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Notes
1 Although a draft Freedom of Information bill has been in Parliament for almost 10 years, it has not been passed into law.
2 These are African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Africa (1981); African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (2007); The Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community (1991); Protocol Relating to the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community Relating to the Pan African Parliament; African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (2003); African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources; Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (2003); African Youth Charter (2006); African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990); NEPAD Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Plan (2003); Revised African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources; Africa Health Strategy 2007–2015; Abuja Call for Accelerated Action Towards Universal Access to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 2010 (2006); Maputo Plan of Action for Implementing the Continental Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy Framework 2007–2010 (2006); African Mining Vision (2009); Sharm El-Sheikh Commitments for Accelerating the Achievement of Water and Sanitation Goals in Africa (2008). Only the last two on this list were not also selected by the CART for auditing and monitoring in 2010.
3 ‘Service Agreement between the Institute of Democratic Governance and the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy’, Service Agreement, Institute of Democratic Governance, 2013.
4 Based on the assumption that persons located within tertiary institutions were more likely to have higher education and be familiar with the instruments being monitored, half of the six selected areas were campuses of tertiary institutions. These were the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), University of Ghana (UG), and the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPS) campus. The others were purely residential enumeration areas selected on the basis of their cosmopolitan nature and they consisted of Haatso, Madina Estates and Madina Libya Quarters.