Ghana Wins Election 2016 Favorite 

Practitioner: 

Date: 

Dec 1 2016

Location: 

Accra, Ghana

An exercise that used drama/and audio visuals to engage with with all election partners, especially the political parties especially the political parties and their candidates/leaders, Electoral Commission, Musicians Association of Ghana, etc to push for a free, fair and peaceful Presidential and Parliamentary election and hand over of power to who ever won the elections peacefully.

External sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Ghanaian_general_election
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38270956
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/09/504989713/opposition-candidat…
https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/ghanaelection2016/info_graphics.php?page=…
Posted by rebeccae on Jan 4 2020

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Strengthens (community)Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
Provides (a useful service)Provides a useful social service.
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
Sustains (change)Support and celebrate change that has already been won and needs to be sustained.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear short-term goal. Short-term goals tend to be things like: create or repeal a law; get a President impeached; make the city administration repair a sidewalk. A campaign with a short-term goal needs a clear theory of change, complete with targets that can be cajoled or pressured into effecting the goal.
Free -Fair and peaceful elections
This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
Hand over of political power and ensure continuous smooth running of governance and the State.

Notes

Simple- on the mouths of ordinary citizens either in the cities, urban or villages feed back after the elections reflected the change they expected at the same time the polls were peace full and there was smooth hand over of power, especially historically power was smoothly handed over to an opposition with the incumbent loosing a second term.