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The Coalition on the Right to Information (RTI), Ghana with support from UNESCO will from the month of July begin the implementation of a new project titled; ‘Promoting Women’s’ Right through Access to Information’.

The Project which is aimed at identifying and creating awareness on the gender dimensions of access to information will involve the use of evidence based approach to advance the advocacy for the passage of an effective right to information legislation in Ghana.

The RTI Coalition /UNESCO Project will be focused on, among other things, identifying the obstacles that women and men face in their attempt to exercise their right to access information and raising awareness on the value of access to information to women and other marginalized groups.

Activities under the project will include, an access to information monitoring exercise where several requests for information will be made to various Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) by different classes of women and men ranging from professional, un-educated and illiterate, disabled men and women.

This monitoring exercise will provide an opportunity to observe the trends in our various public institutions with respect to requests for information submitted by men and women.

Based on the outcomes of the exercise, concrete recommendations will be proposed that will encourage more women and women’s groups to be a part of the campaign.

The pilot phase of the project will commence in the Greater Accra region from July to September, 2015

It is expected that at the end of the project, more women and women groups will be encouraged to add their voice in calling for the passage of an efficient and effective RTI Law.