The Western Regional Coordinating Council (WRCC) yesterday hosted a stakeholders’ engagement in Takoradi to gather views for the review of Ghana’s 2020 National Security Strategy (NSS).
The review is intended to ensure that the strategy remains responsive to changes in the domestic, regional and global security environment, including evolving threats, new state capabilities, emerging alliances and changing governance arrangements.
The revised framework is expected to guide national security policy and practice.
The National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), under Act 1168, has begun a comprehensive review of the 2020 strategy, using regional stakeholder engagements to gather perspectives on security threats, risks, vulnerabilities and emerging concerns facing the country.
“A robust national security strategy must be grounded in evidence drawn from across the country to ensure that the revised strategy is informed by ground-level knowledge, not solely by national-level assessments,” an NSCS document stated.
The Technical Adviser to the National Security Coordinator, Dr Mohammed Bako, said a draft of a new National Security Strategy for 2026 had been prepared to replace the existing document. Read More
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