LAUNCH OF THE CHILDREN IN ALL POLICIES (CAP 2030) GHANA ROADMAP
The Children in All Policies 2030 (CAP 2030) movement was created out of the WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission's “A future for the world's children?” to put children at the center of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Led globally by the University College of London, WHO, UNICEF, and The Lancet, and funded by Children Investment Fund Foundation, CAP 2030 embraces the science that successful societies invest in children's health, education, and development.
Ghana, together with 8 other countries, have developed country-specific pilot schemes to reach the goals of CAP 2030. CLCD-Ghana and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection are leading Ghana's CAP 2030 initiative in close partnership with World Vision, Plan
International, National Development and Planning Commission, World Health Organization-Ghana, and Child Rights International.
The CAP 2030 Ghana agenda has two main goals; one is to intensify children's prominence in policies by making sure that all government sectors include children in all their policies at both the local and national levels. The second is to amplify children's voices in decisions that affect them.
The CAP 2030 Ghana Roadmap was developed through a systematic analysis of twenty-two (22) medium-term sector plans (from 2013-2021) submitted to the National Development Planning Commission. It also included multi-sectoral stakeholder discussions at the CAP 2030 Ghana conference. About 150 participants attended the conference, including members from government ministries, early childhood development, and youth participation-focused organizations, and primary school students.
The roadmap is a set of recommendations to put children in all policies within each ministry. It further lays the foundation for amplifying children’s voices in national and local decision-making and serves as a pathway to mobilize around the CAP 2030 agenda goals.
The aim of the launch is to create strong partnerships and advocacy for the implementation of the roadmap
Conference Speakers
Dr. Sarah Dalglish is Executive Director of Children in All Policies 2030, an initiative to implement the recommendations of the WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission report. A researcher and policy expert on child health, she has appointments at University College London and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She is based in Paris, with research experience across West Africa, and speaks French and Hausa
Mr. Gregory Lierfu Dery is a human rights advocate with passion for promoting the rights of children. He started his career in the NGO sector 20 years ago having worked in four different local and international Non-governmental organizations between 2001 and now. These NGO’s include Binaba Area Community Health Project (BACH), District Capacity Building Project (DISCAP) and ActionAid Ghana (AAG). He is the Child Protection and Advocacy Manager for World Vision Ghana
Dr. Diaz has worked for CDC for 20 years. While at CDC, she served as the Global AIDS Surveillance team leader, and the Branch Chief of the Epidemiology and Strategic Information Branch of the Global AIDS Program. She oversaw all activities in the areas of surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, informatics, and statistics and worked closely with the Strategic Information unit of the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief assuring that Congress and country offices have quality data to assess the progress and impact of their programs.
Dr. Diaz served as the lead of the Knowledge Management and Implementation Research Unit in the Health Section in UNICEF, NY. She worked on supporting implementation research in various countries in the area of child health specifically in integrated community case management as well as use of routine health information data for child health program planning. In 2016 she joined World Health Organization and now serves as the Unit Chief of the Epidemiology and Monitoring and Evaluation team in the Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing Department. She currently is chairing the Data and Learning Working Group of CAP 2030
Dr. Kwame Sakyi is a co-founder and the Director of the Center for Learning and Childhood Development-Ghana, where he oversees the Center's overall strategic direction and research portfolio. Dr. Sakyi holds a PhD and Master's of Science degree in international (global) health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
As an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, USA, he teaches biostatistics and research methods to graduate students. Dr. Sakyi's expertise is in maternal, neonatal, and child well-being in low- and middle-income countries. He has worked on a wide range of projects that affect mothers and children, including infectious diseases (HIV and malaria), neonatal health, developmental disabilities, mental health, stigma, and community-based interventions. He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Research Service Award (Grant, T32DA1391), NIH R25 Brown University Training Fellowship (R25MH83620), and the Young Alumni Career Award from Albion College, Albion, Michigan.
Ulla Walmisley is a physiotherapist by training. She completed her MPH at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Since then she has been working at the UWC School of Public Health doing research around health systems, with a particular interest in adolescent health. She began working on the CAP2030 South Africa project in 2021, and has been particularly been involved in conducting the scoping review to map community-based approaches to alcohol harms reduction.
Vrashali Khandelwal is part of the Academics & Research team at IIHS. She is primarily interested in the questions of informality and social security. As part of CAP 2030, she is involved in looking at ways of scaling a creche service model for the children of the informal workers (such as construction workers, domestic workers, waste workers, street vendors). Prior to her research engagement, she has worked on multiple government consulting projects for design and implementation of national and state-level flagship policies. Academically, she is trained as an engineer with a post-graduation in development studies
Mrs. Florence Ayisi Quartey is a Child Protection Specialist with an MPHIL.in Social Work. She has many years of experience working with Government, Development Partners and Civil Society Organizations in promoting the rights of children in Ghana.
She has considerable knowledge and experience in child rights issues having worked with the Department of Children and subsequently the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection for over 16 years. Mrs. Ayisi Quartey has extensive background in the areas of programming, advocacy, public policy development, capacity development, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, and research on child rights issues.
She played a key role in development of the “Ghana Child and Family Welfare” and “Justice for Children Policies” and is currently responsible for the overall coordination for the two policies.
Mrs. Ayisi Quartey is currently the Ag. Director, Department of Children of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection in Ghana
Worlanyo Foster is the Director of Advocacy & Partnerships at the International Justice Mission Ghana (IJM Ghana). In this role, he leads the advocacy and partnerships team to advocate for an end to trafficking on the Volta Lake and cross border trafficking. He leads the national engagement of government, community, and civil stakeholders to bring awareness and concrete action to end the issue of trafficking in Ghana