Youth and Oil & Gas Governance in Ghana - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung ...

AcknowledgementThis study could not have been successful without the help ofmany people. We acknowledge the commitment and hard workof the staff of you-net and the field assistants across the countryfor making this study a success. With their help and networkof remarkable and supportive young people all over Ghana, wereached our goal to administer 6000 questionnaires in all tenregions in the country. Due to their efforts and interest, 5,361questionnaires were returned. This makes this study highly representative.A list of all 44 field assistants in the country can befound in the annex.We would also like to thank Tobias Zehe and Iris Afful for theirextremely good work on this project. Both of them have had somany great ideas and they also provided the necessary logisticalsupport for the success of the research.Christoph-Malte Marx a former intern of FES Ghana, as well asDanaa Nantogmah, Programme Coordinator of FES Ghana, alsovalidated the study. The study benefited a lot from their contributions.Last but not least, we would like to thank all the respondents fortheir interest in the study and their opinion. In many regions ofthe country the respondents approached the field assistants inorder to fill out the questionnaires. That shows the high interest inthat topic and the importance of the debate.3