The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) is to hold the 12th National Development Forum (NDF) on Wednesday, August 26, 2020, on the topic: “The Future of Work in Post COVID-19 Ghana”.
The objective of the forum is to assess the impacts of COVID-19 in reference to work-life in Ghana, coping strategies adopted to deal with impacts and how this future working environment of post Covid-19 in both public and private sector.
In addition, the forum would explore the required human capital investment and organisational work culture needed to advance productivity at the work places post Covid-19.
This was disclosed by the Director-General of the NDPC, Dr Kodjo Esseim Mensah-Abrampa, at a press briefing on the 12th NDF in Accra.
He said the conclusions drawn at the Forum would inform policy direction for the next medium-term development agenda of Ghana in 2022.
The NDF is a series initiated by the NDPC in May 2019 and it is held on every last Wednesday of the month to collate the opinions of diverse stakeholders with a view to promoting broad-based participation of the citizenry and engendering citizens’ ownership of the national development agenda.
The central theme of the NDF is “Ghana@100: An Agenda towards a Solidly Developed Nation”.
The Forum provides NDPC with input to advise the government on its policies.
Ishmael Batoma, ISD
