S.A COMMITTEES UNDERGO TRAINING 20th May, 2019


A three-day capacity building training workshop for members of various Social Audit Committees [SACs] selected from the five regions of the North, is underway in the Upper East Regional capital, Bolgatanga.


TEERE, a Bolgatanga-based local-governance-oriented Non-Governmental Organisation, is the organizer of the training with funding from the German Government through GIZ and additional support from the USAID, the German Corporation, Global Affairs Canada and Ghana’s Ministry for Local Government and Rural Development.

A section of participants at the training
In an interview with the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of TEERE, Mr. Maxwell Banu Babilo on the sidelines of the training, he disclosed that the objective of the training was to enhance the knowledge of participants on social auditing and also, to create a platform to share ideas and learn from best practices from sister districts. He added that participants will also be equipped with effective skills to execute their mandate as SAC members which should strengthen democratic governance and participatory development at the district levels.


Mr. Banu revealed that, a total of 50 participants drawn from districts in the Upper East, Upper West and North East regions were partaking in the training while a similar session will be held in the Northern Region for another set of participants within the week. These participants comprised representatives from Community-based Organisations, local citizens’ representatives and focal persons from 17 Municipal and District Assemblies from the aforementioned regions. 

According to him, the SAC is basically a team of citizens’ representatives whose membership was voluntary and whose major role among others was to lead in monitoring the implementation of key local government projects and programmes including special intervention initiatives in the local communities. He added that the Committees were also mandated to liaise with Municipal and District Assemblies to communicate with the public for their inputs and reactions on government’s development efforts and also, to help organise town hall meetings for the public to engage duty bearers.

The TEERE M&E Officer said during the first two days of the training, participants will be schooled on Gender Responsive Budgeting and Planning while they will also be tasked to do some hands-on group exercises to test their comprehension of lessons learnt.
Participants at the training

Main facilitator for the three-day training is Mr. Augustine Opoku Antwi, an Organisational Development Expert and a Training Consultant. He is scheduled to take the participants through topics such as the social audit organisation, its features and processes, introduction to social audit tools and the role of the media in social auditing among other relevant topics.

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