Aya Institute to host its quadrennial electioneering initiative, “Ghana Decides Gender Watch” starting 5 October

Aya Institute is hosting its quadrennial electioneering initiative, “Ghana Decides Gender Watch” (GDGW) 2024, a research and advocacy initiative, aimed at tracking and highlighting gender dynamics in Ghana’s election 2024.

The curated flagship electioneering initiative is aimed at throwing the spotlight on women and elections, with its first episode on Saturday, October 5, with a post-election analysis on 14 December 2024. GDGW 24 is meant to track, highlight, and research key gender dynamics leading to the 2024 elections.

The main highlight of GDGW 2024, is the ‘Gender Watch Podcast’, hosting twelve episodes with gender scholars and activists engaging in conversations on inclusion and democracy, media representation, GESI analysis of manifestos of political parties, and women and political office in Ghana.

GDGW will host representatives of political parties for an hour of conversation, on plans for Ghanaian women. There are engaging segments such as ‘GenStats’, a ten-minute presentation of statistically rendered research by scholars, and ‘Vox Populi’, a five-minute curated voice on the views of citizens.

2024 World Economic Forum statistics state that it would take an average of 95 years to attempt to close the political gender gap. The Institute asserts that, the low levels of gender consciousness prevailing in both the private and public spheres contribute to the global low political participation of women including Ghana.

GDGW 2024, seeks to bridge the gap, as the country enters the season of rigorous election campaigns by promoting gender sensitive content. GDGW is providing the platform for Ghanaian women, and those with their interests at heart to engage with political information and make decisive voting choices on December 7,2024.

The African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, calls on states to hold regular, free, fair and transparent elections. In so doing, African countries are encouraged to take steps to ensure that all of their citizens have a meaningful political voice, encompassing the freedoms and practice of active engagement in public and political life as voters, citizens and participants in political processes. All these have been captured in conversations on the ‘Gender Watch Podcast’.

Ghana, with its population and voter register as a female majority, is yet to see any significant representation after three decades of democracy. We are yet to consider that, a functioning democracy is inclusive, and that it makes economic and business sense. The ‘Gender Watch Podcast’ will probe the potency of political capital out of the women’s vote.

The Gender Watch Podcast, is a cocktail of all the conversations on gender and the 2024 elections. Join us on a journey of thought-provoking conversations and presentation of compelling research. GDGW 24 would be hosted on Spotify and YouTube with the following handles.

Since 2016, the Institute has been running ‘GDGW’, responsible for tracking and monitoring elections by conducting compelling research in voting patterns relative to gender, governance participation training for women at all levels, including grassroot leadership, and empowering women for better political engagement.

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