List of abbreviations in Ghana

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This is a list of abbreviations commonly used in Ghana and previously in the Gold Coast

AATUF All-African Trade Union Federation
ABU African Boxing Union
ACDC Army Central Defence Committee
ACDR Association of Committees for the Defence of the Revolution
ACI African Culture Institute
ACID Amansuri Conservation and Integrated Development
ACP African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
ACP Action Congress Party
ACP Assistant Commissioner of Police
ADB African Development Bank
ADC Agricultural Development Corporation
ADF Alliance of Democratic Forces
ADDRO Anglican Diocesan Development and Relief Organization
AEFG Aid Effectiveness Forum - Ghana
AFC Alliance for Change
AFCAS African Commission on Agricultural Statistics
AFDC Armed Forces Defence Commission
AFF African Freedom Fighters
AFRC Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
AFWC African Forestry and Wildlife Commission
AGC Ashanti (Asante) Goldfields Corporation
AGCC African Gold Coast Company
AGI Association of Ghana Industries
ALPE Alliance for Poverty Eradication
AMA Accra Metropolitan Assembly
AME African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
ANUC All Nations University College
AOMC Association of Oil Marketing Companies
APP All People's Party
APP Africa Progress Panel
APRP All People's Republican Party
APTI Association of Principals of Technical Institutions
ARI Animal Research Institute
ARPB Association of Recognized Professional Bodies
ARPS Aborigines' Rights Protection Society
ASP Assistant Superintendent of Police
AU African Union
AUC Ashesi University College
AWAM Association of West African Merchants
AYA Anlo Youth Association
AYA Anlo Youth Association
AYB African Youth Brigade
AYC Africa Youth Command

B

BA Bachelor for Administration
BAG Bar Association of Ghana
BARADEP Brong-Ahafo Regional Agricultural Development Program
BARDEC Brong-Ahafo Regional Development Corporation
BECE Basic Education Certificate Examination
BG Border Guards
BHC Bank for Housing Construction
B.L. Bachelor of Law Sciences
BNI Bureau of National Investigations
BoG Bank of Ghana
BSL Black Star Line
BSPS Business Sector Programme Support

C

C & S Cherubim and Seraphim Society
CA Constitutional Assembly
CA Consultative Assembly
CAP National Coalition Against the Privatization of Water
CAS Chief of the Air Staff
CBA Collective Bargaining Agreement
CCAF Coca Cola Africa Foundation
CCDEF Coordinating Committee of Democratic Forces
CCDF Coordinating Committee of Democratic Forces
CCE Center for Civic Education
CCG Christian Council of Ghana
CCLM Community Based Child Labour Monitoring
CDD-Ghana Center for Democratic Development, Ghana
CDR Committee for the Defence of the Revolution
CDS Chief of the Defence Staff
CECAF Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic
CEDEP Center for the Development of People
CEPS Customs, Excise and Preventive Service
CGMC Chamber of Ghanaian Mining Concessionaires
CHPS Community-Based Health Planning and Services
CHRAJ Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice
CICOL Civil Society Coalition on Land
CID Criminal Investment Department
CILT Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
CIP Community Initiated Project
CLGSA Civil and Local Government Staff Association
CMA Christian Mothers Association
CMB Cocoa Marketing Board
CME Council of Muslim Elders
CMS Church Missionary Society
CNC Central National Committee (Ghana)
CNS Chief of the Naval Staff
CO Colonial Office
COAS Chief of the Army Staff
COCOBOD Ghana Cocoa Board
COPAL Cocoa Producers' Alliance
COSG Cross of the Order of the Star of Ghana
COV Companion of the Order of the Volta
COYA Committee on Youth Associations
CPA Community Protection Assistants
CPA Cocoa Producers Alliance
CPC Cocoa Purchasing Company
CPP Convention People's Party
CPU Community Protection Units
CRIG Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana
CSA Civil Servants Association
CSIR Council (Center) for Scientific and Industrial Research
CSU Christian Service University College
CSU Christ Symbolic Union
CTO Commonwealth Telecommunication Organization
CTS (West African) Command Clerks Training School
CUCG Catholic University College of Ghana
CUT Committee of Togolese Unity
CVC Citizens' Vetting Committee
CWA Catholic Women's Association
CYO Catholic Youth Organization
CYO Committee on Youth Organization

D

DA District Assembly
DAG Democratic Alliance of Ghana
DAO District Administrative Officer
DAPIT Development and Application of Intermediate Technology Program
DC District Commissioner
DCE District Chief Executive
DEC District Executive Committee
DFI Department of Factories Inspectorate
DFID Department for International Development
DFP Democratic Freedom Party
DIC Divestiture Implementation Committee
DMC Diamond Marketing Corporation
DOC Department of Cooperatives
DOVVSU Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit
DPP Democratic People's Party
DS District Secretary
DSW Department of Social Welfare
DUA Democrat Union of Africa
DVC Diaspora Vote Committee
DVLA Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority
DWM 31st December Women's Movement
DWP Decent Work Programme
DYLG Democratic Youth League of Ghana

E

EAC Economic Advisory Committee
EC Electoral Commission
ECOMOG ECOWAS Monitoring Group
ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States
ECRAG Entertainment Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana
EDP Entrepreneurship Development Program
EEC European Economic Community
EGLE Every Ghanaian Living Everywhere
EITI Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
EREDEC Eastern Regional Development Corporation
EPA Economic Partnership Agreements
ERP Economic Recovery Program
ETLS ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme

F

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization
FC Forestry Commission
FDB Food and Drugs Board
FDC Food Distribution Corporation
FEAC Foreign Exchange Auction Committee
FGM Female Genital Mutilation
FOD Fraternal Order of Police
FOIB Freedom of Information Bill
FORIG Forestry Research Institute of Ghana
FOREX Foreign Exchange Bureau
FPD Front for the Prevention of Dictatorship
FPIB Forest Production Inspection Bureau
FRI Food Research Institute
FSD Forest Service Division
FWSC Fair Wages and Salaries Commission
FY Federation of Youth
FYO Federated Youth Organization

G

GAAS Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences
GABA Ghana Amateur Boxing Association
GADL Ghana Association of Democratic Lawyers
GAF Ghana Armed Forces
GAFCSC Ghana Armed Forces Command & Staff College
GAS Ghana Academy of Sciences
GAINS Ghana Agricultural Information Network System
GAW Ghana Association of Writers
GAWU Ghana Agricultural Workers' Union
GAWW Ghanaian Association for Women's Welfare
GBA Ghana Bar Association
GBC Ghana Bauxite Company
GBC Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
GC Gold Coast
GC Grand Coalition
GCARPS Gold Coast Aborigines Rights Protection Society
GCC Gold Coast Constabulary
GCC Ghana Co-operative College
GCC Ghana Co-operative Council
GCD Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Ltd.
GCEU Gold Coast Ex-Servicemen's Union
GCFA Gold Coast Farmers' Association
GCHC Ghana Cargo Handling Company
GCMA Ghana Co-operative Marketing Association
GCP Ghana Congress Party
GCPP Great Consolidated Popular Party
GCSA Ghana Civil Servants Association
GCTUC Gold Coast Trades Union Congress
GCUC Garden City University College
GCUC Ghana Christian University College
GDM Ghana Democratic Movement
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GDRP Ghana Democratic Republican Party
GEC Ghana Enterprises Commission
GEPC Ghana Export Promotion Council
GES Ghana Education Service
GET Ghana Educational Trust
GFA Ghana Football Authority or
Ghana Football Association
GFDC Ghana Food Distribution Corporation
GFIC Ghana Film Industry Corporation
GHA Ghana Highway Authority
GHAPSO Ghana People's Solidarity Organization
GHS Ghana Health Service
GIA Ghana International Airlines
GIHOC Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation
GILLBT Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Translation
GIMPA Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
GJA Ghana Journalists Association
GJA Ghana Judo Association
GLSS Ghana Living Standards Survey
GMA Ghana Manufacturing Association
GMA Ghana Medical Association
GMA Ghana Military Academy
GMFJ Ghana Movement for Freedom and Justice
GMRC Ghana Muslim Representative Council
GNA Ghana National Archives
GNA Ghana News Agency
GNAT Ghana National Association of Teachers
GNCC Ghana National Chamber of Commerce
GNCC Ghana Nation Commission on Children
GNCC Ghana National Construction Corporation
GNFC Ghana National Farmers' Council
GNFS Ghana National Fire Service
GNMC Ghana National Manganese Corporation
GNPC Ghana National Petroleum Corporation
GNTC Ghana National Trading Corporation
GNYC Ghana National Youth Council
GOIL Ghana Oil Company
GOPDC Ghana Oil Palm Development Corporation
GP Ghana Post
GPHA Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority
GPM Ghana Patriotic Movement
GPP Ghana Peoples' Party
GPPF Ghana Progressive Popular Front
GPSC Ghana Peace and Solidarity Council
GPTCWU Ghana Petroleum, Transport and Chemical Workers Union
GPRTU Ghana Private Road Transport Union
G-RAP Ghana Research and Advocacy Programme
GRC Ghana Railway Corporation
GREDA Ghana Real Estate Developers Association
GSB Ghana Standards Board
GSC Ghana Shippers Council
GSD Geological Survey Department
GSE Ghana Stock Exchange
GSHRDC Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre
GSL Ghana School of Law
GSMC Ghana State Mining Corporation
GSPD Ghana Society of the Physical Disabled
GTB Ghana Tourist Board
GTLC Ghana Trade and Livelihood Coalition
GTMC Ghana Timber Marketing Board
GTMO Ghana Timber Miller Organization
GTP Ghana Textile Printing
GTPCWU General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers' Union
GTUC Ghana Telecom University College
GTV Ghana Television
GUNSA Ghana United Nations Students' Association
GUP Ghana University Press
GWCL Ghana Water Company Limited
GYP Ghana Young Pioneer movement

H

HRD Human Resource Development
HIPC Heavily Indebted Poor Country
HSWU Health Services Workers' Union

I

IAP Implementation Action Plan
IAS Institute of African Studies
IAS Independent African States
IASB International African Service Bureau
IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
ICC Industrial Co-operative Corporation
ICCES Integrated Community Centres for Employable Skills
ICCO International Cocoa Organization
ICO International Coffee Organization
ICOUR Irrigation Company for the Upper Regions
ICT Information Communication Technology
ICU Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union
ICVB International Cocoa Verification Board
IDA Irrigation Development Authority
IDC Industrial Development Corporation
IDEA International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
IGP Inspector-General of the Police
IMC Interim Management Committee
IMF International Monetary Fund
IMWG Inter-Ministerial Working Group
INCC Interim National Coordinating Committee
INEC Interim National Electoral Commission
INSTI Institute for Scientific Technological Information
IOM International Organization for Migration
IRI Industrial Research Institute
ISD Information Services Department
ISODEC Integrated Social Development Centre
ISP Institutional Strengthening Plan
ITOCA Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa
ITSA Information Technology Students Association-(ask vvu - tc)
IUCG Islamic University College, Ghana
IVRDP Inland Valleys Rice Development Project

J

JAMB Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
JCC Joint Consultative Committee
JCSA Junior Civil Servants Association
JFM June Fourth Movement
JP Justice Party
JPC Joint Provincial Council of Chiefs
JSS Junior Secondary School
JWAC Joint West Africa Committee

K

KAIPTC Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre
KMA Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly
KMAC King's Medal for African Chiefs
KNRG Kwame Nkrumah Revolutionary Guards
KNUST Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

L

LA Legislative Assembly
LAP Land Administration Project
LD Labour Department
LEAP Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty
LGWU Local Government Workers Union
LI Legislative Instrument (ask vvu-tc)
LMIS Labour Market Information System
LOC Local Organizing Committee of Ghana
LRP Labor Re-deployment Program
LTPA Local Textile Printers Association

M

MAC Military Advisory Council
MAP Muslim Association Party
MATS Military Academy and Training School
MAYAN Militant African Youth Against Neo-Colonialism
MBE Member of the Order of the British Empire
MDG Millennium Development Goals
MDPI Management Development and Productivity Institute
MESW Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare
MFJ Movement for Freedom and Justice
MI Military Intelligence
M+J Mabey & Johnson
MMR Medium Mortar Regiment
MOC Municipal Oversight Committee
MOFA Ministry of Food and Agriculture
MOFEP Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
MOPAD Movement for Peace and Democracy
MOTI Ministry of Trade and Industry
MOV Member of the Order of Volta
MP Member of Parliament
MTN Mobile Telecommunications Network
MUC Maranatha University College
MUC Meridian University College
MUCG Methodist University College Ghana
MYC Muslim Youth Congress

N

NA Native Authority
NACOB Narcotics Control Bureau (Board)
NADECO National Development Company
NADMO National Disaster Management Organization
NAFAC National Festival of Arts and Culture
NAFTI National Film and Television Institute
NAG National Archives of Ghana
NAGRAT National Association of Graduate Teachers
NAL National Alliance of Liberals
NALCO National Association of Local Councils
NAO Native Administration Ordinance
NAPATS National Police Academy & Training Schools
NARAC National Agricultural Resources Allocation Committee
NASPA National Service Personnel Association
NASSO National Association of Socialist Students Organizations
NBSSI National Board for Small-Scale Industries
NBTPE National Board of Technical and Professional Examinations
NCBWA National Congress of British West Africa
NCC National Commission on Culture
NCCE National Commission for Civic Education
NCD National Commission on Democracy
NCGW National Council of Ghana Women
NCP National Convention Party
NCWD National Council for Women and Development
NDC National Defence Committee
NDC National Democratic Congress
NDF National Democratic Front
NDM National Democratic Movement
NDM New Democratic Movement
NDP National Democratic Party
NDPC National Development Planning Commission
NEB National Energy Board
NEC National Economic Commission
NEPAD New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development
NES National Employment Service
NGA New Generation Alliance
NGP New Ghana Party
NHC National House of Chiefs
NHC National Haji Committee
NHIS National Health Insurance Scheme
NIB National Investment Bank
NIC National Investigating Committee
NIP New Independence Party / National Independence Party
NLC National Labour Commission
NLC National Liberation Council
NLCD National Liberation Council Decree
NLM National Liberation Movement
NRC National Redemption Council
NNP Nkrumah National Party
NP Nationalist Party
NPA National Plan of Action
NPECLC National Programme for the Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour in Cocoa
NPP New Patriotic Party
NPP Northern People's Party
NPTB National Petroleum Tender Board
NRC National Reconciliation Commission
NRC National Redemption Council
NRCD National Redemption Council Decree
NREG Natural Resource and Environmental Governance
NRSC National Road Safety Commission
NRP National Reform Party
NSC National Security Council
NSC National Service Corps
NSPS National Social Protection Strategy
NSS National Service Scheme
NT Northern Territories
NTC Northern Territories Council
NTTC National Teacher Training Council
NUGS National Union of Ghana Students
NUS National Union of Seamen
NVTI National Vocational and Technical Institute
NYA Northern Youth Association
NYC National Youth Council
NYEP National Youth Employment Program

O

OAC Organization for African Community
OATUU Organization of African Trade Union Unity
OAU Organization of African Unity
OCDR Organizing Committee for the Defence of the Revolution
OFY Operation Feed Yourself
OIC (OICG, OIC-Ghana) Opportunities Industrialization Centre - Ghana
OOV Officer of the Order of Volta
OPRI Oil Palm Research Institute
ORC Office of Revenue Commissioners
OTDC Overseas Trade Development Council
OVC orphans, vulnerable children

P


PAC Pan African Club
PAC Political Advisory Committee
PACU(C) Pan-African Christian University College
PAMSCAD Program of Action to Mitigate the Social Cost of Adjustment
PANAFEST Pan African Festival
PAP People's Action Party (1969–1970 or 2018–2022)
PBC Pentecost Bible Centre
PBD Produce Buying Division (of Cocoa Marketing Board)
PCP People's Convention Party
PDA Preventive Detention Act
PDC People's Defence Committee
PDD Presidential Detail Department
PEA People's Educational Association
PEAs Private employment agencies
PEF Private Enterprise Foundation
PFP Popular Front Party
PHP People's Heritage Party
PIB Price and Incomes Board
PIP People's Independent Party
PLWHA Peoples Living With HIV/AIDS
PMFJ People's Movement for Freedom and Justice
PMMC Precious Minerals Marketing Corporation
PNC People's National Convention
PNDC Provisional National Defence Council
PNDCL Provisional National Defence Council Law
PNP People's National Party
POGR President's Own Guard Regiment
POYA Popular Youth Association
PP Progress Party
PPAG Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana
PPB Public Procurement Board
PPC Petroleum Promotion Council
PPDD Popular Party for Democracy and Development
PPF People's Popular Front
PPP People's Popular Party
PRELOG People's Revolutionary League of Ghana
PRLG People's Revolutionary League of Ghana
PRP People's Revolutionary Party
PSC Police Service Commission
PSG Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana
PSI Presidential's Special Initiatives
PSWU Public Services Workers' Union
PTWU Post and Telecommunications Workers' Union
PTA Parent-Teacher Association
PUC Pentecost University College
PUC Presbyterian University College
PURC Public Utilities Regulatory Commission
PWDs People with disabilities
PYG Patriotic Youth of Ghana

Q

QUT=Quantity union Transfer

R

RAC Royal African Company
RACCLI Royal African Colonial Corps of Light Infantry
RAF Regional Office for Africa
RAO Research and Advocacy Organizations
RC Regional Commissioner
RDC Regional Development Corporation
ROCAS Royal Care and Support
ROPAL Representation of the People's Amendment Law
RTU Real Tamale United
RWAFF Royal West African Frontier Force

Re=Rain earn

S

SAEMA Shama Ahanta East Metropolitan Assembly
SAG Senior Advocate of Ghana
SAL Structural Adjustment Loan
SAP Structural Adjustment Program
SCMB State Cocoa Marketing Board
SCOA Société Commerciale de l'Ouest Africain
SDF Social Democratic Front
SEC State Enterprises Commission
SFO Serious Fraud Office
SIB Special Investigations Board
SGMC State Gold Mining Corporation
SMA Societas Missionum ad Afros
SMC State Mining Companies
SMC Supreme Military Council
SMCD Supreme Military Council Decree
SME Small and Medium Enterprises
SOERP State-Owned Enterprise Reform Program
SONA Society of National Affairs
SPG Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
SPLiT Social Protection and Livelihood Technical Committee
SPP Special Public Prosecutor
SRC Students' representative council
SFO Social Security and National Insurance Trust
SRID Statistics, Research and Information Directorate
STAFAMS State Farms Corporation
Supt. Superintendent
SWAG Sport Writers Association of Ghana

T

TAMASEC Tamale Secondary School
TB Trashy Bags
TBA Traditional birth attendant
TC Togoland Congress
TCC Technology Consultancy Center
TCOR Trusteeship Council Official Records
TCP Togoland Congress Party
TDC Tema Development Corporation
TEDB Timber Export Development Board
TEWU Teachers and Educational Workers' Union
TF Third Force
TMB Timber Marketing Board
TOR Tema Oil Refinery
TRC Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Ghana)
TSSP Trade Sector Support Programme
TTI Takoradi Technical Institute
TUC Trades Union Congress
TVET Technical and Vocational Education and Training
TVT Trans-Volta Togoland

U

UAC United Africa Company
UAF United Action Front UENR
UDS University for Development Studies
UG University of Ghana
UGCC United Gold Coast Convention Party
UGFC United Ghana Farmers' Council
UGFCC United Ghana Farmers' Council of Cooperatives
UGM United Ghana Movement
UGMRC United Ghana Muslim Representative Council
UNC United National Congress
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
UNIA Universal Negro Improvement Association
UNIFIL United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
UNIGOV Union Government (Ghana)
UNP United Nationalist Party
UNTSO United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
UP United Party
UST University of Science and Technology
UTAG University Teachers Association of Ghana
UUY Universal United Youth Organization
UVC Universal Village Consult (ask vvu - tc)

V

VAG Veterans Association of Ghana
VALCO Volta Aluminium Company
VBGC Veranda Boys and Girls Club
VBRP Volta Basin Research Project
VLRDP Volta Lake Research and Development Project
VORADEC Volta Regional Agricultural Development Corporation
VORADEP Volta Regional Agricultural Development Project
VRA Volta River Authority
VRCC Volta Regional Co-ordinating Council
VRP Volta River Project
VSD Veterinary Service Directorate
VVU Valley View University

W

WAAC West African Airways Corporation
WACA West African Court of Appeal
WAEC West African Examinations Council
WAFF West African Frontier Force
WAGP West African Gas Pipeline
WAMI West African Monetary Institute
WAMZ West African Monetary Zone
WANEP West Africa Network for Peacebuilding
WANS West African National Secretariat
WASEC Wa Secondary School
WASSCE West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination
WASU West African Students' Union
WAYL West African Youth League
WDC Workers' Defence Committee
WREDEC Western Regional Development Corporation

X

Y

Z

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