Convention Peoples Party, Ghana

This policy document reflects the views and intentions of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) on various developmental issues of domestic and international importance. They cover four broad development areas, namely:

1. Social Policy
2. Economic Policy
3. Responsive Governance and
4. International Relations 

Within these policy areas, the Party has identified three short-term priority areas that it will address immediately after it is re-elected into office. These areas are:

1. Public safety (e.g., combating the armed robbery menace, the rise in sexual violence against women and children, and the fatalities on our roads)
2. Essential social services such as water, electricity and sanitation
3. Job creation, with the launching of the Ghana Emergency Employment Programme (GEEP) aimed primarily at the youth.

Our overall development policies are informed by the Party’s ideology of Nkrumaism, whose three main principles are:  

1. Self-determination: (We must abandon our colonial mentality and inferiority complex and re-assert control over our natural resources and national interests for the sustainable and equitable development of our country). 
2. Social Justice: (The State has a moral and constitutional duty to promote equal opportunity and equitable rewards for all Ghanaians, irrespective of age, gender, ethnic, religious, political or other backgrounds), and 
3. Pan-Africanism: (We must work with Africans at home and abroad to find common solutions to our common problems of racism, poverty, exploitation and under-development). 

The implementation of the policies proposed herein will be based on a series of medium-term plans to be developed by a CPP government.  These plans will reflect both the party’s ideology and the Directive Principles of State Policy, which constitute a national vision agreed by all Ghanaians in the 1992 constitution. The long-term national development plan that will shape these plans would be known as Ghana@75: A Roadmap to High-Income Status. This extended time horizon for national development reflects the CPP’s time-honoured tradition of visionary leadership and bold decision making.