- To assist in the strengthening of democratic institutions in and out of government.
- To conduct civic education campaigns on Human Rights, Peace Building and Reconciliation, Democracy and Good Governance working with various local civil groups with the same objectives.
- To strengthen the capacity of various civic groups to enable them to constructively and genuinely participate in the governance of their country.
- To promote a spirit of tolerance, peace and reconciliation in a multi-party democracy.
- To encourage national identity through a cultural and historical awareness campaign.
IMMEDIATE
OBJECTIVES:
- To promote democratic participation of civil society.
- To promote gender empowerment for gender equality.
- To promote human rights and the rule of law.
We
have received resources for all our programmes on the exception of some
aspect of Human Rights, as well as the development of the women’s
manifesto. For most of the implementation of it programmes Campaign for
Good Governance will be using several consultants and civil groups nationwide.
In addition to all these programmes the organization has Field
Officers in all the twelve districts who act as focal points for the
various groups operating within those areas. Secondly, Campaign for Good
Governance has embarked on voter education and training of domestic monitors
for the forthcoming elections.
Civil
Society Empowerment and Coordination
Campaign for Good Governance believes a viable, strong and well-informed
civil society is central to institutional pluralism. To be able to achieve
this, Campaign for Good Governance is committed to building a strong national
civil society network, developing a comprehensive database of civil society
groups in Sierra Leone, bringing civil groups together on various occasion
to discuss issues, provide training for them as well as institutional
support in terms of stationeries etc. The organization provides civil
groups with airtimes on the various FM Stations and venues utilized for
their meetings across the country to discuss their programmes and various
governance issues.
Campaign
for Good Governance human rights programmes includes monitoring, documenting
and reporting human rights violations across the country, providing legal
advice and representation to victims of human rights violations, providing
medical supports to victims of domestic and sexual violence, visiting and
providing support to women prisoners, deliberating and discussing obsolete
laws, laws just enacted by parliament and bills before parliament to encourage
government to change these laws, civil society be aware and understand the
new laws as well as encourage civil society input into bills going through
parliament respectively, civil society participation, providing human rights
education on women’s and children’s rights on radio, schools and
communities.
The
gender empowerment programme will be working to promote economic and political
empowerment of women. On political empowerment the organization is organizing
a national consultation of women’s groups on the issues of critical
concerns to them that they would like to see addressed by government. It
is hoped that this will encourage and enable women issues be put on the
national political agenda for the 2001 elections. The organization is also
developing a comprehensive database of women in decision-making position
to be published simultaneously with the women’s manifesto as an appendix.
On the economic empowerment of women the organization will be developing
a Micro Credit Financing Scheme for market women across the country.
ACHIEVEMENTS
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The development of a partnership between civil society and government
based on dialogue, consultation and collaboration.
—The promotion of dialogue, consultation and networking amongst civil
society.
—The sensitization of the Sierra Leonean public on democracy and
good governance which has enabled them to participate in the evolving
political process.
—The facilitation of broad base discussion amongst Sierra Leoneans
in public forums, radio discussions and public lectures about current
political issues that affect the sustainability of good governance.
FIELD OFFICERS
Campaign for Good Governance has twelve Field officers one in each district, who have undergone and are still undergoing training on capacity building, through the assistance of a Consultant. They have been provided with digital cameras and Video Cassettes, by the National Endowment for Democracy. (NED) and also other necessary materials and training to enable them to do documentations for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
FUNDING
AGENCIES
Campaign for Good Governance has been funded extensively by the following:
- The Department for International Development (DFID)
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Transitional Initiative through the World Vision International
- National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in United States of America.
- Dutch Interchurch Aid (DIA) in the Netherlands.
