TEERE wins grant award from STAR-Ghana
TEERE recently won a grant of $75,000 from the STAR-Ghana 2016 election call. This was a collaborative effort between TEERE and SILDEP
(a not-for-profit organisation based in Tumu in the Upper West region of Ghana). Over three hundred Non-Governmental organisations responded to
the call for proposals but only 35 of them (constituting about 10%) were awarded the grant. TEERE was among them.
Our proposal topic “Maximising voter turnout and Minimising rejected votes: Mini-Max Campaign 2016” was very captivating and focused on two
important areas on the election value chain that the assessors could not leave us out. The project enjoins the two organisations to campaign
in three very important areas relating to the 2016 general elections namely voter registration, reducing the number of rejected votes and ensuring
many more people turnout to vote than they did in the 2012 election. In short, we are focusing on Voter Education on the election value chain.
We are doing the project in two districts in the Upper West region, Lambussie-Karni and Wa East, and in the Upper East region in the Bolgatanga
and Bongo districts.
We are excited as a young organisation. This is because the grant provides us the opportunity to work with Star-Ghana and SILDEP which will
eventually help to strengthen our systems and structures. As part of the project we were required to collaborate with SILDEP who have much more
experience than we do. We have already learnt so much from SILDEP and Star-Ghana even at this stage. In addition, grant partners provide another
important platform to learn from seniors and colleagues in the industry.
We are very committed to a credible, transparent and peaceful elections before, during and after the 2016 elections. We will therefore do all we
can to ensure that the objectives of the project are achieved.
