Professor Miranda Greenstreet, a member of the National African Peer Review Mechanism Governing Council (NAPRM-GC), has said the APRM required participation of all stakeholders to succeed. She said the base document specifically highlighted the active involvement of civil society in the entire process. Therefore, "a popular version" of the Ghana's APRM Country Review Report is being translated into six major Ghanaian languages and copies would be given to the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) for distribution. Prof Greenstreet was addressing a day's dissemination workshop on 'NAPRM' for women groups and gender activists in the Central Region at Cape Coast. It was aimed at sharing with participants strategies underpinning the APRM monitoring and evaluation methodologies and eliciting their support in monitoring the implementation of the mechanism's Programme of Action (PoA). It was attended by 120 participants from women's groups including queen mothers, traders, Christian and Muslim women organisations, traditional birth attendants (TBA's), University of Cape Coast Ladies Club and the Ghana Hair Dressers and Beauticians Association (GHABA). She said during the review of the APRM some issues of specific interest to women such as promoting and protecting the rights of children and women, fighting corruption in the public sphere and ensuring progress towards gender mainstreaming and equality came out. Ghana's APRM Country Review Report, which received universal acceptance by people of all shades of opinion, has been simplified to make it accessible to a wider populace. Prof Greenstreet said some tertiary institutions have incorporated the APRM into their programmes and urged the women to be involved in monitoring the implementation of the PoA. She expressed gratitude to the Danish Development Agency (DANIDA) and NCCE for supporting the APRM. Alex Ntim Abankwa, a member of the GC, said in making inputs to the NAPRM some Ghanaians proposed the creation of land banks under the Land Administration Project (LAP) to help ensure that investors had access land easily. He said another proposal has been the need to establish at least one industry in every district, a proposal that has become a government policy. Nana Ama Eyiaba, Queen mother of Efutu and Krontihemaa of Oguaa Traditional Area, called for the location of more factories in the Central Region to help reduce unemployment. Source: GNA