Augustina Akumanyi
Deputy Chairman, National Commission for Civic Education, Ghana
Elections
donor relations, media relations, voter registration, voter fraud, voter education, training, recruitment, polling supplies, monitoring, electronic voting, election violence, election security, election schedules, election management body
Ashley McCants
Ghana
National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE),
Accra,
Ghana
Wed Aug 13 2008
Abstract
Augustina Akumanyi explains her role at Ghana's National Commission of Civic Education and how the commission was established, including its relationship with the government and its efforts to become and remain an independent body. She talks about how the commission operates, including staff appointments, operations, funding, budget authority, recruitment methods, and training and evaluation methods. She offers details of the responsibilities of the commission in voter and civic education activities and how these are shared with civil society and the media. This education can come in the way of messages that can either be motivational or instructional. Akumanyi gives her opinion on the best way to convey these messages, and which messages are more effective than others. Finally, she gives her opinion on the relationship between donors and host countries and ways to improve working relations.
Full Profile
At the time of this interview, Augustina Akumanyi was deputy chairman responsible for programs at the National Commission for Civic Education in Accra, Ghana. She had extensive experience in the Ghana Civil Service as well as more than 20 years working in the U.K. as a principle committee administrator in five London boroughs. She returned to Ghana in 2003 to work at the commission. She graduated from the University of Ghana and the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.
