CEPA's training in capacity building programme is demand driven
based on needs assessment of institutions and take the form
of workshops, seminars, lectures and internship for strengthening
human resource capacity in Ghana and the sub-region. Training
programmes include: • poverty analysis; revenue projections;
expenditure analysis; and trade policy analysis with particular
emphasis on the Agreements of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Resource
persons were drawn from CEPA to:
Workshop on Poverty Measurements organized by the Institute
of Social and Economic Research, (ISSER) and funded by the
World Bank Institute and SISERA.
Lecture Microeconomics to Executive MBA class of the
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
(GIMPA).
Lecture International Trade Theory and Policy to Level
400 students of the Department of Economics at the University
of Ghana.
Provide technical assistance to the Public Utilities
Regulatory Commission (PURC) to review tariffs for water
and electricity.
The World Bank Institute in Washington D.C. contracted
CEPA as the local coordinator to run a training program
on fiscal policy for poverty reduction. The training program
was held concurrently in three other African countries,
using the Distance Learning Video Conference Facilities
of the World Bank at GIMPA, Accra.
Basic Poverty Measurement and Diagnostics Course, Organised
by World Bank Institute and SISERA, held at the Kenya School
of Monetary Studies, Nairobi, Kenya. March 11-18, 2002;
Accra. July 2-10, 2002
Training program on On-Sight Interviewers May 28-29,
2002.
Training workshop on Poverty Measurements organized by
the Institute of Social and Economic Research, (ISSER) Accra-Ghana,
funded by the World Bank Institute and SISERA. (2002)
SISERA-WBI Advanced Poverty Training Sessions at CREFA,
CANADA from
August 27-September 29, 2002.
Training Workshop on Development, Trade and the WTO Handbook
at GIMPA, Accra from November 06-08, 2002.
Lectures on Microeconomics to Executive MBA class of
the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
(GIMPA).
Lectures on International Trade Theory and Policy to
M.Phil and Level 400 students of the Department of Economics
at the University of Ghana.
Lecture on M. A. Microeconomics for Policy Making, at
the Economic Policy Management Program (EPM).
M. Phil. lecture on International Finance, University
of Ghana, Legon.
