17th August, 2021
NCCE EMBARKS ON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS ON NATIONAL COHESION AND INCLUSIVE PARTICIPATION
As part of its mandate to educate the general public on important national issues and to create awareness on the rights and responsibilities of the Ghanaian citizenry, the National Commission for Civic Education, (NCCE) with support from the Ministry of National Security is embarking on a series of community education and sensitization activities under the theme “Empowering Ghanaians to Stand for National Cohesion and Inclusive Participation”. The activities will largely target the youth and citizens in districts of the Oti, Volta, parts of Bono East and Eastern regions, coastal districts of Greater Accra, Central, Western regions, and the border districts of Western North, Ahafo and Bono regions, as well as other hotspot communities and districts across the country. Activities will cover a period of 3 months, beginning from 18th of August, 2021 to 31st October, 2021.
Focus areas include Public Order Act, 1994 (Act 491), the Vigilante and Related Offences Act, 2019 (Act 999), the National Security Strategy, and the National Framework for Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorism in Ghana. The programme broadly seeks to promote national cohesion, peaceful co-existence, and countering extremist activities especially in the parts of the country where peace and security are under threat. Activities to be undertaken include:
- Youth Activist Engagements
- Inter-Party Dialogue Committees activities (IPDCs)
- Community Engagements
- Cinema Van shows and Dawn and Dusk Broadcasts
- Media Engagements and Social Media Communication
- Airing of Jingles and Animation
These activities are intended to educate and sensitise the generality of the citizenry in target regions and equip them with the basic knowledge and skills on regulations and laws such as the Public Order Act, the Vigilante, and Related Offences Act, the National Security Strategy, and the National Framework for Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorism in Ghana. Also, the Commission will create awareness on grievance handling procedures and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms as well as step-up orientation on Patriotism and Nationalism as important elements of national cohesion. This is to engender active citizens’ participation in nation-building.
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