By Anita Kwapong
Ghana has an obligation to develop a National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights, NAP on BHR, in order to implement the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, UNGPs in Ghana.
As part of the process, stakeholder institutions are required to make inputs into the National Action Plan.
As such, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has organised a day’s National Stakeholder Consultation workshop for Civil Society Organisations, NGOs among others in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional capital.
The workshop is to engage stakeholders to deliberate and collect inputs into the Action plan.
One of the objectives of the UNGPs is to allow individual countries the flexibility to tailor national responses to their domestic business and human rights-related deficits.
Clement Kadogbe, the Focal Person on Business and Human Rights at CHRAJ and Member of the National Steering Committee developing the National Action Plan noted that they have received some recommendations from stakeholders that will feed into the National Action Plan.
A participant from AGO Foundation, which is into the welfare of the vulnerable and the less-privileged in society, Richmond Nana Boafo that the workshop has taught them how to educate the public on the need to know their rights as citizens.
