dramani Mahama, who will deliver the keynote address. The theme of the Roundtable is ‘Transparency and Accountability in Policy Formulation and Implementation’.
The President of the Council of African Cabinet Secretaries, Dr Ernest Surrur, and the Secretary to the Ghanaian Cabinet, Mr Roger Angsomwine, will also speak at the opening ceremony. Dr Surrur is the Secretary of the Sierra Leone Cabinet and the Head of the Sierra Leone Civil Service.
ACGN has 13 member secretariats across Africa and is a mechanism for formal and informal practical collaboration and mutual support between Cabinet Secretaries and others involved in managing Cabinet processes.
ACGN’s objective is to share knowledge and experience to improve the capabilities of Cabinet Secretariats, especially to improve evidence-based policy-making.
Technological change and rising community expectations are making government decision-making more complex.
The challenge facing Cabinet Secretariats is to ensure that policy development and implementation processes are transparent and that accountability requirements are effective.
In particular, Cabinet Ministers need to be confident that they are being provided with policy options which are based on the most relevant and most recent evidence.
This is the second Roundtable organized by the ACGN and follows a highly successful inaugural workshop in Addis Ababa in February 2014.
Cabinet Secretariats from Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Rwanda, Botswana, Somaliland, Tanzania and Zanzibar are represented at the Roundtable, which will held at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel.
The Roundtable is supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), through its Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence programme. This part of the programme is implemented by Adam Smith International.
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