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GhIIA: Institute of International Affairs, Ghana is an independent non-partisan policy think tank, with its core focus on policy formulation, analysis, capacity and thought leadership as regards Ghana’s international affairs.

Analysis and studies at the institute are organized in thematic research groups.:

	 Boa me na me mmoa wo(The Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs Research Group): Focused on enhancing Ghana’s diplomatic practice and foreign policy formulation and implantation. This research group provides thought leadership on regional integrations. The institute intends to also pursue research and action towards public sector reform and growth (focused on the institutions that deliver Ghana’s Foreign Policy/ Diplomacy), on the basis of best-practice transfer of efficiencies from commercial management practices.

	 Dame dame (Strategic Studies Research Group): Focused on providing a framework and a platform for empirical dialogue on strategic issues facing Ghana and the sub-region. Key topics here: o	include integrating defense and security policy in ECOWAS o	Defense and security strategy for Ghana: Process and implementation o	Resource mobilization and management for Hard Power Institutions

	 Epa (International Law and Governance Research Group): Focused on providing a framework and a platform for empirical dialogue on legal issues facing Ghana and the sub-region. Also aims at providing a framework for the practice of stable international relations between Ghana, Africa and the world.

	 UAC Nkanea (Science and Technology / Infrastructure Group): Focused on providing a framework and a platform for empirical dialogue on the infrastructural development of Science and Technology on Ghana and the sub-region. This research aims at fishing out new and innovative methods Ghana and the sub-region can use Science and Technology in total nation and continent building

	 Akoma Ntoaso (International Trade and Economics Research Group): Focused on promoting and enhancing Ghana’s trading presence with the world and implantation of game changing economic policies for growth in the Ghanaian economy.

	 Sankofa (Diaspora Affairs Research Group): Focused on integrating Ghanaians in the diaspora into the development and progress of Ghana. The institute tends to pursue this through a series of engagement processes with Ghanaians in the diaspora and by so doing, decipher ways of contributing to Ghana’s progress in all ways.

	 Nsaa (Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy Research Group): Focused highlighting the relevance and needed existence of soft power in the world on Ghana. Also focused on analyzing and seeking out the impact of cultural diplomacy through entertainment, sports and the likes in Ghana’s international relation with the world and vice versa