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MY VOICE MY VOTE seeks to raise the voices of youth and enable young people to make informed choices and exhibit responsible and appropriate behaviors as active citizens, during the upcoming 2020 election period it will primarily focus on enhancing the participation of the youth and increase their capacity to constructively engage, with adequate youth messages for politicians.
Every vote matters in order to communicate the voices of the youth in Ghana to policy issues for policymakers to address.
This privacy policy sets out how the Youth Empowerment Synergy (YES-Ghana) uses and protects any information that you give to the ‘My Voice My Vote’ when you use this website.
Youth Empowerment Synergy (YES-Ghana) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. This policy is effective from 15th September 2020.
What the ‘My Voice My Vote’ survey collects
The ‘My Voice My Vote’ survey collect the following information: the demographic information such as gender, preferences and interests the IP address, browser/device type and geographical information, location, age, and other information relevant to ‘My Voice My Vote’ survey and/or other campaign products.
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs as you may want the presidential candidate voted in power to address in other to provide the youth of Ghana with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
We will use the results of the voting information to campaign in the ‘My Voice Too Campaign’ and also during our engagement with presidential candidates during the Presidential Dialogue to bring to bear the issues affecting the Ghanaian youth to be addressed by them.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Why does your vote matter?
2020 Election is fast approaching and as such the voices of the Ghanaian youth must be heard by policy makers and critical stakeholders on the thematic areas the Ghanaian youth would want to see actualize when the elected presidential comes into government and the need to address these thematic areas in order to build a better Ghana for the Ghanaian youth.
The survey questions directly link to the Sustainable Development Goals and your answers will help feed into the political leaders, stakeholders and eventually the next government’ to monitor and address these thematic areas highlighted by the youth of Ghana this will raise awareness of important issues and giving a ‘youth’ perspective’ from the ground, in real-time.
