About Feminine Ghana Achievement Awards
The Feminine Ghana Achievement Awards scheme has been established to identify,
publicly recognize and reward women whose personal and professional conduct have
been exemplary and whose achievements have been outstanding. The awards seek to
publicly recognize women in Ghana who have achieved outstanding accomplishments
in various forms of endeavor across both the public and private sectors, such as
entrepreneurs, professionals, corporate executives, public institutional managers,
diplomats, sportswomen and traditional rulers.
It is instructive that over the years several different award schemes have been
introduced in Ghana. Some of these have been generalist and therefore cross sectoral
while others have been activity or sector specific. But our Feminine Ghana Achievement
Awards is the first, and therefore the oldest, pioneering scheme that has specifically
tried to recognize the accomplishments of women on the basis of their gender. Before
its introduction awardees at most award schemes have been inordinately skewed
towards members of the male gender and thus deserving women have been deprived of
the public recognition they should be entitled to.
Our award scheme has set out to correct this situation by giving due recognition to
women whose achievements have been outstanding but whose accomplishments have
not been publicly acknowledged to date, and in this we have been very successful
indeed.
The Feminine Ghana Achievement Awards is now in its fifth year following the widely
acclaimed inaugural edition held in 2014. It is conceptualized and designed as a
platform with which we identify exemplary conduct, performance and achievement by
women in specified aspects or sectors of public governance, professional and business
activities, or in their contributions to the well- being of society and we publicly recognize
them for this.
The awards also aim to identify and publicize role models whose accomplishments
would encourage and inspire women in general across the country to similarly conduct
their activities and behavior in exemplary fashion.
Finally the awards seek to win the support of the male gender towards affirmative action
which would enable the nation benefit from the full potential of women.
Importantly, this year’s Feminine Ghana Achievement Awards ceremony will be bigger
and more inclusive than earlier editions in that alongside awards to be conferred at the
national level we will also confer awards decided at the regional level with a view to
heralding exemplary accomplishment by women in the hinterlands who otherwise would
not be recognized publicly at the national level.
