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Colonial Policy Cause of Illiteracy and Poverty in North - Ofosu Dorte
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Read Ghana News Agency report here . Also, Ghana's favourite media
house, Multi Media through, Joy Fm followed on with IMANI's
Ofosu-Dorte's lecture with an hour and half interview today, April 29.
Listen to the audio interview here. Interview begins from window 5.
The Students and Young Professional African Liberty Academy 2008 First Annual West African Summer University Seminar 2007
Metro TV Discussion on the State of Health of Ghana with Director General of Ghana Health Service- May 2008
Mr Franklin Cudjoe discussed the state of health of Ghana with the Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Elais Sory on Metro's Good Evening Ghana programme in May 2008. Mr Cudjoe mentioned the anti malarial study, IMANI helped conduct to buttress the point that counterfeit drugs are a major part of Ghana's health structure.
IMANI: Press Conference -April , 2008
Research Fellow Bemoans Africa's Healthcare System
Addressing the press in Accra recently, Mr. Alec Van Gelder , Network Director of IPN and Fellow of IMANI mentioned among other things that the inadequate access to quality drugs by poor countries, lack of adequate health workers and poor infrastructure had all contributed to problems in Africa's healthcare delivery system. Innovation & Access: The role of IP in global health- 28th April, 2008 Hotel Intercontinental, Geneva Featured
Franklin Cudjoe, IMANI, Ghana
Barun Mitra, Liberty Institute, India
Delegates at the World Health Organization's Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property were discussing a Plan of Action, the outcome of which could have wide-ranging implications for innovation and access to medicines. But to what extent do intellectual property rights undermine access to medicines in less developed countries? How can they be harnessed to serve the interests of both innovators and patients? Is the IGWG's plan of action evidenced-based, or does it reflect a series of more political concerns? Franklin Cudjoe, IMANI, Ghana and Barun Mitra, Liberty Institute, India shared their views. Working with Patient Groups in Geneva- April 28, 2008, Hotel Intercontinental, Geneva On April 28, 2008 IMANI Executive Director spoke to Patient Groups and Representatives of African Health Ministers at the World Health Organisation's Inter Governmental Working Group meeting on Public Health and Intellectual Property Rights. Franklin urged the Ministers not to direct their entire energies at attacking patents, but rather focus on local inhibitions to accessing health care- high tarriffs on imported medicines, dilapidated hospitals, low doctor-patient ratio, inadequate health insurance, counterfeit medicines, poor sanitation, corruption and poverty. The attack on patents is not a defence of patients or the poor. Prosperity is the key to those services and intellectual property is one of the keys to prosperity.IMANI's Expert Meet with Relevant Government Agencies -First Week in April 2008 The Inter Governmental Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights of the World Health Organisation meetings always have important implications for Africa and for that matter Ghana's future. The outcome of such meetings have a direct impact on the provision of essential healthcare to our population. There are a number of issues that are relevant to the discussions that were being considered , including how medicines are developed, how the entities that develop medicines are compensated, prospective foreign investment in developing countries, and what healthcare systems developing countries decide are the most efficient way to deliver to the population.We believed Ghana could take the lead and make a variety of well-informed, positive contributions to the discussion in order to ensure that the right decisions are reached. In order to present the research we have conducted that is related to these discussions and to discuss the issues that are crucial to the health and economic development of our country, we requested to meet with relevant government agencies, including the MOH, FDB, Ministry of Trade & Private Sector and a legal firm to understand Ghana's IP laws. A number of experts I work with on these issues were in Ghana at the end of March. We met with the FDB's Deputy CEOs, Minister of Trade and his delegation, Bentsi-Entsi & Co, a legal firm to understand Ghana's IP laws. The meetings were postive, except it was clear the re were certain capacity issues that blurred the understanding og the issues with the Ministry of Trade officials. Ghana's IP laws need serious reconsideration when it comes to compulsory licensing and must be wary of health activists' wish to make it offensive for investors in the health sector. Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Please listen to audio here.
Bright noted that the world was going to require US$3 trillion to achieve the mythical emissions reduction targets set in order to prevent temperatures from rising by 2 degrees Celsius just in a six year period. The big question is what happens after the six years?
Foundations of a Free SocietyMonday, March 10, 2008
Please see pictures of the event here. Also listen to audio here. IMANI launches the 2008 International Property Rights IndexWednesday, March 5, 2008 IMANI on 4 March 2008 launched the 2008 International Property Rights Index with Twelve 12 media houses (3 radio and 9 print media) represented. The State-owned radio, Radio Ghana and the State-owned newspaper, The Ghanaian Times were very well represented as well as Ghana's top financial newspaper, the Business and Financial times. Please listen to the hour-long discussion here. Also listen to a Top Radio news item on the launch here.
Draft Policy on Alcohol for Ghana On February 21 2008, IMANI brought together 102 delegates to discuss a
draft policy on alcohol for Ghana-becasue Ghana has no policy on alcohol.
Two earlier workshops brought together 150 delegates. Last Thursday's
delegates included, highly placed representatives from varied Ministries,
Departments and Agencies of the Ghanaian government, Australian and Namibian
government officials as well as corporate directors of alcoholic beverage
companies from Ghana and South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Nigeria, U.K and the
U.S.A who came flew in learn from the Ghana/IMANI experience. Also carried by Ghanaian government’s News Agency (GNA) Meeting with Ghana's Minister of Health- January 2008 IMANI's Executove Director, Franklin Cudjoe and Former Deputy of Food and Drugs Board, Mr Kwamina Van Ess, met with Ghana's Health Minister to discuss health issues. The discussion focused on Ghana's position on the WHO's Inter Givernmental Working Group on Intellectual Property as it relates to development of medicines and progresson National Alcohol Policy work IMANI initiated. The discussions with the Ghanaian Minister of Health on Ghana's position re IGWG, revealed a rare sensible position- that breaking patents have the effect of weakening Africa's ability to protect its medical breakthroughs in the future. The Ghanaian Health Minister understands that while differential pricing of medicines will be a good way out for Africa, he knows patents are just a part of the solution- weak healthcare infrastructure, inadequate health insurance schemes, inadequate health professionals, price controls, taxes and tariffs on medicines (almost 30% in the case of Ghana) and corruption are the real barriers to health care in Africa. Refreshingly, his position was at variance with the African Group position in the IGWG, which is blindly being led by Kenya championing the overly rehearsed chorus that patents put profits before people. But his is a lone voice.Mr. CUDJOE GOES TO WASHINGTON September 26, 2007 IMANI Executive Director joined PHRMA, America's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology company for their monthly briefing in Washington DC. Franklin spoke to representatives of patent organizations, claiming weak health infrastructure, corruption, price controls, high taxes and tariffs on freely donated medicines as the real barriers preventing medicinal aid to African nations. Mr. Cudjoe suggested differential pricing in various markets used by pharmaceutical companies as a reasonable alternative to urging developing countries to break patents of heavily invested medicines. September 26, 2007 Americans for Tax Reform's Grover Norquist invited Mr. Cudjoe to speak on the necessity of think-tanks to host educational workshops, seminars and forums as positive way to educate Africans on the most valuable source of capital: the human mind. In order to effectively overturn the myriads of socialist thinkers and institutions which perpetually turn out mirror- image students. Mr. Cudjoe was joined by numerous free- market think-tanks which also seek to promote liberty through imitative, enterpreurship and education. First Alcohol Workshop Second Alcohol Workshop Third Alcohol Workshop also see attached here... First Annual West African Summer University Seminar, August 13-17, 2007 Hosted by IMANI, Cato Institute, and Ashesi University, this four day seminar will challenge participants in an educational environment to examine critically the issues facing West Africa and to culminate possible solutions to those issues. Through a series of lecture workshops, group-study, and films, attendees will hear from a group of highly enlightened and widely respected speakers on topics such as entrepreneurship, current policies, free-markets and leadership. See presenters The program is open to all ages and backgrounds. On 30th March, 2007, IMANI organized a book launch at the Center for Democratic Development. The title of the book was "Fighting the Diseases of Poverty" Presentations were made by: The Minister of Health launched the book and purchased it for GHC2000. Copies were given to AREPI members present. Book Launch Imani cordially invites you to a book
launch & announcement of its Templeton Award for Advancing Freedom." The Water Revolution: Practical Solutions to Water Scarcity " Speaker: Franklin Cudjoe, Co-author of The Water Revolution & Director of Seminar- The Philosophy of Liberty/ Why Economic Freedom Matters Imani held a one-day lecture on the principles of market economics. The
lecture was delivered by Professor Ken Schooland on January 18, 2006 at
the conference room of the University of Ghana's SRC Union Building at
10:00 am. A record 85 students from the country's Universities and
Polytechnics attended and interacted with Prof. Schoolland. WTO Meetings in December 2005 Imani teamed with the Freedom to Trade Coalition (IPN, Liberty
Institute in India, The Evian Group, The Lion Rock Institute, Cato, the
Fredriech Ebert Foundation,) at the WTO meeting in Hong Kong to
campaign against trade barriers.
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IMANI named Top Go-To Think Tank in Africa and Globally Tuesday, January 13, 2009
John Templeton Prize for IMANI IMANI is the only think tank to have been awarded the John Templeton Prize twice in Africa for Advancing Freedom.
Atlas Fisher Venture Grant Awarded to IMANI March 25, 2008 - The Atlas Economic Research Foundation announced fisherthat IMANI Center for Policy and Education (Accra, Ghana) is the only African think tank among its first class of recipients of Dorian & Antony Fisher Venture Grants. More than 180 think tanks competed for the grants in this program, but only nine were selected to receive up to $100,000 from Atlas over the next three years. Franklin Cudjoe, the founding director of IMANI Center for Policy and Education, remarked: "Receiving this grant from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation is another great vindication of the important work IMANI began 3 years ago. We are determined to see that public policy debate in Ghana and West Africa involve students who should be informed by principled, non-partisan viewpoints." Read more
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IMANI's director of development, Bright Simons spoke to Journalists from 11 media houses in Ghana and urged them to let the public and government know that Ghana was better off focusing on economic development instead of pretending to be supporting the unattainable task of fighting climate change. 
AfricanLiberty.org Editor, Franklin Cudjoe spoke to 55 members of the Students in Free Enterprise chapter of the Institute of Professional Studies in Ghana. The talk was on the foundations of a free society. The talk begins a series of campus visitations to promote the work of 
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