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CENTRAL GONJA DISTRICT ASSEMBLY

DRAFT MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN

2014 – 2017

BASED ON THE

NATIONAL MEDIUM TERM POLICY FRAMEWORK

Prepared by: DPCU, Central Gonja District Assembly

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I. TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents I. TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................ 1

II. LIST OF ACRONYMS .............................................................................................................................. 4

II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................. 6

1.0 CHAPTER 1: DISTRICT PROFILE .......................................................................................................... 8

1.1 LOCATION AND SIZE ..................................................................................................................... 8

1.2 PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT .................................................................................... 8

Relief and Drainage............................................................................................................................... 8

Climatic Characteristics ........................................................................................................................ 8

Soil and Vegetation ............................................................................................................................... 9

Winds .................................................................................................................................................... 9

1.3 CULTURE ....................................................................................................................................... 9

Ethnicity and Religion ........................................................................................................................... 9

Settlement Systems ............................................................................................................................ 10

1.4 Economy of the District .............................................................................................................. 11

1.5 Food Security .............................................................................................................................. 11

1.6 Governance ................................................................................................................................. 11

1.7 SOCIAL SERVICES......................................................................................................................... 13

Health ................................................................................................................................................. 13

1.8 HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE ......................................................................................................... 15

1.9 EDUCATION ................................................................................................................................. 16

1.10 SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE ......................................................................................................... 17

1.11 SCHOOL SANITATION .................................................................................................................. 19

1.12 VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS........................................................................................................... 20

1.13 SCHOOL FEEDING ........................................................................................................................ 20

1.14 NHIS ............................................................................................................................................ 20

1.15 LIVELIHOOD EMPOWERMENT AGAINST POVERTY (LEAP) ......................................................... 21

1.16 RESILIENCY IN NORTHERN GHANA PROJECT - RING ................................................................... 21

1.17 ECD Centers ................................................................................................................................ 21

1.18 HIV AND AIDS .............................................................................................................................. 21

1.19 GENDER....................................................................................................................................... 22

1.20 ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND GREEN ECONOMY ..................................................... 22

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1.21 AGRICULTURE ............................................................................................................................. 22

1.22 LIVESTOCK ................................................................................................................................... 22

1.23 POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS .............................................................. 23

1.23.1 Population size and distribution ......................................................................................... 23

1.23.2 Age and sex structure ......................................................................................................... 23

Table 2.1: Population by age, sex and type of locality ....................................................................... 23

1.23.3 Dependency Ratio ............................................................................................................... 24

1.24 HOUSING..................................................................................................................................... 24

1.25 DISASTER ..................................................................................................................................... 24

1.26 WATER SECURITY ........................................................................................................................ 24

1.27 MIGRATION (EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION) ....................................................................... 25

1.28 A SUMMARY OF KEY DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS/ISSUES/GAPS IDENTIFIED ............................. 26

2.0 CHAPTER 2: PRIORITISATION OF DEVELOPMENT ISSUES ............................................................... 30

2.1 POTENTIALS, OPPORTUNITIES, CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES (POCC ANALYSIS) ................ 30

2.2 SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OPTION ............................................................................................... 39

3.0 CHAPTER 3: DEVELOPMENT GOAL, OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES ................................................ 40

3.1 A CLEAR DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS .................................................................................. 40

3.2 DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT GOAL .................................................................................................. 40

3.3 Development projections for 2014-2017 ................................................................................... 41

3.4 ADOPTED POLICY OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES ....................................................................... 41

4.0 CHAPTER 4: DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES .................................................................................. 45

REVENUE GENERATION .......................................................................................................................... 46

Local Economic Development ................................................................................................................ 47

AGRICULTURE - ALTERNATIVE LIVELHOOD ............................................................................................ 48

CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE ...................................................................................................... 49

WATER AND SANITATION ....................................................................................................................... 50

ENERGY ................................................................................................................................................... 51

EDUCATION............................................................................................................................................. 52

HEALTH AND NUTRITION ........................................................................................................................ 54

The Aged ................................................................................................................................................. 56

Child Development and Protection ........................................................................................................ 56

POPULATION MANAGEMENT AND MIGRATION FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ................................. 57

Poverty Reduction and Income Inequalities ........................................................................................... 57

Public Safety and Security ...................................................................................................................... 58

Gender Equity and Women Empowerment ........................................................................................... 58

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4.1 INDICATIVE FINANCIAL PLAN ...................................................................................................... 59

5.0 CHAPTER 5: DISTRICT ANNUAL ACTION PLAN ................................................................................ 61

5.1 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN FOR 2014 ............................................................................................... 61

5.2 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN 2015 ...................................................................................................... 77

5.3 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN 2016 ...................................................................................................... 90

5.4 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN 2017 .................................................................................................... 101

5.5 DISTRICT PLAN LINKED TO THE DISTRICT COMPOSITE ANNUAL BUDGET................................ 111

5.6 IMPLEMENTATION OF ANNUAL ACTION PLAN ........................................................................ 111

6.0 CHAPTER 6: MONITORING AND EVALUATION ARRANGEMENTS ................................................. 112

6.1 Identification and analysis of stakeholders .............................................................................. 112

6.2 ASSESSING NEEDS AND CREATING THE NECESSARY CONDITIONS AND CAPACITIES ............... 113

6.3 MONITORING INDICATORS ....................................................................................................... 113

6.4 MONITORING AND EVALUATION MATRIX................................................................................ 115

6.5 M&E CALENDAR (WORK PLAN) ................................................................................................ 116

6.6 M&E BUDGET ............................................................................................................................ 117

6.7 DATA COLLECTION, VALIDATION AND COLLATION .................................................................. 117

6.8 REPORTING ............................................................................................................................... 117

6.9 INFORMATION DISSEMINATION ............................................................................................... 117

6.10 PARTICIPATORY M&E ............................................................................................................... 117

7.0 CHAPTER 7: COMMUNICATION STRATEGY .................................................................................. 118

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II. LIST OF ACRONYMS

BAC Business Advisory Centre

BHs Bore holes

CGDA Central Gonja District Assembly

CU Cooperatives Unit

DA District Assembly

DEOC District Education Oversight Committee

DMTDP District Medium Term Development Plan

DPCU District Planning Coordinating Unit

DPDOT District Plan Dissemination Orientation Team

DPs Development Partners

DWD District Works Department

ECD Early Childhood Development Centers

EHU Environmental Health Unit

FI Financial Institutions

GDO Gender Desk Officer

GHS Ghana Health Service

GOG Government of Ghana

GSGDA Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda

GSOP Ghana Social Opportunities Project

GSS Ghana Statistical Service

HA Highways Authority

HODs Heads of Departments

HODDs Heads of Decentralized Departments

HR Human Resource

ICEIR Institute of Continuing Education and Inter-Disciplinary Research

IGF Internal Generated Funds

LEAP Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty

MOH Ministry of Health

MP Member of Parliament

PM Presiding Member

NHIS National Health Insurance Scheme

NMDTPF National Medium Term Policy Framework

NRGP Northern Rural Growth Project

OLs Opinion Leaders

OPD Out Patience Department

PHC Population and Housing Census

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PTA Parent Teacher Association

RING Resiliency in Northern Ghana

SMCs School Management Committees

RPCs Reproductive Health Centers

TCP Town and Country Planning Office

UTDBE Untrained Teachers Diploma in Basic Education

WFP World Food Programme

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II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The plan preparation started with the holding of a district performance review workshop with representation from all the major departments and agencies as well as NGOs. This witnessed the participation of GES, GHS, Community Development & Social Welfare, Water and Sanitation, Agric, NCCE, NHIS, Central Administration, Environmental Health, Works Department, KATCHITO Community Development Center and a host of other. All of these made presentations on their interventions, achievements and challenges as well as projects on what they expect to carry out in the next plan period. That actually set the tone for the next programming after other key steps were carried out. The District Plan Preparation Team was then formed, inaugurated and given orientation on what to do. The opportunity was also taken to prepare a work plan on how to proceed with the plan preparation. Then using the outcome of the review session, the team kick started the updating of the District profile. The current situation of the District was analysed and gaps identified were flagged and filled after the community perspective was carried out. The next step in the process carried out was the preparation for community data gathering session. The instrument and expected community profiling information were indentified and included in the instrument. This paved the way for short training workshop on the data gathering and a pretesting session in one of the nearby communities. The team’s next action was to go out to the communities in small sub-teams of tree per area Council. In all 80 communities were covered. Each Area Council had 16 communities selected based on a criteria agreed on by District stakeholders and USAID. The priorities of the communities were identified with basic issues of sanitation, nutrition and poverty reduction livelihoods interventions as well as water and sanitation reigning high. The issues based on the GSGDA document were then collated and harmonized with the NMDPF thematic areas and further prioritized after POCC analysis. The key issues to be addressed were then confirmed for the purpose of programming. The District development Goal and objectives as well as the strategies were formulated or adopted from the policy matrix. This then allowed for the broad programmes of action to be identified. After this step, the team went ahead to design the annual action plan, and the formulation of the communication strategy and monitoring and evaluation plan. In all these sessions, a validation session after the key development issues were harmonized was organized for those major stakeholders to confirm the main issues to be addressed. A final public hearing session is scheduled to outdoor this plan to the public before the plan could be finalized.

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This plan is directed at basically addressing the issues of revenue generation necessary to keep the District running. Issues of addressing falling standards of education, improving basic health service delivery, ensuring food security and improving incomes among the farmer population and safeguarding the livelihoods in the face of climate change has found expression. The plan is also a continuity of the efforts made under the GSGDA I spanning 2010 – 2013. Gains made under the GSGDA will be enhanced and taken further under the NMDPF plan that has just been drafted. The estimated cost of the implementation of this plan is GHC89,508,600.00 to be drawn from sources including the IGF, DACF, DDF, GETFUND, USAID, GoG sources, NGOs and other development partners. The outcome of the plan is expected to improve education performance at the basic and second cycle levels, improve basic health delivery, especially reduction in maternal and child morbidity and mortality. More safe water supply and sanitation is expected to improve while incomes and reduction of extreme poverty is enhanced. The plan expects to also improve rural access for increased movement of goods and services, supply of energy to connect more rural communities to improve rural economy and social live while checking rural urban migration. Finally, security, gender and governance in general is expected to reach a much higher level of achievement.

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1.0 CHAPTER 1: DISTRICT PROFILE

1.1 LOCATION AND SIZE

Central Gonja District is located to the South Western part of Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana.

It lies on longitude 1˚5’W and 2˚ 58’W and latitude 8˚32’N and 10˚2’N. The District was carved out of the

West Gonja District in 2004. It shares boundaries in the South with Kintampo Municipal in Brong Ahafo

Region, West Gonja District in the West, Tamale metro in the North, Tolon District to the North East and

East Gonja District in the East.

The District covers 7,555km2 which represent 11% (Source: 2010PHC) of the total land area of the

Region. The District is strategically linked to the Southern sector as the gate way to the two Northern

Regions (Upper East and Northern). Buipe is the only town in the region with port facilities to facilitate

water transport. It is also a promising industrial hub of the region currently housing some sheanuts

processing and cement factories.

1.2 PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

Relief and Drainage

The Topography is generally undulating with altitude of between 150-200meters above sea level. The

district is drained by two major rivers in Ghana. These are the White and the Black Voltas. The two meet

around Tuluwe and Mpaha area specifically at Kikali (No. 4). The point of confluence of the Black and

White Volta Rivers at Kikali is a potential site for tourist attraction. Both the Black and White Volta

Rivers which drain the district, have good potential for large -scale irrigation schemes along their valleys.

They also provide good waterways for water transport from Buipe and Yapei respectively to Akosombo

via the Volta Lake in Yeji. There is an inland harbour at Buipe on the Black Volta. These rivers are good

potential sources of fresh water fishing and fish farming in the District.

Climatic Characteristics

The District experiences extreme temperatures especially in the dry season. The daily and annual range

is wide. The coldest nights in the year are experienced in the three months of December, January and

February. During these months, the air becomes dry and the atmosphere becomes hazy and one cannot

see clearly due to the fine dust in the air. The mean monthly temperature is 27˚C. Humidity is very low

during this dry season causing dry skin and cracked lips to human beings. This period is known as

Harmattan.

The rainy season begins around May and end in October. The rainfall is seasonal and is characterized by

single maxima. The mean annual rainfall is about 1144mm. The rainfall pattern is erratic, beginning in

late April and ending in late October. July and August generally record the heaviest rainfall and also the

greatest number of rainy days. The rainfall is characterized by thunder storms or flash showers. Floods

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and erosion are common due to the torrential nature of rains. The irregular distribution and short

duration of the rainfall are a great limitation to crops and vegetative growth. Only single crop

production is possible due to the rainfall regime.

Soil and Vegetation

The district is situated in an old geological area. The rocks are mainly Voltaian formation with isolated

Cambrian rocks which contain valuable minerals such as gold and diamond. Limestone occurs between

the lower and middle Voltaian formation around Buipe –the capital of the District. Generally, the soils in

the District are fertile for Agriculture purpose. Several crops including maize, yam, Millet, sorghum,

groundnuts rice etc can be grown in these soils.

The natural vegetation is guinea savannah. But the richness is determined (Dissected) by the soil types.

The large mass of vegetation cover is dissected by human activities such as shifting cultivation, slash and

burn method of land preparation for farming and housing. The major tree species are sheanut,

dawadawa, baobab, acacia, nim and little ebony. These tree are scattered except in most valleys where

isolated wood –land or gallery forest are found. Most trees are deciduous shedding their leaves during

the dry season in order to conserve water.

Grass grows in tussocks and may reach 2.7m during the rainy season. This indicates that the area is

suitable for crops such as millet, sorghum, maize and groundnuts.

Yam is also cultivated in the District especially around Mpaha Area. The original vegetation in major

settlements such as Buipe, Yapei, Mpaha and Kusawgu has been destroyed by human activities. Bush

fires, charcoal burning and fetching of firewood have reached alarming proportions. These need to be

checked to avoid environmental problems in future. The only forest reserve the District is endowed with

is the Yakumbo Forest Reserve. This forest is located at Western part of District capital. It has a land

area of about 1200 hectares.

Winds

Two dominant winds influence the climate of the Central Gonja District. The rain bearing wind which

bring rain to the district from May to October are the South-West winds from the Atlantic ocean and

from November to February, the Hamattan period brings to the District dry winds from the Sahara

desert. These winds carry a thick hazy dust. The wind borne dust is often thick enough to obscure the

sun and affect visibility. A lot of irritation and discomfort is experienced at this time of the year.

1.3 CULTURE

Ethnicity and Religion

There are about 20 ethnic groups in the district. The major groups, however, in order of magnitude are

Gonja, Dagomba, Hanga, Mamprusi and Dagarbas. Others include Ewes, Akans and Chekosi, Konkombas

used to live in the District, but due to the 1994 ethnic conflict it has become risky for them to continue

living there. The lack of ethnic homogeneity tends to constrain socio-cultural organization and

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development. There are inter-tribal marriages and peaceful co-existence which enhances unity in

diversity.

There are four major religious groups in the Central Gonja District. These are as follows: Islam

constitutes about 84.3%, Christianity 12.1% while traditional religion 1.8% and others 1.6% (source: GSS

2010 PHC). There is relatively religious harmony which is a pre-requisite for development.

Settlement Systems

The settlements are largely nucleated in nature and tend to be located along the main access routes in

the District. The largest of the settlements in terms of hierarchy is Buipe the District capital. The

communities in the central Gonja district are largely located at intervals of average of 15kms apart. They

are also made up of population clusters not exceeding 100 to 200 in a community. Communities that

have population of 500 and above numbered 62 in 2010. However, the top 10 communities in the

District have populations ranging between 1,408 to 11,653. According to the 2010 population census,

there are a total of 103 communities across the District. This is so because the very minute ones were

merged to each other based on proximity for convenience.

Community Population

Male Female Total

BUIPE 5,756 5,897 11,653

YAPEI 2,829 2,933 5,762

SANKPAGLA 1,506 1,698 3,204

MPAHA 1,532 1,439 2,971

FUFULSO 1,135 1,188 2,323

LITO 1,108 1,018 2,126

YIPALA 984 1,020 2,004

KUSAWGU 864 934 1,798

CHAMA 670 762 1,432

KIGBRIPE 728 680 1,408

17,112 17,569 34,681

Extract of the 2010 population census Report for Central Gonja (GSS, 2010)

Most of these settlements are poorly accessible to centers of services like secondary schools, major

health facilities and banking services. The road linkages to the interior communities are very poor both

in network and condition. Telecommunication to facilitate communication is not well developed. Most

of the communities are therefore unable to reach the wider world via cell phone communication. To

make it worse radio signals are even very poorer than telecommunication since even the District capital

is very limited in terms of radio signals.

With the exception of Buipe the District capital, all the other communities are largely farming

dominated in their local economic activities. Also the area council capitals functions as the growth poles

of the District with some amount of service provisions. Some of these services provided include

education, health farm tools manufacture activities undertaken. These communities also serve as the

traditional headquaterses as they are the seats of the paramouncies of the District.

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Some of the communities tend to be sited along the main rivers – White and Black Voltas – to take

advantage of the vast fresh water fish resources.

1.4 Economy of the District

The economy of the Central Gonja District is largely agrarian in nature. Not less than an estimated

population percentage of xxx is engaged in farming as a primary occupation. Poverty situation is very

high as in Ghana the food crop farmers happen to fall in the class of highly impoverished people. Others

are also engaged in fishing especially the communities along the white and Black Voltas.

Buipe has one of the largest cattle markets in the northern region. There are even plans to turn this

cattle market to an international one to serve the sub-region. With the trans-Ecowas highway cutting

across the District, this dream is sure to come to reality.

There are however, a few factories that manufacture cement and oil as well as drinking water. The

District is infact the only District Assembly in the Northern Region that is proud to house manufacturing

industries. Currently there are no data about the income and employment situation across the District.

1.5 Food Security

Central Gonja is a major agriculture concentrated zone in the region and the country for that matter.

Production levels for major food crops like Maize, Cassava, Yam, Rice, Groundnut, Cowpea, Soybean,

Millet and Sorghum has been on the ascendancy. Though not food secure to imbalances in production

and also nutritional status, the situation is very positive. Tabulated below is a display of progression of

major food items production in the District from 2010 to 2013.

MAJOR STAPLE 2010 2011 2012 2013

Maize 14,600 15,000 18,000 17,100

Cassava 39,000 39,600 40,000 42,000

Yam 46,800 49,000 51,000 53,465

Rice 2,375 2,621 3,500 4,400

Groundnut 4,200 4,450 4,400 4,880

Cowpea 295 291 360 387

Soybean 161 126 135 180

Millet 163 159 163 182

Sorghum 265 296 272 400

Source: DOA, Central Gonja District - 2014

1.6 Governance

Central Gonja District Assembly is one of the 26 administrative local government structures in the Northern Region of Ghana. As a decentralized structure, Central Gonja by law is mandated to perform some critical functions including:

Legislative

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Financial Control

Executive Function of the Assembly

Representational Function

Deliberative and Administrative

Planning and Implementation of Development interventions

Monitoring and Evaluation

At the top of the governance structure of the District is the Assembly headed by the Executive committee. The main committee of the assembly is the executive committee chaired by the District Chief executive. Under the executive committee are five mandatory sub-committees. These are the Development Planning Sub-committee, Finance and Administration Sub-committee, Social Services Sub-committee, Security and Justice Sub-committee and Works sub-committee.

The assembly is supported in its operations by substructures. In Central Gonja District such sub-structures are five in number. These include Tuluwe area council, Kusawgu area council, Yapei area council, Mpaha area council and Buipe area council. There are 31 electoral areas each represented by an assembly person. This number is augmented by the Member of Parliament and the District Chief executive. In effect there are 33 elected assembly members. Out of the number, 4 are females. There are five area councils and 155 unit committee members spread across the entire district that feed into the area council.

District Assembly Organogram

Source: Ghana Local Government Service

The departments in the highlighted area show that these departments are related to above mentioned respective

sector(s) & sub-committee in terms of policy and planning direction (not for management purposes).

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1.7 SOCIAL SERVICES

Health

Over the years interventions in the provision of health has been improving though with numerous challenges. The highest level of health service provision in the Central Gonja District is a Health Centre. There is no District Hospital yet. The health situation of majority of the people in the District capital can be described as generally poor. This is due mainly to the prevalence of diseases. That apart, the following factors contribute to the bad state of health of the people:

(a) Poor nutrition and poor housing conditions (b) Problem of environmental sanitation (c) Inadequate health services and facilities. The current human resources situation in the District is as indicated in the graph below. OPD attendance due to Malaria is still high in Central Gonja District. Acute Respiratory Tract Infection and diarrhea constantly follow over the period 2010 t0 2013. The malaria situation & the other top 2 are due to poor Environmental Sanitation or conditions. Other reasons for the current malaria statistics have been attributable to Diagnostic difficulties and Poor utilisation of the ITNs.

Figure 1: Top 10 OPD Diseases from 2010 to 2013

Source: Ghana Health Service, Central Gonja District Assembly, 2013

There is a still inadequate health professional in the District to occupy all the essential sectors of health service delivery. Much effort is required in this area either by sponsoring more staff or redistributing the existing staff from well endowed areas of the region to Central Gonja to make up for the gap existing. The current situation id indicated in the graph below.

Figure 2: Human Resources Situation

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Transportation to facilitate health service delivery is also not the best. This has largely been due to poor

road conditions and over aged motorcycles. This has been worsened by the poor road condition across

the entire district. The situation as studied over the last four years is as indicated below in the table.

Logistical Situation

INDICATOR 2010 2011 2012 2013

Number of Vehicles 3 3 4 4

Number of vehicles road worthy 3 3 4 4

Number of motorbikes 34 46 49 49

Proportion of Motorbikes road worthy 34 46 44 12

Total number of motor bikes 34 46 49 49


Notwithstanding the challenges however, a number of services are carried out to improve life for the

people especially the vulnerable and deprived people and communities. The services provided in the

district include medical care, antenatal and child welfare services. Other services are immunization,

post-natal services, family planning services, and health education on prevalent health issues. The Top

ten diseases in the district from 2010 to the end of 2013 are as tabulated below:

Top 10 diseases from 2010-2013

2010 2011 2012 2013

1. Malaria OPD cases - clinical and confirmed

9889 1. Malaria OPD cases - clinical and confirmed

15726


27258


36571

2. Acute Respiratory Tract Infections

1625 2. Acute Respiratory Tract Infections



7495

3. Diarrhoea Diseases

1207 3. Diarrhoea Diseases



5669

4. Skin Diseases & Ulcers

647 4. Hypertension 920 4. Typhoid Fever 2407 4. Acute Urinary Tract Infection

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5. Pneumonia 545 5. Skin Diseases & Ulcers

878 5. Intestinal Worms

1833 5. Typhoid Fever 2382

6. Rheumatism & Other Joint Pains

433 6. Rheumatism & Other Joint Pains

701 6. Hypertension 1779 6. Hypertension 2345

7. Anaemia 367 7. Pneumonia 571 7. Skin Diseases & Ulcers

1678 7. Intestinal Worms

2246

8. Hypertension 339 8. Acute Urinary Tract Infection

470 8. Acute Urinary Tract Infection

1577 8. Skin Diseases & Ulcers

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9. Typhoid Fever 166 9. Anaemia 354 9. Rheumatism & Other Joint Pains

1178 9. Anaemia 1459

10. Home Accidents and Injuries

157 10. Acute Eye Infection

270 10. Anaemia 1004 10. Rheumatism & Other Joint Pains

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Child survival situation has been improving over the years though with challenges especially for the year 2013 when logistical challenges lowered targets for the year. The figures below give the trend analysis of EPI performance.

Figure 3: Graphical Presentation of EPI Performance


HIV/AIDS cases over the review period improved tremendously as only 4 cases were recorded

in the year 2013. Details are indicated below.

HIV/AIDS situation

INDICATOR 2010 2011 2012 2013

No. Counseled 3218 3073 4112 3401

No. tested 3177 2882 4031 2475

No. Positive 21 10 28 4

% Positive 0.66 0.33 0.68 0.12


1.8 HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE

Generally, the district has limited infrastructure. It lacks hospital. The highest health institution the district is health posts which are located at Kusawgu, Mpaha, Yapei and Buipe. Apart from the health posts the district also has rural clinics at Sankpala and Chama respectively. Health facilities are, therefore, inadequate and unevenly distributed in the district. The distribution of infrastructure and the growth situation over the years in detailed in the

table below.

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3639

4682 4779 46784265

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Health Infrastructure in the past 4 years.

INDICATOR 2010 2011 2012 2013

No of Health Centers 4 5 5 5

No of CHPS Zones Demarcated 25 25 25 25

No of functional CHPS Zones 8 10 16 16

No of functional CHPS Zones with compounds 5 5 7 7


1.9 EDUCATION

Formal education has been proclaimed as the basis for personal and national development, yet much is needed to make it a reality. Central Gonja District has made some strides into raising educational attainment from its doldrums from the 2000s. There has been an improvement of infrastructure from 2010 to 2013. The number of schools by category has also improved tremendously though much is still required.

Figure 4: Schools by Category

Source: Ghana Education Service, Central Gonja District Assembly, 2013

Over the last four years, the enrolment rate improved marginally for both public and private schools. The yearly performance in enrolments by level is indicated in the table in the next page.

School enrolments by category

Cycles 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013

Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female

K.G Public 1989 1957 2474 2263 2434 2244 2483 2326

K.G Private 143 180 104 119 358 333 457 466

Primary Public 6873 5871 6660 5666 6803 5839 6907 5900

Primary Private 261 273 254 279 233 251 489 531

JHS Public 1433 979 1500 1050 1731 1296 1542 1176

JHS Private 22 34 32 25 26 26 49 42

TOTAL 10721 9294 11024 9402 11585 9989 11927 10441

GRAND TOTAL 20,015 20,426 21,574 22,368

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On BECE performance, the statistics shows a reverse trend. While the absolute numbers of girls

passing the BECE examinations is dropping the performance in reality is improving and that of

boys is dropping. Much effort is required therefore to improve the female transition rate and to

maintain or even improve on the BECE performance for girls. The table below evidences the

trend over the last four years (2010-2013).

Academic Performance at BECE by Gender

Year No. Presented No. Passed (aggregate 6 – 30)

Male Female Total Male % Female % Total

2010 422 210 632 295 72% 112 28% 407

2011 448 319 767 179 69% 79 31% 258

2012 422 301 723 191 65% 101 35% 292

2013 462 320 782 177 64% 100 36% 277


The situation here will require intensified campaign on retention, improvement of teaching and

learning and against teenage pregnancy among other critical interventions to raise educational

standards. There is committed administrative staff to make things work if resources are made

available. However, there will be the need to tighten sanctions against bad nuts in the system

who fails to perform but take salary.

1.10 SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE

On infrastructure, much has been achieved over the past four years. Infrastructure for the KG

has increased by 80%, Primary appreciated by 51%, 18% for JHS and 100% in the case of SHS.

The details have been tabulated below. The situation has been due to the high demand for

education and the fact that education is considered the tool to propel national development

resulting in its prioritization as number one sector of the district.

Figure 5: Condition of School Infrastructure

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SCHOOLS WITH STANDARD STRUCTURES

CATEGORY 2010 2011 2012 2013 Remarks

KG 26 26 37 47 80.8%

PRIMARY 45 47 56 68 51.1%

JHS 16 17 18 19 18.8%

SHS 1 2 2 2 100%

TEC/VOC 1 1 1 1 No Change

TOTAL 89 93 114 137 +ve trend

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The water and sanitation situation as pertains in the schools across the District has not been

the best and will require much support to improve the situation. The current situation of water

and sanitation has been captured in the table below.

Water and Sanitation situation by Category

CATEGORY 2010 2011 2012 2013 Remarks

KG 23 27 25 28 Note that the situation is due to increase in CR facilities without water points & not sanitation facilities per se.

PRIMARY 31 30 29 38

JHS 10 15 17 19

SHS 1 2 2 2

TEC/VOC 1 1 1 1

TOTAL 66 75 74 88

Indicator projections.

The district expects to reduce the prevailing figure of 88 by at least 50% by end of 2017.


The teacher population is not the best as we have it currently, while pupils teacher ratio is improving, the situation are so due to high numbers of untrained teachers. As the enrolments rates increase in response to high demand for education, the educational managers of the District also make efforts to fill the teacher gap by employing pupil teachers. There is therefore a high number of pupils teachers in the District. The situation on the ground is displayed in the figure next.

Figure 6: Teaching Staff Strength

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Teacher Strength

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

M F Ttal M F Ttal M F Ttal M F Ttal

2010 2011 2012 2013

337

79

416374

101

475

415

123

538

465

137

602

113

20

133 136

31

167 157

41

198181

47

228

Ttal teachers

T. Teachers

Unt. teachers

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Pupil Teacher Ratio

Figure 7: Pupil Teacher Ratio


1.11 SCHOOL SANITATION

School sanitation is very critical to the health of the pupils and students and plays a critical role

in female retention in school especially when they are at the adolescent age. There are 109

schools in the district. Out of these, a total of 44 of the schools have toilet facilities, 47 are

equipped with urinals and only 11 of them have water supply facilities. This situation definitely

affects the hand washing with soap initiative. This is because with water supply being so

difficult it will be impossible to maintain the hygiene status since there is even no enough to

drink let alone wash hands. This in effect also have effects on the health status of the pupils.

01:47 01:48 01:48

01:41

01:35

01:37

01:40

01:43

01:46

01:49

2010 2011 2012 2013

P/Teacher ratio

P/Teacher ratio

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1.12 VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS

Like any other parts of the world or Ghana in particular, the issues of vulnerability also engulfs the

population of Central Gonja District. Of the 87,877 people captured in the 2010 PHC, 50% are adult

active population and 46% are children and 4% are aged. In effect, 50% of the population is dependent

riding on the back of the active population. Out of these about 3.6% of the population of Central Gonja

are disabled and hence vulnerable in terms of access to health services, to basic means of livelihood,

disadvantaged in mobility and serious access to public facilities. The highly disadvantaged ones had to

be captured for support by the District outfit of NHIS as indigents. Besides, W are children who are

vulnerable and need care and support to grow into responsible adults. The District Assembly year on

year provides ECD centers for this group of the population. For the period between 2010 to 2013

fourteen ECD centers were constructed in the District. This has improved the accommodation needs of

the little kids who need to be catered for and to allow their parents to fend for their daily survival.

1.13 SCHOOL FEEDING

A total of 16 schools are covered under the school feeding project in all the Area Councils of the District.

The intervention aims at cushioning the vulnerable children are in remote and poor suburbs of towns.

The beneficiaries number up to 5,531 pupils by the close of 2013. These are fed with at least one hot

meal during school hours for the five weekly days in each week.

1.14 NHIS

Yet another safety net designed to improve the plight of the poor and which is operating well in

the District is the NHIS. The situation from 2010 to 2013 has been tabulated below:

NHIS Performance

INDICATORS 2010 2011 2012 2013

No. of people registered with the scheme 12,557 13,648 11,846 9,147

No. of NHIS Beneficiaries 52,863 65,420 77,266 86,413

No. of NHIS Service Centers (Health Service) 13 13 15 15

No. of NHIS Service Centers (Registration Points) 1 1 3 3

Source: NHIS, Central Gonja District

Of the registrants that benefitted from NHIS in Central Gonja District, statistics in 2013 alone indicate that 5,418 of them were poor or vulnerable. With no support of any kind to meet the daily basic needs of survival the safety net was the health insurance. Up to the end of the first quarter of 2014, 97 people were given treatment through the health insurance scheme. Details are displayed below.

INDIGENTS (2013) INDIGENT (2014)

M F Total M F TOTAL

2,182 1,907 5,418 39 38 97

Source: NHIS, Central Gonja District

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1.15 LIVELIHOOD EMPOWERMENT AGAINST POVERTY (LEAP)

Under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty, there have been a good number of

vulnerable women and men that have over the years received financial cushioning to ease their

plight. Efforts are even being made to expand the coverage to make life much more bearable to

the disadvantaged or excluded in society. The total beneficiaries covered in the District so far

are 235.

1.16 RESILIENCY IN NORTHERN GHANA PROJECT - RING

With funding from USAID, more vulnerable people are being supported out of poverty,

vulnerability, malnutrition, sanitation related vulnerabilities and hygiene promotion. A total of

2350 beneficiaries from poor households in 50 communities are being supported through the

delivery of various interventions. The District is also preparing an action plan for the beneficiary

communities to facilitate the delivery of targeted intervention to improve the poor households.

1.17 ECD Centers

As the future leaders of this nation, the District Assembly and its responsible department for

education and development partners has over the years put in place structures to house the

children. This follows the policy of ECD centers by the government.

1.18 HIV AND AIDS

HIV/AIDS situation is improving in the District. The prevalence has been dropping over the years

though the District capital is a high risk area due to the haulage truck drivers that have been

parading there to load either fuel, wood or cement or offload shea nuts.

Figure 8: HIV/AIDS situation


3218 3073

4112

34013177

2882

4031

2475

21 10 28 40

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

4500

2010 2011 2012 2013

No. Counseled

No. tested

No. Positive

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1.19 GENDER

Gender issues are still challenging situation at the District. The level of knowledge in decision in gender planning and capacities to implement programs are low. Gender sensitive policies are limited or not effectively implemented. There is also no framework for the coordinating gender issues and tools in mainstreaming gender. Data and information are poorly documented. The collection and usage of sex disaggregated data are inadequate and unreliable. It is also noted that political and institutional participation of male/female is unbalanced. However, there are opportunities at the District level in terms of the gender desk offices and the girl child officer at the directorate of GES to promote the interest of women and girls that will feed into effort at promoting gender based development interventions.

1.20 ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND GREEN ECONOMY

The review indicated that little is known even at the cycle of technical levels in the district of climate change. There is therefore a yawning gap in climate change information spread to bring the local people to be in terms with the reality of climate change and its possible effects on livelihoods, incomes and the very fabric of life.

1.21 AGRICULTURE

Agriculture is the main stay of the local economy in the Central Gonja District. The population census results indicate that 75% of the population is engaged in agriculture. Output of the major crops produced has been improving with a good positive trend from 2010 to 2013. This means the situation is good but need to be organized better to ensure farmers are put into cooperatives to reap the benefits of the improvements in outputs. The major crops produced with the growth a trend is tabulated below:

Output of major crops in metric tons

MAJOR STAPLE 2010 2011 2012 2013

Maize 14,600 15,000 18,000 17,100

Cassava 39,000 39,600 40,000 42,000

Yam 46,800 49,000 51,000 53,465

Rice 2,375 2,621 3,500 4,400

Groundnut 4,200 4,450 4,400 4,880

Cowpea 295 291 360 387

Soybean 161 126 135 180

Millet 163 159 163 182

Sorghum 265 296 272 400

Source: Department of Agriculture, Central Gonja District

1.22 LIVESTOCK

Livestock production is also quite recognizable. As a result of the two major rivers that drain the

district, there are large herds of cattle reared across the entire length and breadth of the

District. The performance of the livestock sub-sector over the past four years beginning 2010 to

2013 has been indicated graphically below.

Figure 9: Livestock Performance

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5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000

25,000

30,000

35,000

40,000

Cattle Sheep Goats Pigs Others

25,000

35,000 35,000

2,000

20,000

30,000

40,000 40,000

4,000

25,000

2010

2011

2012

2013

There is a steady growth in livestock production over the planned period

Source: Department of Agriculture, Central Gonja District Assembly

1.23 POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS

1.23.1 Population size and distribution

The district has a total population of 87,877 with an annual growth rate of 2.2% which is below the regional growth rate of 2.9%. Population density of the district is 11.6 per a parcel of land. Males constituted 49.9% of the population while females constituted 50.1% culminating into a sex ratio of 99.6.

The district is more rurally populated than urban from the table below. It is an agrarian economy with 75% of its population into agric. The rural areas according to the table are more densely populated by the economically active (15-64).

1.23.2 Age and sex structure

Greater proportions (15,440) of the district population are within the age group 0-4 while age bracket

95-99 recorded the least.

Table 2.1: Population by age, sex and type of locality

Age Group

Sex Type of locality

Both Sexes Male Female Sex ratio Urban Rural

0-14 40,728 20,892 19,836 105.3 7,245 33,483

15-64 43,904 21,261 22,643 93.9 9,552 34,352

65+ 3,245 1,707 1,538 111.0 618 2,627

Age-dependency ratio 100.16

106.29

94.40

82.32

105.12

Source: Ghana statistical service, 2010 population and housing census.

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1.23.3 Dependency Ratio

Central Gonja has a relatively concise age dependency ratio of 100.16 percent, implying almost every member of the working class has at least one person to cater for.

1.24 HOUSING

There are 12,041 houses in the district. Total number of household stands at 11,413 with an

average household size of 7.6 compared with the regional average figure of 6.7 per household.

The indications are that at the household level, the district is slightly more crowded than other

parts of the region.

1.25 DISASTER

Central Gonja by virtue of its location and low altitude is susceptible to floods. The highest points are 150-200meters above sea level. At the centre of the savannah parkland with extreme dry weather conditions for most part of the year alternating with heavy flash floods leads to a number of disasters. The main disasters recorded every year are flooding, bushfire and at the beginning of every rainy season, windstorms. All these major disasters are devastating and lead to the loss of most property distraction to homes and schools.

1.26 WATER SECURITY

The water situation in the Central Gonja District is quite pathetic though the statistics points to some positive trends from 2010 to 2013. The gains made are skewed to the towns with small town water system at the centre of the water success. As for the boreholes, numerous attempts made across the District have failed to produce wet wells for the populace to have safe drinking water. On the whole, the District has achieved safe water coverage of 52.73% by the close of the year 2013. However due to the skewed nature of this achievement, it is quite misleading to think that the district is getting to a point of water secure. Since underground water is difficult to come by, it is instrumental to explore other means of safe water supply including rainwater harvest and the construction of dugouts fitted with filtration galleries as well as treatment and distribution of river (surface) water.

Figure 10: Safe Water Coverage

Source: DWST, Central Gonja District Assembly

Figure 11: Sanitation Coverage in selected Towns of the District

30%

20.50%

60%

52.73%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

Target Achievement Target Achievement

2010 2013

% of pop with Boreholes

% of pop with covered wells

% of pop with pipe-bornewater

% of pop with other safewater sources

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Source: Environmental Health Unit, Central Gonja District Assembly

The table below gives detailed breakdown of numbers and conditions of sanitation facilities across the district. This however covers the major settlements of the District and so do not give a total picture and should not therefore be used to reflect the general outlook of the Central Gonja District.

HOUSEHOLD TOILET FACILITIES – DISTRICT PICTURE

NO AREA COUNCIL

EXISTING HH TOILETS

NO. IN USE

NO. CLEAN HAND WASHING

POP COVERED

1 Buipe 143 138 138 133 8.7%

2 Yapei 41 35 35 27 1.42%

3 Kusawgu 23 23 23 23 0.58%

4 Mpaha 358 342 342 302 9.91%

5 Tuluwe 31 31 27 27 1.45%

Total 596 569 565 512 22.06%

Source: Environmental Health Unit, Central Gonja District Assembly, 2013

1.27 MIGRATION (EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION)

Though no statistics is available, the generally trend is that the outmigration in the District is

perceived to be higher especially among the female youth who enroll for kayayee in the cities

down south. The only cases of in migration are to the District capital where a number of

factories are springing up so as to search for job placements in the factories. However, of late,

the boom in logging in the Gonja land area has attracted a number of youth and articulator

drivers as well as tractor operators in their numbers to take advantage of the new trade.

Over the planned period, the District with support of its development partners succeeded in implementing a wide range of interventions targeted at reducing poverty, creating employment and improving health and wellbeing of the society. The performance of most of the indicators in the areas of Health, Education, and Agriculture and to some extent Water and Sanitation has been on the positive side. This does not mean the implementation of these were without protracted challenges.

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

Target Achievement Target Achievement

2010 2013

% of pop using safeexcreta disposal facility

% of population with KVIP

% of population with VIP

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1.28 A SUMMARY OF KEY DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS/ISSUES/GAPS

IDENTIFIED

The collated harmonized issues from the review of the GSGDA based MTDP spanning 2010 – 2013 were linked to the NMTDPF 2014-2017 to ensure consistency. The issues harmonized were a result of the situation analysis from both the community perspective and the departmental review of implementation of the past interventions and the challenges arising out of that were summarized based on thematic areas. These identified issues or challenges have been prioritized for the purpose of redress to lift the district to another attainable level in development given the current resources base and expectation. The challenges prioritized and the corresponding issues adopted from the National Medium Term Development Policy Framework have been tabulated next based on thematic areas. These issues will further be subjected to detail analysis to determine their Potentials (P), Opportunities (O), Constraints (C) and Challenges (C).

The outcome of the analysis will offer a clue as to the ease with which the particular challenge could be tackled. Where it will not be easy for the identified challenge to be addressed then alternative course of action to address the issue will be explored.

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Key development issues under thematic areas NMTDPF 2014-2017

THEMATIC AREA ADOPTED ISSUES OF NMTDPF 2014-2017

HARMONIZED ISSUES 2010-2013

1. Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability;

1. Leakages in revenue collection

1. Low revenue realization 2. Poor Revenue based Data

2. Enhancing Competitiveness of

Ghana’s Private Sector;

2. Limited technical and entrepreneurial skills 3. Inadequate and unreliable infrastructure 4. Limited attention to the development of tourism at the local level

3. Low level of entrepreneurial and managerial skills 4. Poor and Inadequate market facilities for local trade 5. Undeveloped tourist attractions

3. Accelerated Agriculture Modernization and Sustainable Natural

Resource Management;

5. Loss of soil fertility 6. High dependence on seasonal and erratic rainfall 7. Limited access to mkt information 8. Seasonal variability in food supply and prices 9. High levels of environmental degradation

10. Limited awareness of climate change and its impacts 11. Weak capacity to manage the impacts of natural disasters and

climate change

6. Low agricultural output / productivity 7. Over reliance on rain-fed agriculture 8. Poor prices of farm produce 9. High Environmental degradation 10. High Incidence of youth unemployment. 11. High Incidence of poverty 12. Low level of awareness on climate change & its effects 13. Weak capacity for coping with CC/DRR impacts

5. Infrastructure and Human Settlements;

12. Poor quality and inadequate road transport networks 13. Inadequate access to quality and affordable water 14. Ineffective and inefficient spatial/land use planning and

implementation particularly in the urban areas 15. Absence of specific regulations on flood hazard prevention

16. Inadequate access to environmental sanitation facilities 17. Poor hygiene practices and inadequate hygiene education 18. Difficulty in the extension of grid electricity to remote rural and

isolated communities. 19. High exposure of settlements & infrastructure to natural and

manmade hazards 20. Weak enforcement of planning and building regulations

14. Poor road surface condition 15. Low access to potable water supply 16. Unplanned settlement patterns 17. Poor drainage 18. Poor sanitation and hygiene 19. Low coverage of electricity 20. Lack of street and property identification system

6. Human Development, Productivity and

Employment;

Education 21. Poor quality of teaching and learning especially at the basic level 22. Weak management and supervision

Education

21. Inadequate educational facilities 22. Poor academic performance in schools

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NMTDPF 2014-2017 THEMATIC AREA

ADOPTED ISSUES OF NMTDPF 2014-2017


23. Unacceptably high number of untrained teachers at the basic level Health and Nutrition

23. Huge gaps in geographical access to quality health care (e.g. urban and rural)

24. Inadequate and inequitable distribution of critical staff mix 25. Inadequate financing of the health sector, and ever increasing cost

of healthcare delivery 26. Persistent high under-nutrition and malnutrition especially among

children, older people, pregnant and lactating women and women of reproductive age, particularly in rural areas and northern Ghana

27. Huge unmet need for mental health services

HIV/AIDs 28. High stigmatization and discrimination

YOUTH

29. High level of youth unemployment including graduate

THE AGED 30. High incidence of poverty among older people

CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION

31. Low awareness of and regard for the rights of children

POPULATION MANAGEMENT AND MIGRATION FOR NATIONAL

DEVELOPMENT 32. Low coverage of reproductive health and family planning (FP)

services

23. Poor supervision of schools 24. Inadequate qualified teachers 25. Refusing postings to hard-to-reach areas 26. Poor of motivation of teachers

Health and Nutrition

27. Lack of District Hospital 28. Inadequate number of critical staffs & logistics for effective

service delivery 29. Poor nutrition among households

30. Inadequate Office Accommodation for DHMT

31. Lack support and sensitization package for people with

mental health

HIV/AIDs 32. Incidence of HIV/AIDs & stigmatization

YOUTH

High incidence of youth unemployment

THE AGED

33. Lack of Income support base for the aged


34. Poor education on child rights and protection

POPULATION MANAGEMENT AND MIGRATION FOR NATIONAL

DEVELOPMENT 35. High teenage Pregnancy

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NMTDPF 2014-2017 THEMATIC AREA

ADOPTED ISSUES OF NMTDPF 2014-2017


7. Transparent and Accountable Governance

33. Non-functioning sub-district structures 34. Disparities in access to economic opportunities

35. Inadequate representation and participation of women in public life

and governance

36. Inadequate resources & accommodation for district departments

37. Non functioning of the five Area Councils 38. Low female involvement in decision making 39. Poor female access to productive resources at the local level

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2.0 CHAPTER 2: PRIORITISATION OF DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

An examination of the development needs of the Central Gonja District reveals that much is

desired in the face of limited resources. The District is still lagging in educational infrastructure

and services, health situation is nothing striking to write home about and water and sanitation

is far from the comfort zone considering the fact that people drink from dugouts and ponds as

well as the rivers and streams in this period of civilization. Food production has not reached a

level that will guarantee food security and boost income levels of households. In the face of this

hazy situation are also infrastructural deficit. Roads are in deplorable state both in network and

condition, electricity coverage is only an absolute 4 communities (25.5% of the population)

connection to the grid since the creation of the District. There is a complete absence of a

District hospital and the lower level health service centers are woefully inadequate.

Besides these basic sectors of the Central Gonja District, the District is also confronted with

cross cutting issues of gender based disparities, environmental degradation and climate change

effects. These have therefore guided the Assembly to do a selection and prioritization of the

numerous challenges identified in the review and community engagement sessions to some

manageable issues that could be implemented in the face of resource limitations. The issues

outlined therefore finds expression in the geographical spread of the entire Central Gonja

District based on community priorities.

2.1 POTENTIALS, OPPORTUNITIES, CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES

(POCC ANALYSIS)

The development issues identified from the performance review of GSGDA 2010 – 2013 were compared with the NMTDF 2014 – 2017 key issues. The District priority issues were then harmonized with the NMTDPF 2014 – 2017 issues and adopted for the purpose of national harmony or uniformity before the analysis of POCC was conducted. The issues to be addressed have been tested for their potentials and the identified opportunities to determine the ease with which they could be implemented in the face of challenges and constraints. The details of these have been tabulated in the next page.

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THEMATIC AREA 1: ENSURING AND SUSTAINING MACROECONOMIC STABILITY

THEMATIC AREA 2: ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS IN GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR

Issue to be addressed Potentials Opportunities Constraints Challenges

3. Poor road surface condition

Road construction equipment available

Earth Materials exist

Personnel available.

Proximity to cement.

Water for construction

Availability of DFR

Road Fund

Natural barriers to road construction.

Bad Weather condition

High Cost of construction

Delay in payment.

In adequate funds

Conclusion There are enough potential in the district on road construction. Taking advantage of the existing opportunities can help in improving the road conditions since the challenges could be managed and the constraint can be avoided.

4. Poor and Inadequate market facilities

Existing local markets

Available farm produce for the market

Land for expansion

Good road linkage & water transport

DDF Funds

PPP

Limited road access & condition.

Natural disasters

In adequate funds

Non-payment of market tolls

Poor waste mgt.

Conclusion With the existing potentials, the District can make use of the opportunities to rehabilitate and create new markets to enhance economic activities to improve local economy.

5. Low level of entrepreneurial and managerial skills

Existence of BAC

Existence of department of cooperatives

GIPC services present

Rural Enterprise project present

Adult illiteracy

Desire to get rich quick

Equity contribution

No training institutions in the district


1. Low revenue realization

Numerous tax sources.

Enabling tax laws

Established District treasury

Experienced tax collection staff.

Private tax collectors.

Media for education of tax payers.

High level of adult illiteracy.

Limited access to some ‘overseas' communities.

Non-enforcement of tax laws.

Poor tax education

Politicization of local tax collection.

Conclusion With the clear cut potentials, taking advantage of the existing opportunities with enough public education will help overcome the challenges while managing the constraints to boost the revenue situation of the District.

2. Poor Revenue based Data

Vibrant District budget unit.

Human resource for data collection.

Computers for data storage & analysis.

Existing data base.

High demand for revenue data.

MIS outfit

Experience from sister Districts database.

GSS

Difficulty in building data on Fulani mobile herdsmen.

Natural disasters(fire & flood)

Adult illiteracy

High Staff attrition

Absence of IMS officer.

Hiding data to evade tax

Poor data updating.

Conclusion Though there are challenges, they could be managed so as to make use of the numerous potentials and take advantage of the opportunities to resolve the issue at stake to improve data for revenue planning and mobilization.

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development Existence of LESDEP

Conclusion The district is constrained and challenged in entrepreneurial skills development but taking advantage on GIPC while developing

the available potentials can help improve upon the situation.

6. Undeveloped tourist attractions

Local tourist attractions

DAs desire to facilitate development of attractions

1st Class highway access

Local interest in tourist attraction

Existence PPP

Tourist board

NGOs support in tourism

Culture and religious barriers

Insecurity(arm rubbery)

Inadequate funds

Poor road access

Limited facilities and services

Lack of publicity of tourist attraction

Conclusion Taking advantage on PPP couple with intense public education on the benefits of tourism can propel tourism development in the

district.

THEMATIC AREA 3: ACCELERATED AGRICULTURE MODERNIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT


7. Over reliance on rain-fed agriculture

Availability of water bodies (black and white Volta)

Availability of dugouts and dams

AEAs

NRGP

Block farm project

Demand for vegetables

Dry season farming

Low local interest

Low technical know-how

Fulani herdsmen

Financial bottlenecks

Poor yields

Conclusion With the availability of water bodies, dugouts and dam, irrigation can be enhanced

8. Poor prices of farm produce

Local markets available.

Existence of PBC

Existence of SADA.

Existence Of District Value Chain Committee(DVCC)

School Feeding program

Guinness Ghana

Proximity to other Mkts

Storage facilities

Existence of high yielding seeds

Outbreak of pest and diseases

Some government policies(importation of rice)

Abundant farm produce

Low quality of farm produce due to aflatoxine

Perishable of farm produce

Conclusion Complete utilization of satellite markets couple with government coming out with ceiling prices for farm produce can help boost prices in the district

9. High Environmental degradation

Existence of the department of forestry/MOFA

Existence of fire service division

NADMO

EPA presence

Existence of by-laws

Existence of stakeholders

Bush fires

Floods

Erosion

Illegal mining & Sand winning

Deforestation

Non -compliance of by-laws

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Fulani herdsmen

Conclusion With public education on the hazards of depleting the environment and enforcement of by-laws can help protect the environment.

10. High Incidence of youth unemployment.

Availability of fertile lands and water bodies.

GYEEDA

LESDEP

BAC for training

Existence of industries

NGOs presence

NBSSI/BAC

Floods & Bush fires

Draught

Erratic rain pattern

Low interest in Agric

Rural urban migration

Inadequate farm inputs

High costs of farm inputs

Poor loan recovery

Conclusion With the potentials and opportunities harnessed effectively rural-urban migration can be minimized.

11. Incidence of poverty

Fertile lands and water bodies

GYEEDA

LEAP

LESDEP

Existence of industries

Existence of NGOs

NBSSI/BAC

Floods

Bush fires

Draught


Ignorance

In adequate farm inputs

High costs of inputs

Conclusion With education and sensitization ignorance on the available potentials and opportunities can be minimized and pave the way to take advantage of existing resources to reduce poverty.

12. Limited awareness of climate change and its impacts

NADMO District outfit

Forestry commission

Fire service

DADU

AEAs

NADMO

Africa Adaptation Project

NGOs & GEMP Project

Floods & Draught

Bush fires


Erosion

Noncompliance of bye-laws

Ignorance

Political/ traditional interference

Conclusion There are enough potentials and opportunities to overcome the challenges and constraints so as to improve Awareness on climate change and build resilience for effective adaptation.

13. Weak capacity for coping with CC/DRR impacts

Forestry commission

GEMP Project

DADU

Fire service

Agric extension officers

NADMO

Forestry guards

NGOs

Floods & Draught

Bush fires


Erosion

Illiteracy

Lack of financial support

Local believes

Conclusion Capacity building of stakeholders should to be strengthened to meet current trends

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THEMATIC AREA 4: INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS


14. Low access to potable water supply

Available water bodies

Availability of water treatment plan at Shea-Nut factory

Vast land for dug-outs

Treated water from Sheanut factory.

Availability of RING project

Poor underground water

Drying up of dug-outs in dry season

Limited donor support to all communities

Extending pipelines from factory site to Buipe town

Conclusion Notwithstanding the major constraints, the potentials and opportunities can be developed to overcome the issue at stake and limit the constraints.

15. Unplanned settlement patterns

Small nature of unplanned communities

Strong traditional oversight in communities

Substantial town and country planning officer

Street naming system

Illiteracy of building permits acquisition

Role Chiefs in land acquisition

Non-existence of town and country planning office

Non-enforcement of settlement laws

Conclusion Due to the small nature of the unplanned areas, the challenges can be developed to harness benefits of the DA’s potentials through current opportunities.

16. Poor drainage

Nearness to cement factory

Available personnel

Available water bodies to channel drains.

Already constructed highway

Loose nature of soil

Availability of water

Absence of district ‘Roads and Highways Authority’

Undulating landscape

High cost of construction

Delay in payments

Conclusion The potentials of can be harnessed and the opportunities taken advantage of to improve the drainage situation.

17. Poor sanitation and hygiene

Available sanitation staff

Existing sanitation by-laws

Available material for education

Sanitation tractor repaired

Zoomlion company available

Availability of SNV

Adult illiteracy

High water table in some communities

Indiscipline in open defecation

Weak monitoring

Poor mgt of toilets

Inadequate public toilets

Conclusion The sanitation situation though one of a serious issue, its challenges can be overcome if we take advantage of the potentials and opportunities available.

18. Low coverage of electricity

ECG lines passing through most communities

Govt policy of REP

Extension HT lines along the road

Experienced electrical Contractors.

Shortage of electricity equipment

Destruction of electrical poles by bushfires

Cost of electricity extension

Ignorance of effects of bushfires

Conclusion Though the constraints and challenges pose serious traits, taking advantage of the potentials and opportunities would address this issue.

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THEMATIC AREA 6: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT


EDUCATION

19. Inadequate educational facilities

High demand for education

Skilled construction staff.

Proximity to building materials

Land available

GETFUND

DDF Funding

Donor support agencies

DACF

Political interference in contract awards.

Hash weather

Inadequate funding

Small pop. of some communities

Apathy in communal labour.

Land tenure challenges

Conclusion Appropriate utilization of the available opportunities while developing the potentials together with local support can improve on the current state of the educational facilities.

20. Poor academic performance in schools

Available school facilities

Availability of TLM

Capable & committed teachers

Committed SMCs & PTAs

Skilled staff

School feeding programme

Quiz competition

Students truancy

Teacher absenteeism

Weak teacher supervision

Nature of facilities

Long distance from home to school

Parental neglect

Conclusion The very crucial challenge that needs immediate attention is poor parental supervision leading to pupil not using their time to study after school hours, on week-ends and during vacation periods.

21. Poor supervision of schools

Availability of Motor Bikes

Availability of CSs

Existence of DEOC

Donor support

DA support

PTA and SMCs

Poor road network

Hard to reach schools

Arm robbers

Weak law enforcement

Limited budget for supervision

Poor CSs commitment

Conclusion Complete utilization of donor support coupled with intense enforcement of GES laws can help improve on supervision of schools in the district

22. Inadequate funding

Good Financial Mgt & Effective internal controls

Standard financial reporting.

Capable HR for financial management

Donor support

Increased and timely GoG funding

DA budgetary support

High cost of education

Higher inflation rate.

Weak funding strategies

Lack of commitment to protect government property

Inability to generate internal funds

Conclusion Taking advantage of the donor support with effective utilization of IGF can go a long way to earning the district some funding

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THEMATIC AREA 6: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT


HEALTH

26. Lack of District Hospital

Availability of land

Proximity to training institutions

Road linkage to referral centre

Some key staff available

Government support

DA involvement

Qualified personnel

Funding

Government policies

In adequate specialized staff

Limited funds

Conclusion There are vast potentials to be made use of if the opportunities available could be taken advantage of the ensure the District Hospital is put in place to improve health service delivery.

23. Inadequate qualified teachers

Availability of teacher sponsorship

Proximity to teacher training institutions

Existence of UTDBE programme

Distance education

UTDBE programme

GYEEDA in education

DA sponsorship of trainees

Staff attrition

Time hinder on the job professional training

Low morale in the teaching profession

Job dissatisfaction

Poor public perception.

Conclusion The most favourable teacher supply strategy is providing a sufficient balance between overall number of teachers, cost and class size alongside with expansion of TTC.

24. Refusing postings to hard-to-reach areas

Good human relationship

Incentive package for teachers in hard-to-reach areas

Free accommodation

Donor support

GoG financial support

Training for good teacher community human relation

Political and chieftaincy interference

Teacher health condition

Gender

Inadequate community support

Lack of basic social amenities

Lack of fund to train local comm. Youth on-the-job

Conclusion In sum the rural teacher must be empowered and motivated through meager work load, huge incentive and other attractive packages to ward off teachers minds from the urban areas to concentrate on the hard-to-reach areas

25. Lack of motivation for teachers

Induction for teachers

Study leave with pay

Available accommodation

Teacher responsibility allowance

DACF

Best teacher award

donor support in skills development

Life time of computers

Multi-grade teaching

Government policies

Lack of budgeting for transfer

Large class size resulting to more workload

lack of social amenities

Pupil Truancy

Conclusion Inspired and successful teaching takes place when a passionate and caring teacher is both motivated and happy to teach and learn

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HEALTH

27. Inadequate number of critical staffs (Physician Assts. Midwives, Prof. Nurses and CHNs)

Proximity to health training institutions

Availability of students to go into the health profession

DA support for education

Availability of health institutions

Support for health workers

Inadequate training institutions

Failure to accept postings to remote areas

Political interference

Inadequate logistics

Lack of incentives

Conclusion If the constraints and challenges are addressed, the district can overcome this phenomenon by also taking advantage of the existing health institutions

28. Inadequate logistics for effective service delivery

Capacity for utilization and good mtg

Available road network

Donor support

DACF & DDF

Substandard equipment

Inflation

Low maintenance culture

High cost of equipment

Conclusion Effective management together with efficient utilization of the available opportunities will go a long way to solve the logistics problem in the district.

29. Poor nutrition among households

Farm lands

Farmers

Availability of nutritious crops

Nutrition unit

Donor support

Technical personnel

Large market

Radio coverage

Adult Illiteracy

Poverty

Drought

Low education on nutrition

Low production of vegetables


Conclusion Intense public education on adequate diet will go a long way to improve the nutrition situation in the district.

30. Inadequate Office Accommodation

Available land

Available water for construction

Available local building materials

Existence of SAVACEM

Cheap labour

DDF funds

DACF

Inadequate funds

Unfavourable weather

Land tenure

Delay in release of funds

Conclusion Taking advantage of the available potentials together with the opportunities can help reduce the accommodation problem in the district.

31. Huge unmet need for mental health services

Health facilities available

Conclusion

THEMATIC AREA 7: TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE.


32. Insecurity along the major routes of the District.

District police command

Improved capacity of men

Patrol vehicles available

Government logistical support.

DA commitment

Lack of cooperation of some OLs

Fuel

Inadequate vehicles

Conclusion The potentials are ample enough and with the proper utilisation of the opportunities available, the police can overcome the challenges and manage the constraints so as to provide adequate security for the citizenry.

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33. Inadequate resources for district departments

DDF

DACF

Donor support

Availability of revenue avenues

Existence of industries for revenue generation

Existence of private bodies

Low IGF base

Resource mismanagement

Funds mismanagement

Poor maintenance culture

Political interference

Inaccurate records keeping

Conclusion The district should be able to manage its constraints and challenges with the fullest utilization of its available potentials and opportunities

34. Non availability of comprehensive map and resource maps for the District.

Availability of cartographers

Available, town and country planning unit

Availability of district map

Availability cartographers

Availability of land sector agents

Land administration project

No clear district boundaries

Conflicting traditional & political boundaries.


Unavailable data

politicization

Conclusion The district should be able to produce a comprehensive map and resource maps with the available human resource

35. Non functioning of the five Area Councils

Existence of structures

Existence of unit committees

Existence of DPCU

IGF

Availability of by-laws

No spirit of volunteerism

High illiteracy

Conflict

Weak linkage of DAs &ACs

Politicization

Lack of logistics

Inadequate knowledge on the roles of ACs

Conclusion It is obvious that lack of logistics together with no spirit of volunteerism has brought the activities of the area councils to a halt. Efficient use of IGF coupled with intense public education can however revive them.

36. Inadequate office accommodation for Decentralized staff

Availability of land

Proximity to building materials

Presence of DWD

DDF

DACF

Cement factory in District

Poor and untimely fund release.

Politicization of contracts

No maintenance culture

Misappropriation of funds

Conclusion With commitment and proper fund management and prioritization the accommodation issued maybe addressed.

37. Poor conditions of Area Councils structures

Existence of structures

Available manpower to manage them

DDF

DACF

IGF

Non commitment of area council executives

No spirit of ownership

Lack of culture of maintenance

Politicization

Conclusion Taking advantage on the available opportunities together with the potentials can help put the current state of the area council structures back to shape.

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2.2 SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OPTION

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3.0 CHAPTER 3: DEVELOPMENT GOAL, OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES

In formulating the District development goal and identifying the objectives and strategies to address the goal, there was the need to have recourse to the national policy framework since the Central Gonja District does not exist in isolation. The NMTDF 2014 - 2017 was made the point of reference to guide the orderly formulation of the plan alongside national aspirations. As such the goal of the District is been informed by the NMTDF document and the objectives and strategies have been adopted directly from the GSGDA II framework. However, before stating the goal and the objectives as well as the district development focus is necessary.

3.1 A CLEAR DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS

Due to its peculiar circumstances, the Central Gonja District Assembly requires much effort and resources to lessen the socio-economic hardship that confronts the people. Since resources are limited and all needs cannot be met at one time, the District has decided to prioritize some key areas with the potential to turn the lives of everybody in the District around without discrimination and favoritism. As such the following are the key focus areas of Central Gonja District Assembly in an effort.

Improving on basic social infrastructure and services at all parts of the District based on

need and resources availability (Health, education, agricultural and safe water and

sanitation infrastructure);

Promoting agriculture as an enterprise for rural poverty reduction and creating

employment to raise incomes.

Improving the natural & Built environment and promoting green economy;

Building capacity for climate change adaptation, resilience and sustainable livelihoods;

The District will marshal the human and material resources available and take advantage of opportunities locally and externally to translate these prioritized focused areas into action to achieve results in the next four years.

3.2 DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT GOAL

The Central Gonja District is just but a part of the Ghana. As such, it is not working in isolation in the effort at effecting development for the people of the District and for that matter Ghana as a whole. Based on this fact, the District is aims at working towards achieving the national. Therefore, the development goal of the CGDA is: To achieve sustainable and equitable productive environment to ensure Food Security, improve basic Infrastructure, income, employment and services to the citizenry in a participatory decentralized system. This will be pursued by working towards the achievement of carefully identified and adopted development objectives. These objectives will be achieved by the implementation of clear and straightforward activities emanating from communities perspectives. However, the implementation of these activities much hinges on the future needs of the population for whom these interventions will be targeted. It is therefore imperative that, projections of the populations and the possible facilities or services to answer to the needs of the population be made to serve as a guide for making informed choices and implementation of interventions.

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3.3 Development projections for 2014-2017

The population of Central Gonja District as at the year 2010 was put at 87,877 with an annual growth rate of 2.2%. With the current population base, it is expected that the population will be 102,277 by the year 2017. However the yearly growth will be as follows:

YEAR GROWTH RATE % INCREASE BASE POP TOTAL

2011 2.14 1,881 87,877 89,758

2012 2.19 1,966 89,758 91,723

2013 2.23 2,045 91,723 93,769

2014 2.26 2,119 93,769 95,888

2015 2.15 2,062 95,888 97,949

2016 2.18 2,135 97,949 100,085

2017 2.19 2,192 100,085 102,277

Source: Ghana Statistical Services, 2010 PHC

Due to these population growth projected. The demand for services and amenities will also grow alongside these figures. As such there is the need to make provision ahead of time the yearly growth in service and infrastructure demand of education, health, water and sanitation and stepping up of production of foods to maintain food security as the population increases.

3.4 ADOPTED POLICY OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES

The objectives and strategies adopted from the Medium Term Development Policy Framework document for the Central Gonja District have been tabulated in the next page for the purpose of convenience and harmony.

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NMTPF Adopted objectives and strategies ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED OBJECTIVES ADOPTED FROM NMTDPF STRATEGIES ADOPTED FROM NMTDPF

ENSURING AND SUSTAINING MACROECONOMIC STABILITY

Low revenue realization

Poor Revenue based Data

Improve fiscal revenue mobilization and

management

Eliminate revenue collection leakages.

Strengthen mobilization and management of non-tax revenue

ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS OF GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR

Lack of vibrant co-operative societies

Poor road surface condition

Poor and Inadequate market facilities

Low level of entrepreneurial and managerial skills development

Undeveloped tourist attractions

Improve efficiency and competitiveness of MSMEs

Diversify and expand the tourism industry for economic development

Facilitate the provision of training and business development services

Provide opportunities for MSMEs to participate in all

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and local content arrangements

Market Ghana as a competitive tourist destination

ACCELERATED AGRICULTURAL MODERNISATION AND SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Over reliance on rain-fed agriculture

Poor prices of farm produce

Environmental degradation

High Incidence of youth unemployment.

High Incidence of poverty

Limited awareness of climate change and its impacts

Weak capacity for coping with CC/DRR impacts

Promote irrigation development

Enhance natural resources management through community participation

Enhance capacity to adapt to climate change impacts

Enhance capacity to mitigate and reduce the impact of natural disasters, risks and vulnerability

Develop and promote appropriate and affordable irrigation schemes including dams, boreholes, and other water harvesting techniques for different categories of farmers and agro ecological zones

Promote active involvement of community stakeholders in the development of natural resource management plans

Increase resilience to climate change impacts through early warning systems

Implement alternative livelihoods strategies to minimize impacts of climate change on the poor and vulnerable especially women

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INFRASTRUCTURE AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS DEVELOPMENT

Low access to potable water supply

Unplanned settlement patterns

Poor drainage

Poor sanitation

Poor hygiene

Low coverage of electricity

Establish Ghana as a transportation hub for the West African sub-region

Provide adequate, reliable and affordable energy to meet the national needs and for export

Accelerate the provision of adequate, safe and affordable water

Accelerate the provision of improved environmental sanitation facilities

Develop and manage alternative sources of water, including rain water harvesting

Promote the construction and use of modern household and institutional toilet facilities

Expand disability-friendly sanitation facilities

Scale up the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) for the promotion of household sanitation

Increase access to energy by the poor and vulnerable

Ensure universal access to electricity by 2016

Improve and develop the physical infrastructure across all modes for transport

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT

Inadequate educational facilities

Poor academic performance in schools

Poor supervision of schools

Teacher absenteeism

Inadequate funding

Inadequate qualified teachers

Refusing postings to hard-to-reach areas

Lack of motivation for teachers

Increase inclusive and equitable access to, and participation in education at all levels

Improve management of education service delivery

Improve quality of teaching and learning HEALTH

Reduce under-nutrition and malnutrition related disorders and deaths among infants and young children and women in their reproductive ages

Bridge the equity gaps in geographical access to health services

Enhance national capacity for the attainment of the health related MDGs

Ensure sustainable financing for health care delivery and financial protection for the poor

Enhance national capacity for the attainment of the health related MDGs

Improve quality of health services delivery

Remove the physical, financial and social barriers and constraints to access to education at all levels

Ensure efficient development, deployment and supervision of teachers

Ensure adequate supply of teaching and learning materials

Deploy adequately qualified teachers and improve teachers’ time-on-task

HEALTH

Strengthen the district and sub-district health systems as the bed-rock of the national primary health care strategy

Accelerate the implementation of the revised CHPS strategy especially in under-served areas

Enhance access to adequate nutrition and related services to all especially women during pregnancy, underserved communities and vulnerable groups

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including mental health services

Ensure the reduction of new HIV and AIDS/STIs infections, especially among the vulnerable groups

Accelerate the implementation of social and health interventions targeting the aged

Promote effective child development in all communities, especially deprived areas

Ensure effective appreciation of and inclusion of disability issues

Population

Integrate population variables into all aspects of development planning at all levels

Poverty Reduction and Income Inequalities

Reduce income disparities among socio-economic groups and between geographical areas

Scale up community and facility based interventions for the management of childhood and neonatal illnesses

Intensify and sustain Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)

Enhance social protection interventions for the Aged

Improve human, material and financial resources for child development, survival and protection.

Population

Strengthen capacity of relevant stakeholders to integrate population issues into development planning and policy making

Expand coverage, availability and accessibility of reproductive health and Family Planning services including adolescents/youth.

Poverty Reduction and Income Inequalities

Enhance income generating opportunities for the poor and vulnerable

TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE Armed robbery attacks in the District.

Inadequate resources for district departments

Non availability of comprehensive map and resource maps for the District.

Non functioning of the five ACs

Inadequate office accommodation for Decentralized staff

Improve internal security for protection of life and property

Promote women’s access to economic opportunity and resources, including property

Promote the effective use of data for decision making and development communication

Enhance institutional capacity of the security agencies

Develop entrepreneurial and technical skills of women and girls

Mainstream statistics in the planning process

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4.0 CHAPTER 4: DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES

This chapter concentrates on the broad development programmes out of which projects and activities to achieve the set objectives and derived. The programme areas covers revenue mobilization, local economic development or local business and entrepreneurship support packages. Also captures are programmes to accelerate and modernize agriculture, issues of the environment and green economy, climate change interventions, settlements, energy and water and sanitation interventions. Others cover programmes on social services - education, health and Nutrition, population, the aged and children, Public Safety and Gender programmes. These programmes have been carefully crafted so as to inform programmes that will have a positive bearing on the poor and vulnerable. Details of these have been captured below in the matrices based on the National Medium Term Policy Framework Thematic areas. Missing in this programming is the oil and gas thematic area which do not have a direct bearing on the development activities on the Central Gonja District. These programme areas have also been expressed in the spatial development Framework of the District. The attached map of the District has annotated these intervention areas for those who are comfortable with reading maps.

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THEMATIC AREA: ENSURING AND SUSTAINING MACROECONOMIC STABILITY

SECTOR STRATEGY & ACTIVITY LOCATION TIME SCHEDULE INDICATIVE BUDGET (‘000)

INDICATORS SOURCE OF FUNDING

IMPLEMENTING DEPARTMENT OF THE

DA

REVENUE GENERATION

2014 2015 2016 2017 IGF GOG DONOR LEAD COLLABO RATORS

OBJECTIVE: Improve fiscal revenue mobilization and management by end of 2017

Strategy: Strengthen mobilization and management of non-tax revenue.

1. Provide & improve Market infrastructure to boost local trade & revenue generation.

District wide X X X 900

No. of mkts constructed

DWD

EHU/BAC/TCP/ DPCU

2. Recruit revenue collectors and commission collectors

District wide X 1.5

No. of revenue collectors recruited

DFU BU/DPCU

3. Train revenue collectors to improve collection efficiency and effectiveness annually.

Buipe X X X X 20

No. of trainings conducted.

DFU BU/DPCU

Strategy: Eliminate revenue collection leakages. 0

4. Conduct public education & reorientation on tax payment & utilisation.

District wide X X X X 5.0

No. of Public education conducted on tax.

BU DFU/ISD/NCCE/

5. Solicit the support of TAs & politicians in improving tax leakages menace.

District Wide X X X X 3.5

No. of TAs & Politicians Supporting tax.

BU DFU/NCCE/DPCU

6. Set up revenue taskforce to operate at least once a month.

District Wide X X X X 10

Taskforce established and operational

DCD DPCU/TAs/GPS

7. Enter the District into PPP arrangement for tax collection.

Buipe X 25

PPP arrangements entered

DCD DPCU/BAC

Sub-total 965

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THEMATIC AREA: ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS OF GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR

SECTOR STRATEGY/ACTIVITY LOCATION TIME SCHEDULE INDICATIVE

BUDGET (‘000)


IMPLEMENTING DEPARTMENT OF

THE DA

Local Economic Development

2014

2015

2016

2017

IGF GOG

DONOR

LEAD COLLABORATORS

OBJECTIVE 1: Improve efficiency and competitiveness of MSMEs

Strategy 1: Facilitate the provision of training and business development services Strategy 2: Provide opportunities for MSMEs to participate in all Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and local content arrangements

8. Build the capacity of groups and

individuals to access financial support

for petty trading and alternative

livelihood interventions.

District wide

X X X 7.5

Groups and individuals capacity built

BAC DPCU/co-operative unit/ financial institutions

9. Support women groups with the

equipment for agro-processing as

income generating venture. (Provide 5

grinding mills)

RING

Communities

X

50

No. of grinding mails provided to women groups

BAC DPCU/co-operative unit/GDU

10. Build technical and entrepreneurial skills to facilitate business startups.

District wide X X

10 No. of people trained.

BAC PBC/DPCU/farmers

11. Promote & facilitate Buipe as an industrial hub in northern region.

Buipe X X X X

No. of activities on promotion.

DCE DCD/BAC/DPCU

OBJECTIVE 2: Diversify and expand the tourism industry for economic development 0

Strategies: 1 Market Ghana as a competitive tourist destination 0

12. Facilitate the Development of tourist attractions in the District to boost domestic tourism.

District Wide X X X X

4 Measures put in place.

BAC DPCU/DCE

Sub-total 88.5

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THEMATIC AREA: ACCELERATED AGRICULTURE MODERNIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT


BUDGET (‘000)


IMPLEMENTING DEPARTMENT OF THE DA

AGRICULTURE - ALTERNATIVE LIVELHOOD

2014

2015

2016

2017

IGF

GOG

DONOR

LEAD COLLABORATORS

OBJECTIVE: Promote irrigation development

STRATEGY: Develop and promote appropriate and affordable irrigation schemes including dams, boreholes, and other water harvesting techniques for different categories of farmers and agro ecological zones

13. Promote all year round Agriculture to create employment and boost incomes.

Along the 2

major rivers &

dam sites X X X 30

N. of irrigation projects established.

DADU Farmers/GSOP/DABU farms/NRGP/Sakfos farms

14. Promote appropriate fresh water fishing and fish farming in the water bodies.

District wide

X X 25

No. of fishers using Right fishing methods. No. of fish farms established.

DADU BAC/DA/MOFA

15. Support 15 farm Communities with farm Inputs through the Block farm programme to increase productivity.


No. of farm Communities supported

DADU DA /NRGP/ WUMPINI AGRO CHEMICAL

Strategy: Implement alternative livelihoods strategies to minimize impacts of climate change on the poor and vulnerable especially women

16. Provide support to women and youth

groups for soap making, tie & dye

production & small ruminants/poultry

rearing.

22 RING

Communities X X X X 28

Support provided to youth and women groups

BAC/DADU

DA/RING/NRGP/WAAF

17. Support poor HHs in small ruminants’

production to improve incomes.

X X X X 45

No. of farmers groups & individual Supported

DADU DA/RING/NRGP/WAAF

Sub-total 178

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BUDGET (‘000)



DA

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

2014

2015

2016

2017

IGF GOG

DONOR

LEAD COLLABORATORS

Objective: Enhance natural resources management through community participation

Strategy: Promote active involvement of community stakeholders in the development of natural resource management plans

18. Promote the involvement of District & community stakeholders in natural resource management initiatives at the local level

District wide

X X X 10.00

No. of collaborative engagements held.

FC DA/KCODEC/ DADU/EPA/ NADMO

19. Build trust between local communities and the authorities through meetings and durbars.

District wide X X 2.50

No. of durbars & collaborative meetings held.

DA NRGP/AGRA/ADRA/Advance/KCODEC

20. Promote tree planting in communities District wide X X 40.00

No. of tree planting communities

DA GSOP/DPCU/GEMP

52.50

CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE

0.00

Objective: Enhance capacity to adapt to climate change impacts 0.00

Strategy: Increase resilience to climate change impacts through early warning systems

0.00

21. Build the capacity of key stakeholders in the District to design climate change resilient interventions

Buipe X X X 35

No. of HODs benefited from CC resiliency training.

DPCU ICIER/ NADMO

22. Create climate change awareness campaign to educate the public on its impacts & adaptation measures.


No. of CC/DRR campaigns conducted.

23. Institute measures to reduce/adapt to climate change effects & DRR.

District wide X X 4

Measures taken to reduce/adapt to CC

DPO ICIER/AAP/ NADMO

Sub-total 136.5

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THEMATIC AREA: INFRASTRUCTURE AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

SECTOR ACTIVITY LOCATION TIME SCHEDULE INDICATIVE

BUDGET (‘000)



DA

WATER AND SANITATION

2014

2015

2016

2017

IGF GOG

DONOR

LEAD COLLABO RATORS

OBJECTIVE: Accelerate the provision of adequate, safe and affordable water

Strategy: Develop and manage alternative sources of water, including rain water harvesting

24. Improve safe water coverage in underserved communities by repairing BHs.

District wide X X

40 No. of repaired BHs in underserved communities

DWST NORST/EHU/RING/DWD

25. Construct dams/dugouts in 20 communities to improve water coverage.

District wide X X X X

1,000 No. of dams and dugouts constructed

DWD DPCU/EHU/RING/GSOP

26. Construct Small Town systems in large communities.


6,000 Small town water system constructed

DWST CWSA/DPCU/DWD

27. Improve Drainage situation in some communities to ease flooding.


3,000 Drainage situation improved

DWD EHU/DPCU/NADMO

Objective: Accelerate the provision of improved environmental sanitation facilities 0

Strategy 1: Promote the construction and use of modern household and institutional toilet facilities

0

28. Conduct education and sensitization on sanitation to improve total sanitation.

RING

Communities X X X X

0 No. of sensitizations conducted

EHU CDU/NCCE/SHEP/RING

29. Reactivate the sanitation market concept

RING

Communities X X X X 0 No. of HHs adopting

improved sanitation EHU SNV/KCODEC/

APDO/RING

Strategy: Expand disability-friendly sanitation facilities 0

30. Solicit support to construct 20 Disability friendly institutional latrines.

X X X X

No. of disability friendly latrines.

31. Construct access ramps to existing institutional toilets for the disabled.

District wide

X X X 50 Access ramps to toilets constructed

DWD DPCU/PWD/SNV/ADPO

32. Review, gazette and enforce MMDAs Buipe X

3 Bye-laws on sanitation reviewed,

EHU DPCU/DCD/DCE

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BUDGET (‘000)



DA


2014

2015

2016

2017

IGF GOG

DONOR

LEAD COLLABO RATORS


bye-laws on sanitation gazette and enforced

Strategy: Scale up the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) for the promotion of household sanitation

0

33. Facilitate the Construction of simple universally affordable Household latrines in at least 50 communities through CLTS.

RING

Communities X X X X

50 No. of household latrines constructed

EHU SNV/APDO/DPCU/KCODEC/ TAs/RING

34. Conduct routine monitoring on sanitation & hygiene to improve gains.

X X X X

10 Monitoring on sanitation and hygiene conducted

EHU DPCU/TAs/ RING

113


BUDGET (‘000)



DA

ENERGY

2014

2015

2016

2017

IGF

GOG

DONOR

LEAD COLLABO RATORS

Objective: Provide adequate, reliable and affordable energy to meet the national needs and for export

Strategy: Increase access to energy by the poor and vulnerable

35. Facilitate the connection of all the Area Council capitals to the grid.

District wide X X

5,000 Area council capitals connected to national grid

DCE DPCU/VRA/MOE

36. Extend electricity to 8 Communities annually.


16,000 No. of communities connected to grid annually

DCE DPCU/VRA/MOE

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37. Expand the solar light system to far off grid communities.

All Area Councils X X X

600 No. of communities given Solar light.

DCE DPCU/Ministry of Energy/MOE

ROADS 0

Objective: Establish Ghana as a transportation hub for the West African sub-region 0

Strategy: Improve and develop the physical infrastructure across all modes for transport 0

38. Construct of speed ramps to reduce highway accidents in 10 communities along the highway.

Tamale to Buipe X X

58 Speed ramps constructed in ten communities

DWD HA/ DPCU/ HWA

39. Conduct Spot improvement & opening of 95km of feeder roads


2,000 95km feeder roads opened and spots improved

DWD DPCU/HWA

Sub-total 23,658

THEMATIC AREA: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT


BUDGET (‘000)



DA

2014

2015

2016

2017

IGF

GOG

DONOR

LEAD

COLLABO RATORS

EDUCATION

Objective 1: Increase inclusive and equitable access to, and participation in education at all levels

Strategy: Remove the physical, financial and social barriers and constraints to access to education at all levels

40. Improve Basic Educational infrastructure (by Constructing 30 3unit & 10 6unit classrooms) to improve access.


5,000 No. of classroom blocks provided

DPCU

GES / DONORS/JICA/ TAs

41. Establish & expand the infrastructure base for second cycle schools to increase access.

District wide X X

5,000 No. of second cycle school blocks added.

DPCU

GES/DONORS/TAs

Objective 2: Improve management of education service delivery 0

Strategy: Ensure efficient development, deployment and supervision of teachers 0

42. Recruit committed and hard working circuit supervisors to supervise teachers.

Buipe X X 1 Hard working CSs recruited

GES

PAGE/DEOC/DPCU/GNAT

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BUDGET (‘000)



DA

2014

2015

2016

2017

IGF

GOG

DONOR

LEAD

COLLABO RATORS

43. Provide logistical support for effective supervision of teachers in the District.

X X X X 12 Logistical support provided

GES

PAGE/DEOC/DPCU/PTA

Objective3: Improve quality of teaching and learning 0

Strategy: Deploy adequately qualified teachers and improve teachers’ time-on-task 0

44. Improve contact hours to raise performance among pupils.

District wide X X X X 10 No. of effective Contact hours with pupils.

GES

PTA/TAs/SMCs DEOC/NSS/AMs

45. Sponsor the training of 30 teachers to boost the train teacher capacity annually.

District wide X X X X 60 No. of teachers trained annually

GES

DA/TAs/GPEG

46. Redistribute teachers where possible to understaffed schools in the District.

District wide X X X X 2.5 No. of Teachers redistributed.

GES

SMCs/PTA/NSS/DA

Strategy 3: Ensure adequate supply of teaching and learning materials 0

47. Facilitate the supply of more teaching learning materials to schools.

District wide X X

12 Ratio of pupil TLMs.

GES

GPEG/DA/DLA

48. Improve reading culture of school children in the District by setting up libraries.

District wide X X X

250 No. of libraries set-up in area council capitals

GES

DA/JICA/TAs/PTAs/SMCs

49. Organize quiz competitions quarterly to encourage reading.

Circuit capitals X X X X

16 No. of quiz competitions organized

GES

DA/DEOC/SMCs/PTAs/NSS/DLA

Sub-total 10,363.5

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SECTOR STRATEGY/ACTIVITY LOCATION TIME SCHEDULE INDICATIVE BUDGET

(‘000)



DA

HEALTH AND NUTRITION

2014

2015

2016

2017

IGF GOG

DONOR

LEAD COLLABO RATORS

Objective 1: Bridge the equity gaps in geographical access to health services

Strategy 1: Strengthen the district and sub-district health systems as the bed-rock of the national primary health care strategy 2: Accelerate the implementation of the revised CHPS strategy especially in under-served areas

50. Provide health infrastructure to

improve access to health services. District wide X X X X 4,000 No. of Health infrastructure provided

GHS DA/MOH

51. Build the staff capacity of the District health Directorate to man the facilities. District wide X X X X 50

% of staff Capacity built

GHS RING/MOH/ KCODEC/WFP

52. Provide logistics to improve outreach

services. District wide X X X X 20

Logistics for outreach services provided

GHS DA/DONORS/MOH/ RING

Objective 2: Reduce under-nutrition and malnutrition related disorders and deaths among infants and young children and women in their reproductive ages

0

Strategy: Enhance access to adequate nutrition and related services to all especially women during pregnancy, underserved communities and vulnerable groups

0

53. Roll out a sensitization package on

child care and nutrition to improve

health status of children in all

communities.

All area Council

Capitals X X X X 40

Sensitization package rolled out

GHS RING/WFP/DA/DONORS

54. Provide support for the cultivation of nutrition based crops (beans, millet, soya beans and groundnuts to improve Household nutrition.

50 RING Communities

X X X X 80

Support for cultivation of nutrition based crops provided

DADU RING/CDU/ GHS

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55. Introduce fingerlings in irrigation dams and dugouts to provide source of nutrition and boost incomes.

Communities with

dams/dugouts

X X

20

No. of dams / dugouts stocked

DADU RING/MFAC/ GHS

Objective: Enhance national capacity for the attainment of the health related MDGs 0

Strategy1: Scale up community and facility based interventions for the management of childhood and neonatal illnesses

0

56. Intensify measures to control infant and maternal mortality. District wide X X X X 50

% reduction in infant/maternal mortality.

DDGHS

DA/NHIS/Donors

Strategy 2: Intensify and sustain Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) 0

57. Support the Organization of National Immunization Day exercise.


24 Amount of support for NID

DDGHS

DCE/DCD/CD

Mental Health 0

Objective: Improve quality of health services delivery including mental health services 0

Strategy: 0

58. Operationalise the Mental Health Act

through Sensitization. District wide

11 No. of activities held on the MHA

DDGHS

SW/Basic Needs

Sub-total 4,295

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BUDGET (‘000)



DA

The Aged 2014

2015

2016

2017

IGF GOG

DONOR

LEAD

COLLABO RATORS

Objective: Accelerate the implementation of social and health interventions targeting the aged

Strategy: Enhance social protection interventions for the Aged

59. Roll out income generating activities to support the aged live good lives.

District wide X X X X 25 No. of aged given support.

SW CD/NCCE/NGOs

60. Target the poor old persons for improved health and nutritional support packages. (NHI, education on nutritious foods for aged, etc)

District wide X X X X 30

No. of old persons targeted.

DDGHS

CD/NCCE/NGOs/SW/NHIS

Child Development and Protection 0

Objective: Promote effective child development in all communities, especially deprived areas

0

Strategy: Improve human, material and financial resources for child development, survival and protection. 0

61. Create public awareness on the rights of children throughout the District. District wide X X X X 12

No. of awareness sessions held.

SW CD/NCCE/NGOs

62. Enforce child rights and protection laws for effective compliance. District wide X X X X 8

Level of enforcement.

SW CD/NCCE/NGOs

Sub-total 75

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SECTOR STARTEGY/ACTIVITY LOCATION TIME SCHEDULE INDICATIVE

BUDGET (‘000)



DA

POPULATION MANAGEMENT AND MIGRATION FOR

NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2014

2015

2016 2017 IGF GOG

DONOR

LEAD

COLLABO RATORS

Objective: Integrate population variables into all aspects of development planning at all levels

Strategy: Strengthen capacity of relevant stakeholders to integrate population issues into development planning and policy making

63. Build capacity for integrating population concerns into development planning process.

All departments X X X X 5.00 Type of

training held. DPC

U All HODs

Strategy: Expand coverage, availability and accessibility of reproductive health and Family Planning services including adolescents/youth.

0.00

64. Create access to reproductive health and family planning services in the District.

District wide X X X X 25.00 No. of RPCs set up.

DDGHS

Public Health/ CD/ GHS

Poverty Reduction and Income Inequalities 0.00

Objective: Reduce income disparities among socio-economic groups and between geographical areas 0.00

Strategy: 1. Enhance income generating opportunities for the poor and vulnerable 0.00

65. Equip poor but enterprising women with skills and startup capital to do income generating activities.

District wide X X X 20.00 No. of enterprising women set up.

DADU

SW/CD/DONORS

66. Support poor but enterprising men with productive skills for income generation.

District wide X X X 20.00 No. of enterprising men set up.

DADU

SW/CD/DONORS

Sub-total 70.00

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THEMATIC AREA: TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE


BUDGET (‘000)



DA

Public Safety and Security

2014

2015

2016

2017

IGF GOG

DONOR

LEAD COLLABO RATORS

Objective: Improve internal security for protection of life and property

Strategy: Enhance institutional capacity of the security agencies

67. Institute measures to biff up security of the citizenry

X X X

80.00 Security situation improved

DCD/DCE

GPS/TAs/ Military

68. Regulate activities alien Fulani herdsmen with support of chief and security.

District wide

X X X X

40.00 Operations of alien Fulani herdsmen regulated

DCD/DCE

GP/TAs/ Military/Youth

Gender Equity and Women Empowerment 0.00

Objective: Promote women’s access to economic opportunity and resources, including property

0.00

Strategy: Develop entrepreneurial and technical skills of women and girls 0.00

69. Build women capacity to create equitable access to economic opportunities.

District wide X X X 7.50 No. of women

trained BAC GDO/CD/DCE

70. Support the training/sponsorship of women/girls to equip them for senior management positions in the formal labour market.

District wide X X X X 60.00 No. of

women/girls sponsored

GDO CAMFED/DA

Objective: Promote the effective use of data for decision making and development communication

0.00

Strategies: Mainstream statistics in the planning process. 0.00

71. Conduct quarterly data gathering and analysis to feed into gender decision making processes.

District

Departments X X X X 8.00 Frequency of data update

DPCU

GDO/Other Departments

Sub-total 87.50

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4.1 INDICATIVE FINANCIAL PLAN

Over the planned period of 2014 to 2017, the District will require a lot of revenue or finances to be able

to fund the implementation of the interventions proposed in the plan. These funds from both internal and

external sources amount to 63,833,809 Ghana cedis. These funds will be sourced from such areas as

Internally Generated Funds (IGF), projected central government in-flows such as Departmental Allocations

District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF), District Development Facility, funding for planned programmes

of development partners, NGOs support, GETFUND, and RING (USAID) funds.

However an amount of 89,508,620.00 is required to implement the plan for the four year period. The

GHc25,674,791 difference will be patched up from other ways of soliciting support including proposal

development, private sector interventions etc.

The Expenditure areas with cost have been spelt out in the table below. This table gives an idea of the

summarized cost of the implementation of the MTDP.

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Indicative Financial Plan SOURCE OF

FUNDING

2014

2015

2016

2017 Grand Total

SECTORS TO BE FUNDED

2014 (000)

2015 (000)

2016 (000)

2017 (000)

Grand Total (000)

IGF 201,432 251,432 275,123 256,846 CENTRAL ADMIN

11 920 15 27.5

DACF 2,289,254 2,624,133 2,710,000 2,810,126 BAC 9.5 108.5 62 42.5

SECTOR TRANSFERS

82,104 87,452 92,103 100,140 AGRIC 277 91 103 83

USAID 642,000 700,000 700,000 800,000 NATURAL RESOURCE MGT

317 64 67.5 55

DDF 106,212,6 957,128 1,110,152 1,215,104 CLIMATE CHANGE

35 18 101 33.5

DONORS 300,000 310,000 300,000 305,000 WATER & SANITATION

727.95 8,212 10,684 10,090.5

COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION

100,000 150,000 150,000 200,000 ENERGY 2,700 2,211 2160 2,209

GoG 5,000,000 8,000,000 9,000,000 7,000,000 ROADS 261 2,066 603 3,306

GDETFUND 3,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 EDUCATION 2,949.45 10,401.5 5,368.5 13,888.5 OTHERS: Proposals, Private Sector, etc

GHc25,674,791

0 0 0 0 HEALTH & NUTRITION

1031.42 734 4,335 2,024

AGED/CHILD DEVT

72 105 82 88

POPULATION 167 66 45 54.3

GOVERNANCE 110.5 128 87.5 99.5

TOTAL 11,723,022 16,082,160 18,339,394 17,689,233 63,833,809 TOTAL 8,668.82 25,125 23,713.5 32,001.3 89,508.62

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5.0 CHAPTER 5: DISTRICT ANNUAL ACTION PLAN

This chapter captures the yearly implementation plans based on the NMTDPF thematic areas. All four years have been captures in the annualized plans beginning from 2014 to 2017. These are displayed below one after the other.

5.1 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN FOR 2014


No. Activities Location Output indicators Time Schedule Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Local (‘000)

External (‘000)

Leading Collaborators

REVENUE GENERATION


Strategy 1: Strengthen mobilization and management of non-tax revenue

1. Notify cooperate and financial institutions on the payment of property rates

Buipe, Yapei No. of cooperate institutions informed of property rates

1.00 0.00 DBO

DPCU/TCP/DCD/Cooperate Institutions

2. Setting up a committee to agree on the cattle rates

District wide Committee set-up and rates agreed

1.00 0.00 DFO

DPCU/TA/Community members

3. Setting targets for all revenue collectors District wide Revenue targets set for all revenue collectors

0.30 0.00 DFO DCD/BO/DPCU

4. Train all revenue collectors to improve collection.

District wide # of revenue collectors trained.


5. Notify all staff living in assembly apartments of rent payments

Buipe No. of assembly staff notified of rent payments

0.20 0.00 DDCD DPCU/DCD/DBO

Strategy 2: Eliminate revenue collection leakages. 0.00 0.00

6. Conduct revenue sensitization camp throughout the District to encourage payments.

District wide # of sensitizations conducted.

5.00 0.00 BO DFO/ISD/NCCE/

7. Constitute a revenue taskforce to educate & do tax collection monthly in all sources.

Buipe Composition of taskforce in place.

6.00 0.00 BO DFO/NCCE/DPCU

8. Cede some tax items to PPP arrangements to improve tax collection District wide

# of tax items ceded through PPP arrangements.

2.00 0.00 DCD DPCU/BAC

Sub-total 11.00 0.00

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External (‘000)




Strategy 1: Facilitate the provision of training and business development services

9. Monitor SMEs activities in the district

District wide Activities of SMEs monitored

0.50 4.00 BAC DADU, DPCU, DA,

RING/GDU

10. Conduct capacity building training for women groups & individuals in petty trading.

Kigbripe, Kokope, Digma, Seidupe,

women groups and individuals capacity built on petty trading

2.00 5.00 BAC RING /co-operative

unit/GDU

11. Organize 1no. Technical training on soap making

District wide No. of technical workshop organized

1.00 3.70 BAC DPCU/ RING /GDU

12. Organize 3no. business management training for small businesses under income generating groups

District wide No. of business management trainings undertaken

4.00 0.00 BAC/DPCU ISD/RING/

NBSSI/MOFA/donors

OBJECTIVE 2: Diversify and expand the tourism industry for economic development 0.00 0.00

Strategies: 1 Market Ghana as a competitive tourist destination 0.00 0.00

13. Develop Ndewura Jakpa’s Grave to boost its attraction

Old Buipe Ndewura Jakpa grave developed

2.00 50.00 DCE DPCU/TAs/ Donors

Sub-total 9.5 62.7

No.

Activities Location Output indicators Time Schedule Annual Budget Implementing Agencies


External (‘000)




STRATEGY: Develop and promote appropriate and affordable irrigation schemes including dams, boreholes, and other water harvesting techniques for different

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categories of farmers and agro ecological zones

14. Train MOFA staff on detection of

diseases in livestock and simple

treatment procedures

Buipe Staff trained on disease detection and treatment procedures

0.00 5.00 DADU RING/DA/Farmer

groups

15. Promote the production of Soya bean

& Cowpea to 500 households through

seeds distribution.

10 RING

communities No. of hhs supported in the production of soya beans

2.00 17.00 DADU RING/DA/Farmer

groups

16. Organize refresher course on post-

harvest losses for 11 AEAs and DAOs

Buipe No. of AEAs and DAOs trained on post-harvest losses

0.00 8.00 DADU DA/DONORS/M

OFA

17. Establish 60 demonstrations on good

seed selection

All area councils No. of demonstrations established on good seed selection

0.00 90.00 DADU DA/NRGP/DON

ORS/MOFA

18. Educate 3,000 farmers on early harvest of crops

District wide No. of farmers educated on early harvesting

0.00 8.00 DADU DA/NRGP/DON

ORS/MOFA

ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOOD OBJECTIVE: Promote other agricultural activities to better the lives of the people

0.00 0.00

STRATEGY: Develop and promote appropriate and affordable agricultural activities for different categories of farmers and agro ecological zones

0.00 0.00

19. Train livestock farmer groups on breeding and breed selection in livestock production

District wide Livestock farmer groups trained on breeding and breed selection

0.00

4.00 DADU Farmers/RING/N

RGP

20. Vaccinate small ruminants against PPR and other diseases

Bilsikura, Lingbinkura, Mpaha, Sheri, Kpabuso

0.00

5.00


21. Procure 300 small ruminants for poor households

Bilsikura & Lingbinkura

# of small ruminants procured

0.00

50.00 DADU Farmers/RING/N

RGP

22. Immunization and prophylactic treatment of livestock

District wide # of livestock immunized and given prophylactic treatment

0.00 8.00 DADU DA /NRGP/

WUMPINI AGRO CHEMICAL

23. Train farmers on good husbandry management

District wide # of farmers trained on good husbandry management

0.00 8.00 DADU DA/RING/NRGP

/WAAF

24. Identify farmers for guinea fowl production

District wide Guinea fowl farmers identified

0.00 4.00 DADU DA/NRGP/WAA

F/RING

25. Link poultry and guinea fowl farmers District wide Farmers linked to banks 0.00 4.00 DADU DA/NRGP/WAA

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to banks and marketing organization and Mkting organizations

F

26. Sensitize 1,500 farmers on disease outbreaks

District wide Farmers sensitized on disease outbreaks


F

27. Train 800 farmers on deworming livestock

District wide No. of farmers trained on livestock deworming


F

28. AEAs training on the control of pests on maize during storage

Buipe # of AEAs trained on storage pests control.


F

29. Train 11 AEAs on extension delivery methods

Buipe # of AEAs trained on extension delivery methods 0.00 9.00

DADU DA/NRGP/WAAF

30. Conduct sensitization workshops for 50 tractor operators on good land preparation (ploughing)

Buipe No. of tractor operators sensitized on land preparation.


/WAAF

31. Build capacity of farmers on appropriate land tillage practices and soil conservation

Buipe Capacity of farmers built on appropriate land tillage practices


F

32. Train farmers on the use of agro chemicals for weeds & storage.

District wide Farmers trained on agro chemicals usage


F

33. Train staff on RSSP and data collection District wide Staff trained on RSSP 0.00 7.00


34. Sensitize 40 FBOs on the importance of legal registration

District wide FBOs sensitized on legal registraiton


/WAAF

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 0.00 0.00

Objective: Enhance natural resources management through community participation 0.00 0.00

35. Strategy: Promote active involvement of community stakeholders in the development of natural resource management plans

0.00 0.00

36. Conduct Sensitization on bush fire prevention

District wide Sensitization on bush fire prevention conducted

0.00 8.00 NADMO/FC ICIER/DONORS

37. Establishment of multi-purpose tree plantation in one community

Kusawgu # of multi-purpose tree plantation established

2.00 5.00 GEMP

DPCU/DADU

38. Conduct public education on sustainable lumbering

District wide Public education conducted

0.00 7.00 FC/NADMO DPCU/DONORS

39. Sensitize charcoal producers on sustainable practices

Buipe, Yapei, Mpaha, & Kusawgu

Charcoal producers sensitized

0.00 5.00 FC/NADMO DPCU/DONORS/

Charcoal Producers

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40. Establish woodlot plantation in two communities

Buipe, Kabilpe, Wambong, Sankpagla

No. of Woodlot plantations established

0.00 8.00 GEMP DPCU/DADU

41. Growing of economic tree plantation in one community

Sankagla Economic tree plantation grown

0.00 5.00 GEMP DPCU/DADU/Far

mers/Community members

4.00 313.00

CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE

Objective: Enhance capacity to adapt to climate change impacts



Yapei & Buipe Stakeholders capacity built on climate change resilient intervention

0.00 7.00

FC/NADMO DPCU/DONORS/ICIER


District wide Climate change awareness campaign created

0.00 6.00

FC/NADMO DPCU/DONORS/ICIER


District wide Measures to reduce/adapt to climate change effects & DRR instituted

0.00 5.00

FC/NADMO DPCU/DONORS/ICEIR

45. Conduct research on early warning systems

Riverine communities

Research conducted 0.00 8.00 DA ICEIR/NADMO

46. Dissemination on early warning systems District wide Dissemination on early warning systems carried out.

0.00 9.00

DA ISD/ICEIR/NADMO

0.0 35.00

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External (‘000)



OBJECTIVE 1: Accelerate the provision of adequate, safe and affordable water


47. Conduct refresher training for WatSan Committee members on portable water provision

Buipe Refresher training conducted for Watsan Committees

0.00 20 DWST EHU/DWD/RIN

G/DPCU

48. Improve safe water coverage in underserved communities by repairing (10) Boreholes.

Kpasera,Chama,Domea

bra, Mpaha, Buipe

No. of boreholes repaired in communities

0.00 20.00 DWST NORST/EHU/RING/DWD

49. Provide 20 no. polytanks for safe water

storage and rain water catchment at

public centers in 10 beneficiary

communities

Bilsiura,Sawaba,Butie,Nwampw,Kulfo,Digma,Bilanposo,Zanzugu,Adupe

NO. of poly-tanks provided for 10 communities for safe water storage

3.00 32.95 DWST DPCU/EHU/RING/GSOP/DWD/RING

Objective 2: Accelerate the provision of improved environmental sanitation facilities 0.00 0.00


0.00 0.00

50. Conduct education and sensitization on sanitation to improve total sanitation in 50 RING communities.

50 communities in Buipe, Yapei, Tuluwe, Kusawgu and Mpaha area councils

No. of sensitization education conducted

0.00 7.00 EHU DPCU/RING/ISD/ZOOMLION

51. Monitoring and follow up on109 triggered CLTS communities.

Buipe, Yapei, Tuluwe, Kusawgu and Mpaha

No. of CLTS triggered communities monitored

0.00 5.00 EHU DPCU/CWSA/K

CODEC

52. Collaborate with zoom lion workers to embark on periodic clean up exercises.

Buipe, Yapei No. of periodic cleanup exercises organized

1.00 6.00 EHU DPCU/ZOOMLI

ON/CD

53. Organize medical screening of food vendors

Buipe, Yapei, Kusawgu, Tuluwe and Mpaha

1.00 7.00 EHU/GHS

DPCU/TAs/KCODEC

54. Reactivate the sanitation market concept Buipe, Yapei, Kusawgu, Mpaha, Tuluwe

Sanitation market concept reactivated

2.00 4.00 EHU KCODEC/DPCU

/SNV/APDO

55. Review, gazette and enforce MMDAs bye-laws on sanitation

Buipe Sanitation bye-laws reviewed and gaxetted

1.00 3.00 EHU DPCU/DCD/DC

E

Strategy: Expand disability-friendly sanitation facilities 0.00 0.00

56. Solicit support to construct 20 Disability District wide No. of disability friendly 2.00 50.00 DWD DPCU/PWD/SN

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friendly institutional latrines. latrines constructed V/APDO


District wide No. of access ramps constructed in existing institutional toilets

3.00 50.00 DWD DPCU/PWD/SN

V/APDO

58. Strategy: Scale up the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) for the promotion of household sanitation 0.00 0.00


RING Communities No. of household latrines constructed in communities

2.00 500 DPCU RING/EHU/CDU/KCODEC


RING Communities Monitoring on sanitation and hygiene conducted

1.00 7.00 DPCU RING/EHU/CDU

/KCODEC

16.00 711.95


SECTOR STRATEGY/ACTIVITY LOCATION OUTPUT INDICATORS TIME SCHEDULE INDICATIVE BUDGET IMPLEMENTING DEPARTMENT OF THE

DA

ENERGY

1st

2nd

3rd 4th LOCAL (,000)

EXTERNAL (,000)

LEAD COLLABO RATORS



72. Facilitate the connection of all the Area Council capitals to the grid.

Mpaha & tuluwe Connection of area councils capitals to national grid facilitated

0.00 500 DCE DPCU/VRA/MOE


District wide Electricity extended to a no. of communities

0.00 1600 DCE DPCU/VRA/MOE

74. Facilitate the expansion of the solar light system to far off grid communities.

All Area Councils Solar light system expansion to far off communities facilitated

0.00 600 DCE DPCU/Ministry of Energy/MOE

ROADS 0.00 0.00

Objective: Establish Ghana as a transportation hub for the West African sub-region 0.00 0.00

Strategy: Improve and develop the physical infrastructure across all modes for transport 0.00 0.00

75. Spot Improvement/ Construction of a Box Culvert

Buipe Waranto to NHIS Office

Box culvert constructed and spot improved

51.00 210.00 DWD DA/DDF

Sub-total 51 2,910.00

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THEMATIC AREA: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT;

SECTOR STRATEGY/ACTIVITY LOCATION OUTPUT INDICATORS

TIME SCHEDULE INCATIVE BUDGET IMPLEMENTING DEPARTMENT OF THE DA

1st 2nd 3rd 4th LOCAL (,000)

EXTERNAL (,000)

LEAD COLLABORATORS

EDUCATION



76. Rehabilitate 1no. 3 unit classroom Sankunpe No. of 3 unit classroom block rehabilitated

0.00 14.46

GES GPEG/DPCU/DEOC/TAs

77. Construction of 5 seater KVIP toilets in 3 basic primary schools

Sankupe, Domeabra, Jiramoape

No. of KVIP seater toilets constructed

0.00 106.00


78. Construct gender friendly urinals in 6 community schools

Zangugu-Yipala, Jiramoape, Salman-Faussiye, Yapei, Buipe

Gender friendly urinals constructed in 6 schools

0.00 18.000


79. Promote the use of gender clubs and role models within schools and communities

District wide Use of gender clubs and role models in schools promoted

0.00 2.13


80. Organize sensitization workshop for civil society groups to advocate for girl-child education

District wide Sensitization workshop for civil society groups organized

0.00 8.8


81. Provide scholarship programmes for the girl-child in deprived areas

District wide Scholarships for the girl-child in deprived areas provided

0.00 81.50


82. Construct 1no. 3 unit classroom block Buipe 3 unit classroom block constructed

0.00 40.00


83. Construct 1 No6 Unit Classroom Block [Ground Type] for Buipe Senior High School “B”

Buipe 6 unit classroom block (ground type) constructed

0.00 269.98

GES DA/GETFUND

84. Construction of 1no. 6 unit Buipe 6 unit classroom 0.00 80.00 GES DA/GETFUND/DDF

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EXTERNAL (,000)

LEAD COLLABORATORS

classroom block block constructed

85. Construction of 1 no. 3unit classroom block

Buipe 3 unit classroom block constructed

0.00 40.00

GES DA/GETFUND/DDF

86. Construction of 1no. 6 unit classroom block

Kpabuso 6 unit classroom block constructed

0.00 80.00

GES DA/GETFUND/DDF

87. Construction of 1 no. 6 unit classroom block

Kusawgu 6 unit classroom block constructed

0.00 80.00

GES DA/GETFUND/DDF

88. Construction of 1 no. 6 unit administration block at Buipe Senior High School

Buipe 6 unit administration block constructed

0.00 80.00

GES DA/GETFUND/DDF

89. Construction of 1 no. 6 unit administration block at Buipe Vocational and Technical Senior High School

Buipe 6 unit administration block constructed

0.00 80.00

GES DA/GETFUND/DDF

90. Construction of single story building for Buipe SHS

Buipe Single story building constructed

0.00 600.00

GES DA/GETFUND/DDF

91. Construction of single story building for Buipe Vocational and Technical SHS

Buipe Single story building constructed

0.00 500.00

GES DA/GETFUND/DDF

92. Construct 1 no. 6 unit classroom block at Buipe Vocational and Technical SHS

Buipe 6 unit classroom block constructed

0.00 500.00

GES DA/GETFUND/DDF

Objective 2: Improve management of education service delivery 0.00 0.00

Strategy: Ensure efficient development, deployment and supervision of teachers 0.00 0.00

93. Organize and recruit INSET Mathematics, Science and Literacy teachers

District wide Recruitment of INSET mathematics, science and literacy organized

0.00 54.50

GES GPEG/DEOC/DPCU/GNAT

94. Conduct training for Circuit Supervisors on reporting on school grant and school report cards (SRC)

District wide Training for circuit supervisors on school grant and report cards conducted

0.00 2.86

GES GPEG/DEOC/DPCU

95. Conduct training for head teachers in the use of school grant

District wide Training for head teachers on school grant conducted

0.00 9.40

GES GPEG/DEOC/DPCU

70




EXTERNAL (,000)

LEAD COLLABORATORS

96. Monitor and support school grant planning and expenditure

District wide School grant planning and expenditure monitored

0.00 24.92

GES GPEG/DEOC/DPCU

97. Provide support for teachers on UTDBE programmes

District wide Support for teacher on UTDBE

0.00 115.49


Objective3: Improve quality of teaching and learning 0.00 0.00

Strategy: Deploy adequately qualified teachers and improve teachers’ time-on-task 0.00 0.00

98. Improve contact hours to raise performance among pupils through effective supervision

District wide Contact hours to raise performance among pupils improved

0.00 5.00

GES PTA/TAs/SMCs/ DEOC/NSS/AMs

99. Organize district level cluster School Performance Appraisal meetings (SPAM) to discuss educational results

Buipe District level cluster school performance meetings organized

0.00 14.45

GES DA/DPCU/PTA/GPEG/NSS

100. Organize School Performance Appraisal meeting (SPAM) at the district level

District wide School performance appraisal meeting (SPAM) organized

0.00 52.01

GES DA/DPCU/PTA/GPEG/NSS

101. Redistribute teachers where possible to understaffed schools in the District.

District wide Teachers redistributed to understaffed schools

0.00 5.00

GES SMCs/PTA/NSS/DA

Strategy 3: Ensure adequate supply of teaching and learning materials 0.00 0.00

102. Provide teaching and Learning Materials (chalk, supplementary readers etc) to basic schools

District wide Teaching and learning materials provided to basic schools

0.00 84.95

GES GPEG/DA/DLA

103. 0.0 2,949.45

71



TIME SCHEDULE INDICATIVE BUDGET


HEALTH AND NUTRITION 1st 2nd 3rd 4th LOCAL (,000)

EXTERNAL (,000)

LEAD COLLABORATORS



104. Renovation /Rehabilitation of 2no

CHPS Compounds

Tulwe, Yala, Renovation/Rehabilit

ations done

2.00 150.00 DA//G

HS

GOG/MP/DONERS

105. Construction of 3no accommodation

units

Lito, Yapei, &

Fulfulso,

3 accommodation

units constructe

1.50 50.00 GHS GOG/DA/MP/DONER

S

106. Sponsor the training of 10No. Health

Professionals

District wide 10 health

professionals

sponsored.

0.00 40.00 DA GHS/MP/DONERS

107. Train health staff on Interpersonal Communication (IPC) and Communication for Development (C4D)

District wide Training of health staff on IPC and C4D conducted

0.00 6.00 GHS RING/MOH/WFP

108. Acquire 2 no. motorbikes to enhance field activities

Buipe No. of motorbikes acquired

0.00 24.00 GHS DA/ RING/MOH


0.00 0.00


0.00 0.00

109. Train health staff on targeted supplementary feeding program All area Council

Capitals

Health staff trained on targeted

supplementary feeding program

0.00 5.00 GHS RING/WFP/DA/DONORS

110. Distribute food commodities to health facilities in all communities

District wide Food commodities distributed to health facilities

0.00 20.00 GHS DA/WFP/TAs

111. Undertake focus antenatal care,

essential nutrition action for pregnant

District wide Focused antenatal

care and essential

0.00 29.00 GHS MAF/UNFPA/MOH

72

women and PMTCT services. action for pregnant

women undertaken

112. Train 250 no. health staff, SHEP coordinators, Teachers and Agric extension officers on Essential Nutrition Action (ENA) messages

All area councils No. of health staff,

SHEP coordinators,

Teachers and Agric

extension officers

trained.

0.00 19.50 GHS RING/MFAC/DPCU

113. Support the acquisition of logistics for identification and treatment of Anemia and Acute Malnutrition in women and children

District wide Support provided for

the acquisition of

logistics

0.00 18.22 GHS RING/DPCU/MOH/DONORS

114. Conduct a market survey on the sale of Iodated salt in the district

All area councils Survey on the sale of

iodated salt

conducted

1.00 60.00 GHS DA/MOH/DONORS

Objective: Enhance national capacity for the attainment of the health related MDGs 0.00 0.00


0.00 0.00

115. Intensify measures to control infant and maternal mortality. District wide

Measures to control infant and maternal mortality intensified

10 500 DDGHS DA/NHIS/Donors

116. Implement all the applicable basic

and comprehensive emergency obstetric

and new born care (EMNoC)

recommendations.

District wide Reduced maternal

and neonatal

mortality

2.000 8.200 GHS MAF/UNFPA/MOH/D

A

117. Carry out weekly and monthly

record review in the consulting room in all

health facilities

District wide Basis laboratory

equipment available

in all facilities

0.00 8.000 GHS GoG

118. Conduct integrated disease case

search in 2 communities each in a sub-

district

District wide integrated disease

case search

conducted

x x x x 30.00 0.00 GOG,M

OH/GH

S

NMCP,UNICEF

,GLOBAL FUND

Strategy 2: Intensify and sustain Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) 0.00 0.00

73

119. Support the Organization of National Immunization Day (NID) exercise

District wide Support given for NID exercises

0.00 0.00

GHS DA/MOH/DONORS

120. Conduct EPI coverage SURVEY District wide EPI coverage survey

conducted

0.00 30.00

GHS DA

Mental Health 0.00 0.00

121. Operationalization of the Mental

Health Act through Sensitization of staff

and the communities at large

District wide Sensitization on Mental Health Act operationalized

5.00 7.00

GHS Basic Needs/SW/DPCU/Globalfund

122. Orientate staff on mental health District wide staff orientated 5.00 0.00

GHS/SB

S

GAVI/WHO/UNICEF/

BasicNeeds

Sub-total 56.5 974.92


SECTOR ACTIVITY LOCATION OUTPUT INDICATORS

TIME SCHEDULE INDICATIVE BUDGET (‘000)


The Aged LOCAL EXTERNAL LEAD COLLABO RATORS



123. Roll out income generating activities to support the aged live good lives. District wide

Income generating activities to support the aged rolled out

0.00 25.00

SW CD/NCCE/NGOs

124. Target the poor old persons for improved health and nutritional support packages. (NHI, education on nutritious foods for aged, etc)

District wide Health and nutritional support packages for the aged improved

0.00 30.00

DDGHS

CD/NCCE/NGOs/SW/NHIS

Child Development and Protection 0.00 0.00

Objective: Promote effective child development in all communities, especially deprived areas 0.00 0.00

Strategy: Improve human, material and financial resources for child development, survival and protection. 0.00 0.00

125. Create public awareness on the rights of children throughout the District. District wide

Public awareness on the rights of children created

0.00 12.00

SW CD/NCCE/NGOs

74

126. Enforce child rights and protection laws for effective compliance District wide

Child rights and protection laws enforced

0.00 5.00

SW CD/NCCE/NGOs

Sub-total 0.0 72.00

POPULATION MANAGEMENT AND MIGRATION FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SECTOR STARTEGY/ACTIVITY LOCATION OUTPUT INDICATORS



1st 2nd 3rd 4th LEAD COLLABO RATORS



127. Build capacity for integrating population concerns into development planning process.

Buipe Departmental heads capacity built

1.00 5.00

DPCU All HODs/GHS/DADU

128. Train 10 departmental staff on integrating population variables in development planning.

Buipe # of departmental heads trained

0.00 5.00


0.00 0.00

129. Create access to reproductive health and family planning services in the District. District wide

Access to productive health and family planning services created

3.00 25.00

DDGHS Public Health/ CD/ GHS/SW

130. Set up designated centres for the provision of family planning services.

Buipe,mpaha,tuluwe,yapei &

kusawgu

Designated centres for family planning services set-up

2.00 6.00

GHS CD/SW/DPCU

Poverty Reduction and Income Inequalities 0.00 0.00

Objective: Reduce income disparities among socio-economic groups and between geographical areas 0.00 0.00

Strategy: 1. Enhance income generating opportunities for the poor and vulnerable 0.00 0.00

131. Equip poor but enterprising women with skills and startup capital to do income

District wide Poor but enterprising women with skills

20.00 30.00

DADU SW/CD/DONORS

75

SECTOR STARTEGY/ACTIVITY LOCATION OUTPUT INDICATORS



1st 2nd 3rd 4th LEAD COLLABO RATORS

generating activities. and startup capital equipped

132. Support poor but enterprising men with productive skills for income generation. District wide

Skills of poor but enterprising men equipped

20.00 50.00

DADU SW/CD/DONORS

46.00 121.00





Public Safety and Security 1s

t 2nd 3rd 4th LOCAL EXTERNAL LEAD COLLABO

RATORS



133. Institute measures to biff up security of the citizenry

Buipe Measures to biff up security instituted

2.00 8.00 DCD/DCE.00 GPS/TAs/ Military

134. Regulate activities of alien Fulani herdsmen with support of chief and security.

District wide Activities of alien Fulani herdsmen regulated

2.00 10.00 DCD/DCE GP/TAs/ Military/Youth

4.00 18.00

Gender Equity and Women Empowerment


Strategy: Develop entrepreneurial and technical skills of women and girls

135. Build women capacity to create equitable access to economic opportunities.

District wide

Capacity of women

to create equitable access to economic opportunities built

7.50 5.00 BAC GDO/CD/DCE

76

136. Support the training/sponsorship of women/girls to equip them for senior management positions in the formal labour market.

District wide

Training/sponsorship of women/girls to equip them supported

2.00 60.00 GDO CAMFED/DA

Objective: Promote the effective use of data for decision making and development communication 0.00 0.00

Strategies: Mainstream statistics in the planning process. 0.00 0.00

137. Conduct quarterly data gathering and analysis to feed into gender decision making processes.

District Departments

Quarterly data gathering for analysis conducted

4.00 10.00

DPCU GDO/Other Departments

Sub-total 13.50 75.00

77

5.2 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN 2015




External (‘000)


REVENUE GENERATION


Strategy 1: Strengthen mobilization and management of non-tax revenue

1. Rehabilitate 2no market facilities Buipe, Yapei # of mkt facilities rehabilitated.

2.00 500.00 DWD

EHO/BAC/TCP/ DPCU

2. Construct 2no. Market stalls and utilities

Amajorovi, Chama # of mkt facilities rehabilitated.

2.00 400.00 DWD

EHO/BAC/TCP/ DPCU

3. Recruit/regularize 5 commission collectors to make collection effective & accountable.

District wide # of commission collectors recruited


4. Train all revenue collectors to improve collection.

Buipe # of revenue collectors trained. 5.00 0.00 DFO DCD/BO/DPCU

5. Conduct revenue sensitization camp throughout the District to encourage payments.

District wide # of sensitizations conducted.

5.00 0.00 BO DFO/ISD/NCCE/

6. Constitute a revenue taskforce to do collection monthly in all locations.

Buipe Composition of taskforce in place.

1.00 0.00 BO

DFO/NCCE/DPCU

7. Rally the support of the chiefs and local politicians to encourage local people to pay tax.

District wide Chiefs and politicians support tax campaign.

3.00 0.00 DCD DPCU/TAs/GPS

8. Cede some tax items to PPP arrangements to improve tax collection

District wide # of tax items ceded through PPP arrangements.


Sub-total 20.00 900.00

78

THEMATIC AREA: ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS OF GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR;



External (‘000)



Objective 1: Improve efficiency and competitiveness of MSMEs


9. Conduct capacity building training for poor women groups & individuals in soap making

Sawaba, Digma, Amajorovi,

Kpalangase, Nyangwuripe, Yapei Yipala

Poor women groups and individuals capacity built on soap making

0.50 7.00 BAC RING/co-operative unit/GDU

10. Conduct capacity building training to women groups & individuals for petty trading.

Kigbripe, Kokope, Digma, Seidupe, nyangwuripe, Kigbripe, Kokope,Tailor kura (Gbovukpo)

women groups and individuals capacity built on petty trading

2.00 5.00 BAC RING /co-operative unit/GDU

11. Create a web site for the marketing of Buipe as an industrial hub.

Buipe

Website created 4.00 0.00 DPCU/BAC ISD/donors

12. Link up women groups to credit facilities

Bonyase/zowu ,yirkpani, malanakura, Abdul Razak Kura, Issahaku Kura, Wambong, Yapei Yipala

# of women linked to financial institutions

2.00 0.00 BAC/DPCU Cooperative officer/CDO

OBJECTIVE 2: Diversify and expand the tourism industry for economic development 0.00 0.00

Strategies: 1 Market Ghana as a competitive tourist destination 0.00 0.00

13. market Ndewura Jakpa’s Grave to boost it attraction

Old Buipe Ndewura Jakpa grave receiving tourist attraction

2.00 50.00 DCE DPCU/TAs/

Donors


79


No.

Activities Location Output indicators Time Schedule Annual Budget Implementing Agencies


External (‘000)



Objective: Promote irrigation development

Strategy: Develop and promote appropriate and affordable irrigation schemes including dams, boreholes, and other water harvesting techniques for different categories of farmers and agro ecological zones

14. Construct an Irrigation facility Abdul Razak Kura Irrigation facility constructed

2.00 8.00 DADU WFP/DA

/NRGP/others

15. Support women groups into Shea

nuts harvesting with hand gloves &

wellington boot

District wide # of women groups supported with hand gloves and wellington

0.00 10.00

DPCU PBC/NRGP/GSOP

16. Complete Buipe irrigation project Buipe &Yapei Irrigation project completed

1.00 9.00 DADU DA

/NRGP/others

17. Procure 3 water pumping machines & accessories to pilot vegetable farming

Buipe # of pumping machines procured


others

18. Support 150 farmers in 15 under the block farm project.

Kpacheleve,Alipe ,fufulso, yapei yipala, yapei, old Buipe,

# of farmers in 15 communities supported


WUMPINI AGRO CHEMICAL

19. Provide premix fuel to fish farmer groups in fishing communities

Avegome, Dogope, Adapei, Buipe,Yapei,

Premix fuel provided at subsidized prices

2.00 6.00 DCE/DA

DU DPCU/donors

20. Procure 750 small ruminants for poor hhs to enhance their income

Bridge east,bridge west, Chama, old Buipe, kabilpe nwampe, boachipe, gbongbonto, sawaba,

# of small ruminants procured

0.00 30.00

DOA Farmers/GSOP/DABU farms/NRGP/Sakfos farms

21. Train livestock farmer groups on breeding and breed selection in livestock production

Bridge east, bridge west,

Chama, old Buipe, kabilpe nwampe, boachipe, gbongbonto, sawaba ,

Livestock farmer groups trained on breeding and breed selection

0.00 5.00

BAC/DA/MOFA

BAC/DA/MOFA

22. Immunization and prophylactic treatment of livestock

Bridge east,bridge west, Chama,old Buipe, nwampe,boachipe,gbongb

# of livestock immunized and given prophylactic treatment

0.00 5.00 DOA CHEMICAL

DA /NRGP/ WUMPINI AGRO CHEMICAL

80

onto,sawaba,kabilpe

8.00 83.00


Objective: Enhance natural resources management through community participation 0.00 0.00 Strategy: Promote active involvement of community stakeholders in the development of natural resource management plans 0.00 0.00

23. Conduct Sensitization on bush fire prevention

District wide Sensitization on bush fire prevention conducted

0.00 8.00 NADMO/FC

ICIER/DONORS

24. Established afforestation projects in seven (7) communities

District wide # of afforestation project established

0.00 20.00 FC DPCU/NADMO/

DADU/DONORS

25. Organized Capacity Building for Environmental Health Officers

Buipe # of Environmental Health Officers Capacity Built

0.00 5.00 DPCU EHU/NADMO

26. Conduct public education on sustainable lumbering practices

District wide Public education conducted

0.00 7.00 FC/NADMO

DPCU/DONORS

27. Sensitize charcoal producers on sustainable practices

Buipe, mpaha,yapei and kusawgu

Charcoal producers sensitized

0.00 4.00 FC/NADMO

DPCU/DONORS

28. Established woodlot plantation in 10 communities

Buipe,Sankpagla,Wambong,Kabilpe,Fufulso,Kusawgu,Yapei,Soroto,Ntereso,Yapei Yipala

Woodlot plantation established in # of communities

0.00 20.00

FC/NADMO

DPCU/DONORS/KCODEC/GEMP

CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE 0.00 0.00

Objective: Enhance capacity to adapt to climate change impacts 0.00 0.00

Strategy: Increase resilience to climate change impacts through early warning systems 0.00 0.00


Buipe Stakeholders capacity built on climate change resilient intervention

0.00 6.00

FC/NADMO

DPCU/DONORS/ICIER


District wide Climate change awareness campaign created

0.00 5.00 FC/NADMO

DPCU/DONORS/ICIER


District wide Measures to reduce/adapt to climate change effects & DRR instituted

0.00 7.00

FC/NADMO

DPCU/DONORS/ICIER

8.00 18.00

81




External (‘000)



Objective: Accelerate the provision of adequate, safe and affordable water


32. Improve safe water coverage in underserved communities by repairing BHs.

Sawaba,Adupe, Nwampe,Buipe,Domeabra, Mpaha, Chama,old Buipe,sawaba,

# of BHs repaired in underserved communities

0.00 40.00 DWST NORST/EHU/RING/DWD

33. Construct 5no dugouts in communities to improve water coverage.

Alipe,Jiramoape,Galinzegu, Zonkura , malanakura,razak kura,Bilsikura, Kulfo

# of dugouts constructed in deserving communities

4.00 1,000 DWD DPCU/EHU/RING/GSOP

34. Construct Small Town water systems in large communities.

Yapei, Tuluwe, Digma, Ntereso,yapei yipala, Jukuku, Yala, Adapei, Chokosipe

Small town water system constructed in a # of communities

8.00 6,000 DWST CWSA/DPCU/DWD

35. Improve Drainage situation in some communities to ease flooding.

Buipe, Yapei, Kusawgu Gutters constructed and desilted in a # of communities

3.00 3,00.00 DWD EHU/DPCU/NADM

O

36. Construct a 5no. boreholes in ten communities

Larigbani, Nyangwuripe, kabilpe,Lingbinkura, kpalangase

# of boreholes constructed in a # of communities

2.00 500.00 DWD DPCU/EHU/RING/GSOP

Objective: Accelerate the provision of improved environmental sanitation facilities

0.00 0.00


0.00 0.00

37. Conduct education and sensitization on sanitation to improve total sanitation in 50

Ring communities Sanitation in a number of RING communities improved

0.00 7.00 DPCU EHU/RING/ISD/ZOOMLION

82

RING communities.

38. Monitoring and follow ups of 109 triggered CLTS communities.

Monitoring and follow ups conducted in a number of triggered CLTS communities

0.00 5.00 EHU DPCU/CWSA/KC

ODEC

39. Collaborate with zoom lion workers to embark on periodic clean up exercises.

District wide Series of clean up exercises conducted in collaboration with zoomlion

1.00 6.00 EHU DPCU/ZOOMLION

/CD

40. Organize medical screening of food vendors

District wide # of food vendors received medical screening

1.00 7.00 EHU/G

HS DPCU/TAs/KCODEC

41. Reactivate the sanitation market concept

Buipe, sankpagla, Sanitation market received patronage

2.00 4.00 EHU KCODEC/DPCU/S

NV/APDO

Strategy: Expand disability-friendly sanitation facilities 0.00 0.00

42. Solicit support to construct 20 Disability friendly institutional latrines.

District wide # of disability friendly institutional latrines constructed

2.00 50.00 DWD DPCU/PWD/SNV

/APDO


District wide # of access ramps constructed to existing institutional toilets for the disabled

3.00 50 DWD DPCU/PWD/SNV/APDO

44. Gazette and enforce MMDAs bye-laws on sanitation

Buipe MMDAs bye-laws on sanitation Gazetted and enforced

1.00 3.00 EHU DPCU/DCD/DCE

Strategy: Scale up the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) for the promotion of household sanitation 0.00 0.00


Bridge east,bridge west,lito,lingbinkura,

# of household latrines constructed in a # of RING communities through CLTS

2.00 500.00 DPCU RING/EHO/CDO/KCODEC


RING Communities Routine monitoring conducted on sanitation and hygiene and gains improved

1.00 7.00 DPCU RING/EHO/CDO/

KCODEC

ENERGY 30.00 8,182.00



47. Connect at least two communities to the national grid

Tuluwe and Mpaha Mpaha & Tuluwe hooked to the national grid

2.00 5,00.00 DCE DPCU/VRA/MOE

83

48. Extend electricity to 8 Communities Yirkpani, fufulso,Lito, Amajorovi, Jukuku

Electricity extended to a # of far off grid communities


49. Expand the solar light system to far off grid communities.

All Area Councils # of far off grid communities given solar light

1.00 600 DCE DPCU/Ministry of

Energy/MOE

ROADS 6.00 2,205.00

Objective: Establish Ghana as a transportation hub for the West African sub-region

Strategy: Improve and develop the physical infrastructure across all modes for transport

50. Construct speed ramps to reduce highway accidents in 10 communities along the highway.

Ntereso, yapei yipala,lingbinkura,Bilsikura

# of speed ramps constructed in communities along the highway

0.00 58.00 DWD HA/ DPCU/ HWA

51. Implement the Buipe layout Buipe Layout implemented 5.00 0.00 TCPU DPCU/EHU

52. Conduct Spot improvement & opening of 95km of feeder roads: 1. Tuluwe-Adape-Gbevukpo, 2.

Kawaba-razak Kura, 3. Boachipe-no.3, 4. Gbongbonto-lito, 5. Bonyase/zowu, 6. Mamadupe, 7. Kpacheleve - Kasadjankura,

Zonkura,Tuluwe-Kichase Sheri-Kpengleso,Jukuku-Amedzrovi,Sheri-Kopedeke,Mpaha-Tettepe,Kpabuso-Chukunto,winamda,walakura,gbriri-lito

Spots improved & a # of KM feeder roads opened

3.00 2,000 DWD DPCU/HWA

8.00 2,058.00




External (‘000)


Education

Objective: Increase inclusive and equitable access to, and participation in education at all levels


54 Constructing 6No 3unit classrooms with ancillary facilities) to improve access.

Mamadupe, Alipe, kasadjankura, larigbani, sankunpe,

# of 3 units and 6 units constructed

30.00 4,800 DPCU GES / DONORS/JICA/ TAs

55 Constrict 2no 10 units students dormitory at vocational & technical senior high school

Buipe # of 10 units students dormitory constructed at V/T SHS

10.00 5,000.0

0 DPCU GES/DONORS/TA

s

56 Construct boreholes at existing District wide # of schools supplied with 0.00 100.00 DPCU GES/DONORS/TA

84

schools without water facilities BHs s

58 Construct 1no. 6 units classroom block at Mpaha community SHS

Mpaha 1no 6 units classroom constructed

4.00 300.00

DPCU GES/DONORS/TA

s

Objective2: Improve management of education service delivery 0.00 0.00


59 Recruit committed and hardworking circuit supervisors to supervise teachers

Buipe Committed & hardworking CSs recruited 0.00 10.00

GES PAGE/DEOC/DPCU/GNAT

60 Organize capacity building workshop for circuit supervisors

Buipe # of capacity building workshops organized for CSs

0.00 12.00 GES PAGE/DEOC/DPC

U/PTA

61 Provide 5no. motorbikes to circuit supervisors to aid their movements

District wide # of motorbikes supplied to CSs

0.00 45.00 GES PAGE/DEOC/DPC

U/PTA



63 Sponsor the training of 30 teachers to boost the train teacher capacity annually.

District wide # of teachers sponsored to pursue further studies 0.00 60.00

GES DA/TAs/GPEG

64 Redistribute teachers where possible to understaffed schools in the District.

Tailor kura(Gbovukpo), Kulfo

# of teachers redistributed to understaff schools 0.00 2.50

GES SMCs/PTA/NSS/DA


65 Supply 100 pieces of computers to 10 schools to promote teaching & learning of ICT

District wide # of computers supplied to # of schools 0.00 12.00

GES GPEG/DA/DLA

67 Organize quiz competitions quarterly to encourage reading.

Circuit capitals # of quizzes organized 0.00 16.00

GES DA/DEOC/SMCs/PTAs/NSS/DLA

44.00

10,357.5

85




External (‘000)




Strategy:1 Strengthen the district and sub-district health systems as the bed-rock of the national primary health care strategy 2: Accelerate the implementation of the revised CHPS strategy especially in under-served areas

68 Lobby for a district hospital Buipe District hospital provide 4.00 40.00 GHS DA/MOH

69 Construction of DHMT Office Buipe Office accommodation provided

0.00

50.00 GHS RING/MOH/

KCODEC/WFP

70 Renovation and upgrading of Buipe Health center to Polyclinic

Buipe Buipe health center upgraded to a polyclinic

0.00

20.00 GHS DA/DONORS/

MOH/ RING

71 Renovation /Rehabilitation of 2no CHPS Compounds

Mankpan and Chama # of CHPS compounds renovated

0.00 50.00 GHS DA/DONORS/

MOH

72 Construction of 2 no accommodation units

Buipe, & Boakyipe # of accommodations constructed

0.00 210.00 GHS DA/DONORS/

MOH

73 Procure 4no. motorbikes for outreach services

District wide # of motorbikes procured

0.00 35.00 GHS DA/DONORS/MOH

74

Support 10 new and old health

staff to pursue various health

programmes

District wide # of health staff supported in health programmes

0.00 25.00 GHS DA/DONORS/MOH


0.00 0.00


0.00 0.00

75 Roll out a sensitization package on child care and nutrition to improve health status of children in all communities.

All area Council Capitals

Sensitization rolled out in all the eight area council capitals

0.00 40.00

GHS RING/WFP/DA/DONORS

76 Provide support for the cultivation of nutrition based crops (beans, millet, soya beans and groundnuts to improve Household nutrition.

50 RING Communities # of communities supported in nutrition base crops cultivation

0.00

80.00

DADU RING/CDU/ GHS

86

Objective: Enhance national capacity for the attainment of the health related MDGs 0.00 0.00

Strategy1: Scale up community and facility based interventions for the management of childhood and neonatal illnesses 0.00 0.00

79 Implement all the applicable basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric and new born care (EMNOC) recommendations.

District wide Reduced maternal and neonatal mortality

0.00

50.00

DDGHS DA/NHIS/Donors

80 Undertake focus antenatal care, essential nutrition action for pregnant women and PMTCT services.

District wide Antenatal care, labour new born and post natal care service provided to pregnant women

0.00

50.00

DDGHS DA/NHIS/Donors

Strategy 2: Intensify and sustain Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) 0.00 0.00

81 Support the Organization of National Immunization Day exercise.

District wide Organization of National Immunization Day exercise supported.

0.00 24.00 DDGHS DCE/DCD/CD

82 conduct EPI coverage survey District wide EPI coverage survey conducted

3.00

30.00 GHS DA


83 Operationalize the Mental Health Act

District wide Mental Health Act operationalized

0.00

11.00 DDGHS SW/Basic

Needs

84 Sensitization of staff and the communities at large on the mental health

District wide #. of staff and communities sensitized on mental health

0.00

12.00

DDGHS Global Fund/WHO/Global Alliance Of Vaccine and Immunization

7.00 727.00

87

THEMATIC AREA: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT No. Activities Location Output indicators Time Schedule Annual Budget Implementing Agencies


External (‘000)


The Aged


85 Provide financial support to poor and vulnerable aged to rear ruminants, poultry and fish farming

District wide # of poor and vulnerable aged supported financially to under ventures

0.00 25.00

SW CD/NCCE/NGOs

86 Increase the number of aged beneficiaries under LEAP

District wide # of aged beneficiaries under LEAP increased by 25%

0.00 25.00 SW CD/NCCE/NGO

s/LEAP

87 Support 20 vulnerable aged to register NHIS

Buipe # of vulnerable aged registered with NHIS 0.00 25.00

SW CD/STAR GHANA/NGOs/LEAP/NHIS

0.00 75.00


Objective: Promote effective child development in all communities, especially deprived areas

Strategy: Improve human, material and financial resources for child development, survival and protection.

88 Enforce child rights and protection laws for effective compliance.

District wide child rights and protection laws enforced and in compliance

0.00

8.00 SW CD/NCCE/NGO

s

89 Conduct Sensitization on child rights

District wide Child rights sensitization conducted

0.00

12.00 SW CD/NCCE/NGO

s

90 Construct kitchens at GSFS GSFS # of kitchens constructed 0.00 10.00 DPCU GDO

0.00 30.00

88




External (‘000)




90 Train 10 departmental staff on integrating population variables in development planning.

All departments

# of departmental staff trained on integrating population variables in development planning

0.00 5.00 DPCU All HODs


0.00 0.00

91 Promote the use of contraceptives

District wide # of people embraced the use of contraceptives

0.00 9.00

GHS MAF/GOG

92 Organize in-service trainings for staff on contraceptive updates, counseling and provision of long term family planning services

District wide

Capacity of staff built on contraceptives updates, counseling and provision of long term family services

0.00

6.00 GHS

MAF/UNPA/MO

H

93 Set up designated centers for the provision of family planning services.

District wide Designated centers set up for family planning services

0.00

6.00 GHS

MAF/UNPA/MO

H

POVERTY REDUCTION AND INCOME INEQUALITIES 0.00 0.00

Objective: Reduce income disparities among socio-economic groups and between geographical areas 0.00 0.00

Strategy: 1. Enhance income generating opportunities for the poor and vulnerable

0.00 0.00

94 Equip poor but enterprising women with skills and startup capital to do income generating activities.

District wide

Poor enterprising women equipped with skills and capital to do business(tie&die, gari, soap making)

0.00

20.00

DADU SW/CD/DONORS

95 Support poor but enterprising men with productive skills for income generation.

District wide

Poor enterprising men supported with productive skills(bee keeping, aquaculture)

0.00

20.00

DADU SW/CD/DONORS


89

THEMATIC AREA: TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE No. Activities Location Output indicators Time Schedule Annual Budget Implementing Agencies


External (‘000)


Public Safety and Security



96 Increase the number of police sub-stations

Browase/Lito/Tuluwe

# of police sub-stations opened

0.00 80.00 DCD/DCE GPS/TAs/ Military

97 Intensify police patrol on the major roads in the district

District wide Police patrol intensified on major roads in the district

4.00 DCD/DCE GP/TAs/ Military/Youth

98 Conduct capacity building workshop for the security services Buipe

# of security services Capacity of security services boosted


99 Summon all Fulani herdsmen in the district to appoint leaders with support from chiefs and security services

District wide Fulani herdsmen summoned and appointed their leaders


Gender Equity and Women Empowerment 0.00 128.00


Strategy: Develop entrepreneurial and technical skills of women and girls 0.00

100 Promote girl- child education by giving special scholarships to girls at all levels of education

District wide # of girls given scholarships at various levels of education

0.00 60.00 GDO CAMFED/DA

101 Encourage equality in existing staff development plans and training programmes

District wide

Equity in existing staff development plans and training programmes promoted

0.00

60.00 GDO CAMFED/DA



102 Conduct quarterly data gathering and analysis to feed into gender decision making processes.

District Departments

Quarterly data gathered and feed into gender decision making processes

0.00 8.00

DPCU GDO/Other Departments

Sub-total 0.00 128.00

90





External (‘000)



Strategy: Eliminate revenue collection leakages.

1. Conduct refresher training of revenue collectors

Buipe # of revenue collectors trained

6.00 0.00 DFU BU/DPCU

2. Sensitise the public on payment of local taxes.

District wide The public sensitized on payment taxes

2.50 0.00 BU DFU/ISD/NCCE/

3. Expand coverage of tax to other areas with help of TAs to improve earnings.

District wide Coverage of tax collection areas expanded

1.50 0.00 BU DFU/NCCE/DPCU

4. Step up the activities of revenue taskforce.

District wide Activities of revenue taskforce stepped out


5. Monitor PPP activities in tax collection. District wide PPP activities in tax collection monitored



THEMATIC AREA: ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS OF GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR;



External (‘000)




Strategy 1: Facilitate the provision of training and business development services Strategy 2: Provide opportunities for MSMEs to participate in all Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and local content arrangements

6. Link prospective local entrepreneurs to GIPC for PPP support.

District wide # of local entrepreneurs linked GIPC for PPP support

4.00 0.00 BAC DPCU/CU/ FIs

7. Provide 3 grinding mills for food processing at the community level & income generation.

Yapei yipala,razak kura, Adapei

# of grinding mills provided 0.00 26.00

BAC DPCU/CU/GDU

8. Continue to build entrepreneurial skills Kpacheleve,s Entrepreneurial skills 4.00 8.00 BAC PBC/DPCU/farmers

91



External (‘000)


to facilitate business startups. awaba, boosted

9. Continue to promote Buipe as an industrial hub.

Buipe Peace and calmness restored in Buipe

4.00 0.00 DCE DCD/BAC/DPCU

OBJECTIVE 2: Diversify and expand the tourism industry for economic development 0 0

Strategies: 1 Market Ghana as a competitive tourist destination 0 0

10. Implement the tourism development plan.

Buipe Tourism development plan implemented

12.00 4.00 BAC DPCU/DCE

Sub-total 24.00 38.00




External (‘000)





11. Conduct training for 30 interested women farmers in market gardening

Buipe,kasadjankura, yirkpani, bridge east& west, Kulfo

# of interested women farmers undergone training

0.00 30.00 DADU RING/DABU

farms/NRGP/Sakfos farms

12. Support 40 poor hhs in ring communities in soap making

Ntereso, yapei yipala, Adapei, Kulfo

# of poor hhs in RING communities supported 0.00 28.00

BAC/DADU

DA/RING/NRGP/WAAF

13.

Support 50 poor HHs in 10 communities in small ruminants’ production to improve incomes.

Larigbani, nyangwuripe, zonkura, sankunpe,sawaba,bridge west, razak kura, Bilsikura, Jukuku

# of poor HHs in 10 communities supported

0.00 45.00


Sub-total 103.00

92



External (‘000)



Objective: Enhance natural resources management through community participation


14. Conduct sensitization & stakeholder analysis of natural resources at the local level.

Buipe sensitization & stakeholder analysis of natural resources at the local level conducted

0.00 10 FC DA/KCODEC/

DADU/EPA/ NADMO

15. Set up community resource management committees.

District wide community resource management committees set up 0.00 2.50

DA NRGP/AGRA/ADRA/KCODEC

16. Promote community tree planting and management in 5 communities.

Buipe,yapei, tuluwe kusawgu, mpaha,

# of communities embraced tree planting and mgt

0.00 40.00 DA GSOP/DPCU/

GEMP

17. Promote economic tree planting to encourage tree planting among farm HHs.

Kabilpe,wambong, ntereso, yipala, fufulso, sankpagla

A #farm HHs into economic tree planting 0.00 15.00

DA GSOP/DPCU/GEMP


Objective: Enhance capacity to adapt to climate change impacts 0.00

Strategy: Increase resilience to climate change impacts through early warning systems 0.00

18. Organize a CC/DDR sensitization workshop for HODs

Buipe HODs sensitized on CC/DRR

0.00 35.00 DPCU ICEIR/ NADMO

19. Organize climate change awareness campaign for the public on its impacts & adaptation measures.

District wide Public awareness created on climate change and its impact & adaptation

0.00

45.00 DPCU NADMO/DoA/GHS

20. Encourage farmers to adapt to new CC resilient crop varieties.

District wide # of farmer adopt new CC resilient crop varieties

0.00

10.00 DADU NADMO/DA

21. Produce climate change resilient building designs for public structures

District wide climate change resilient building designs for public structures produced

0.00

4.00 DPO ICEIR/AAP/ NADMO

22. Conduct district wide sensitization on early warning systems

District wide Sensitization on early warning system conducted

0.00

5.00

23. Identify and designate safe havens for evacuations.

Buipe & Yapei Safe havens identified and designated for evacuation

0.00

2.00


93




External (‘000)





24. Repair 15 BHs in low coverage communities

Fufulso # of BHs repaired in low coverage communities

0.00 40.00 DWST NORST/EHU/RI

NG/DWD

25. Construct 6 dugouts in 6 communities Mamadupe,Alipe,boachipe,winamda,walakura,gbriri

# of dugouts constructed in # of communities

0.00 1,000 DWD DPCU/EHU/RIN

G/GSOP

26. Construct Small Town systems in 2 large communities.

Tuluwe & Mankpan, Adapei

Small town water system constructed

0.00 6,000 DWST CWSA/DPCU/

DWD

27. Construct storm drains to control run-off and flood waters.

Buipe,yapei,fufulso,sankpagla,tuluwe,mpaha

0.00 3,000 DWD EHU/DPCU/NADMO

Objective: Accelerate the provision of improved environmental sanitation facilities 0.00 0.00

Strategy 1: Promote the construction and use of modern household and institutional toilet facilities 0.00 0.00

28. Encourage hhs to visit the sanitation markets to select their sanitation options.

District wide Sanitation market receiving patronage

0.00 1.00

EHU SNV/KCODEC/APDO/RING

Strategy: Expand disability-friendly sanitation facilities

0.00 0.00

0.00

29. Construct 5 Disability friendly institutional latrines.

District wide # of disability friendly latrines constructed

0.00

500.00 DWD CD/DPCU/EHO

30. Construct access ramps to 10 institutional toilets for the disabled.

District wide Access ramps to 10 institutional disabled toilets constructed

0.00 50.00 DWD DPCU/PWD/SN

V/ADPO

31. Enforce sanitation bye-laws to encourage compliance.

Buipe Sanitation by-laws enforced

0.00 3.00 EHU DPCU/DCD/DC

E

Strategy: Scale up the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) for the promotion of household sanitation

0.00 0.00

32. Trigger 25 RING communities on CLTS District wide # of RING communities triggered

0.00 30.00 EHO CD/AMs/DPCU

94



External (‘000)


33. Construct simple hh latrines in 25 RING Communities

Old Buipe, Boachipe, gbongbonto, razak kura,

# of hh latrines constructed in 25 RING communities

0.00 50.00 EHU SNV/DPCU/KC

ODEC/ TAs/RING


District wide Routine monitoring conducted

0.00 10.00 EHU DPCU/TAs/ RING

Sub-total 0.00 10,684



External (‘000)


ENERGY



35. String HT lines to 2 area council capitals

Tuluwe & mpaha # of HT lines string to tuluwe & mpaha

0.00 500.00 DCE DPCU/VRA/MO

E


Mahamudupe, Ntereso, yapei yipala, Yapei, zonkura, sankunpe, Kpalangase, Tailor kura (Gbovukpo), Yala, Adapei, Kulfo

Electricity extended to # of communities

0.00 1600.00 DCE DPCU/VRA/MOE

37. Provide solar lighting to 10 communities.

Seidupe Solar light supplied to a # of communities

0.00 60.00 DCE DPCU/Ministry

of Energy/MOE

ROADS & TRANSPORTATION 0.0 2160

Objective: Establish Ghana as a transportation hub for the West African sub-region

Strategy: Improve and develop the physical infrastructure across all modes for transport

38. Conduct spot improvement on Larigbani,lito-buipe, Kusawgu - Tuluwe roads

Kusawgu-Tuluwe roads spots improved

0.00 2.00 DWD DPCU/DFR

39. Open new access roads: Tuluwe –

Kikale No. 4, Issahakukura Junction-

District wide Access roads opened

0.00 566.00 DWD DPCU/DFRs

95



External (‘000)


Sikave, Mijemipe-Congo, Mpaha – Jerusalem, Butei-Mpotoso, Mankpan-Issape-Alihajipe-Kpetsilebe

40. Procure outboard motors to improve access to cut-off communities.

Chariso, Dokupe, Nigeria Camp

# of outboard motors procured

0.00

35.00 DPCU RING

Sub-total 0.00 603.00




External (‘000)


EDUCATION



41. Construct 10no. 3unit & 6unit classroom blocks & ancillary facilities

Yirkpani,gbongbonto, Avegome, Yala

# 0f 3unit classroom & ancillary facilities constructed

5,000 DPCU GES /JICA/

TAs/ Donors

42. Construct 6 unit staff accommodation for tech/vocational school.

Nyangwuripe zonkura, kabilpe,lito,lingbinkura

# unit staff accommodation constructed

0.00 5,00 DPCU GES/DONORS/

TAs

Objective 2: Improve management of education service delivery 0.00 0.00


43. Recruit & orient circuit supervisors Buipe CSs recruited & oriented

0.00 1.00 GES PAGE/DEOC/D

PCU/GNAT

44. Procure 4 motorbikes to boost the movement of CSs.

Buipe # of motorbikes given to CSs

0.00 12.00 GES PAGE/DEOC/D

PCU/PTA



45. Make teachers stay in the community to teach.

Amajorovi, Yala, Digma, Chama

Teachers made to stay & teachers

0.00 10.00 GES PTA/TAs/SMCs

DEOC/NSS/AM

96



External (‘000)


s

46. Give sponsorship support to 30 teacher trainees & bond them to return & teach.

District wide # of teachers sponsored & bonded

0.00 60.00 GES DA/TAs/GPEG

47. Reallocate teachers to low staffed schools from high concentrated areas.

Kulfo, Lampor, Tuluwe, Digma, Mankpan, Gbirigi, Chama, Butie

# of teachers transferred to low staff schools

0.00 2.50 GES SMCs/PTA/NSS

/DA


Lobby for more TLMs from the GES. 0.00 12.00 GES GPEG/DA/DLA

48. Construct a District library. Buipe District library constructed

0.00

250.00 GES DA/JICA/TAs/PTAs/SMCs


Area council capitals Quarterly quiz competition organized

0.00

16.00 GES DA/DEOC/SMCs/PTAs/NSS/DLA

Sub-total 5,368.5




External (‘000)





50. Construct & equip 2 CHPS compound (basic equipment & motorbikes)

Kpacheleve, kabilpe, lingbinkura, Kpalangase, Amajorovi,

Jukuku, Digma, Adapei, Chokosipe

# of equipped CHPS compounds constructed

0.00

4,000 GHS DA/MOH

51. Provide sponsorship support to 5 staff trainees

District wide # of staff trainees given sponsorship

0.00

50.00 GHS RING/MOH/

KCODEC/WFP

52. Procure 3 motorbikes for the Health Directorate to boost extension service delivery.

Three sub-districts

0.00 20.00

GHS DA/DONORS/MOH/ RING

97



External (‘000)



0.00 0.00


0.00 0.00

53. Conduct sensitization on child care and nutrition in all RING communities.

RING communities Sensitization conducted

0.00

40.00 GHS RING/WFP/DA

/DONORS

54. Support the cultivation of nutrition based local crops (beans, millet, soya beans and groundnuts) in Communities.

RING communities Cultivation of nutritious crops supported

0.00

80.00 DADU RING/CDU/

GHS

55. Introduce fingerlings in 2 dugouts to provide source of fish protein and boost incomes.

Communities with dugouts

Fingerlings introduced to # of dugouts

0.00

20.00 DADU RING/MFAC/

GHS

Objective: Enhance national capacity for the attainment of the health related MDGs

0.00

0.00


0.00 0.00

56. Intensify exclusive breast feeding educational campaign.

District wide Exclusive breast feeding campaign intensified

0.00

50.00 DDGHS DA/NHIS/Donor

s

57. Operationalise all CHPS facilities

District wide # of CHPS facilities in operation

0.00

30.00 DDGHS DA/NHIS/Donor

s

Strategy 2: Intensify and sustain Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)

0.00

0.00


Buipe NID exercised organization supported

0.00

24.00 DDGHS DCE/DCD/CD


Objective: Improve quality of health services delivery including mental health services 0.00 0.00

Strategy: Implement the Mental Health Act, finalize and implement the mental health strategy 0.00 0.00

59. Conduct refresher orientation on the Mental Health Act for HODs.

Buipe HODs orient on MHA

0.00

11.00 DDGHS SW/Basic

Needs

60. Provide some basic support package District wide Mental health 0.00 10.00

98



External (‘000)


for the mental health patience. patience supported

Sub-total 0.00 4,335




External (‘000)


THE AGED



61. Identify and support 15 poor aged persons to do small ruminant production.

District wide # of poor aged persons supported

25.00

SW CD/DA/NGOs

62. Facilitate the Registration of the poor old in NHIS

Buipe # of poor old registered with NHIS

30.00 DDGHS CD/NCCE/NG

Os/SW/NHIS

63. Conduct education on the nutritious healthy foods for the aged.

District wide Aged educated on nutritional health food

7.00

CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION 0.00

Objective: Promote effective child development in all communities, especially deprived areas 0.00

Strategy: Improve human, material and financial resources for child development, survival and protection. 0.00

64. Conduct awareness sensitization on the rights of children in the District.

District wide Child rights awareness creation conducted

12.00 SW UNICEF/ CD/NCCE/RING

65. Monitor progress of awareness

District wide Progress of awareness monitored

8.00 SW CHRAJ/CD/NCCE/NGOs

Sub-total 82.00

99




External (‘000)




66. Conduct orientation on integrating population variables into development planning.

Buipe Population variables integrated developmental plg

5.00 DPCU All HODs


67. Expand centers to provide reproductive health and family planning services

Area council capitals Reproductive health & family planning centers expanded

25.00 DDGHS Public Health/

CD/ GHS

POVERTY REDUCTION AND INCOME INEQUALITIES 0.00

Objective: Reduce income disparities among socio-economic groups and between geographical areas 0.00

Strategy: 1. Enhance income generating opportunities for the poor and vulnerable 0.00

68. Identify five female & five male entrepreneurs and link them to GIPC to build their capacity for business.

District wide # of both males & females linked to GIPC

20.00 DADU SW/CD/

DONORS

Sub-total 45.00




External (‘000)


PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY



69. Institute surprise patrols on some major roads of the district

Tuluwe-kusawgu, lito-buipe, mpaha-domeabra

Surprise patrols on some major roads instituted

8.00 DCD/DC

E GPS/TAs/ Military

70. Cooperate with TAs to take inventory of alien fulani herdsmen in the District.

District wide Inventory Fulani herdsmen taken

4.00 DCD/DC

E GP/TAs/ Military/Youth

GENDER EQUITY AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT 0.00

Objective: Promote women’s access to economic opportunity and resources, including property 0.00 0.00

100



External (‘000)


Strategy: Develop entrepreneurial and technical skills of women and girls 0.00 0.00

71. Empower women through business skill training to set up and manage their businesses.

Buipe Women empowered with skills in business mgt

0.00

7.50 BAC GDO/CD/DCE

72. Sponsor girls/women for tertiary education.

District wide # of Girls/women sponsored to tertiary

0.00

60.00 GDO CAMFED/DA



73. Conduct quarterly data gathering and analysis for informed decision making.

District wide Data gathered and analyzed

0.00 8.00 DPCU GDO/HODDs

Sub-total 0.0 87.50

101





External (‘000)



Strategy: Eliminate revenue collection leakages.

1. Conduct refresher training for revenue staff. Buipe # of revenue staff trained

1.00 4.00 DFO DBO/DCD

Strategy: Eliminate revenue collection leakages. 0 0

2. Conduct pays your tax campaign. District wide # of campaigns conducted

2.00 1.50 DFO BU/DPCU

3. Continue to support revenue taskforce to improve collection

District wide % improvement in revenue.


4. Monitor tax collection including the activities of PPP partners.

District wide # of monitoring sessions conducted

3.00 0.00 DFO DCD/ DBO/FA

Sub-total 12.00 15.50




External (‘000)





5. Provide 2 grinding mills for food processing & income generation.

Seidupe # of grinding mills

provided. 0.00 25.00

BAC DPCU/CU/GDU/RING

6. Monitor the activities of start up businesses to build lessons for re-strategizing

Kasadjankura # of monitoring

activities held. 0.00 4.00

BAC PBC/DPCU/farmers

102

7. Regularly manage the industrial and business promotion website.

Buipe # of websites up

dates carried out.

2.00 0.00 DCE DCD/BAC/DPCU

OBJECTIVE 2: Diversify and expand the tourism industry for economic development 0 0

Strategies: 1 Market Ghana as a competitive tourist destination 0 0

8. Conduct effective Marketing of tourist attractions of Central Gonja District.

Buipe Amount of publicity

on tourist attractions. 0.00 4.00 BAC DPCU/DCE





External (‘000)





9. Conduct training for 20 interested women farmers in market gardening

Ntereso, Larigbani, Buipe, Yapei

# of women trained in mkt gardening.

0.00 30.00 DADU RING/ DADU

farms/NRGP

10. Support 30 ring beneficiaries to do production guinea fowl

Digma, Butei Bridge East &West, Lito,

# of RING beneficiaries in G. fowl rearing.

0.00 28.00 BAC/DADU

DA/RING/NRGP/WAAF

11. Support 50 poor HHs in 10 communities in small ruminants’ production to improve incomes.

Lito, Digma, Yala, Adapei, Chama

0.00 25.00

DOA DPCU/RING

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 0 0

Objective: Enhance natural resources management through community participation 0 0


0 0

12. Control the spread of wild fire with support of chiefs.

District wide % reduction in wild fire. 0.00 10.00

GNFS DA/KCODEC/ DADU/EPA/ NADMO/ TAs

13. Hold quarterly stakeholder meetings on natural resources.

Buipe # of meetings held.

0.00 5.00 DA AGRA/ADRA/Advan

ce/KCODEC/ GNFS

103




External (‘000)





20. Repair 8 broken down BHs in low coverage communities

District wide # of BHs repaired

0.50 40.00 DWST EHU/RING/DWD

21. Construct 5 dugouts in 5 communities Bonyase, zowu, yirkpani ,gbongbonto, Amajorovi, Avegome

# of Dugouts constructed.

1.00 1,000.00 DWD DPCU/EHU/RING/GSOP

22. Construct Small Town system to ease Dogope, # of Small Town 4.00 6,000.00 DWST CWSA/DPCU/DW

14. Promote community tree planting and management in 10 communities.

Amajorovi, Seidupe

# hectares of community plantations

0.00 40.00 DA GSOP/DPCU/GE

MP


Objective: Enhance capacity to adapt to climate change impacts


15. Formulate CC/DRR strategic action plan to reduce livelihood loses due to CC.

Buipe CC/DRR strategic plan done.

4.00 0.00 DPCU ICEIR/ NADMO

16. Organize radio programmes on CC/DRR awareness campaign for the public on its impacts & adaptation measures.

Buipe # of radio programmes on CC/DRR done.

3.5 0.00 DPCU NADMO/DOA/GHS

17. Spread CC resilient crop varieties to farmers. District wide # of CC resilient crop varieties spread.

2.00 8.00 DOA NADMO/NGOs

18. Produce and disseminate information on early warning system to the public.

District wide # of leaflets disseminated on early warning systems.

2.00 7.00 DPO ICEIR/AAP/ NADMO

19. Conduct yearly education on flooding and its effects.

District wide Yearly education on flooding held.

1.00 6.00 NADMO ISD/DOA

12.50 21.00

104

water shortage. Systems constructed.

D

23. Construct drains to control run-off and flood waters.

Mahamudupe ,fufulso, yapei

Kms of drains constructed.

5.00 3,000.00 DWD EHU/DPCU/NADM

O

Objective: Accelerate the provision of improved environmental sanitation facilities 0 0

Strategy: Scale up the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) for the promotion of household sanitation 0 0

24. Trigger 25 communities on CLTS District wide # of communities triggered.

0.00 8.00

25. Facilitate the Construction of simple HH latrines 25 RING Communities

Ntereso ,Yapei Yipala, Nyangwuripe, Zonkura, Kabilpe, Sawaba

# of HH latrines constructed.

2.00 20.00 EHO SNV/DPCU/KCODEC/ TAs/RING


District wide # of Monitoring trips held per community.

0.00 10.00 EHU DPCU/TAs/ RING

Sub-total

12.50 10,078.00



1st 2nd 3r

d 4th

Local (‘000)

External (‘000)


ENERGY



27. String HT lines to 2 area council capitals Tuluwe& mpaha Length of HT cables stringed.



Larigbani, Alipe, Kabilpe, Nyangwuripe, Old Buipe, Lingbinkura, Bilsikura, Chokosipe,

# of communities connected. 0.00 1,600.00

DCE DPCU/VRA/MOE

29. Provide solar lighting to 10 communities. Kasadjankura,Boachipe

# of communities supplied with solar.

4.00 600.00 DCE DCD/DPCU/MO

E

ROADS & TRANSPORTATION 0.00 0

Objective: Establish Ghana as a transportation hub for the West African sub-region 0 0 0.00

Strategy: Improve and develop the physical infrastructure across all modes for transport 0 0

105


1st 2nd 3r

d 4th

Local (‘000)

External (‘000)


30. Conduct spot improvement on: 1. Kusawgu - Tuluwe roads, 2. Butei-Mpotoso, 3. Mankpan-Issape-Alihajipe-Kpetsilebe, 3. Kpabuso-Jebleso, 4. Chama – Kojope (No.6), 5. Sheri Junction-Nanape

District wide Kms of roads improved.

4.00 2,000.00

DWD DCD/DFR/DCE

31. Open new access roads: 1. Tuluwe – Akunape, 2. Gbongbonto Junction-Binyalepe, 3. Mijemipe-Kodome 4. Tuluwe-Agege, 5. Sheri-Kaklito No. 5 6. Kuabiriso-Mikordape, 7. Kplangase-Seidupe

District wide Kms of new roads opened.

2.00 1,000.00

DWD DFR/DCD/DCE

32. Procure outboard motors to improve access to cut-off communities.

Mataheko, Bamako, Jerusalem, Kafuwuripe,

No. of outboard motors procured. 0.00 300.00 DPCU RING

Sub-total 10.00 5,505.00




External (‘000)


EDUCATION



33. Construct 10no. 3unit& 5no. 6unit classroom blocks & ancillary facilities

Malanakura,razak kura, Dogope,winamda,walakura,gbriri

# of classroom blocks constructed.

4.00 5,000 DPCU GES /JICA/ TAs/ Donors

34. Construct 6 unit staff accommodation for tech/vocational school.

Buipe, Jukuku, Digma # of units of staff accommodation

5.00 8,500 DPCU GES/DONORS/T

As

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External (‘000)


constructed.

Objective 2: Improve management of education service delivery 0 0

Strategy: Ensure efficient development, deployment and supervision of teachers 0 0

35. Re-orient circuit supervisors to improve performance

Buipe # of CSs reoriented.

1.00 2.00 GES PAGE/DEOC/DP

CU/GNAT

36. Procure 4 motorbikes to boost the movement of CSs.

Buipe # of motorbikes provided.

0.00 20.00 GES PAGE/DEOC/DP

CU/PTA

Objective3: Improve quality of teaching and learning 0 0

Strategy: Deploy adequately qualified teachers and improve teachers’ time-on-task 0 0

37. Create conditions for teachers to stay in the community to improve contact hours.

Tuluwe,butie,lito,lampor,mpaha,jukuku,yala,digma

# of teachers staying in community.

2.00 10.00 GES PTA/TAs/SMCs

DEOC/AMs

38. Give sponsorship support to 30 teacher trainees & bond them to return & teach.

Buipe # of teacher trainees sponsored.

0.00 60.00 GES DA/TAs/GPEG

39. Reallocate teachers to low staffed schools from high concentrated areas.

Ntereso, kplangase,nigeria camp,mankpan

# of teachers redistributed.

0.00 2.50 GES SMCs/PTA/NSS/DA

40. Strategy 3: Ensure adequate supply of teaching and learning materials 0 0

41. Lobby for more TLMs from the GES. Buipe 2.00 12.00 GES GPEG/DA/DLA

42. Construct a District library. Buipe Library facility completed.

2.00

250.00 GES DA/JICA/TAs/PTAs/SMCs


Area council capitals # of quiz competitions organized.

0.00

16 GES DA/DEOC/SMCs/PTAs/NSS/

Sub-total 16.00 13,872.5

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External (‘000)




Strategy 1: Strengthen the district and sub-district health systems as the bed-rock of the national primary health care strategy

44. Construct & equip 2 CHPS compound (basic equipment & motorbikes)

Mahamudupe, fufulso, ankunpe, gbongbonto,razak kura, Avegome, Dogope

# of CHPS compounds constructed.

2.00 1,700.0

0

GHS DA/MOH

45. Provide sponsorship support package to 10 bonded staff trainees for the District.

Buipe # of sponsorships provided.

4.00 45.00 GHS RING/MOH/

KCODEC/WFP


0 0


0 0

46. Conduct sensitization on child care and nutrition in all RING communities.

Ring communities # of communities sensitized.

0.00 40.00 GHS RING/WFP/DA/

DONORS

47. Support the cultivation of nutrition based local crops (beans, millet, soya beans and groundnuts) in Communities.

RING communities # of farmers supported in nutrition crops.

2.00 80.00 DADU RING/CDU/

GHS

Objective: Enhance national capacity for the attainment of the health related MDGs 0 0


0 0

48. Intensify exclusive breast feeding educational campaign.

District wide % improvement in exclusive BF.

2.00 50.00 DDGHS DA/NHIS/Donors

49. Operationalise all CHPS facilities

District wide # of CHPS Operationalised.

2.00 30.00 DDGHS DA/NHIS/Donors

Strategy 2: Intensify and sustain Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) 0 0


Buipe # of NID supported. 3.00 24.00

DDGHS DCE/DCD/CD

Mental Health 0 0

Objective: Improve quality of health services delivery including mental health services 0 0

Strategy: Implement the Mental Health Act, finalize and implement the mental health strategy 0 0

51. Provide support package for identified mental patients for income generation.

Buipe # of income generating activities provided. 0.00 12.00

DDGHS SW/Basic Needs

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External (‘000)


52. Support the regular supply of drugs for the mental health patients.

Buipe Frequency of drug procurement.

2.00 5.00 DDGHS DA/BASIC NEEDS

Sub-total 18.00 2,006.0




External (‘000)


THE AGED



53. Identify and support 20 poor aged persons to do small ruminant/g.fowl production.

District wide # of poor aged in ruminant production. 2.00 25.00

SW CD/DA/NGOs

54. Facilitate the Registration of the poor old in NHIS

Buipe # of poor old registered in NHIS

0.00 30.00 SW CD/NCCE/NG

Os/NHIS/MP

55. Conduct education on the nutritious healthy foods for the aged.

District wide % coverage of education on aged diet.

0.00 7.00 GHSNO CDO/DOA

CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION 0 0

Objective: Promote effective child development in all communities, especially deprived areas 0 0

Strategy: Improve human, material and financial resources for child development, survival and protection. 0 0

56. Conduct awareness sensitization on the rights of children in the District.

District wide # of awareness sensitizations held.

2.00 12.00 SW UNICEF/ CD/NCCE

57. Monitor progress of awareness

District wide Monitoring conducted.

2.00 8.00 SW

CHRAJ/CD/NCCE/NGOs


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External (‘000)




58. Hold quarterly population issues review meetings & factor outcomes in development.

Buipe # of quarterly population meetings held.

0.00 2.00 DPCU All HODs

59. Conduct training on computer models of integrating population variables into development planning.

Buipe Training on computer models held.

1.00 4.50 DPO DCD/HODs


0 0

60. Encourage the provision of reproductive health and family planning services centres.

Sub-districts # of service centers opened.

0.00 25.00 DDGHS Public Health/

CD/ GHS

POVERTY REDUCTION AND INCOME INEQUALITIES 0 0

Objective: Reduce income disparities among socio-economic groups and between geographical areas 0 0

Strategy: 1. Enhance income generating opportunities for the poor and vulnerable 0 0

61. Create a linkage for 5 female & 5 male entrepreneurs to GIPC for business promotion and expansion.

Buipe # of entrepreneurs linked to GIPC. 1.80 20.00

DADU SW/CD/ DONORS


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External (‘000)


PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY



62. Patrol some major roads of the district regularly.

Lito-Buipe, Mpaha-Domeabra, Kusawgu-Tuluwe

# of patrols held # of roads patrolled.

2.00 8.00 DCD/DC

E GPS/TAs/ Military

63. Do quarterly update inventory on alien fulani herdsmen in the District with support of TAs.

District wide # of updates on fulani herdsmen.

4.00 4.00 DCD/DC

E GP/TAs/ DFO /Military/Youth

GENDER EQUITY AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT 0 0

Objective: Promote women’s access to economic opportunity and resources, including property 0 0

Strategy: Develop entrepreneurial and technical skills of women and girls 0 0

64. Continually Empower women through business skill training to set up and manage their businesses.

Buipe # of women empowerment trainings held.

1.50

7.50 BAC GDO/CD/DCE

65. Sponsor girls/women for tertiary education. District wide # of girls sponsored

1.50

60.00 GDO CAMFED/DA

Objective: Promote the effective use of data for decision making and development communication 0 0

Strategies: Mainstream statistics in the planning process. 0 0

66. Conduct quarterly data gathering and analysis for informed decision making.

District wide Quarterly data gathering & analysis done.

3.00 8.00 DPCU GDO/HODDs

Sub-total 12.00 87.50

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5.5 DISTRICT PLAN LINKED TO THE DISTRICT COMPOSITE

ANNUAL BUDGET

We wish to acknowledge that the indicative budgets as captured in the Annual Action plans have

been translated into detail costing under the MTEF composite budget. This has been done in order

to legally allocated development resources towards the implementation of the plan on annual

basis. The details of the costing therefore can be fetched in the composite budget in the case of

2014 annual action plan. The subsequent annual action plans will find expression in the MTEF

composite budget in line with current prices and needs year by year.

5.6 IMPLEMENTATION OF ANNUAL ACTION PLAN

The Annual Action Plans from 2014 to 2017 are to be implemented by the decentralized departments and

other supporting departments of the District together with the partner agencies both within and external.

The Local NGOs including, CSOs and FBOs will all be roped in to ensure a smooth and effective

implementation of interventions. The action plans which covers several basic areas including education,

health, water and sanitation and agriculture as well as cross cutting areas like gender, environment,

HIV/AIDs, children and the aged, population and tourism have been scheduled with times lines to deliver

the interventions. The success or otherwise of the implementation within the stipulated time frame is

however hinged on the funding or financial resource availability.

The plan has been supported pictorially through the spatial framework that has been attached. This makes

it possible to understand at a glance the ground spread of the interventions proposed to transform the

lives of the people.

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6.0 CHAPTER 6: MONITORING AND EVALUATION ARRANGEMENTS

This section indicates how the plan will be monitored and results documented for dissemination and to feed into further planning. The details required have been outlined step by step next.

6.1 Identification and analysis of stakeholders

A good number of stakeholders are necessary when the implementation and monitoring of the MTDP is

concerned. These stakeholders identified in the table below have various interests far as their work is

concerned. Their various interests are to allow them take stock of their own performance or the

performance of other. This will enable them in one way or the other to determine progress or otherwise so

as to feed into re-strategizing in order to make positive improvements in the efforts at effecting

development of the district and for that matter feeding into the regional and national development. The

various stakeholders and their specific interest based on their area of operations are captured in the table

below.

No. Stakeholder Interest in development/poverty reduction

1. District Chief Executive To ensure all parts of the District is developed.

2. DCD To ascertain if the efforts made is yielding results.

3. Assembly members To see the lives of their electoral areas is improving.

4. Member of parliament To ascertain if the policies are laws made are improving lives in the constituency.

5. Decentralized & Non-decentralized Departments/Agencies

To ensure their interventions is benefiting the people.

6. Financial Institutions To affect business positively and make their profits.

7. Development partners To ensure interventions yield sustainable solutions to the poor.

8. Urban/Area Councils & Unit committees

Protect the development interest and obtain fair share of interventions.

9. Local community Demand local development allocation

10. Regional Coordination Council Monitor progress of District development and level of harmony with regional & national aspirations

11. BAC To determine how businesses are developed and employment created.

12. DOA To determine output levels, productivity, level of technology transfer & assessment of food security.

13. NGOs/CBOs/CSOs/Associations To assess the impact of interventions and improvement of lives especially the vulnerable, demand accountability, transparency & advocacy.

14. Media To project vividly local development and events to the world at large so as to effect change.

15. SMC/PTAs To ensure pupils are performing and standards are rising.

16. Ghana Health Service To ensure child & maternal Health as well as public health and safety for improved productivity.

17. NHIS To ascertain coverage of services & projection of yearly coverage.

18. Community Development /Social Welfare

To measure the progress of communities in terms of

19. Forestry Services To protect the environment and promote sustainability.

20. DPCU secretariat To coordinate progress of interventions and gather data for review, reporting and replanning.

21. VRA To assess power supply coverage & demand projections.

22. Ghana Statistical Service To solicit Support in data collection

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6.2 ASSESSING NEEDS AND CREATING THE NECESSARY

CONDITIONS AND CAPACITIES

To be able to carry out effective monitoring of progress of the implementation of the MTDP, basic

requirements of transport, fuel and some skill level of a few staff involved in the monitoring activities is

necessary. This simple matrix below assesses the current situation of the District and what can be done to

arrest the situation in the interim.

M & E NEEDS CAPACITY REQUIRED CURRENT SITUATION

MINIMUM GAP TO BE FILLED

Human resources Minimum of 5 staff Very good M & E training will be needed.

Minimum Skills Basic knowledge in data gathering.

Fair Training on data gathering and report writing.

Transport At least 1 pickup & 2 motorbikes

Very bad At least 2 motorbikes.

ICT Laptop & desktop Very good Purchase of anti-virus and regular servicing.

Financial Resource Fuel & field Allowance for staff

Poor Quarterly supply of fuel & field allowance.

In situations of resources constraints, an effort geared towards solving these few capacity requirements will

help produce concrete results.

6.3 MONITORING INDICATORS

To be able to track progress of interventions as the plan is implemented, some key indicators are used. A

few of these are for the purpose of evidence have been selected and included in this document. The full

indicators which have been adopted from the NDPC core indicators and re-examined and expanded at

the RPCU DPCU interface are attached as appendix to this plan. Tabulated below are some selected few

of the indicators.

NO INDICATOR TYPE

AGRICULTURE

1. Percentage (%) Increase in yield of selected crops, livestock and Fish: Out put

2. # of Communities Per AEA Out put

3. # of Planned Programs that are Gender Sensitive Out put

4. # of Farmer Groups Out put

5. # of Functional Farmer Groups Out put

6. # of Female Group Members Out put

7. # of Male Group Members Out put

8. # of Groups Linked to Credit Facilities Out put

9. # of Agricultural Mechanization Centers Out put

10. # of Hectares Irrigated Out put

HEALTH

11. HIV/AIDS Prevalence rate (% of adult population, 15-49years. HIV positive) Out come

12. Maternal Mortality Ratio (No. of Deaths due to pregnancy and child Birth per 100,000 Live Births

Out put

13. Under –five Mortality Rate (No. of deaths occurring between birth and exact age five per 1000 live births)

Impact

14. Malaria case fatality in children under five years per 10,000 population Impact

15. Percentage of Rural population with sustainable access to safe water sources Out put

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NO INDICATOR TYPE

16. % of population with access to improved sanitation (flush toilets, KVIP, Household latrine)

Out put

17. Doctor/Patient Ratio Outcome

18. Nurse/Patient Ratio Outcome

19. No. of neonatal Deaths Impact

20. No. of Registered Persons under DMHIS (NHIS) Outcome

EDUCATION

21. Gross Enrolment Rate: KG, Primary, JHS, SHS/TECH. Output

22. Gender Parity Index: KG, Primary, JHS, SHS/TECH. Input

23. Teacher Pupil Ratio (Trained): KG, Primary, JHS, SHS/TECH. Input

24. Teacher Pupil Ratio (Untrained): KG, Primary, JHS, SHS/TECH. Input

25. Trained/Untrained Teacher Ratio: KG, Primary, JHS, SHS/TECH. Input

26. Dropout Rate: Primary-:Boys, Girls JHS: Boys, Girls Output

27. Increase in School Blocks Constructed Output

28. % Increase in Teachers Accommodation Out put

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6.4 MONITORING AND EVALUATION MATRIX

GOAL:

PERFORMANCE QUESTIONS VERIFIABLE INDICATORS MEANS OF VERIFICATION ASSUMPTIONS

PURPOSE

OUTPUTS

Output 1: Mid-term Evaluation conducted Mid-term evaluations conducted. Mid-tern Evaluation report

Output 2: Terminal Evaluation carried out Terminal Evaluation conducted. Terminal evaluation report

Output 3: Specific Evaluations and studies undertaken

No. of specific evaluations & studies undertaken. Study report

Output 4: Participatory M&E conducted No. of participatory M & E conducted. M & E reports

ACTIVITIES

Organize Quarterly field monitoring visits No. of quarterly field monitoring visits carried out

Field monitoring report

Organize Quarterly District review meetings No. of quarterly District review meetings held Quarter review invitation letters.

Prepare quarterly monitoring reports No. of quarterly monitoring reports prepared. Quarterly District review reports.

Collect data Frequency of data collection. District data base.

Prepare District APR No. of APRs prepared. Copies of APRs

Hold APR review workshop No. of APR workshops carried out. APR workshop report

Submit Final APR to RPCU and NDPC Period of submission of APR Letter of transmittals.

Disseminate District APR No. dissemination Dissemination reports of APRs

Hold M&E Training Workshop M & E training workshop conducted M & E training Reports

Maintain office Equipments Frequency of equipment maintenance. Maintenance schedule & payment receipts

Procure & maintain 2 monitoring motorbikes No. of motorbikes procured. Maintenance interval.

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6.5 M&E CALENDAR (WORK PLAN)

This component of the M & E plan assigned through a participatory processes roles and responsibilities of all the team members or actors as to who does what with timelines and

a budget to go with that. These are tabulated below.

Monitoring and Evaluation Calendar of the DMTDP (2014-2017) ACTIVITIES TIME FRAME (YEARS) ACTORS BUDGET

GH ¢ (‘000) First Year Second Year Third Year Forth Year

2014 2015 2016 2017

DMTDP Evaluations

Mid-term Evaluation July 2016 DPCU/ HODs/DPs/ AMs/DCE/MP 15.00

Terminal Evaluation March-April 2018 DPCU/ HODs/DPs/ AMs/DCE/MP 12.00

Specific Evaluations and studies Start 2nd Week of July bi-annually DPCU/ HODs/DPs/ AMs/DCE/MP 9.50

Participatory M&E Start 1st week of June bi-annually DPCU/ HODs/DPs/ AMs/DCE/MP 12.20

Sub-total 48.7

Data collection and review meetings

Quarterly field visits 1st Week of March, June, September and December MONITORING TEAM MEMBERS 24.00

Quarterly review meetings 2nd Week of March, June, September and December DPCU/ HODs/DPs/ AMs/DCE/MP 27.20

Preparation of quarterly reports By 8th of March, June, September and December DPCU/ HODs/DPs/ AMs/DCE/MP 4.00

Sub-total 55.2

APR preparation and dissemination

Data collation Last week of Jan. & 1st week of February Annually DPCU/ HODs/DPs/ AMs/DCE/MP 12.00

Draft District APR prepared By 10th February Annually DPCU/ HODs/DPs/ AMs/DCE/MP 4.00

Draft APR review workshop By 14th Feb Annually DPCU/ HODs/DPs/ AMs/DCE/MP 12.00

Final APR submitted to RPCU/NDPC 20th Feb Annually DPO/DCD 1.00

Dissemination of District APR 10th March annually DPDOTs 10.00

3-Day M&E Training Workshop Start 10 July bi-annually MONITORING TEAM MEMBERS 16.00

Maintenance of office Equipments Quarterly DCD/DPO 7.00

Procure & maintain 2 monitoring motorbikes

January 2015 DCD/DPO 4.800

Fuel for monitoring Quarterly DCD/DCE 8.00

Sub-total 74.8

GRAND TOTAL 178.70

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6.6 M&E BUDGET

The District will require financial and logistical budget amount to the tune of One Hundred and Seventy

Eight Ghana Cedis Seventy Ghana Peswas (178.70) to be able to implement the Medium Term Plan

monitoring for the four year period. The details of the budget in line with the MTEF format will be

provided in the Detailed M & E plan which will be crafted as an extract of this plan. Work on that is

underway and will soon be completed. We expect to fund the monitoring plan from the DACF funding

sources and from individual project activities as a percentage of each project or activity will set aside as

part of the project to cater for monitoring and evaluation activities of the District. The budget headings

are captured in the M & E calendar above.

6.7 DATA COLLECTION, VALIDATION AND COLLATION

Data on Programmes and Projects

The District Planning Coordinating Unit will compile a list of programmes and projects running in the district.

The essence will be to capture all programmes and projects undertaken under the auspices of the District

Assembly, by MDAs as well as Development Partners and NGOs to be able to track the overall district

performance and measure progress in reducing poverty. Both primary and secondary data will be

gathered and compartmented into Process data, Input data, Output data and Outcome/impact data. The

compiled data will be validated in a forum represented by all the stakeholders to clean it of any errors

and inconsistencies to arrive at authentic data to give it credibility.

Data Analysis and use of the results

The District Planning Coordinating unit which is currently the manager of data at the assembly will collate

all M&E data in the District including those gathered by the decentralized departments and agencies as

well as NGOs and CSOs for analysis. The data will be analyzed using software that the team is

conversant with. The analyzed data will reveal findings that will then be reported on to RPCU, NDPC and

other stakeholders.

6.8 REPORTING

At the end of each quarter monitoring activities, the findings will be made known to the project

stakeholders including communities and sector departments and whoever is interested. The DPCU will brief

the DCE, Presiding Member and other DA actors on progress of implementation of interventions

observations and gaps identified. This will trigger all stakeholders to take the necessary action that is

required before the next monitoring exercise will be conducted.

6.9 INFORMATION DISSEMINATION

The plan has made provision for an effective plan dissemination team to make the plan known to the

citizens of the District. As such this team will be used for the effective communication of the findings to the

stakeholders at the sub-district and community levels in order to step up transparency and accountability

of the DA. This activity will also ensure commitment to development and poverty reduction at the local

level. The show of transparency will further the commitment of the stakeholders and development partners

to support development interventions that emerged from the results of M&E outcomes.

6.10 PARTICIPATORY M&E

Participatory M&E as a valuable tool will be employed to capture perceptions and assess whether

interventions have met citizens expectations, especially of the poor and the vulnerable in society.

Citizens’ assessment, using citizens score card and reporting cards as well as focus group discussions will

be conducted to find out their perception on service delivery of selected issues within the DMTDP. This

will yield valuable results for replanning.

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7.0 CHAPTER 7: COMMUNICATION STRATEGY

Communication Strategy Activities

ACTIVITY

PURPOSE AUDIENCE METHOD/TOOL TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILITY

Set up District Plan

dissemination outreach team

(DPDOT)

To establish a robust MTDP

communication platform.

DA staff and other

departmental heads, TAs.

Meeting session at the DA

premises. November 2014 DCD

Orientation of DPDOT To equip members of the

content to disseminate. DPDOT members, HODs

Meeting session at the DA

premises.

November 2014

& July yearly DCD, DPO, HODs

Community sensitization sessions

on their roles & responsibilities

of DMTDP.

To create awareness on the DMTDP

Community members, Traditional authorities etc

Community durbars, drama, role play etc

Quarterly

DCD/DPO/ Chairman of Dev’t. Sub-committee

Meeting with Political leadership

To update them on the status of implementation

DCE, PM, MPs & sub-committees chairpersons

Round-table discussion and, power point presentations.

July yearly. DPCU

Radio Discussions to

Disseminate Annual Progress

Report on the DMTDP

implementation.

To cover majority of the pop

district is information sharing. l Community members

Discussions and phone in

sessions. Quarterly DCD, DCE, DPDOT

Production of leaflets To equip beneficiaries with

readable information.

All district members that

can read.

Printing of fact sheets

locally or externally. Yearly DPO, DCD

Conduct Assembly briefings

To keep Assembly members

informed on content & progress

of plan implementation.

Assembly members, HODs

& the public.

DCE sectional address at

Assembly meetings. Quarterly DCE, DCD

Conduct assessment citizens’

involvement in plan

implementation.

To determine the level of

interest and contribution to

implementation of the plan.

Community members,

Assembly members & Unit

committee members, Tas.

Community for a, Interviews,

FGDs. December yearly. DPDOT, DPCU

Show case District development

on Television.

To show visual evidence of

progress.

District members and the

world at large. Documentary. Semi-annually District ISD, DCE, DCD

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