The Ghana national
consultation process will feed into the development of a framework document.
The National consultative process began with ‘one-to-one’ meetings with a number
of selected Ministers followed by stakeholders' consultations. These stakeholder
consultative meetings and public forums, which started in late September have been going
well with a number of requests for further meetings. For example, the meeting with a group
of Paramount Chiefs from the Eastern Region, resulted in a request by the President of the
National House of Chiefs for the entire National House of Chiefs to be included. The
meeting with the Private Sector Foundation resulted in a further half-day session with
representatives of key private sector associations and groupings. Also the meeting with
the Parliamentary Select Committee on Communications led to the decision that the entire
House be briefed on the NICI process. There are other numerous examples.
The full list of the organizations, agencies, institutions and individuals consulted so
far as part of the pre-Framework consultative process is available by clicking the link at
the bottom of this page.
The Planned Post-Framework Consultative Process
Once the Framework Document of the NICI is made public, there will be a number of
stakeholders’ consultative meetings and public fora to discuss and seek views on the
document. A number of stakeholders who took part in the pre-framework consultative process
suggested and insisted on the need for their involvement in the next consultative process
on the Framework Document before the actual policy developed. January and February will be
used for the post-framework consultative process.
After this, the Policy Document will be ready for submission to the Cabinet by the
Honourable Minister for Communications and Technology by March. As part of the
post-framework consultative process, it is planned that a proposed high-powered
Ministerial level meeting on the Framework be held to be chaired by the President/Vice
President or the Senior Minister.
Revised schedule for policy
| The Framework Document: |
January 2003: launched |
| Post-Framework consultative
process: |
January to February 2003 |
| NICI policy document: |
March 2003: presented to
Cabinet and Parliament |
| Plan Development Process: |
April – August 2003 |
 
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