A two day policy advocacy meeting held in the implementation
of the domestic violence Act,2007, Act 723 has been held in Accra under the
auspices of the National Advocacy partnership led by the Ministry of Women and
Children’s Affairs (MOWAC).passed by parliament on 21st February 2007 which became operational from 3rd may 2007.
Mrs. Juliana Azumah Mensah Minister of women and children’s Affairs in
her presentation said, the ministry of women and children’s affairs will
develop a national policy and plan of action (NPPoA) to operationalised the DV Act for effective implementation , and
that copies of document has been made and sent to respective MDA’s to acquaint
themselves with their responsibilities with respect to the plan and make the
required budgetary allocations in their budgets.
She noted that, a DV national secretariat has been
established with a (13) members management board which comprises representative from the MDA’s
and the CSO’s.
She said, activities that have been carried out completely
to date by the National Secretariat and Management Board include, Translation
and printing of the DV Act into six (6) official Ghanaian languages; Akan ,
Ewe, Ga ,Dagbani, Hausa, and Nzema of which two thousands of these copies are being
distributed to the regions through their Regional Directors.
She stated that, a one day meeting for the judiciary and
enforcement agencies has been organized on their role in the implementation of
the DV Act.
She mentioned that, a recent request for individual
institution to write a cabinet memo detailing the activities or the projects
each Ministry want to undertake which will create jobs and building of shelters
put down by MOWAC .
She stressed on the need to engage and train professionals
,counselors ,clinical psychologist and ADR expects, and that they continuously
need to train police personnel, judges
,doctors, teachers and even students, as listed down in the NPPoA she added.
