Ministry of Defence (Ghana)
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Ghana
's Ministry of Defence is the government agency responsible for the promotion of national defence interests.
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
's Ministry of Defence is the government agency responsible for the promotion of national defence interests.
National security
The ministry improves national security through:- the effective formulation, co-ordination, monitoring and evaluation of defence policies and programmes that it has developed
- the maintenance of the Ghana Armed ForcesArmed ForcesArmed Forces is Elvis Costello's third album, his second with the Attractions, and the first to officially credit the Attractions on the cover. It was released in the UK by Radar Records and in the U.S. by Columbia in 1979...
(GAF) in a high state of preparedness for national and internationalInternational----International mostly means something that involves more than one country. The term international as a word means involvement of, interaction between or encompassing more than one nation, or generally beyond national boundaries...
assignment - the active involvement in the promotion of peacePeacePeace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the...
and stability in the countryCountryA country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...
and the sub-region.
Aims and Objectives of MoD
The ministry is guided by the following principles:- to enhance defence Policy and Control for effective national defence
- to improve the state of combat readiness for the Ghana Armed Forces
- to aid in the country's economic growth by creating a peaceful environment for tradeTradeTrade is the transfer of ownership of goods and services from one person or entity to another. Trade is sometimes loosely called commerce or financial transaction or barter. A network that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and...
etc - to improve logistics and infrastructure facilities for training and deployment
- to improve civilCivilCivil may refer to:*Civic virtue, or civility*Civil action, or lawsuit*Civil affairs*Civil and political rights*Civil disobedience*Civil engineering*Civilian, someone not a member of armed forces*Civil law , multiple meanings...
-militaryMilitaryA military is an organization authorized by its greater society to use lethal force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or perceived threats. The military may have additional functions of use to its greater society, such as advancing a political agenda e.g...
relations.