Dorothy Barnes has a clear message: Ghana's National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security is not getting the money it needs to work. The FOSDA director is calling for dedicated, adequate funding to keep the programme moving, warning that without it, key activities under the plan continue to stall.
Barnes made the appeal in her capacity as Director of the Foundation for Security and Development in Africa, known as FOSDA. The organisation has been vocal about the gaps in how Ghana's WPS commitments are being resourced, and her latest call signals that the situation remains urgent.
The Women, Peace and Security framework is meant to ensure that women are active participants in conflict prevention, peacebuilding and post-conflict recovery. When funding falls short, it is those on-the-ground programmes, the ones closest to the women the plan is designed to serve, that feel it first.
The question now is whether Ghana's government and its partners will treat this as the policy priority it is meant to be, or allow the plan to exist on paper while the work waits.
Originally published by AllAfrica.