The Office of the Head of the Local Government Service (OHLGS), in collaboration with the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK, and the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development (DSWCD), convened a one-day workshop on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Accra.
The aim was to explore embedding the Child Maintenance Assessment Tool (CMAT) into the national Social Welfare Information Management System (SWIMS) to improve child protection case management across Ghana.
Delivering the keynote address, Brian Tsikor, Acting Director of the Research, Statistics, and Information Management Directorate of the OHLGS, emphasised the urgent need to enhance support systems for children, women, and vulnerable groups.
He praised the initiative's focus on integrating CMAT with SWIMS as a step toward digitalizing social protection and strengthening data-informed decision-making at the district level. "The integration of CMAT into SWIMS will not only ensure better data availability but will also empower social workers with tools tailored to their operational realities," Tsikor noted.
