On February 21 2008, IMANI brought together 102 delegates to discuss a draft policy on alcohol for Ghana-becasue Ghana has no policy on alcohol. Two earlier workshops brought together 150 delegates. Last Thursday’s delegates included, highly placed representatives from varied Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Ghanaian government, Australian and Namibian government officials as well as corporate directors of alcoholic beverage companies from Ghana and South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Nigeria, U.K and the U.S.A who came flew in learn from the Ghana/IMANI experience.
Please listen to Franklin’s welcome remarks here
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Mr. Franklin Cudjoe, Executive Director of Imani Centre for Policy and Education (ICPE) has called on government to develop a comprehensive national policy that would help educate the public on the negative effects of alcohol.
Mr Cudjoe said this in Accra at one of a series of workshops on national alcohol draft policy consideration organized by the ICPE to consider, approve and agree on its draft national alcohol policy, that would be presented to government and its stakeholders for adoption.
He said the nation needed a coherent framework that would help design …

A Consideration of Draft National Alcohol Policy
It was clear from the extensive media reportage that the November 29, 2007 debate was constructive and bore testimony to the calibre of the delegates who represented a cross section of government and interest groups.
See two major reports in the state-owned Ghanaian Times and Daily Graphic of December 5, 2007 and December 3, 2007 here
Dr. Keith Evans left the workshop armed with the suggestions and concerns of the meeting, and committed to develop an alcohol policy which would reflect the feelings of the …