TI-GHANA MOBILISES WOMEN FOR ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT 11th NOVEMBER, 2025

Mrs. Mary Awelana Addah, Executive Dir.  - TI-Ghana
In bolstering the efforts of fighting corruption in Ghana, Transparency International Ghana (TI-Ghana) has held a one-day training in Paga, for 50 women drawn from several women’s groups across the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region. The anti-corruption training which was themed “Voices of Change; Mobilizing Marginalized Groups Including Women to Challenge Corruption in Their communities” is under the auspices of TI-Ghana’s Inclusive Services Delivery Africa (ISDA) Project with funding support from Global Affairs Canada through the instrumentality of its mother-organization, Transparency International.

Speaking on the rationale for the training and why women must get involved in the anti-corruption fight, Executive Director for TI-Ghana, Mrs. Mary Awelana Addah stated that, “evidence continuous to show that corruption and discrimination affect women the most in their daily search for essential services”. She added that they meet these undesirable acts of corruption and discrimination in the hospitals where they take their children to seek health care; in the schools as they struggle to secure admissions for their wards as well as in the markets and in their search for employment, where favouritism and unfair demands including requests for sexual favours, can limit their livelihoods.

Mrs. Addah noted that these everyday experiences “mirror the structural inequalities that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals call on all stakeholders including TI-Ghana and partners, to confront by making a global commitment to promote inclusion, advance gender equality and to ensure that, no one is left behind”. She observed however that, in the midst of all these challenges, women are not merely victims, but remain the strongest agents of change, when they are properly equipped with the right tools, adequate knowledge and appropriate platforms. Armed with all these, “women can expose injustice, inspire accountability and transform their communities into spaces of fairness, integrity and hope”, she emphasized.  

The TI-Ghana Director explained that the ISDA Project is working to ensure that women, the youth and marginalized citizens such as persons living disabilities (PWDs) are not only recipients of governance but also, become active shapers of it, ensuring that public services truly serve the public good. In her words of encouragement to the participants, Mrs. Addah stressed that, “today, we want every woman here to return home, empowered to challenge corruption in her community, to speak without fear and to know that, her voice counts”.

 Group Photo Of TI-Ghana Officers & Participants
 

TI-Ghana’s Assistant Project Officer Mr. Bright Ayivi, who did a presentation on “Understanding the Linkages Between Corruption and Discrimination” explained to the women that “corruption is simply the abuse of entrusted power for private gain”. He also touched on what constituted grand corruption and petty corruption saying while the former involves high-level public officials circumventing policies to their own favour and stealing large sums of money meant for the public good, the latter refers to low-level officials indulging in the diversion of small amounts and perpetuating acts that cause infractions for citizens in the daily access of basic services. He thus charged the participants to be alert on such acts in their communities and do their bit as responsible citizens, to help stamp out these acts of corruption.

Meanwhile the Northern Zonal Focal Person for TI-Ghana, Mr. Joseph Makido Azam, educated the women on the available channels via which they could report acts of corruption disclosing some toll-free mobile telecommunication network numbers including 0800 100 250 for MTN and AirtelTigo (at) and 0800 100 25 for users on the Telecel network whilst reports can be filed via WhatsApp on 0577665295. He also mentioned some state institutions including the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the National Investigations Bureau (NIB) among others that are mandated to receive corruption complaints.

Mr. Makido assured the public of confidentiality and anonymity in the reporting and reception of corruption cases to TI-Ghana and therefore encouraged the public to be ready and willing to “resist all forms of corruption, to reject and to report same for the appropriate action in order to spare us all and the future generations of the negative consequences of corruption”.  

The participant-groups that comprised members of the hairdressers and dressmakers’ associations, weavers, market women, “susu” groups, PWDs, youth groups as well as female members of the district’s Social Audit Club and some officials from the Social Welfare and Community Development Department were taken through scenarios of corruption and made to discuss by identifying the entrusted power, the element of abuse and to mark areas where private gain took place. TI-Ghana has already held a similar training for same class of participants in the sister-district, the Kassena-Nankana East Municipality on Monday, 10th November, 2025.

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