NPP International Affairs Directorate

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The International Affairs Directorate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is the unit at the Party’s national headquarters in Ghana that is responsible for coordinating the affairs of the external branches and engaging other international bodies to promote cooperation on the global stage. The International Affairs Directorate is in charge of the day to day administration of the party’s external relations to ensure that the party has presence in the community of nations and contributes to shaping and influencing the global political discourse. The directorate is under the General Secretary who heads the party secretariat and is responsible for facilitating and organizing International programs including:

1. Assessment and establishment of external branches to ensure that Ghanaians in the diaspora are kept connected to the New Patriotic Party and participate in the governance of the country.
2. Coordinating activities of external branches of the party through the organization programmes and activities in collaboration with their leadership.
3. Collaboration with sister political parties, political foundations and with similar ideologies, principles, values and ideals in other countries to share best practices and foster the institutionalization of democratic governance, human rights and freedoms in a free society.
4. Coordinating activities between the diplomatic community and the party within the context of the broader agenda and philosophy of the party and international protocols.
5. Coordinates and promotes cooperation with recognized international foundations, institutions and groups that align with the center-right philosophy.

The party is a member of the Democrat Union of Africa (DUA) and the International Democrat Union (IDU). The party also has partnership with the Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) and other important international organizations. The headquarters of the Democrat Union of Africa (DUA) is at the party’s headquarters in Accra and managed by the International Affairs Directorate. The international directorate ensures that the collaboration between the party and the international bodies is built on mutual respect, principles and ideals that are in keeping with the centre-right socio-political ideology, updates the institutions and the diplomatic community on changes in major policy and programmes of the party and also receives same from them in a well-structured communications protocol. The directorate is responsible for facilitating and organizing international programs for the Party.

External Branches

The party currently has 23 active external branches. The international directorate is in the process of assessing and validating key guidelines for establishing new branches in some countries. The vision of the external directorate of the party is to establish external branches in at least 30 countries. Attention is focused on countries with large Ghanaian communities and has branches in the following countries: