ILAPI

Founded in 2016, ILAPI is a think tank based in Tema, Ghana working on democracy & civil society, poverty & hunger, education.

ILAPI (Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation) is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy and educational research think tank based in Tema, Ghana. It describes its work as operating for education, social, political, business consultancy, free market economics advocacy, decentralisation, international relations, individual liberty, rule of law, poverty alleviation and entrepreneurship. Its activities include policy research and publications on economic freedom, business regulation, social protection and governance issues in Ghana and across Africa, along with policy advocacy, public events, and an internship and volunteer programme for students and graduates. The organisation states it was founded in 2016 and won the 2017 Africa Think Tank Shark Tank competition in South Africa, and was nominated again in 2018 in Kenya.