A day’s training workshop has been organized for Citizen Monitoring Groups (CMGs) in the Volta region, on Ghana’s electronic Case Tracking System. The training which took place in Ho, the Regional capital, was organized by the Legal Resources Centre, a non-governmental organization, as part of the ‘USAID Justice Sector Support Activity.’ According to Enock […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) has trained members of a Citizen Monitoring Group (CMG) in the Upper East Region to monitor the Integrated Criminal Justice Case Tracking System and support stakeholders in the justice delivery system. The Case Tracking System (CTS) project is to enable key actors in the justice delivery system to electronically access […]
High cost of initiating or defending suits, limited and under-resourced justice institutions, the complexity of judicial processes, disempowerment, perverse delays in administering of justice caused by frequent adjournments, missing case dockets, slow processing of documentation due to high caseloads, high perception of corruption leading to minimal trust by the public in the Ghanaian courts, high […]
Legal Resources Centre (LRC), non-profit legal advocacy organisation based in Accra, has trained six Citizen Monitoring Group (CMG) members from six selected districts in the Northern Region. The one day training workshop held in Tamale on Wednesday was in response to the 2018 Integrated Criminal Justice Case-Tracking System (CTS) project launched by the government to […]
The implementing partners of the USAID funded Justice Sector Support Activity will soon roll out a robust media education and sensitisation programme to empower Ghanaians to enable them to know the existence of the Case Tracking System (CTS) and its importance to justice delivery in Ghana. In an interview with GBC, the Rule of Law […]
The USAID Justice Sector Support Activity implementation team has paid a courtesy call on the Director-General of the Ghana Prisons Service, ASP Patrick Missah. The visit forms part of efforts to engage more stakeholders in the criminal justice chain on the importance of Case Tracking System (CTS), in enhancing efficient justice delivery in Ghana. […]
On Tuesday, our District Steering Committee meeting on Ghana’s Strengthening Accountability Mechanisms (GSAM) project in the Bole District engaged both Assemblymen and District Assembly representatives on deepening social accountability, citizen-duty bearer engagements and monitoring of capital projects in the Bole District, Savannah Region. #CapitalProjects #citizenship #DutybearerResponsiveness […]
The United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched the “Justice Sector Support Activity” Project in Accra. The three-year project, is being implemented by the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) in partnership with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) Africa Office and in collaboration with Crime Check Foundation (CCF). In 2018, […]
To improve transparency in Ghana’s criminal justice delivery, a system to publicly track criminal cases in court has been launched. The electronic Case Tracking System (CTS) will collect, collate, and harmonize data from the time of the arrest of a suspect to the time judgment is delivered. The CTS project supported by the USAID […]
The Ghana Audit Service has conducted performance audits to assess the quality of selected infrastructural projects under Ghana’s Strengthening Accountability Mechanisms (GSAM) project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is to evaluate for value-for-money in public budgeting of 50 selected District Assembly projects including classroom blocks, health centres, teachers’ and […]