The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition is a cross sectoral grouping of Government, Official Anti-Corruption agencies, the Private Sector and Civil Society:

  Private Enterprise Foundation (PEF)       
  Forum of Religious Bodies (FORB)      
  Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII)      
  Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ)      
  Ghana Journalists Association (GJA)      
  Serious Fraud Office (SFO)      
  National Governance Programme (NGP)      
  Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)      
  Centre for Democratic Development, Ghana (CDD)

GACC operates through a secretariat and shares membership responsibility amongst as many members as possible to ensure collective ownership of the process and enhance the effectiveness of the partnership.

Corruption is the abuse of power, economic, political and administrative power leading to personal or group benefits at the expense of the rights and legal interest of the individual, the specific community or the whole society. Corruption is a development issue and affects the society and developing countries such as Ghana.

  Public & Private  Officials
  Anyone who diverts the ownership of property
  Anyone who takes undue advantage

  Bribe: an offer or receipt of money or favour to influence a public official
  Nepotism: Favouritism shown by public officials or relatives or close friends
  Fraud: Cheating the government through deceit
  Embezzlement: Stealing money or other government property
  Favouritism
  Extortion
  Kickbacks

Money, valuable goods or gifts, favours, promises and undue advantage.

  Halts or undermines development 
  Undermines democracy and good governance
  Destroys democracy
  Leads to suspicion and mistrust
  Impacts negatively on rule of law
  Destroys the capacity of individuals to perform well

Corruption prevents governments from fulfilling their obligation to promote and protect the fundamental human rights of the inhabitants of a country in three important respects:

In Ghana, corruption is measured through the following:

Household Survey in 1999 to 2000
Ghana Integrity Initiative Urban Household corruption survey
GACC Corruption Monitoring Indicators

Based on an Anti-corruption Action Plan drawn in 2001 and reviewed in 2005
Monitors the actual implementation of the various anti-corruption laws and processes locally

BPI assesses the propensity of companies from major exporting countries to bribe abroad – notably poor countries.

Systems must be engineered to reflect best practices in the world. Let us challenge the “status quo” and bring to bear good governance through ACCOUNTABILITY;TRANSPARENCY; PREDICTABILITY & PARTICIPATION.

   Accountability is the ability to call public officials to answer for their actions and to show evidence that public fund were utilised for public interest.
   Transparency entails making information available at no or low cost to stakeholders.
   Predictability results primarily from law and regulations that are clear and known in advance, uniformly and effectively enforced
    Participation is needed at all levels of governance in deciding how to develop, alleviate poverty and also benefit from the national cake.