The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has proposed that the Commonwealth needs to strengthen six key areas of its operational system in order to reposition the bloc.
She said strengthening trade and investment, youth education, skills innovation and start-ups, mobility and labour markets, climate change, and small states and managing resources would ensure an effective Commonwealth institution.
He said, based on a community-wide approach to comprehensive action in these areas, they can transform the economies of the countries in the Commonwealth, enable inclusive development and climate resilience, and respond to the expectations of the hundreds of millions across the Commonwealth for the democratic dividend which is consistent with an ambitious vision of the Commonwealth’s values.
Ms Botchwey said this at the Council on Foreign Relations Ghana Fifth Anniversary Lecture Series in Accra, it was on the topic: “A Vision for a New Commonwealth in a Fast-Evolving World.
Ms Botchwey has been nominated by the government to contest the position of Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.
A new Secretary-General of the 56-member organisation will be elected on October 22 this year at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa, Scotland, to replace Baroness Patricia Scotland, a dual Dominican-British citizen, whose second and final tenure expires at the end of the year.
She said, policymakers struggled with policies to raise growth in isolation, through austerity and high taxes.
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