Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung@ 40 in Ghana Fraternity Message from the People's National Convention(PNC) on the Occasion of FES' 40th Anniversary in Ghana Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung[FES] as a democracy promoting institution has contributed significantly to the growth of our democracy. It has afforded various political parties in Ghana the platform to explain and to reach out to the electorate with their policy intents through their varied programs. The People's National Convention in point of fact, has optimised these opportunities that have often been offered by this Foundation. This has gone a long way to better the fortunes of our party in several respects. As a political establishment with the ultimate goal of capturing political power, one of our top most priorities is capacity building and human resource development. This surely is the best way of improving the quality of personnel of the party. The FES recognising this ubiquitous need, has closed the yawning gap in the building of the capacity of our members especially with training programs for our youth and women. This intervention has yielded amazing dividends as far as the party's task of developing its human resource is concerned. Some of our young spokespersons on various issues and media networks are beneficiaries of these training programmes including the General Secretary(Bernard Mornah). There are other relevant points of transaction that the party has had with FES which I can not name one after the other but it is significant to note that the programmes of FES has deepened inter­party relationship. The novel idea of the Inter-Party Youth Committee[IPYC], introduced by Ms. Kathrin Meissner has been instrumental in reducing the levels of acrimony and tension that characterise our political life particularly that of our Youth. It is for this reason that on this occasion of your 40th anniversary, we wish to say that the PNC and Ghana in its entirety owe you a great deal of gratitude for your contribution to the realisation of our democratic dreams. We hope this anniversary will be a moment for reflection and stock taking so that, you can expand the scope 67