Ghana
Emerging Public Leaders in Ghana
In 2023, we celebrated five years of delivering our flagship fellowship program in Ghana through our partner, Emerging Public Leaders in Ghana (EPL Ghana), and in close collaboration with the Government of Ghana, the Mastercard Foundation, and various public sector partners.
Our flagship program is a one-year program for young professionals to become more effective leaders and prepare them for entry into the public sector. The program has provided 140 fellows (41%women) a secure pathway into the wider public sector, including public service institutions and policy-facing Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), and built a critical mass of young people who are influencing government directly and indirectly as duty-bearers in public service agencies.
EPL Ghana’s leading gender initiatives, partners with Co-Impact and the Office of the Head of Civil Service (OHCS) on Women on the Rise: Tackling Gender Barriers to Women’s Leadership within the Public Sector, which seeks to strengthen the Public Service by addressing gender barriers towards a more systemic change.
The new Professionals Engaged Against Conflict & Endangerment Fellowship program in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Ghana and support from the Foundation for Security and Development in Africa aims to upskill public sector security professionals to provide critical security services in Northern, Upper East, and North-East regions of Ghana.
Together, the new programs have reached over 100+ young professionals bolstering service delivery in at-risk communities and for minority groups.