Mr Davide Terzi (right), handing over the IT equipment to Mr Romeo Adu-Tutu, Director, National Human Resources Management of the National Migration Bureau. Photo: Bismark Appiah
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5th July, 2009
IOM equips National Migration Bureau With GH¢15,000 Items
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has donated computers and its accessories, worth GH¢15,000 to the National Migration Bureau (NMB) at a ceremony in Accra.
The two desktop computers, two laptops, a photocopier, a printer, a Sony projector, a Sony projector screen, wireless routers, adapters and a paper shredder, are to enhance government’s capacity to effectively manage migration by collecting data for National Migration
Profiles, which could shape Ghana’s migration policies.
Presenting the items to an official of the bureau, Mr. Davide Terzi, Chief Director of Mission, IOM, Accra, said it was essential “to effectively manage migration by preparing national migration profiles, which may be used as a policy instrument to promote comprehensive and proactive approaches towards migration movement”.
He said a regional data management workshop would be held next Wednesday and Thursday in Dakar to enable officials of the bureau and the Ghana Statistical Service to improve their capacities to enable them to update and sustain the National Migration Profile after the completion of the project next February.
Mr. Terzi said the donation would help to develop strategies to enhance data collection, data analysis and data sharing of migration issues in the country.
“When done properly, this would translate into enhancing the development aspect of migration and development of Ghana, while minimising the effects of irregular migration and brain drain,” he stated.
Mr. Kwasi Apea-Kubi, in a speech read on his behalf, thanked IOM, the European Commission, as well as the governments of Switzerland and Belgium for their assistance with the two-year migration profile project.
“It is the vision of government to stem the tide of irregular migration and promote regular migration, and gestures like this would help enhance the work of the bureau to address the government’s vision,” he said.
The two desktop computers, two laptops, a photocopier, a printer, a Sony projector, a Sony projector screen, wireless routers, adapters and a paper shredder, are to enhance government’s capacity to effectively manage migration by collecting data for National Migration
Profiles, which could shape Ghana’s migration policies.
Presenting the items to an official of the bureau, Mr. Davide Terzi, Chief Director of Mission, IOM, Accra, said it was essential “to effectively manage migration by preparing national migration profiles, which may be used as a policy instrument to promote comprehensive and proactive approaches towards migration movement”.
He said a regional data management workshop would be held next Wednesday and Thursday in Dakar to enable officials of the bureau and the Ghana Statistical Service to improve their capacities to enable them to update and sustain the National Migration Profile after the completion of the project next February.
Mr. Terzi said the donation would help to develop strategies to enhance data collection, data analysis and data sharing of migration issues in the country.
“When done properly, this would translate into enhancing the development aspect of migration and development of Ghana, while minimising the effects of irregular migration and brain drain,” he stated.
Mr. Kwasi Apea-Kubi, in a speech read on his behalf, thanked IOM, the European Commission, as well as the governments of Switzerland and Belgium for their assistance with the two-year migration profile project.
“It is the vision of government to stem the tide of irregular migration and promote regular migration, and gestures like this would help enhance the work of the bureau to address the government’s vision,” he said.
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