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Report_Border Communities Monitoring, Community Sensitization and Radio Program

29 Nov 2021

The exercise forms part of the Center’s “Enhancing Citizen Participation in Border Security Management” project, which aims at improving the security awareness of citizens along, and across border communities as a proactive step in contributing to enhancing Ghana’s border security in the face of surging cross border crimes and external security threats in West Africa. [...] The security situation in the monitored border communities was generally calm, with few purported criminal cases in some border communities that have received the attention of security agencies present in the respective districts. [...] Some of the communities listed include Leklebi Dafor, Leklebi Agbesia and Kame in the Volta Region, Ketukalonte and Dakpakodzi located in Oti Region, Baamoah in the Western North Region, Dimali and Nachamba Number Two in the Northern Region. [...] Furthermore, the volunteers also indicated that in 83% of the communities, they did not observe or hear of any form of disputes between members of the border communities and the security officers. [...] CDD-GHANA PAGE 5 Public education through radio programs To increase the target beneficiaries of the educational message and increase citizens’ level of awareness on issues pertaining to security, the volunteers were tasked to serve as liaisons and create a platform where representatives from the security agencies will have the opportunity to educate the populace.

Authors

C-Watch

Pages
6
Published in
Ghana