Ms Addy said staff must see the duty as a call to serve humanity and do it with tact, passion and dexterity.

She said Ghanaians were expecting more civic awareness creation from the commission and that they could not afford to disappoint them, although they were under-resourced.

Ms Addy made these statements during a training workshop organised for selected 24 interviewers and eight supervisors drawn from Kadjebi, Agortime-Ziope, West Gonja, North Gonja, Talensi, Bawku West, Nandom and Lawra district offices of the commission in the Oti, Volta, Upper East and Upper West regions respectively, for the implementation of “Community-based Financing Pilot Project: Community Satisfaction Survey” in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region organised by the NCCE and financed by the World Bank.

Currently, the Ghana Health Service (GHS), with support from the World Bank, is implementing a Community Performance-Based Financing (CPBF) pilot project within the national health system with the aim of enhancing health service delivery by Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) zones.

The project is geared towards improving the maternal and child health care outcomes.

NCCE’s mandate

Ms Addy explained that in line with the commission’s fifth function of “assess for the information of government, the limitations to the achievement of true democracy arising from the existing inequalities between the different strata of the population and make recommendation for re-dressing these inequalities”, the commission was being engaged to carry out the research work and urged the field workers to deliver a good job, live up to expectation and follow specific protocols during the research work.

The NCCE Director of Research, Gender and Equality, Dr Henrietta Asante-Sarpong, advised the field staff to involve the community health volunteers to help collect accurate and reliable data.

Dr  Asante-Sarpong said CPBF was an intervention to help improve child and maternal healthcare delivery in the country.

Realising SDGs 1 & 2

She said the intervention would directly contribute to realising target 1 and 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3, on “reducing the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100 live births” and preventable deaths of newborns and under-five” respectively.

She explained that the research work was intended to find out whether the intervention had yielded good results and also influence behavioural change in health delivery in the country.

  The Ashanti Regional Director of the NCCE, Mr Wilson Arthur, admonished the interviewers and supervisors to conduct and track true records to help improve child and maternal health in the country.

Mr Arthur said children and women issues were human rights matters which needed the attention of all.