The Ghana Centre for Public Integrity, (GCPI) is a
non-profit, non-partisan, organization committed to
the practise of investigative journalism and assisting
the Ghanaian media with training in public service
journalism with emphasis on investigative journalism,
computer assisted reporting, media ethics, human rights
and environmental reporting.
The Ghanaian media faces both resource and capacity
challenges and because they are also poorly paid they
can hardly afford to pay for the cost of training.
As a result of the lack of resources, the media are
limited in their ability to conduct investigations.
With a crème of reputable investigative journalists,
the GCPI pursues investigative reporting from where
the others stop.
We cover national and international stories that require
extensive investigations. With the tested reputation
of our award winning investigative journalists, GCPI
hopes to improve the quality of Ghanaian journalism
through training. Findings
of our investigations are either made available
to the entire Ghanaian media usually at a press conference
or published on our website at gcpi.virtualactivism.net
Our
International Co-operation
GCPI also assists international media organizations
that want to conduct research for their stories in
Ghana and in the Sub-region. Some of our reporters
have co-operated with international media organizations
in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands to successfully
execute projects in Ghana. Raymond, one of the founders
of the GCPI has assisted the Sankofa Foundation, an
NGO based in The Hague, Netherlands; Ghanatta Radio,
a community Radio station operated by Ghanatta Foundation
in The Hague and the WOMENSENEWS, an online news organization
based in New York and funded by the New York City
Fund. Journalists working with the GCPI are members
of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and the
West Africa Journalists Association.
It
is also a member of the recently established Global
Investigative Journalism Network.
