By Albert Allotey
Accra, Oct 30, GNA – The African Chamber of Content Producers (ACCP), an accredited Civil Society Organisation of the African Union’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC), has named Humanity Services Africa Foundation (Humserve Africa) to lead the activation of a practical implementation framework for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Ghana.
The call was made in Parliament by Mr Frank Annoh-Dompreh, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsawam/Adoagyiri, im a statement on the floor of Parliament on 27 March 2025.
The MP argued that CSR in Ghana had remained fragmented, inconsistent and largely discretionary, and called for legislation to make it transparent, accountable and measurable.
“More than a year on, no legislative or policy framework has followed. According to the press release, rather than wait further, the ACCP decided to develop a practical implementation plan that could demonstrate, with evidence, what a structured CSR regime would look like in practice, and in doing so provide Parliament with the factual grounding needed to act,” the MP was reported to have said.
The Chamber indicated that the plan has now been formally communicated to Mr Annoh-Dompreh in writing through the ACCP Secretariat, together with its endorsement of his call and its offer of partnership.
The naming of Humserve Africa, it said, marked a shift from advocacy to implementation, with the Foundation serving as the vehicle through which a structured CSR model will be demonstrated and documented.
According to the release, the Chamber’s letter commended the MP for the call.
The ACCP described the MP’s articulation of CSR as a strategic imperative for sustainable economic growth, social equity and environmental stewardship, and affirmed that no institution exists in isolation.
“The letter also set out the ACCP’s proposed pathway: documenting the real impact of existing corporate support through Humserve Africa’s interventions, creating awareness through content production, systematising engagement with corporate Ghana, and ultimately presenting the resulting evidence to the relevant Parliamentary Committee to inform the legislative process”.
The President of the ACCP, Nana Dwomoh-Doyen Benjamin, said civil society organisations have a duty to stand behind national calls that advance development and protect human dignity, and to work alongside government and corporate Ghana in pursuit of both public and private objectives.
“When a call is made in Parliament that can improve the lives of ordinary Ghanaians, civil society cannot afford to fold its arms and wait,” he said. “Our duty is to support that call with evidence and with action,” the release said
It added, “Government has its objectives, the private sector has its objectives, and civil society exists to help both meet them in ways that serve the national interest. That is why we have not only endorsed this call, but have written formally to the Honourable Member, offered our partnership, and set about building the implementation plan ourselves.”
According to the release, Humserve Africa Foundation will serve as the practical vehicle through which the framework is demonstrated.
According to the Foundation’s published records, it has operated in Ghana’s health space since 2022 through its Surgical Aid Programme, which supports patients living with hernia, fibroid, hydrocele, lymphoma and other conditions who could not otherwise afford treatment.
The Foundation has announced plans to facilitate 500 free surgical procedures between 2026 and 2027, expanding its scope to include ovarian cysts and ganglion cysts.
The Director of Operations of Humserve Africa Foundation, Mr. George Egeh, who is also Managing Director of the Agnes Ofori Community Hospital where many of the procedures were carried out, said the partnership would allow the Foundation to prove what sustained corporate support could achieve.
“Every surgery we perform tells us the same thing, that the need is far greater than the support available,” Mr. Egeh said.
He added: “We see women who have carried fibroids for years because they could not afford the operation. With the ACCP’s help, we want to document these cases properly, show corporate Ghana exactly what their support achieves, and give Parliament the evidence it needs to make this national.
“We are offering to help build the structures that will help make Corporate Social Responsibilities beneficial to both the receiver of the assistance and the organizations providing that support.”
The release said among those who have benefited from the Foundation’s work in recent times was Madam Harriet Ampofowaa, widely known as Fanti Burger, who recently had a long-standing fibroid removed at no cost to her.
“I had carried this for years and did not see how I could ever pay for the surgery,” she said.
She added: “When Humserve Africa took it up, I paid nothing. I am healthy today because someone somewhere gave.
“I have decided to be an ambassador for this Foundation, to help other women who cannot afford the cost get the support they need. I also support the call the ACCP is making, because if companies are encouraged and structured to give, many more women like me will have a second chance.”
The Chamber said it would document the Foundation’s existing surgical interventions, together with the support already being provided by corporate Ghana, to generate verifiable impact data.
The ACCP said it operated across twelve content sectors, including health content, and will use its media production capacity to create awareness around the interventions and the role of corporate partners, with the aim of moving corporate Ghana from ad hoc philanthropy towards sustained, measurable engagement.
According to the release, the ACCP will, following the initial phase of the collaboration, seek the opportunity to present its documented findings and impact data to the relevant Parliamentary Committee.
The Chamber explained that this would allow evidence gathered on the ground to inform the legislative process initiated by Mr Annoh-Dompreh, ensuring that any CSR framework eventually enacted rests on practical experience rather than the theory.
The Chamber also invited corporate Ghana to consider supporting Humserve’s Surgical Aid Programme and other interventions as a demonstration of what a national CSR framework could achieve at scale, noting that participating companies will be documented as part of the evidence base presented to Parliament.
GNA
Edited by Benjamin Mensah