LAUNCH OF THE MULTI-STAKEHOLDER HERITAGE STRATEGIC PLAN FRAMEWORK

Today, the Ghana Heritage Committee under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture and Ghana Commission for UNESCO organized a workshop to validate a Multi-stakeholder Heritage Strategic Framework for Ghana.

The workshop brought together all actors and stakeholders in Ghana’s Heritage to validate the Multi-stakeholder Heritage Strategic Framework. The key speakers at the workshop were Honorable Henry Kwabena Kokofu, Executive Director of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Chairman of Man and the Biosphere (MAB) National Committee, Mr. John Yao Agbeko, Chief Director of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC), Mrs. Ama Serwah Nerquaye-Tetteh, Secretary-General for the Ghana Commission for UNESCO, Mrs. Janet Edna Nyame, Executive Director for the National Commission on Culture and Professor Kodzo Gavua, Chairman of the Technical Committee.

The Multi-stakeholder Heritage Strategic Framework which is the first of its kind in the West African Sub-region is intended to outline overarching set of priority actions to help manage Ghana’s diverse heritage resources effectively and efficiently. It is to serve as a national strategic blueprint from which all key stakeholder institutions will draw their annual action plans and programs.

In addition, the framework will help in addressing the following:

a) Promote innovative and integrated approaches in Heritage management.

b) Promote inclusive engagement and involvement of communities and other stakeholders in heritage management.

c) Strategically position Ghana’s heritage to support sustainability and sustainable development.

d) Promote institutional and professional capacity building as a continuous process in Ghana.

e) Create an enabling environment for resource mobilization to support the heritage sector of Ghana

The successful validation of the Framework has paved the way for it to be launched by Hon. Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic of Ghana together with Hon. Dr Mohammed Ibrahim Awal, Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC), Hon. Dr. Kwaku Afriyie Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Hon. Samuel Abu Jinapor, Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Her Excellency, Anne Sophie AVE, Ambassador of France to Ghana and Mr Abdourahamane Diallo, Head of Office, UNESCO Accra on Thursday, December 16, 2021 at the Ghana Shippers Authority Auditorium.