Head of Public Sector Governance at the Commonwealth Secretariat in the United Kingdom, Professor Roger Oppong Koranteng, says the government must invest in building the human resources of the country in policy analysis.

According to him, although a policy might be good if there are no technocrats with the technical know-how to implement the policies, they will fail.

This, he said was evident in Ghana as some of the good policies had failed for lack of proper implementation.

“We should direct our natural resources to train our own people to do proper policy formulation and implementation, and make sure that they are embedded in government across because if you lack them, we sit here, we discuss issues, and the issue is good...we have formulated a policy, who is going to implement them - somebody down there, does the person have capacity to do it,” he noted.

Speaking on the Pulse on JoyNews, he explained that if the government wants to resolve problems, there should be a policy analysis unit in all government ministries, adding that most of the state's problems could be solved with the right policy.

However, the Professor who is also the 2023 winner of the International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award said this was not the case.

 “If the government has to deal with problems, let’s look at the policy analysis units in our ministries, none exists. Who has been trained as a policy analyst, not by words but by training and experience. Do we have policy analysts in government?” he quizzed.

Professor Koranteng said the problems in Ghana were because most of the policies have not been implemented.

“There were a whole lot of good policies however, my problem with them is implementation. You see if you have a good policy, who can formulate and implement it? The formulation yes, it's about 30%, but the implementation is 70%. So how do you calibrate the implementation? So, that is the problem,” he added.

He explained that for Ghana to develop, it must look at the critical needs and then invest in its human resources to have skills in those areas.