Prioritising and including children in intersectoral policymaking: uncovering Immunity to Change in Ghana
Leonie Akofio-Sowah, Maria Lisa Soraghan, Srivatsan Rajagopalan, Kwame S Sakyi, Aku Kwamie, Bethany Jennings, Florence Ayisi Quartey, Isabella Sagoe-Moses, Prince Owusu, Sarah L Dalglish · 2024
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Leonie Akofio-Sowah and co-authors report a policy case study, published in 2024, on putting children into Ghana's policymaking across government. Nearly a third of Ghanaian toddlers are not developing on track, and progress needs ministries to act together rather than in silos. The team studied a 2021 participatory process that fed into the national early childhood policy, analyzing documents from twenty-two ministries and agencies.
Children themselves contributed through a national competition, worksheets, and video interviews at a policy meeting. Most ministries beyond the classic child sectors had no budgeted child policies, partly because officials saw children as outside their remit. Using an insider outsider lens, the authors name this resistance an immunity to change and show where it broke down.
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| CREATOR | Leonie Akofio-Sowah, Maria Lisa Soraghan, Srivatsan Rajagopalan, Kwame S Sakyi, Aku Kwamie, Bethany Jennings, Florence Ayisi Quartey, Isabella Sagoe-Moses, Prince Owusu, Sarah L Dalglish |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |