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Hon. Abla Dzifa Gomashie, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Appoints 11 member committee to prepare for Stakeholders Dialogue.

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The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Hon Dzifa Gomashie has set up an eleven member committee to prepare for the proposed National Stakeholder Forum on Resetting Ghana’s Culture and Creative Ecosystem to be held later this year. 
The committee is headed by Nanahemaa Adjoa Awindor with Prof Gavua as the deputy chair. The Minister made this announcement at the Ghana Culture Week Celebration which took place at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park on Friday. The day was marked with a symposium and stakeholder dialogue preparatory forum and the Taste 68@68 organized by the Ghana Tourism Authority.
Below is the Minister’s statement at the forum:

STATEMENT BY HON. ABLA DZIFA GOMASHIE (M.P.), MINISTER FOR TOURISM, CULTURE AND CREATIVE ARTS AT THE STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE PREPARATORY FORUM HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE MINISTRY OF TOURISM, CULTURE AND CREATIVE ARTS, AND ORGANISED BY GHANA CULTURE FORUM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GHANA TOURISM AUTHORITY TO CELEBRATE 2025 GHANA CULTURE DAY & TASTE 68@68 FOOD FAIR ON FRIDAY, 14TH MARCH, 2025AT THE KWAME NKRUMAH MEMORIAL PARK, ACCRA 

 

MR. CHAIRMAN

HON. DEPUTY MINISTER FOR TOURISM, CULTURE AND CREATIVE ARTS

UNESCO COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVE

DIRECTOR, DIASPORA AFFAIRS, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

PRESIDENTIAL STAFFER FOR BLACK STAR EXPERIENCE

CEO OF GHANA TOURISM AUTHORITY

THE PATRONS, CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND MEMBERS OF THE GHANA CULTURE FORUM

COLLEAGUES PRACTITIONERS OF THE ARTS, CULTURE, TOURISM SECTOR

NII MEI, NAA MEI

NANANOM

AG. CHIEF DIRECTOR AND DIRECTORS OF MOTCCA

FRIENDS FROM THE MEDIA

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

Permit me to make a brief statement to set the tone for this second section of the 2025 Ghana Culture Day Celebration which is a Stakeholder Dialogue Preparatory Forum – a precursor to a proposed National Stakeholder Forum on the Resetting Ghana’s Culture and Creative Ecosystem to be held later this year. 

 

This is envisaged in the frame of a national conference on Arts, Culture, its allied sectors and Industries and it is designed to bring together practitioners from the public and private sector and other stakeholders to discuss Ghana’s agenda on arts and culture development and programmes towards the renaissance of the sector. This national stakeholder engagement is also aimed at stemming the inertia, demoralization, waning enthusiasm and lethargy that has engulfed the institutions, staff and practitioners of arts and culture in the country and help create new spirit of rejuvenation and renewal among industry players.

 

We are glad that we are able to use the occasion of Ghana Culture Day to initiate a discussion on this plan and the key issues that should inform the framing of this important national undertaking. 

Some of the issues that we would wish this preparatory forum to look at among others are:

  • Mainstreaming culture in national development (moving culture from the peripheral to the centre)
  • Advancing culture and socio-economic development
  • Defining the architecture of the culture and creative sector
  • Policy and legal framework coherence 
  • Empowering and capacity building: institutions/organisations of culture including art associations and guilds in the civil society space 
  • Research through quantitative and qualitative data and the enabling and driving role of culture in sustainable development
  • Affirming cultural identity and heritage
  • Developing culture and the creative industries
  • Ensuring popular participation in culture: women, youth, students, physically challenged, traditional communities, social organisations and networks
  • Systematising and structuring government and civil society partnership in the cultural and creative sector
  • Promoting domestic tourism and the culture of travel. (To enhance knowledge about each other so as to bridge the seemingly cultural distances between our people)
  • Culture and the education system: pedagogy - content, form, curriculum etc
  • Funding of the culture and creative sector
  • Enhancing international cultural co-operation

We are proposing the setting up of a 11-member Planning Committee that will be charged with planning and managing the National Cultural and Creative Sector Stakeholder Forum. The planning committee is composed as follows:

  1. Nanahema Adwoa Awindor – Chairperson 
  2. Professor Kodzo Gavua – Vice Chairperson
  3. Mr. Divine Owusu Ansah - Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts - Member
  4. Mr. Geoffrey Tamakloe - Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts - Member
  5. Madam Alice Kala - National Commission on Culture - Member
  6. Mr. Ahuma Bosco Ocansey - Ghana Culture Forum - Member
  7. Chieff Moomen – Member
  8. Dr. Avea Nsor (Manifesto) – Member
  9. Mr. Adokwei Moffat – Member
  10. Ms. Agnes Panfred – Member
  11. Mr. Carl Ampah, National Programme Officer, Culture Sector UNESCO Office in Accra – Ex-Officio Member

 

The PROPOSED TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR) FOR THE PLANNING COMMITTEE are as follows: 

To make proposals to include the following:

  1. Date and Time
  2. Venue
  3. Theme
  4. Agenda/Programme (including plenary, breakout, workshop sessions, artistic component) etc
  5. Participants
  6. Role Players including speakers, panellists, chairpersons, rapporteurs etc
  7. Event Management including logistics, equipment and facilities, consumables hospitality, protocol, transport, secretariat services including registration systems, invitations, production staff, décor, etc
  8. Publicity, documentation and reporting
  9. Budget
  10. Sponsorship (Fund and resource mobilisation)

It is our aim that the road map towards the holding of this national forum will include an engagement process with the relevant stakeholders, partners and sectors to ensure that there is the necessary traction and the building of needed social capital that engenders collective ownership of this national effort. 

I will like to thank you for your attention.

 

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