The team on SWIDA – Gh’s COVID-19 Accountability Bridges Project has held a review meeting to discuss how implementation of the project is going, as well as the challenges affecting implementation and how they could be resolved.
The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA – Gh) is partnering the Ghana Anti – Corruption Coalition (GACC) on the Accountability project, to monitor the expenditure of the COVID – 19 funds at the Sub – national level.
Executive Director of the Ghana Anti – Corruption Coalition, Mrs. Beauty Nartey, after congratulating the implementing team at SWIDA – Gh for a good job done so far, stressed the need for extra vigilance and professionalism if the project should achieve its objective at the end of the day.
According to Mrs. Nartey, public offices and government agencies are always prone to corruption because of their positions and considering their exposure to funds entrusted in their care.
She added however that, if the public official knows there are eyes on every expenditure they carry out, they will sit up not misuse and misappropriate public funds.
The Executive Director for SWIDA – Gh, Hajia Alima Sagito-Saeed who is the leader of the SWIDA – Gh team assured the GACC team that her organization is discussing various ways to increase the monitoring of the expenditure and for other activities, to ensure the core objective of the project is achieved.
These activities include the data collected from the Ghana Health Service, the Sagnarigu Municipal Planning and Coordinating Unit, as well as from the general public.
The issues discussed and learnings drawn from the data collection pushed the team into an agreement on the way forward for action, including for a validation workshop to be held subsequently.
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