Government is to hold "Ghana Policy Fair 2010", to offer Ghanaians the opportunity to evaluate policies being implemented to determine their relevance to socio-economic development.
The fair scheduled for Tuesday, April 27 - Saturday, May 1, on the theme: "Engaging the citizenry for a Better Ghana" would be held at the Accra International Conference Centre.
The five-day fair would help collate information from the public and private sectors and civil society on government policies, projects and programmes and deepen the process of public consultation.
It would also afford Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies the opportunity to exhibit
and showcase their policies.
Briefing the press, Mr James Agyenim-Boateng, Deputy Minister of Information, said it was a significant commitment to engage the citizenry to deepen transparency and accountability in governance.
He said government's objective to organise the fair was to help demystify governance since policies had practical reality that impact on all
and present a guided decisions towards particular outcomes.
"This policy fair is an attempt to answer the questions: what have we been doing to bring us where we are, where we are now and what are we doing to get to where we want to be?" Mr Agyenim-Boateng said.
He said government's promise to deliver was premised on the commitment to efficiently manage public resources in a manner that would respond to the problems and critical needs of a broad section of the people.
Mr Agyenim-Boateng said government expects the fair to contribute and bring the people on board government's Better Ghana agenda, provide a
platform for the various ministries to account for their stewardship, investment drive and public- private partnership in the implementation of policies and programmes.
Mr Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa, also a Deputy Minister of Information, said there would be special dialogue sessions on the side lines of the fair to discuss topical issues such as; bridging the gap between the public and the
private sector in policy implementation, from conception-policy- implementation and a critical appraisal of the Ghanaian situation.