The country director of Emerging Public Leaders (EPL), Juliet Amoah is optimistic the programme will soon become a catalyst for change in the public service in Ghana.
Emerging Public Leaders of Ghana is an Accra-based organization developing Ghana’s next generation of competent and motivated leaders committed to a career in public service.
Speaking on the sidelines of the 3rd graduation ceremony in honour of the 3rd Cohort of EPL Ghana Public Service Fellows in Accra, Amoah said the programme will begin making the needed impact in three years in the public sector.
“I think that for a programme such as the one that we are running, it will be preposterous for us to start to say that within 3 or 4years we have started to see any significant change.
“But the change that we have seen as you have heard from our partners from the head of civil service, who keep telling us that we have recruited people who have different kind of energy, passion, and a different way of working.”
“Give us another year, two years when the programme is about five to six years old then, we can start to see the exponential changes and growth that will happen within the civil service and within the public sector,” Amoah said.
Listen to Juliet Amoah in the attached audio below
About EPL
Emerging Public Leaders of Ghana is an Accra-based organization developing Ghana’s next generation of competent and motivated leaders committed to a career in public service.
Through its Public Service Fellowship, EPL Ghana provides talented Ghanaian university graduates with two years of given employment in the public service, rigorous trainings, and mentorship to gain the leadership and technical skills necessary to become effective public servants who will improve public service delivery and spur good governance in Ghana.
EPL Ghana builds upon the 10-year success of its Liberian counterpart (the President’s Young Professional Program – PYPP), which has recruited and supported over 140 Public Service Fellows in Liberia; the vast majority of whom continue to work as professionals in Liberia’s public service. By virtue of its significant impact in Liberia, the founders saw a need to expand the program within the continent.
Through building strong partnerships with the Government of Ghana, including the Office of the Head of Civil Service and National Service Scheme, EPL launched in Ghana in 2018 with the selection of its inaugural cohort of 20 Public Service Fellows. These Fellows are currently placed across nine government institutions. To date, Fellows testify that the Fellowship has encouraged them to be change agents who work competently, act ethically and drive change in their respective job roles.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Emerging Public Leaders intends to grow a pan-African network of 500 and more public sector leaders across Africa by 2023.
Fred Dzakpata
