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DRAFT DISTRICT

MEDIUM TERM

DEVELOPMENT PLAN PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES FOR 2014-2017

PLAN WAS DRAWN WITH GUIDELINES FROM THE NATIONL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AUTHORITY IN LINE WITH THE

THEMATIC AREAS SET OUT IN THE GHANA SHARED GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENDA(GSGDA II)

Wa West District Medium Term Dev’t Plan 2014-2017 Page 1

WA WEST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY

MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2014 - 2017

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

BASIC EDUCATION CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION BECE

CHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF GHANA CHAG

CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICE CRS

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE CHRAJ

COMMUNITY BASED ORGANISATION CBO

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING OFFICER CPO

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING SERVICE CHPS

COMMUNITY WATER AND SANITATION AGENCY CWSA

COMMUNITY-BASED RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT CBRDP

DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS DP

DISTRICT ASSEMBLY COMMON FUND DACF

DISTRICT ASSEMBLY DA

DISTRICT HEALTH MANAGEMENT TEAM DHMT

DISTRICT MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN DMTDP

DISTRICT PLANNING AND COORDINATION UNIT DPCU

DISTRICT WATER AND SANITATION TEAM DWST

DISTRICT-WIDE ASSISTANCE PROJECT DWAP

ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES ECOWAS


EUROPEAN UNION EU

GHANA EDUCATION SERVICE GES

GHANA HEALTH SERVICE GHS

GHANA SHARED GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENDA GSGDA

GOVERNMENT OF GHANA GOG

HEAVILY INDEBTED POOR COUNTRY HIPC

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ICT

INTERNAL GENERATED FUND IGF

JAPAN INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION AGENCY JICA

LIQUIFIED PETROLLEUM GAS LPG

LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LED

MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT POLICY FRAMEWORK MTDPF

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT MP

MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MDG

MINISTRY OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE MOFA

MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN MOWAC

MONITORING AND EVALUATION M&E

MULTI-SECTORAL HIV AND AIDS PROJECT MSHAP

NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR CIVIC EDUCATION NCCE

NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING COMMISSION NDPC

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME NHIS

NATIONAL YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME NYEP


NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION NGO

OPEN DEFECATION FREE ODF

OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT OPD

PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION PTA

POTENTIALS, OPPORTUNITIES, CONSTRAINS, CHALLENGES POCC

REGIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL RCC

REGIONAL PLANNING COORDINATING UNIT RPCU

RURAL ACTION AID PROGRAMME RAAP

SAVANNA ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT AGENCY SADA

SCHOOL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE SMC

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES STDS

SMALL TOWN WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM PROJECT STWSSP

SOCIAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL INSURANCE TRUST SSNIT

STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT SEA

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S EMERGENCY FUND UNICEF

VOLUNTARY COUNSELLING AND TESTING VCT

WA WEST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY WWDA

WATER AND SANITATION WATSAN

WECHIAU COMMUNITY HIPPO SANCTUARY WCHS


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1.0 GENERAL BACKGROUND TO THE PREPARATION OF THE DISTRICT MEDIUM

TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN

The preparation of this Medium-Term Development Plan (DMTDP, 2014-2017), is in fulfillment of

the constitutional mandate, which requires every district to develop a Medium Term Development

Plan.

The District Planning Coordinating Unit (DPCU) adopted a participatory approach in preparing the

2014 - 2017 Medium Term Development Plan. The following steps were adopted:

1. To engender participation, a Plan Preparation Team was formed comprising all the

departments of the Assembly. Through the instrumentality of the RCC, a facilitator was

engaged to give technical support to the planning team.

2. Both secondary and primary data were collected to facilitate the preparation of the DMTDP.

The outcome of the data collected is the review report of the 2010-2013 DMTDP and the

updating of spatial maps of facilities in the district.

3. The data collected were analyzed to form the bases for the projections. Objectives and

strategies were determined through a two day stakeholder meeting. During the review,

technical support was given by the RPCU.

4. Community needs assessment was carried out for all communities with the assistance of

elected assembly members. This enabled the Assembly to identify and categorize the

issues/gaps from each area council. These area council issues were further integrated into the

district key development issues.

5. To enhance participation, two public hearings were conducted in all the five area councils in

the district. This was to validate the plan and give the citizenry the opportunity to make inputs

into the plan. A total of 372 people participated in the public hearings of which 136 were

female and 236 were male. The analysis underscored the need for more involvement of women

in decision making. Find attached the list of attendance as APPENDIX 1.

Motivation

The major motivations came from the zeal of the plan preparation team to serve the communities even

though faced with major challenges such as inadequate funds. The planning team was also motivated

by the constant technical support from the RPCU. The availability of the needed leadership (both

administrative and political) was also timely and helped a lot.


Support

Without support, the planning process would have been in jeopardy. Technical and financial support

in the area of capacity and data collection was provided by the District Assembly. The technical

support was through the faciltatoship of Eric Bannye of SNV. The District Assembly also provided

financial and leadership support.

Challenges

The plan preparation was not without challenges. A major constraint has been the weak database of

the District Assembly and inadequate funding. Technical capacities in Planning in the district is also

low. This has made the few staff with planning skills to be overburden with work which has serious

implication for the output of the process. This constraint was mitigated by the introduction of the

concept of mentorship.

In many respects, this medium-term development plan seeks to address the challenges and set-backs of

the immediate past plan (2010-2013 DMTDP). The 2014-2017 DMTDP is anchored on the following

themes:

1. Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability

2. Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector

3. Accelerated Agricultural Modernisation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management

4. Oil and Gas Development

5. Infrastructure and Human Settlements

6. Human Development, Productivity and Employment

7. Transparent and Accountable Governance

The district goal is “To improve the quality of life of the people through the provision of basic

infrastructure and socio-economic services”. Enhanced competiveness in Ghana’s private sector

thematic focuses on increase tourist visit to the Wechiau Hippo Sanctuary. With the Accelerated

agricultural modernisation and natural resource management thematic area, emphasis is on increasing

major crops and animal production, reduction in the rate of bush fires and strengthening disaster

prevention.


Under the Infrastructure, energy and human settlements development thematic area, the main focus of

the plan is to extend electricity to many communities, increase access to ICT, improve the road

network, and develop planning schemes among others.

With the Human development, employment and productivity thematic area, the focus is reducing

maternal mortality, infant mortality and HIV AIDS rates, increase NHIS coverage, improve teacher-

pupil ratio, gross enrolment rate and school infrastructure situation. Water and Sanitation is also

emphasized.

Women participation in decision making, security, local economic development and internal generated

fund took centre stage in the Transparent and Accountable Governance thematic area.

2.0 SCOPE AND DIRECTION OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES AND

PROJECTS FOR 2014-2017

This document is divided into six chapters. Chapter one deals with the review of the previous plan and

the analysis of the situation as pertained in 2013. The review shows that there were marginal increases

in many of the achievements as compared to the targets. Prominent among the factors that worked

against the district development targets include the drought in 2010, the floods in 2011 and 2013 for

the agricultural sector. In the education sector, enrolment figures at the basic level are still low, and

teacher-pupil ratio has not also seen any improvement. Health indicators such as NHIS coverage,

HIV/AIDS prevalence rate, maternal mortality etc show marginal improvement. Sanitation situation

in the district is also not encouraging. However, water coverage has shown marked improvement.

The situational analysis unearthed development problems from water and sanitation, health,

agriculture, education, performance of the local governance system, tourism among others.

Chapter two presented the prioritized issue. These problems are then subjected to the analysis of

Potentials, Opportunities, Constraints and Challenges in respect of the MTDPF (2014-2017).

The outcome of this chapter is that there are enough opportunities and potentials in the district to

solving the development problems identified in chapter one.


Chapter three highlights the district goal, objectives and strategies to tackle the development problems

in the district. For effective objective setting, projections are made. It is assumed among others that:

• The population growth rate will not exceed 1.7% per annum;

• Migration rate will also remain unchanged.

In chapter four, the Programme of Action analysis reveals that the total cost of financing the Medium

Term Development Plan (2014 – 2017) stands at Forty one million, four hundred and seventy seven

thousand, four hundred and eight Ghana Cedis (GH¢41,477,408) against an Indicative Financial

Budget of nineteen million, one hundred and sixty three thousand, five hundred and thirty four Ghana

Cedis (GH¢19,163,534). This reveals a financial gap of Twenty two million, three hundred and

thirteen thousand, eight hundred and seventy four Ghana Cedis (GH¢22,313,874).

Strategies to fill in financing the gap include the following;

Scaling up the volume of IGF through market tolls and cattle rate collection.

Putting mechanism to blocking all revenue leakages by providing accurate data on properties,

efficient and reliable revenue collection method and well trained and motivated staff.

Marketing the plan to Development Partners to support the district assembly.

Chapter five translated the composite programme of action into annual plans for effective

implementation.

Chapter six deals with Monitoring and Evaluation. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is an integral

part of the plan formulation and implementation process in the district. The output of the M&E

process is used for informing district development planning; enhancing transparency and

accountability in the management of resources.

With this background, an efficient M&E system is required to respond to these needs adequately.

These notwithstanding, the district M&E system continues to be challenged by severe financial

constraints in addition to institutional, operational and technical capacity constraints as well as

uncoordinated information flow, particularly at the sector level. Technical issues also revolve round

the difficulties in getting decentralized departments to prepare their respective Sector Plans


To address these challenges, the current institutional arrangements will be reinforced with adequate

capacity to support and sustain effective monitoring and evaluation, existing M & E mechanisms will

be strengthened, harmonized and effectively coordinated. In addition, an efficient system for

generating relevant, reliable and timely quantitative and qualitative information as well as an effective

feedback mechanism that makes statistical information available in useable form to the district

assembly, private sector and civil society organizations will be involved; and participatory M&E

processes will be developed.

Chapter seven deals with Communication as it is key to the promotion of transparency and

accountability. It is also seen as a way of promoting team spirit and team work since every actor in the

particular activity is aware of what is going on.

In view of the above, the Wa West District Assembly as part of the DMTDP 2014-2017 has developed

a communication strategy in order to enable all responsible agencies and persons are abreast with the

contents of the DMTDP and the role they are expected to play. This would be done by disseminating

the DMTDP throughout the district.

It is our hope that this document would meet the development aspirations of our people and serve as a

platform for accelerated growth and poverty reduction in the years to come.

We wish to thank District Planning and Coordinating Unit and all those who contributed in diverse

ways towards the completion of this document.

……………………………………….

(HON. DASSANA N. ADAMU)

DISTRICT CHIEF EXECUTIVE

WA WEST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY


CHAPTER ONE

1.0 PERFORMANCE REVIEW/DISTRICT PROFILE

The current situation of the District includes a review of the Performance of the District in implementing

programmes and projects in the 2010-2013 District Medium-Term Development Plan (MTDP) under the

GSGDA 1 thematic areas.

1.1 PERFORMANCE REVIEW OF THE 2010-2013 DMTDP

The aim of the review of the 2010-2013 DMTDP is to determine the status of the implementation of the plan, its

achievements, challenges and constraints to implementation, key issues/gaps associated with the planned

objectives and targets and its implications towards the development of the district. The results will serve as

lessons for the 2014-2017 DMTDP.

Sectoral objectives and targets set for the District under the GSGDA1 thematic areas were used for the review

and information sources included Departmental reports, APRs for 2010 - 2013 and data collected on the field.

The details of the review have been presented under the seven thematic areas of the GSGDA1 as shown in

Table 1 below:

8. Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability

9. Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector

10. Accelerated Agricultural Modernization and Sustainable Natural Resource Management

11. Oil and Gas Development

12. Infrastructure and Human Settlements

13. Human Development, Productivity and Employment

14. Transparent and Accountable Governance


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Table 1.1 Summary of the review

THEMATIC AREA:PRIVATE SECTOR

COMPETITIVENESS

CROP PRODUCTION

OBJECTIVE: To facilitate farmers' adoption of improved technologies for increased production

CROP(Mt/Annu

m)

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Achievemen

t

Achievemen

t

Targe

t

Achievemen

t

Target Achievemen

t

Target Achievemen

t

Maize 5,850 6832 6,201 6,528 6,573 6,970 6,968 6,960

Rice 3,500 3,190 3,820 2,436 3,849 2,490 4,080 2,560

Sorghum 6,270 7,100 6,178 4,523 6,551 4,838 6,944 4,176

Groundnut 30,260 29,280

32,36

0 26,642

34,301 29,115 36,359 25,674

Millet 5,040 3,590 5,393 2,735 5,717 2,885 6,060 2,243

ANIMAL PRODUCTION

LIVESTOCK

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Achievement Achievement Target Achievement Target Achievement Target Achievement

Cattle 29,653 15113 30,543 13,700 31,450 15,000 32,343 15,750

Sheep 17,472 12,050 17,996 13,200 18,620 16,000 19,344 15,200

Goats 131,819 20,000 135,774 26,470 140,224 20,228 144,674 19,200

Pigs 14,466 11,370 14,900 10,221 15,434 12,763 16,068 12,500

Poultry 39,793 32,000 34,600 35,000

NB: Due to inadequate funds and limited staff, livestock census could not be conducted for the last three years.


THEMATIC AREA: PRIVATE SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS

TOURISM PERFORMANCE

Objective: To increase the number of tourists to the district by 50% by 2013

2010 2011 2012 2013

TARGET ACHIEVE

MENT

TARGET ACHIEVE-

MENT

TARGET ACHIEVE-

MENT

TARGET ACHIEV-

MENT

Foreign N/A 512 N/A 673 N/A 797 N/A 931

Domestic N/A 1,144 N/A 1,183 N/A 1,018 N/A 1,339

REMARKS: No targets were set for the tourism sector. However, the achievements showed a consistent increase from 2006 to 2009.

THEMATIC AREA: PRIVATE SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS

ELECTRICITY SUPPlY

Objective: To connect 30 communities to the National grid by 2013

2010 2011 2012 2013

TARGET ACHIEVE

MENT

TARGET ACHIEVE

MENT

TARGET ACHIEVE

MENT

TARGET ACHIEVE

MENT

No. of communities 5 2 5 3 5 8 5 15


THEAMATIC AREA; HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

EDUCATION

Objective 1: To increased enrolment by 90% by 2013

Objective 2: To reduce PTR to 1:45 by 2016

KINDERGARTEN 2010 2011 2012 2013

TARGET ACHIVEMENT TARGET ACHIVEMENT TARGET ACHIVEMENT TARGET ACHIVEMENT

Gross Enrolment Rate(GER) 80.50 97.19 84.50 86.43 63.5 89.3 83.7 91

Gender Parity Index(GPI) 0.98 1.10 0.98 0.98 1.03 0.99 1.03 1.15

Percentage of trained in teachers public kindergarten 20.0 13.79 20.0 17.39 22.1 20.0 22.1 22.0

Pupil Teacher Ratio in public kindergarten 26:1 56:1 26:1 41:1 45:1 108:1 45:1 93:1

Remarks: About 49% of children who are supposed to be in K.G. are not in school .This has serious implication for the development of the District’s human resource e development. Gender parity also experience marginal decline throughout the period. The trained teacher pupil ratio has not improved as there are still very few trained at the K.G level


PRIMARY SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE

PRIMARY 2010 2011 . 2012 2013


Gross Enrolment Rate(GER) 93.50 93.20 93.50 96.0 163.5 412.1 163.5 143.50


Percentage of trained in teachers Public Primary School

50.25 37.69 50.25 43.19 25.8 23.10 25.8 26.5

Pupil Teacher/Pupils Ratio in public kindergarten 40:1 68:1 40:1 54:1 45:1 45:1 45:1 39:1

JHS LEVEL PERFORMANCE

JHS ACCESS

2010 2011


Gross Enrolment Rate(GER) 40.72 36.62 40.72 40.23 90.5 90.7 90.5 98.8


Percentage of trained in teachers Public JHS

76.92 31.51 76.92 72.32 34.9 33.2 34.9 34.9

Pupil Teacher Ratio in public JHS 31:1 15:1 31:1 54:1 45:1 20:1 45:1 22:1


THEMATIC AREA: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

HEALTH SECTOR PERFORMANCE

Health indicators

performance

2010 2011 2012 2013

TARGET ACHIEVEM

ENT

TARGE

T

ACHIEVE

MENT

TARGE

T

ACHIEVE

MENT

TARGE

T

ACHIEVE

MENT

Under 5 mortality rate 176/100,0

00

No data 176/100,

000

No data 176/100,

000

208 absolute

death

176/100,

000

112 absolute

deaths

Maternal mortality rate 0 3 0 3 0 4 0 5

Skilled delivery 35% (648) 29.2% 40% (861)

38.1%

50% (943) 41.1% 55% (1237)

53.2%

Family planning

acceptance

30% 44% 35% 45.8% 40% 36.4% 45% 42%

Incidence of malaria 45% 49.6% 45% 69.9% 40% 68.20% 35% 45.1%

NHIS Coverage - - 75% 80% 85%

REMARKS: almost all targets were not met. This has implication for meeting health related MDGs


THEMATIC AREA: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

WATER AND SANITATION SECTOR PERFORMANCE

Water and sanitation

performance

2010 2011 2012 2013

TARGET ACHIEVEMENT TARGET ACHIEVEMENT TARGET ACHIEVEMENT TARGET ACHIEVEMENT

Water coverage 80% 60.35% 80% 73.23% 80% 74.50% 80% 74.07%

Sanitation coverage 30% 30% 30% 30% 19%

REMARKS: the district can achieve the MDG for water coverage. However, the same story cannot be told for sanitation. The current level of 19% need

to be addressed.

THEMATIC AREA: GOOD GOVERNANACE

SECTOR FINANCES

2010 2011 2012 2013

TARGET ACHIEVEMENT TARGET ACHIEVEMENT TARGET ACHIEVEMENT TARGET ACHIEVEMENT

FUNDS

INFLOW

926,910.00 755,263.11 1,324,526.68 1,312,802.11 1,708,328.91 1,569,443.73 3,007,751.72 885,029.56

REMARKS: apart from 2009, financial inflows are impressive for all sectors. The 2009 figure is low because some of the inflows came in 2010.

Data on financial outflows could not be collated from the departments due to a lot of inconsistencies in them.



1.2 ISSUES ARISING OUT OF THE 2010-2013 DMTDP REVIEW

• Inadequate household latrine

• Inadequate funding for DWST activities

• Inadequate capacities for DWST members

• Irregular maintenance and usage of household latrines

• Delayance of some households in building the structures for house hold latrines

• Residents in communities closer to Wa still prefer Wa municipal health insurance

• Most communities inaccessible during the raining season

• Inadequate logistics

• Ineffective community health insurance committees

• There is also a high incidence of migration among the inhabitants particularly the Brifor

across the western borders to Burkina Faso

• High disease burden – geographical location

• maternal and infant mortality

• Low utilization of services

• Cultural/traditional beliefs

• Geographical inaccessibility

• Inadequate technical staff especially midwives

• Residential, office and service provision accommodation – DHMT not well routed in

Wechiau

• Poor documentation

• Inadequate CHPS compounds

• Inadequate funding for monitoring and supervision

• Dwindling donor support

• No office space for agric


• Irregular releases of DACF

• Low IGF

• Weak data management


1.2 DISTRICT PROFILE

1.2.1 GEO-PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

1.2.1.1 Location and Size

The Wa West District is one of the eleven districts that make up the Upper West Region created

in 2004 by legislative instrument 1751. The District is located in the western part of the Upper

West Region, approximately between Longitudes 9º40’N and 10º10’N and also between latitudes

2º20W and 2º50’W. It shares borders to the south with Northern Region, North-West by Nadowli

District, East by Wa Municipal and to the West by Burkina Faso. The total area of the district is

approximately 1,856 square km. This constitutes about 10 % of the region’s total land area, which

is estimated at 18,478square km. Based on the location and the nature of the economic activities

of the district, it is the food basket of the Wa Municipality. This means market for the district

agricultural produce exist. There are very little commercial and no political activities between the

district and Burkina Faso. The proximity of Wa West District to Burkina Faso however places it

in a good position to take advantage of suggestions made by the “Savannah Accelerated

Development Authority “ which proposes the promotion of a Savannah-Sahel Regional Market

amongst other initiatives.


Wa West District in National Context



1.2.1.2 Relief/Topography, Drainage and Geology/Soils

The Wa West District topography is gently rolling with a few hills ranging between 180 and 300

meters above sea level. It is drained by one main river – the Black Volta, to the west marking the

boundary between the district and the Republic of Burkina Faso.

The Black Volta and its tributaries is the main drainage system in the District. The Black Volta

and its several feeder tributaries present opportunities for irrigation in the district that can promote

all year round farming. Most of the tributary streams are seasonal, thus disrupting communication

during the rainy season along all the major roads to the District capital.

The soils in the district are mostly Leptosols, Lixisols and Vertisols. There are also strips of

Fluvisols along the flood plains of the Black Volta as well as sandy loams along some of its

tributaries. The general nature of the soils, coupled with the traditional land use practices and

limited rainfall, tend to have adverse effect on crop production. This forces the youth to look for

sustenance elsewhere at the expense of their lives or health.



1.2.1.3 Climate and Vegetation

The Wa West District lies within the Guinea Savannah Zone which is characterized mainly by

short grasses and only few woody shrubs and trees. Common trees in the District consist of

drought and fire resistant trees such as baobab, dawadawa, shea trees and kapok. Commercial

tress such as Cashew and Mangoes are also found in the district. The vegetation is very congenial

for livestock production, which contributes significantly to household incomes in the District.

The greatest influence on the vegetation is the prolonged dry season. During this period, the grass

becomes dry and the subsequent bush burning leaves the area patched and mostly bare of

vegetation. Consequently, the torrential early rains cause soil erosion. Bush burning reduces the

vegetative cover and adversely affects rainfall. Transpiration is reduced considerably and this

affects average annual rainfall totals.

The climate of the district is tropical continental type with the mean annual temperature ranging

between 22.5°C to 45°C. A lesser known and used environmental resource is what is referred to

as diurnal temperature variation. The Wa West District, like most of the other districts of the three

northern regions have the comparative advantage during the months of November to February

(the harmattan period) of having relatively cool night temperatures of between 18°C to 22°C and

rather hot day temperatures of as high as 38°C to 40°C. The relatively cool nights are very

suitable for stimulating good flowering in fruits and vegetables, heavy fruit setting and good

ripening and colour turning in fruits. This gives the northern part of Ghana that comparative

advantage of this type of less known climatic resource for generating other economic benefits;

and Wa West District should not hesitate to take full advantage of this. The period between

February and April is the hottest. Between April and October, the Tropical Maritime air mass

blows over the area which gives the only wet season in the year; with the suitable rainfall for

agriculture being effectively only four to month in a year. The poor rainfall pattern leads to the

migration of the youth, a factor associated with the underdevelopment of the human resource base

of the district.


1.2.2 THE ENVIRONMENT

1.2.2.1 Condition of Natural Environment

Large tracts of the natural tree vegetation are disappearing in the District due largely to human

activities in the form of cultivation, over-grazing, bush fires and charcoal burning. This situation

must be checked to avoid environmental degradation and the destruction of important soil micro-

organisms. Traditional farming practices such as slash and burn, shifting cultivation, road

construction, sand and gavel winning also degrade the land in the district. Farming along water

courses has led to the silting of many streams and other water bodies. There is therefore the need

to desilt these water bodies in order to make water available for dry season farming and other

domestic purposes. The activities of Fulani herdsmen on the environment cannot be

overemphasized. They take advantage of the ECOWAS Protocol and bring in herds of alien

cattle in to the district. Apart from the overgrazing done by their cattle, they also cut down

economic trees such as shea trees to feed their cattle. Worse still, they allow their cattle to graze

on farms. This has often resulted in reduction of farm yields and income levels of farmers and

women in the district who are the major pickers of the sheanuts.

To forestall environmental degradation, there is the need to establish tree plantation such as

cashew, mango, sheanuts and also curb the activities of the alien Fulani herdsmen.

1.2.2.2 Condition of Built Environment

The complete absence of development control in the district, especially the district capital,

Wechiau has led to disorganized development in the district. There are no planning schemes in

the district. This has resulted in misuse as well as under use of the land. Poor sanitation and

personal hygiene practices such as indiscriminate defecation are major factors that impact

negatively on the environment. Sensitization of the people to use the few sanitation facilities and

the enforcement of environmental bye laws need to be reinforced along side with the provision of

household latrines and other sanitation facilities.

The erection of store structures including kiosks and metal structures along the streets of the

major towns have greatly blighted the beauty of the district.


Plans are far advanced to developed planning schemes for all the major towns in the district for

organized development. With the introduction of street- naming and property addressing systems

put in place, most urban areas in the District will be well planned and beautified if compileted

1.3 DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS

1.3.1 Population Size and Growth Rate

Population Size and Distribution

The 2010 Population and Housing Census (PHC) recorded a population size of 81,348 for the Wa

West District, representing 11.6 percent of the regional popultion. Table 2.1 shows the population

by age, sex and type of locality in the district. From the table it can be seen that the total

population of males is 40,227 (49.5%) and female is 41,121 (50.5%). Wa West is basically a rural

district.

Table 2.1: Population size by locality of residence by district, region and sex ratio

All Localities Urban Rural

Region/District/ Sex Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent

Upper West

702,110

100

114,653

16.3

587,457

100

Wa West

81,348

100 - -

81,348

100

Male

40,227

49.5 - -

40,227

49.5

Female

41,121

50.5 - -

41,121

50.5

Source: Ghana Statistical Service, 2010 Population and Housing Census.

2.3 Age-Sex Structure

The age and sex structure of the population is influenced by birth and death rates, as well as

internal and international migration. Table 2.2 shows the age- sex structure of the district. From

the table it shows that there are more female in the district than male.

The district has a sex ratio of 97.8 which is greater than the regional sex ratio of 94.5. The age

group 5-9 has the highest population of females with a figure of 7069 whilst the male group has a

population of 6326 in that age group. Whereas the age group 15-19 has the highest sex ratio of

130.5 that of 35-39 indicated the lowest (60.4).


Table 2.2: Age structure by sex

Both Sexes Males Females

Sex Ratio Age Group Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent

All Ages 81,348 100 40,227 100 41,121 100

97.8

0 - 4 11,265 90.9 5,672 83.9 5,593 99.5

101.4

5 - 9 13,395 108.1 7,069 104.5 6,326 112.5 111.7

10 - 14 12,387 100.0 6,764 100.0 5,623 100.0

120.3

15 - 19 9,435 76.2 5,342 79.0 4,093 72.8

130.5

20 - 24 5,289 42.7 2,685 39.7 2,604 46.3

103.1

25 - 29 4,340 35.0 1,901 28.1 2,439 43.4

77.9

30 - 34 4,176 33.7 1,631 24.1 2,545 45.3

64.1

35 - 39 3,787 30.6 1,426 21.1 2,361 42.0

60.4

40 - 44 3,527 28.5 1,365 20.2 2,162 38.4

63.1

45 - 49 2,798 22.6 1,206 17.8 1,592 28.3

75.8

50 - 54 2,592 20.9 1,216 18.0 1,376 24.5

88.4

55 - 59 1,522 12.3 700 10.3 822 14.6

85.2

60 - 64 2,102 17.0 960 14.2 1,142 20.3

84.1

65 - 69 1,122 9.1 518 7.7 604 10.7

85.8

70 - 74 1,354 10.9 659 9.7 695 12.4

94.8

75 - 79 748 6.0 377 5.6 371 6.6

101.6

80 - 84 832 6.7 394 5.8 438 7.8

90.0

85 + 677 5.5 342 5.1 335 6.0 104.4


1.3.2 Religious Composition/Ethnicity

Religious Composition

Traditionalists are the largest religion with 29.5% of the people. Islam is the second dominant

religion with 23.5% and followed by Christianity. Christian dominations in the district include

Catholics, Pentecostal/Charismatics and Protestant (Anglican Lutheran, etc).


ECONOMY

Majority of the people are subsistence farmers whilst a few along the banks of the Black Volta

engage in fishing. Most of the women engage in pito brewing, petty trading and shea butter

extraction. The most predominant tribe in the District is the Brefor with dialectical variations,

followed by Waales and Dagaabas. There are other minor tribes such as the Hausa, Asantes, etc.

They co-exist peacefully and inter-marry.

There are 44,301 persons 15 years and older of which 72.1 percent are economically active. The

Economically active population (employed and unemployed) has the highest proportion 79

percent and economically not active 21.9 percent. For the economically active category a higher

proportion (98.4%) is employed with a lower proportion (1.6%) are unemployed.

Agricultural, forestry and fishery workers are the biggest occupational group (8.0%) in the

districts. Manufacturing (6.9%) is second largest group in the district. Females dominate the

manufacturing sector (11.3%) while males dominate plant and machine operators and assemblers,

technicians and associate professionals, and professional groups.

The self-employed (without employees) are the biggest (56.8%) in terms of employment status.

males dominate the self-employed and casual worker, while females dominate the contributing

family worker and domestic employee categories.

The private informal sector accounts for 97.0 percent in the districts, followed by public

(government) (2.2%) and the private formal sector (0.4%) accounting for the employment sectors

in the district.

In general, females are employed more 16432 (52.3%) than males 14,994 (47.7%). More females

are economically not active 6,857 (55.4%) than males 5,514 (44.6%).

1.3.3 Migration

The 2010 Population and Housing Census sought information on place of birth in relation to

locality of enumeration. Birthplace and migratory pattern are, therefore, analysed by comparing

locality of birth with locality of enumeration. Persons born in the locality of enumeration are

assumed not to have had any migratory history.


This may not necessarily be the case since some people who might have moved outside their

locality of birth could have returned to that locality for the census or on visit or on retirement.

Their migratory movements would thus be lost. Birthplace in relation to place of enumeration is,

therefore, only a crude measure of migration. The information is restricted to Ghanaians by birth

and therefore does not capture the true volume of movement into the district.

Table 2.4 shows the birthplace by duration of residence of migrant. A total of 6,713 people in the

district were born outside the District as shown in table 2.1. Those born elsewhere in the Upper

West Region constitute (57.0%). About (43.0%) were born elsewhere outside the Upper West

Region. Of those born elsewhere in the Region, majority (12.5%) was born in the Ashanti Region.

Also, of those born in the Region, the majority (36.1%) lived there for 20 or more years and the

least (12.3%) staying between 5-9 years.

Fertility

Fertility refers to the number of life births per women during her reproductive life span. Fertility

is determined by a number of factors, including the physiological capacity of the woman to

reproduce. These, in turn, are affected by a variety of social, cultural, health, economic and other

environmental factors.

Table 2.5 shows the general fertility rate, crude birth rate and total fertility rate of all the districts

in the region. The crude birth rate for the Wa West District is 24.32 births per 1000 population.

This is lower than the regional figure of 23.06 per 1,000 populations.

The general fertility rate for the district is 111.15. This implies that, in the district about

111children are born in a year to 1000 women. The district figure is greater than the regional

figure of 97.41. The table also shows the number of women 15-49 years in the district is 17, 796

representing (10.7%) of that regional population. Furthermore, the district has a total of 1978

number of births in the last 12 months preceding the census.

Reported total fertility rate, general fertility rate and crude birth rate by districts

District Population

Number of

women 15-49

years

Number of

births in last 12

months

Total Fertility

Rate

General

Fertility Rate

Crude Birth

Rate

All Districts 702,110 166,230 16,193 3.45 97.41 23.06


Wa West 81,348 17,796 1,978 4.06 111.15 24.32

Wa Municipal 107,214 29,396 2,429 3.30 82.63 22.66

Wa East 72,074 15,523 1,776 3.88 114.41 24.64

Sissala East 56,528 14,216 1,219 2.89 85.75 21.56

Nadowli 94,388 21,895 1,998 3.37 91.25 21.17

Jirapa 88,402 20,604 2,064 3.48 100.17 23.35

Sissala West 49,573 11,264 1,397 4.33 124.02 28.18

LambussieKarni 51,654 11,990 1,339 3.87 111.68 25.92

Lawra 100,929 23,546 1,993 3.02 84.64 19.75


Literacy and Education

Literacy is the ability to read and write. The inability to do so is called illiteracy or analphabetic.

The primary sense of literacy represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from

a critical interpretation of the written or printed text.

The UNESCO defines literacy as the “ability to identify, understand, interpret create,

communicate and compute using print and written materials associated with varying context.”

Table 11 shows the population 11 years and older by sex, age and literacy status. It shows the

population who are literate, not literate and English only among other languages.

Table 3.9 below shows that 33,613 people are not literate in the district, with 19,465 persons

being literate. Six thousand, six hundred and ninety (6690) could write and speak English only,

1,048 with Ghanaian language only, 13 were literate in English and French, and 54 were literate

in English, French and Ghanaian language.

There are a large number of people between the age group 15-19 who are literate (36.1%), and

those who could speak English and Ghanaian (37.2%). The age group 20-65+ had figures in the

not literate group greater than the literate group. The male and female distribution presents

another interesting picture about the district.

There are more none literate female (57.7%) than literate male (42.2%), but the female non

literate (19,408) is rather more than twice greater than the literate (8131). This should be a greater

concern to policy maker since it implies that there are more males who are educated than females.

The age groups for male and female are almost similar as there are more none literate than literate

in all but three age groups 11-14, 15-19 and 20-24.


Figure 3.2 Literacy Status


The level of education which one attains is very important in determining the educational status of

an individual. People who attain higher educational levels are revered and respected most in our

societies.

Table 3.10 shows the population 3 years and older by level of education, school attendance and

sex. Out of a total population of 27,287, 10.7% are currently attending nursery, 60.3 percent in

primary, SSS/SHS have a percentage of 5.1 whilst post middle/secondary and tertiary had low

figure of 0.4% each who are currently attending school. This does not augur well for the

educational sector in the district since it depicts that majority of the youth after completion of

JHS do not make it to the secondary and subsequently the tertiary level.

The sex distribution of those currently attending school also have a similar pattern of people

dropping at the lower levels. 18.9% of males are currently in JSS/JHS, whilst the female figure is

15.2%. The male currently attending school is greater than the female attending school that is

14,810 and 12,477 respectively.

A total of 4,899 people have attended school in the past, out of that a greater percentage of them

made it to the primary school (47.3%), the rest of the educational levels had percentages less than

English only

34%

Ghanaian

language only

6%

English and

Ghanaian

language

60%

English and

French

0%

English, French

and Ghanaian

language

0%

Other

0%


ten apart from JSS/JHS 21.0% and SSS/JHS 11.2%. the male sex had more people than female in

all the educational level in those who attended school in the past.

1.3.4 Culture

The major ethnic groups in the district are the Dagaaba, Waala and Brefor. These ethnic groups

have enjoyed peaceful co-existence among themselves. Dialectical variation among the Dagaaba,

Waala and Brefor is quite negligible. The presence of ethnic homogeneity has the potential of

promoting socio-cultural development. Some of the negative practices include female elopement,

scarification, female genital mutilation, widowhood inheritance. These have the tendency to

spread STDs.

Staging of corpse for days is another negative practice. This can cause outbreak of diseases

depending on the sickness through which the person dies. Even though the district is

heterogeneous in terms of ethnicity, there is relative peace in the District. However, there are a

few instances of chieftaincy and land disputes. The relative peace enables the people to go about

their normal daily routine activities without any hindrance.

INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

5.1 Introduction

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) means computer-based management of data

or ideas. Communication serves as an important tool in the economic and social lives of people.

Business is transacted through communication, and the availability of effective and reliable

communication channels can enhance economic activity and improve incomes. Recent

developments in communication include the use of mobile phones and desktop or laptop

computers and the internet. (GSS, 2010 PHC).

Household Ownership of Fixed Telephone Lines

Table 5.3 shows the households having desktop/laptop computer and fixed telephone lines by sex.

The Wa West District has a total of 11,486 households with only 8 (0.1 percent) having fixed

telephone lines. The fixed telephone lines are owned by only male headed households. A small

proportion (0.5 %) of households have desktop/laptop computer while 0.1 has fixed lines.


DISABILITY

Introduction

Persons with disability (PWDs) is defined as “those who are unable to or are restricted in the

performance of specific tasks/activities due to loss of function of some part of the body as a

results of impairment or malformation” (GSS 2012). People with disability are mostly regarded as

less productive and not capable of contributing to development compared to their non-disabled

counterparts.

Accordingly, they are often seen as a burden on society and their unfortunate circumstances are

viewed sometimes as a curse or punishment. Furthermore, they have poorer health status, lower

educational achievements, less economic participation and higher levels of poverty than people

without disabilities (WHO, 2011).

This chapter analyses the distribution of the population in Wa West by disability type, sex and

level of education. It is however worth noting that within the population with disability, some

individuals have multiple disability conditions hence the computed percentages of disability types

in table 6.2 may not necessarily add up to 100 percent.

6.2 Population with Disability

Population by type of locality, disability type and sex is shown in Table 6.1. The Wa West has a

total population of 81,348 of which 3.0 percent had different forms of disability according to 2010

Population and Housing Census. For PWDs, sight had the highest proportion of 33.6 percent,

physical 25.1 percent, hearing 15.9 percent and the least speech recording 10.6 percent.

Males have a higher proportion of 31.7 percent for sight and whiles females recorded 35.5

percent. Physical form of disability is high among females with 27.6 percent and 22.8 percent for

males. Hearing disability is the third highest among the types of disability with 15.9 percent and

15.8 percent for both males and females respectively. Intellectual disability has a proportion of

15.5 percent for males and 15.7 percent for females as well as emotion having a proportion of

14.4 percent for males and 12.6 percent for females. Speech disability is the least with a

proportion of 12.1 percent for males and 9.0 percent for females.


Wa West is predominately rural area and hence there is no data showing the distribution of people

with disability in urban areas in the district.

Type of Disability

The Wa West district has a total population of 81,348 of which only 2,453 (3.0%) have different

form of disability. Sight has the highest proportion (33.6%), followed by physical disability

(25.1%) and hearing disability (15.9%) in the order. Intellect and emotion form of disabilities

constitute 15.6 and 13.5 percent respectively. Speech disability is the least (10.6%) in the district.

Type of Disability


Access to Utilities and Household Facilities

Main Source of Lighting

Nature of the source of lighting is one of the indicators of quality of life. As a society improves

the source of lighting shifts from use of low quality sources such as fuel wood to more efficient

ones, such as electricity. Households were asked about their main sources of domestic lighting.

As indicated in Table8.8, the main source of lighting for households in the district is flash

lights/touch accounting for 61.6 per cent. Kerosene lamp constitute (25.0%) of lighting source,

Sight 33.6

Hearing 15.9

Speech 10.6Physical 25.1

Intellect 15.6

Emotion 13.5

Other 12.8


while electricity (mains) is used by (9.5%) of households and constitute the third main source of

lighting in households.

Gas lamp (0.2%) and crop residue (0.2%) account for the lower proportion. of households with

main source of lighting while candle has the least proportions of (0.1%).

Table 8.8: Main source of lighting of dwelling unit by type of locality

Main source of light

Total

country Region

District

Total Urban Rural

N % % %

Total 5,467,054 110,174 11,486 100.0 - 100.0

Electricity (mains) 3,511,065 34,044 1,095 9.5 - 9.5

Electricity (private generator) 36,142 613 80 0.7 - 0.7

Kerosene lamp 971,807 21,455 2,871 25.0 - 25.0

Gas lamp 9,378 303 25 0.2 - 0.2

Solar energy 9,194 804 53 0.5 - 0.5

Candle 41,214 333 10 0.1 - 0.1

Flashlight/Torch 858,651 49,606 7,077 61.6 - 61.6

Firewood 13,241 1,332 213 1.9 - 1.9

Crop residue 4,623 361 28 0.2 - 0.2

Other 11,739 1,323 34 0.3 - 0.3


Figure 8.1 below shows the source of energy or power by type of locality. the main source of

lighting for dwelling units is flash lights/touch was the most common source of lighting,

accounting for a proportion of (61.6%)of the sources of light in households in the district.

Kerosene lamp constituted (25.0%) of lighting source while Electricity (mains) were used by

(9.5%) of households and was the third main source of lighting in households.

Gas lamp and crop residue have the lower proportion of (0.2%) each of households with main

source of lighting while candle has the least proportions (0.1%).

Figure Source of Energy or Power


Source: Ghana Statistical Service, 2010 Population and Housing Census

8.6.2 Main Source of Cooking Fuel

Figure 8.2 provides information on the types of fuel used for cooking in the Wa West District.

They include wood, crop residue, gas, electricity, kerosene and charcoal.

Overall, the main source of cooking fuel in the district was wood (91.1%), followed by charcoal

(4.2%) and crop residue (2.0%). The least used fuel for cooking were kerosene and gas (0.1%)

each.

The usage of wood as main source of cooking fuel may be due to the nature of economic

activities( farmers) in those areas and the forest nature of the those areas.

Fig 8.2 Main Source of Cooking Fuel

Electricity

(mains)

9.5

Electricity

(private

generator)

0.7

Kerosene lamp

25.0

Gas lamp

0.2

Solar energy

0.5Candle

0.1

Flashlight/Torc

h

61.6

Firewood

1.9

Crop residue

0.2

Other

0.3


1.3.5 Spatial Analysis

The spatial analysis of the district demonstrates the human and economic activities of the district.

It provides an understanding of the district’s space economy and an insight into the adequacy of

the functions performed by the various settlements. Specifically, the spatial analysis is centered

on the type and distribution of infrastructure and services in the various communities of the

district. Using the functional model of classifying settlements, it is possible to establish the

hierarchy of settlements as well as their distribution in space which would provide basis for

injecting equity and efficiency into the space economy.

In all 21 services and facilities were considered in constructing the scalogram. The settlements

that have been included in the scalogram were selected based on the population size, agriculture

extension service, boreholes and primary school. Settlements that have population above 600

were considered. The populations of the various settlements were used in the scalogram analysis.

The table below shows the scalogram for the district.

1.2

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Settlement Pop

WECHAU

(WECHIAU)

1,966 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 14 506 94 1st

DOORMAN

1,130

* * * * * * * * * * * 11 186 35 4th

GA

1,552

* * * * * * * * * * * 11 157 29 4th

GURUNGU

(TODOYIRI/YOUNRI)

973

* * * * * * * * * * 10 142 27 4th

VIERI

1,914 * * * * * * * * * * 10 121 23 4th

NYOLI (YIPENIBOR)

1,694 * * * * * * * * * * 10 119 22 4th

PONYENTENGA

1,116 * * * * * * * * 8 116 22 4th

KANDEO

816

* * * * * * * 7 62 16 5th

DORNYE

1,444

* * * * * * * 7 64 12 5th

TOKALI

839 * * * * * * * * 8 63 12 5th

VARINPARE

703 * * * * * * * 7 62 12 5th

CHOGSIA

1,491

* * * * * * 6 50 9 5th

METIAW

1,760 * * * * * * 6 50 9 5th

5th


KUUKYILETENG

1,097

* * * * 4 44 8 5th

BAKPONG (GADI)

730

* * * * * * 6 42 8 5th

BERINYASE

784

* * * * * 5 39 7 5th

BAMKPAMA

717

* * * * * * 6 28 5 5th

BULI

1,452

* * * * * * 6 28 5 5th

DOMANGILI

1,347

* * * * * * 6 28 5 5th

GBACHE

862

* * * * * * 6 28 5 5th

KAKALAPARI

640

* * * * 4 29 5 5th

KAWU

1,064

* * * * * * 6 28 5 5th

KPANFA

776

* * * * * * 6 28 5 5th

KWACHIYIRI

1,158

* * * * * * 6 28 5 5th

NAHA

723 * * * * * * 6 28 5 5th

NYAGLI

847 * * * * * 5 25 5 5th

WECHEA-BAO

802 * * * * * * 6 28 5 5th

TENDOMA

WELIYIRI

774 * * * * * * 6 28 5 5th

WOLIYIRI (GORA)

792 * * * * *

5 24 4

5th

KANGBA

768

* * * * * 5 24 4 5th

BORO

633

* * * * * 5 18 3 5th


BULINZIN

952

* * * * 4 15 3 5th

CHABARE

(BANDANYIRI)

887

* * * * 4 15 3 5th

KANTU

709

* * * * 4 15 3 5th

NAHA DA-ETENG

1,016 * * * * * 5 18 3 5th

METII

800 * * * 3 10 2 5th

SAGU

691 * * * 3 10 2 5th

DARIGUOYIRI

(DELIGOYIRI)

697

* * * 3 10 2 5th

DOMAWA

651

* * 2 6 1 5th

LASIA TUOLE

1,065 * * * * * * * * * 9 7 1 5th

SIIRA

855 * * 2 7 1 5th

No. Of settlements 29 37 30 5 8 10 39 40 4 11 27 5 1 1 4 7

Centrality Index

100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

Weighted Centrality

Score 3 5 10 60 25 20 3 3 25 18 4 20 200 100 25 14 535

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1.3.6 Hierarchy and Distribution of Settlements

To understand the existing hierarchy of settlement, the scalogram technique was employed. By

this, the settlements were ranked based on the population, and the number of services they offer.

In delineating the settlements into the various hierarchies, the following criteria were used.

1st Order Settlement: Settlements with centrality indices of 80% and above of the total centrality

of 535

2nd Order settlement: Settlements with centrality indices between 60 and 79% of the total

Centrality of 535

3rd Order settlement: Settlements with centrality indices between 40 and 59% of the total

Centrality of 535

4th Order settlement: Settlements with centrality indices below 20 and 39 % of the total

Centrality of 535

5th Order settlement: Settlements with centrality indices below 20 % of the total

Centrality of 535

The scalogram analysis indicates that the district has only four orders namely; 1st order, 4th order

and 5th order settlements. The table below shows the various orders and the settlements within the

orders.

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Hierarchy of Settlements in Wa West District

ORDER NO.

COMMUNITIES

POP. WITHIN

THE ORDER

NAMES OF COMMUNITIES.

1st 1 1,966 Wechiau

2nd Nil Nil Nil

3rd Nil Nil Nil

4th 6 8,379 DORIMON, GA, GURUNGU,

(TODOYIRI/YOUNRI), VIERI, NYOLI

(YIPENIBOR), PONYENTENGA

5th The rest of

settlements

With regards to the district capital, Wechiau, the construction of facilities such as police station,

Health centre has elevated it to 1st order. However, there is a wide gap between Wechiau, the

district capital and the rest of the settlements in terms of centrality as there is no settlement in the

2nd and 3rd order category. The predominance of settlements in the 5th order indicates that facilities

and services are not adequate in the district. As such efforts should be made to improve the

situation to avoid migration to the higher order settlements.

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1.4 DISTRICT ECONOMY

The major economic activities in the district include agriculture, commerce rural industry, tourism

and other services.

1.4.1 Agriculture

Agriculture accounts for 80% of the Wa West District economy. Most farmers undertake a

combination of crops and animal production. The main crops grown by the farmers are maize,

millet, maize, cowpea and groundnut. Of these the District has comparative advantage in

groundnuts and cowpea production. However, productivity of crops is low due to a combination

of factors such as inadequate rainfall, low fertility, poor cultural practices and low technology

application. For example rainfall distribution and amount in the district are concentrated in within

the second and third quarters of the year. Since the district is dependent on rainfall agriculture, the

implication of such rainfall pattern is low crop productivity and inability to produce all year

round, hence there is a high risk of food insecurity. Low crop productivity is one of the major

causes of poverty in the District. With current weather changes, rainfall volumes have reduced

considerably which can be attributed to the degrading of the environment probably due to climate

This situation calls for the need to enhance the provision of water for dry season gardening and

improved agricultural technologies. It is therefore strongly recommended that irrigated

agriculture should be increased substantially in all parts of Wa West District; by taking advantage

of the perennial water of Black Volta, developing irrigation water bodies from its feeder

tributaries and from the available underground water; as well as rain water harvesting. Through

the GSOP Program, two dams have been rehabilitated at Boro and Poloe with ongoing

rehabilitations at Nako, Dorimon and Laadayiri through the MPs Common Fund, the Nyoli

dugout has been rehabilitated by the MP to harvest water for watering of plants and pasturing of

animals during the dry season

1.4.1.1 Crop Production and Food Balance

Available gross crop production in metric tons (MT) for the major crops have been reported for

2013 in table 1.2.

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Table 1.2 Crop Production Levels for 2013

Type of crop Maize Rice Sorghum Groundnut Millet

2013 output 5850 3500 6270 30260 5040

Source: Wa West District Agricultural Development Unit, 2013

1.4.1.2 Livestock Development

The second most important type of primary agricultural production in Wa West District is

livestock production. The livestock sub-sector continues to make steady but moderate gains as it

is now becoming the most lucrative investment in the midst of low income levels emanating from

crop production.

1.3 Table Livestock Production Levels (No.) for 2013

Type of Animal Cattle Sheep Goats pigs

2013 29,653 17,472 131,819 14,466

Source: Wa West District Agricultural Development Unit, 2013

The District has the potential to develop fully the livestock sub-sector. The livestock sub-sector

despite the potentials and achievement is faced with many problems. Some of these areas are:

1. Low genetic potential of the local breed of small ruminants and poultry

2. High incidence of pests and disease on livestock and poultry

3. High cost of veterinary drugs and charges

4. Inadequate veterinary drugs and equipment

5. High cost of feeding pigs

6. Lack of supplementary feeding for ruminants in the dry season

7. Inadequate veterinary staff

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The above problem calls for district and national support towards the full development of the

livestock sector to boost the private sector investment potential. This could be achieved through

funds from both the Assembly, the government and in collaboration with MOFA

1.4.1.3 Fisheries

The district is blessed with a number of water bodies including the Black Volta. Inland fishing is

practiced as an economic activity in the district. The sale of fish is to supplement household

income, though it is on a small scale.

1.4.1.4 Irrigation Infrastructure

The Wa West District Assembly places a high priority on irrigation facilities to enhance dry

season gardening. There are sixteen dams and dugouts in various communities in the District.

However, few of them are used for irrigation purposes. The total land area under irrigation in the

District is 84Ha. This shows that irrigation is highly underdeveloped in the districts, despite its

critical role in the farming activities and poverty reduction strategies of the people. There is need

to expand the irrigatable area through appropriate technologies like creating small water retention

reservoirs during road construction as well as construction of dug-outs and check dams along

water ways. Such small dams will not only support dry season gardening on a small scale but

also provide water for animals, particularly during the dry season. The advantage of such small

dams located in various communities rather than one big dam is the spread of benefits across the

district.

1.4.2 Tourism

The tourism potential of the Wa West District is found in its rich natural, cultural, historical and

man-made attractions. These, however, have not received the needed support and development to

exert their competitiveness within the private sector. The most significant of them is the Wechiau

Community Hippo Sanctuary which is18km from Wechiau.

Wechiau Hippo Sanctuary is a community-based conservation initiative aimed at providing the

Wechiau catchment area inhabitants with a source of revenue and improved quality of life while

simultaneously offering protection to the flora and fauna found within the designated lands.

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Marketed as an eco-tourismdestination, of particular interest is the hippopotamus population

resident along this stretch ofriver. One of only two remaining hippo populations within Ghana, a

group consisting ofapproximately 20 individuals represents an important conservation priority.

Management of the Hippo Sanctuary lies squarely in the hands of the local residents. Though the

efforts of the District Assembly and the Ghana Social Opportunities Project(GSOP) a tree

plantation has been established in the Community (Talawonaa) to conserve the natural beauty of

the sanctua.ry

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Other potential tourism sites that could provide income to the district are the Ga crocodile pond,

the Lobi Architecture, a three hundred year old Mosque and indigenous grinding mills.

Besides these natural and man-made sites, the culture of the people is also captivating. When

coordinated well, these attractions could make the Wa West District a good tourist destination for

local and foreign tourists.

The major challenges the Sanctuary faces include:

Inadequate accommodation for visitor

Lack of recreational facilities at the site

Lack of canteen to serve visitors

Unreliable transportation system

Poor roads network

1.4.3 Market Centres

There are eight major marketing outlets in the district. These are Dorimon, Dabo, Taanvare,

Wechiau, Vieri, Ponyentanga, Nyoli and Gurungu. These markets are organized on a 6-day cycle.

Agro-products and inputs are readily sold and purchased in these markets. Marketing of food

crops and household commodities is mostly done by women. The purchase and sale of livestock

is however, in the hands of men. Physical access to markets is however poor due to poor road

network and condition. Thus the improvement of infrastructure has the potential of increasing the

district revenue base which will impact grately on the socio economic development of the

District.

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1.4.4 Financial Services

There are a few banking services in the district. This has made access to credit very difficult

thereby adversely affecting all aspects economic activities. Thus all workers receive their salaries

in Wa. The only banking service in the district is First National Ltd which is a private

business/banking firm with a Workers Credit Union also in operation

1.4.5 Road Network

Good road infrastructure is one of the key needs for the development of any district, region or

country. The nature of the road network can affect the quality of life and progress of the people

and thereby influence their overall human development. Poor road conditions has the tendency to

cut off population from the main marketing, health and educational centers whenever there is

heavy rainfall.

The total feeder road network in the district is about 456.30km. The District enjoys only about

20km of Bitumen road. Generally, a large chunk of the District is inaccessible, especially during

the raining season.

Table 1.4 Road network and categorization.

TYPE OF ROAD GRAVEL

LENGTH(KM)

EARTH

LENGTH(KM)

TOTAL

LENGTH (KM)

Engineered 149.05 17.8 166.85

Partially Engineered 810 74.15 84.15

Non-Engineered - - 205.30

Grand Total 456.30

SOURCE: Department of Feeder Roads, 2013

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Table 1.5 Road Condition of the District.

TYPE OF ROAD GOOD(KM) FAIR(KM) POOR(KM) TOTAL

LENGTH

(KM)

Engineered 72.55 94.30 - 166.85

Partially

Engineered

10 74.15 - 84.15

Non-Engineered 205.30 205.30

Grand Total 82.5 456.30

SOURCE: Department of Feeder Roads, 2009

The only tarred portion of the district roads are the Wechiau township roads and the Wa-Ga road.

Generally, road infrastructure in the district is of average to poor quality. This have a negative

impact on economic activities and investment potentials.

1.4.6 Energy

The Wa West District has recognized that extension of electricity to many communities would

greatly improve the quality of life of the people; as the facility is being used for other industrial

works such as carpentry workshops, blacksmithing, welding, vulcanizing, fitting shops and agro

processing (shea butter and groundnut extraction). This helps to generate some employment as

well. Twenty (20) communities have been connected to the national grid whilist five (5) others

were being looked on. There is also a plan to extend the national grid are currently to more

communities in the district in the near future. The district hopes that this would help create

businesses thereby reducing the out migration of the youth to the south in search of non-existing

jobs.

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The use of LPG is unpopular to majority of the people living in the district. The minimum use of

LPG can be attributed to the high cost of equipment and also the unavailability of gas service

station in the District.

This has therefore resulted in the wanton cutting of trees for domestic fuel. Economic trees such

as Shea trees are mostly affected in this venture. This has the potential of further reducing the

already low incomes of the people, especially women thereby exacerbating the poverty situation

in the area.

1.5 SOCIAL SERVICES

1.5.1 Education

1.5.1.1 Institutions and Education Enrolment in the District

These are four levels of education in the district. These are the Kindergarten, Primary, Junior

High School and Senior High School. The focus of this resulted oriented plan is on the basic

schools. As such Senior High Schools are not part of this plan. Table 1 below shows the number

of institutions within each level as well as the corresponding enrolment.

Table 1.6 Institutions: Levels and Enrolment in the District.

Level Indicator 2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013 Number of

Schools 2012/13

Kindergaten Enrolment 3,290 1,985 5,246 64

GER 84.43 63.5 89.3

Primary Enrolment 16,200 33 17,449 81

GER 96.0 88.5 121.1

Junior High

School

Enrolment 3,867 2,824 5,064 51

GER

Total 23,257 13,842 27,759 196

The high enrolment especially in primary is due to sustained school feeding programme,

disbursements however call for complementary provision of infrastructure, teaching and learning

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materials as well as teachers to ensure that children have access to quality education in the

district.

1.5.1.2 Teaching Staffing in the District

The quality and quantity of teaching staff remain key factors in education delivery. In the district,

teaching staff comprises the trained and untrained teachers. Table 2 shows the teaching staff

situation in the district.

Table 1.7 Teaching Staff Situation in the District (2012/13)

Level Total

Enrolment

Trained

Teacher

Untrained

Teachers

Total Teachers Teacher Pupil

ratio

Kindergaten 5,246 9 36 45 1:582

Primary 17,449 90 299 389 1:184

Junior High

School

5,064 82 165 247 1:62

Total 27,759 181 500 681 1:153

As indicated in table 1.7, the high number of untrained teachers implies that teaching skills are

limited and this affects quality delivery across levels.

The untrained teachers include Government appointed pupil teachers, National Youth

Employment Teachers and National Voluntary Service Teachers. These categories of teachers

require In-service training to enable them improve their teaching skills.

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1.5.1.3 Educational Infrastructure

Quality education delivery requires adequate infrastructure (classrooms, workshops and furniture)

for both the pupils and the teachers. At the primary level, there are 324 classrooms. With the

current enrolment, there is a backlog 84 classrooms. There are 121 classrooms in all the Junior

High Schools in the district with a backlog of 10 classrooms. A relatively low number of

classrooms are needed in the JHS because of low enrolment at the level. However, 74 classrooms

and 153 classrooms at the JHS and primary respectively need major repairs. In the district, 40

JHS do not have workshops for practical work.

In terms of furniture, the kindergarten has a backlog of 1,444 dual desks. At the primary and JHS

level, the backlog stands at 3,571 dual desks and 3,990 dual desks respectively.

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1.5.1.4 Educational Performance (BECE)

Quality education is partially measured by the performance rate of students and that of the

transition rate. In the 2012/2013 academic year, 708 candidates (students) were presented for the

Basic Education Certificate Examination. Out of this number, 704 actually wrote the examination

and 369 candidates passed, representing 52.41%. This implies that 47.59% of the students were

not qualified to enter the next stage of education (Senior High School) and stand the risk of socio-

economic vices. This has negative effects on the human resource development of the district and

nation at large.

1.5.1.5 Education Sector Problems

There are a lot of development problems within the education sector. An analysis of these

problems identified the causes of the problems as presented below. These problems collectively

lead to poor quality of education.

i. Inadequate infrastructure especially classrooms for all levels and workshops for the

Junior High Schools.

ii. Low school enrolment

iii. Inadequate teachers, especially trained teachers. The district has the highest number of

untrained teachers in the region.

iv. Poor monitoring and supervision due to inaccessibly road to schools.

v. Low pupils retention/high school dropout especially at JHS level due to elopement.

As part of efforts to solve these problems, stakeholders in the sector including Ghana Education

Service, development partners, District Assembly/Government of Ghana to make the following

interventions within the sector. These include;

i. provision of schools infrastructure

ii. Recruitment of teachers especially untrained ones as a short term measure

iii. Sponsorship and bonding of teacher trainees

iv. Sensitization of communities on the need to enroll children and retain that, especially

the girl child

v. Provision of teacher accommodation

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1.6 HEALTH

1.6.1 Health Infrastructure

A summary of the total numbers of health centers, maternity homes and community health

compounds in Wa West District is provided in Table 1.8 below. Wa West District has a total of

24 health institutions made up of 5 public health Centre, 1 public maternity, 1 private maternity

home, 1CHAG facility and 14 Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Centre

that have community health officers’ compounds (CPOs).

Table 1.8 Health Facilities by Sub-district.

AREA COUNCIL Health Centre Maternity Home CHAG

CHPS

Compounds

TOTAL

WECHIAU 1 1 0 2 4

DORIMON 2 0 0 4 6

VEIRI 0 0 1 4 5

GA 1 1 0 4 6

GURUNGU 1 0 0 2 3

TOTAL 5 2 1 16 24

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1.6.2 Clinical Care

Comparatively, utilization of facilities increased tremendously from 55700 in 2013 as against

54096 in 2012 and 44168 in 2011 then 30793 in 2010 for insured clients whilst general utilization

for all clients appreciated with OPD attendance par-capita increasing from 0.37 in 2010,0.53 in

2011 and 0.64 in 2012 then to 0.65 in 2013..

A number of factors accounted for the increase in services utilization such as education on early

care seeking, insurance facility improved financial accessibility, and the creation of more CHPS

zones which improved geographical access to health facilities

Table ;showing total OPD attendance visa-vis per capital attendance

0

20000

40000

60000

2010 2011 2012 2013

Total OPD attendance 30793 44168 54096 55700

Per capita 0.37 0.53 0.64 0.65

OPD ATT. vrs PER CAPITAL

Year Total OPD attendance Per capita

2010 30793 0.37

2011 44168 0.53

2012 54096 0.64

2013 55700 0.65

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1.6.3 Top Ten Causes of OPD Attendance

Despite the implementation of many interventions towards reducing the incidence of malaria, it is

still ranked the top cause of OPD attendance across the health facilities. There was also an

increase in the number of cases compared to previous years. The top four diseases, Malaria, acute

respiratory tract infection, skin disease and other ulcers, Diarrhoea remains constant over the

period. Although the number of cases increased, the percentage increase is not following the

pattern

Table 1.9 Top Ten Causes of OPD Attendance 2010 – 2013

2010 2011 2012 2013

Conditi

on /

Disease

No.

Cas

es

Rank

/%

Conditio

n /

Disease

No.

Cas

es

Rank

/%

Condit

ion /

Diseas

e

No.

Cas

es

Ra

nk

Conditio

n /

Disease

No.

Cas

es

Ran

k/

%

Malaria 197

53 54.8 Malaria

261

17 58.3

Malari

a

283

48

42.

1 Malaria

395

23

45.

1

ARI 423

9 11.8 ARI

547

2 12.2 ARI

111

20

16.

5 ARI

126

00

14.

4

Skin

Disease

s

238

2 6.6

Skin

Diseases

309

4 7

Skin

Diseas

es

442

2 6.6

Skin

Diseases

460

5 5.3

Diarrho

ea

124

6 3.5

Diarrhoe

a

221

7 5

Diarrh

oea

429

4 6.4

Diarrhoe

a

459

5 5.2

Eye

infectio

n

726 2 Eye

Infection

134

1 3

Eye

Infecti

on

152

6 2.3

Eye

Infection

190

5 2.1

Total OPD Cases INSURED NON-INSURED

Series1 55700 48883 6817

0

10000

20000

30000

40000

50000

60000A

xis

Titl

e

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Ear

Infectio

n

569 1.6 Ear

Infection 800 1.8

Ear

infecti

on

130

4 1.9 Anaemia

164

9 1.9

Pneum

onia 471 1.5

Intestina

l Worms 686 1.5

Intesti

nal

Worm

s

114

7 1.7

Rheumat

ism &

Joint

Pains

158

1

1.8

Snake

Bite 469 1.4

Pneumo

nia 655 1.4

Anaem

ia

109

6 1.6

Acute

Ear

infection

151

6 1.7

Home

Acciden

ts

466 1.3

Home

Accident

s

504 1.1

Home

Accide

nts and

I

624 0.9 Intestina

l Worms

108

6 1.2

RTA 356 1 Rheumat

ism 25 0.1 RTA 466 0.7 UTI 794 0.9

Source: Wa West District Health Directorate, 2013

1.6.4 Malaria Control

Malaria, the leading cause of morbidity in the district as usual, brought 19,184 patients for care.

That is 49.3 percent of the 38,875 out-patient attendance for 2013. The malaria cases for 2011

was 26,117 (58.3%), 19,753 (54.8%) in 2010. Confirmed cases for 2012 were x (%).

As in previous years children under five bore the biggest brunt of this scourge accounting for

47.3% of all the malaria cases. Pregnant women with malaria were 318 (1.7%). The district

carried out Indoor Residual Spraying in collaboration with AGAMAL and also hanged Long

Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets in almost all rooms in collaboration with UNICEF.

The district is implementing the Intermittent Preventive Treatment policy using Sulphadoxine-

Pyrimethamine (SP) combination. Systematic public education was intensified with the objective

of increasing awareness about the causes of malaria and the role of individuals and the general

public in its prevention

. The use of the RDTs has reduced the over diagnoses of every febrile condition as malaria hence

the reduction in the malaria cases.

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1.6.4.1 ITN

ITN was also promoted in an attempt to combat the malaria menace. Health promotion messages

were given to house holds on the importance of the use of the ITNS

1.6.5 Under-Five Mortality

One of the MDG indicators seeks to reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five

mortality rate from 208 to 112.. Unfortunately the district has no hospital and for that matter

records are not available.

1.6.6 MATERNAL DEATHS

Unfortunately, these deaths occurs in the Regional Hospital 4 institutional maternal deaths were

recorded at Wa Regional Hospital originating from the district and one community death

recorded .the incidence of maternal death in the district is now on the increase, the year 2013

recorded 5 maternal deaths, 2012 recorded 4, 2011 recorded 3 and 2010 recorded 3.

Unfortunately, the district recorded a community maternal death in the year 2013 which should

not have happened given a large coverage of health education on maternal health.

This development is a major setback and a threat to the achievement of MDGs goal 5, with a

target of to three quarters the maternal mortality ratio by 2015. This situation implies more

efforts in terms of human, material, and structural requirements are needed to meeting MDG 4

and 5.

1.6.7 Guinea Worm

Guinea worm is of public health importance due to itsimpact on development. Guinea worm

recorded.

The last Guinea Worm case recorded was in 2006 and it originated from outside the district. Two

suspected case were recorded investigated and in 2013 similarly, two rumor cases investigated

and discarded in 2012. Household surveillance has continued in endemic communities and public

awareness created in all communities. Documentation was strengthened towards certification and

the Cash reward system awareness creation is ongoing.

1.6.7 Leprosy Prevalence

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The prevalence of leprosy cases in the district is on the increase, this call for concern. Eleven new

cases were recorded in 2013, 2012 recorded zero case while 2011 registered 13 patients of which

all were multibacillary and no paucibacillary cases for 2011 were treated and cured.

1.6.8 HIVAIDS

TABLE SHOWING HCT SERVICES FOR 2010-2013

SUB-

DISTRI

CT

2010 2011 2012 2013

# Tested # Pos # Tested # Pos # Tested # Pos # Tested # Pos

M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F

DISTRI

CT 188 128 9 11 111

2

3

4

5 14 10

3 153 5 8 14

1

5 1 2

TOTAL 316 20 345 19 256 13 29 3

FIGURE; DEPICTING HCT SERVICES FOR 2010-2013

2010 2011 2012 2013

TESTED 316 345 256 29

POSITIVE 20 19 13 3

0

100

200

300

400

Axi

s Ti

tle

HCT SERVICES

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TABLE; SHOWING PREVENTIO OF MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMISSION SERVICES

FOR 2010-2013

CATEGORY 2010 2011 2012 2013

PREG. WOMEN 2323 2368 3034 1856

TESTED 2169 2029 2918 1560

POSITIVE 17 6 11 16

FIGURE; DEPICTING PMTCT SERVICES FOR 2010-2013

Tabl 1.10 Summary Table of Wa West District HIV/AIDS Situation

2010 2011 2012 2013

PREG. WOMEN 2323 2368 3034 1856

TESTED 2169 2029 2918 1560

POSITIVE 17 6 11 16

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

Axi

s Ti

tle

PMTCT SERVICES

2010 2011 2012 2013

SCREENED 5343 2374 3174 1589

POSITIVE 37 25 24 19

PREVALENT RATE 0.7 1.1 0.8 1.2

0200040006000

Axi

s Ti

tle

Chart Title

2010 2011 2012 2013

PREG. WOMEN 2323 2368 3034 1856

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Table; 1.11 showing cases and prevalent rate

The sixth MDG is to halt and reverse the spread of HIVAIDS. It is in line with this that the Wa

West District has intensified efforts in this area as a priority. Over the years there has been a

gradual reduction of cases as indicated in the graph. This was as a result of awareness creation on

the disease; largely through the support of Ghana AIDS Commission and some voluntary

organizations operating in the district

TESTED 2169 2029 2918 1560

POSITIVE 17 6 11 16

2010 2011 2012 2013

SCREENED 5343 2374 3174 1589

POSITIVE 37 25 24 19

PREVALENT RATE 0.7 1.1 0.8 1.2

2010 2011 2012 2013

TOTAL 37 25 24 19

PMTCT 17 6 11 16

HCT 20 19 13 3

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

FRQ

HIV STATUS

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Table 1.10 and 1.11 shows that the an unstable prevalence rate of clinical cases flachulating from

0.7 % in 2010 to 1.1% 2011 and 0.8% in 201 to 1.1% which is lower than the national average

and therefore does not constitute a major threat to achieving MDGs goal 6.

Notwithstanding this low prevalence rate, the implication of the current situation, especially on

the economically productive age group is that man-work hours as well as production will be

affected, leading to low productivity either in food production, income generation or salary

earned jobs leading to poor feeding due to lack of money. This also affects other services such as

education, health, good housing etc due to low-income levels of parents/ guardians. The gross

impact is increase in poverty in the district.

1.6.9 National Health Insurance Scheme

In addition to infrastructure and human resources, one major resource that ultimately determines

the access and quality of health care delivery is financing. The heavy burden of this has been

greatly alleviated by the National Health Insurance Scheme which has been established in every

district in Ghana. The Wa West District Health Insurance Scheme commenced operation in

January 2007.

Records from the District Health Insurance Scheme indicate that in 2009, 55,268 people

registered with the scheme, representing 67% of the population. This is quite good even though

it falls short of the national target of 70% coverage.

1.6.9.1 Health Challenges

Looking at the table above, out of the total OPD clients of 55700 in 2013, 48883 (87.8%) of

them were insured and 6817 (12.2%) non-insured. OPD Utilization by Insurance has continued

to increase from year to year as the noon insurance continued to decrease accordingly.

1.6.9.1 Health Challenges

Poor physical accessibility to health services notwithstanding the increased outreach

stations and static health facilities in the district.

Inadequate equipment for Health facilities

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Patient and staff accommodation is inadequate to meet current demands

Communication between communities and health delivery outlets remains poor

Low pace of CHPS construction

• Low skilled delivery

• Inadequate and aged midwives in the district.

• Maternal and infant death on the increase

• Dabo dilapidated CHPS compound

• Jenbob collapsed CHPS compound

• No accommodation for a medical doctor and district director and other critical staff for

starting a hospital

These are all critical issues, which needs immediate attention by the DA and the District Health

Directorate as they could threaten the ability of the district to provide good quality health

services and negatively affect the achievement of MDGs’ goals 4, 5 and 6 on especially child

and maternal health care.

WATER AND SANITATION

1.7.1 Water

The availability of and accessibility to improved drinking water is an important aspect of the

health of household members. The UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Seven aimed to

reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015

based on 1990 levels. The source of water supply particularly for drinking has a tremendous

effect on burden of diseases. For instance, one of the main health benefits of clean drinking water

supply is a reduction in diarrhoea.

Water sources are often classified as ‘improved’ or ‘unimproved’: Sources considered as

improved are piped public water into homes, public standpipe, borehole, protected (lined) dug

well, protected spring, and rainwater collection; unimproved are unprotected wells and springs,

vendors, and tanker-trucks (WHO and UNICEF, 2000).

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Source of drinking water is one of the indicators used to assess the standard of living of people.

sources of drinking water for households in the district can be categorised broadly into pipe-

borne water, boreholes/wells, rain water and river/stream.

Of these sources of drinking water, the use of borehole/pump/tube well was the most common,

accounting for more than three-quarters (79.3%) households in the district. A small percentage

(8.8%) of households also reported river/streams as source of drinking water. Pipe-borne inside

dwelling and rain water accounting for (0.2%) each being the least source of drinking water in

the district.

Table 8.10: Main source of water of dwelling unit for drinking and other domestic purposes

Sources of water

Total

country Region

District

Total Urban Rural

N % % %

Main source of drinking water for household

Total 5,467,054 110,174 11,486 100.0 - 100.0

Pipe-borne inside dwelling 790,493 5,933 19 0.2 - 0.2

Pipe-borne outside dwelling 1,039,667 12,542 396 3.4 - 3.4

Public tap/Standpipe 712,375 4,807 106 0.9 - 0.9

Bore-hole/Pump/Tube well 1,267,688 70,759 9,113 79.3 - 79.3

Protected well 321,091 4,011 190 1.7 - 1.7

Rain water 39,438 172 26 0.2 - 0.2

Protected spring 19,345 368 30 0.3 - 0.3

Bottled water 20,261 50 2 0.0 - 0.0

Sachet water 490,283 823 53 0.5 - 0.5

Tanker supply/Vendor provided 58,400 302 2 0.0 - 0.0

Unprotected well 112,567 1,719 124 1.1 - 1.1

Unprotected spring 12,222 287 36 0.3 - 0.3

River/Stream 502,804 7,037 1,010 8.8 - 8.8

Dugout/Pond/Lake/Dam/Canal 76,448 1,344 374 3.3 - 3.3

Other 3,972 20 5 0.0 - 0.0

Currently, the Wa West District Assembly can boasts of 234 functioning Boreholes fitted with

hand pumps. There are no existing small town water systems in the District. There also 9

institutional boreholes in the district.

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The Wa West District Assembly has also stepped up the drilling of boreholes in communities.

Currently 55 are under construction from the implementation of the SRWSP . Maintenance of

boreholes is also carried out on large scale and the drilling of boreholes for communities without

water has been scaled up. The intension of the District is to construct Small Town Water

Systems for five( 5) major communities but this did not materialize only the construction of the

Wechiau Small Town Water System at elementary stage

It is the intension of the Wa West District Assembly that, Wechiau, the District capital, Dorimon,

Vieri, Ga and Gurungu could benefit from the small towns water systems by the end of 2013.

The water coverage is currently at 73.0 % from the 65 % level recorded in 2009.

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1.7.2 Sanitation

Potable water goes with good sanitation facilities and practices. This will help reduce the water

and sanitation related diseases in the area. However, in the district, good sanitation practices

have been relegated to the background and efforts are being put in to scaling it up tremendously.

Only 32.05% of the population in the district has access to sanitation facilities. Currently, the

district has 6 KVIPs, 3 Septic Tanks and 1,606 household latrines. There are 34 institutional

latrines also in the district. As there is low coverage of sanitation facilities, especially toilets,

defecating in the bushes and behind houses is a common practice in the towns and villages.

There are few public toilets within the district, however, their conditions add up deterring some

people who would prefer using the public toilets to the “free-range” (Defecating in the bush)

habit. This has adverse health implications.

The table below indicates Sanitation Facilities by type and coverage in the District.

Table 1.12 Sanitation Facilities in the District

AREA COUNCIL POPULATION SANITATION FACILITIES

Sceptic Tank KVIP VIP COVERAGE (%)

GA 18,001 1 1 233 16.77

GURUNGU 8,508 0 0 432 53.24

DORIMON 22,672 1 2 461 20.50

VIERI 17,220 0 1 186 11

WECHIAU 14,377 1 2 292 13.03

TOTAL 81,349 3 6 1606 16.05

Source: DWST-WA WEST, 2014

Sanitary facilities in the district are woefully inadequate. The Assembly also received and

distributed a number of rubber dustbins, which were placed at vantage points to improve the

sanitary situation if well used.The introduction of School Hygiene and Education System under

the SRWSP has helped in educating school children to be champions of change with regards to

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sanitation practices in the district. Open Defecation Free(ODF) has also been introduced to

educate people on the importance of constructing household latrines instead of defecating openly

in the bush.

Toilet Facilities

Many district authorities have been grappling with the problem of sanitation, especially the

disposal of solid waste. Figure 8.4 presents the distribution of households by type of toilet

facility. The data show the various types of toilet facilities available to households in the

districts.

Most households use bush or open field for toilet (85.9%). Use of pit latrine constitutes about

(9%). About 3.1 percent of households use public toilet. KVIP is the fourth highest means of

defecation with 1.2 percent followed by W.C. with 0.9 percent. Bucket/Pan is not in existence in

the district.

The use of bush, or open field as toilet facility is more pronounced in rural areas than in urban

areas as indicated by figure 8.4.

Figure 8.4 Toilet Facility

Source: Ghana Statistical Service, 2010 Population and Housing Census

85.9

0.9

8.8

1.2 0.03.1

0.10.0

10.0

20.0

30.0

40.0

50.0

60.0

70.0

80.0

90.0

Per

cen

tag

e

Toilet Facility

Rural

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1.7 Vulnerability Analysis

1.7.1 Introduction

Vulnerability may be defined as the probability that livelihood stress will occur. It has been

defined as the lack of capacity (of a household) to cope with an adverse shock or a households

resilience against a shock. That is the likelihood that a shock will result in a decline in well-being

of the household. Exclusion and lack of voice can also determine the extent of a person’s access

to resources. Lack of voice and the inability to make recourse to justice can increase a person’s

vulnerability to injustice and corruption and thus exclusion.

1.7.2 Vulnerable and Excluded Groups

In the Wa West District, the following groups have been identified as vulnerable and excluded:

children in difficult circumstances (those from low income and broken homes and orphans).

These children are likely to suffer from malnutrition or be involved in economic activity at an

early age (child labour/street children), adolescent girls (those from low income and broken

homes and single mothers as well as commercial sex workers), Persons living with HIV/AIDS,

the aged, persons with disability, women and unemployed youth and subsistence food/vegetable

farmers were also identified as vulnerable and excluded.

1.7.3 Types of shock facing households in the District

The Wa West District as a major agricultural area is also dependent on rainfall for production.

As a result the major shocks affecting food availability, incomes and wealth accumulation are

those that relate mainly to crop production. The economic activities that individuals and

household are involved in also determine to a large extent vulnerability to income and asset loss

in the Municipality.

Three main types of shocks affecting most families in the District relate to the areas of food

insecurity, human insecurity and job insecurity. Household also face a wide variety of shocks

ranging from natural events to man-made (that is conflicts, policy induced, terms of trade shocks,

illness and deaths). The most cited shocks are production related. This may occur as a result of

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crop failure due to poor rains affecting harvests or pest invasion affecting storage.

Price- related shocks rank second. Due to the fluctuating prices of agricultural produce and

inadequate storage and processing facilities, increased harvest usually end up in glut of produce

and low prices. Farmers then tend to sell off their produce immediately after harvest when prices

are low. Farmers, especially subsistence ones, are forced to buy back the produce during the lean

season, when prices are at their highest levels.

At the community level most communities reported of events relating to rainstorms that affect

houses including schools and other individual and community’s building as well as flooding

during the peak rainfall periods.

1.7.4 Coping Strategies/impacts of shocks

In Wa West District most poor households respond to shocks by recourse to self help coping

strategies like selling of assets or livestock and informal insurance mechanisms. The non-poor

also use both self-help mechanisms, as well as market-based strategies such as falling on savings

and banks loans. Majority of household do not use formal insurance mechanisms.

The extent to which the affected household or individual can gain access to credit, private

transfer or public safety nets to help maintain consumption, may determine the type of response.

When it is not possible to access any public safety nets or sufficient credit to maintain current

consumption, recourse may be made to other strategies that either directly or indirectly reduces

assets or further consumption. This situation tends to further worsen the individual or households

Current disaster management programmes which need to be strengthened and the role of social

assistance expanded. Greater collaboration between agencies/organizations for the sector needs

to be promoted to enhance effectiveness of assistance. Reliable data on the vulnerable, excluded

and disadvantaged persons need to be addressed.

1.7.6 Gender Issues

Current statistics indicates that women in Wa West District form more than 50% of the total

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population in the district and their roles have mainly been defined and shaped along biological

and cultural lines. Women as homemakers and caregivers are challenged to provide food

security and material needs and are therefore actively engaged in economic activities. Strides

have been made in all sectors of the economy especially in agro processing and services.

However, women continue to face considerable constraints that prevent them from taking full

advantage of opportunities that are available to them. Women experience the worst form of

poverty, generally they continue to have limited access to and control over land, inadequate

access to credit for production and expansion of businesses, inadequate skills and training, less

formal education and fewer numbers in decision making process at both community and national

levels.

The programmes identified in the plan are in line with the National Gender and children policy,

Early Childhood Care and Development policy and the Ghana Shared Growth and Development

Agenda (GSGDAII). Under the plan, activities that will improve the social, economic and

political status of women and enhance the development and potential of children have been

identified and will be implemented and monitored accordingly.

1.8 GOVERNANCE

1.8.1 Local Governance

The Wa West District Assembly constitutes the highest political authority in the district. it

guides, directs and supervises all other administrative authority in the district. It has five (5) Area

Councils and a number of unit committees. The Assembly itself is made up 28 members all of

them elected with two of them being women. Among the government appointees, four(4 ) are

women.

This underscores the need to encourage more women to offer themselves for district level

election and to appoint more government appointees as women to bridge the gender imbalance in

the Assembly. There are also 5 sub-committees with deliberative functions. In line with Act 462,

Wa West District discharges its functions through sub-committees. Apart from the mandatory

sub-committees (Finance and Administration, Development Planning, Social Services, Works,

and Justice and Security) Wa West District has two other sub-committees; namely: Women and

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Children and Public Relations and Complaints. The creation of these additional sub-committees

has great relevance especially if they focus strongly on the development issues of those areas.

Local governance in Wa West District reflects the provisions in the Local Government Act of

1993 (Act 462). The District Assembly (established by Legislative Instrument LI 1751 is the

highest political, administrative and planning authority in the district and has deliberative,

legislative and executive functions. The main features of the decentralized system are reflected in

a number of legislations including the following: -

1. The 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana

2. Local Government Act, 1993 (Act 462)

3. The National Development Planning [System] Act 1994 (Act 480)

4. The District Assembly Common Fund Act 1994 (Act 455)

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1.8.1.1 Decentralized Departments

Out of the eleven decentralized departments of the assembly, only a few are operational in the

district as shown below:

Table 1.13 Decentralized Departments in the District

No Department Constituent Available/Not available

1 Central Administration

General Administration Available

District Planning Co-ordinating Unit Available

Births and Deaths Registry Available

Information Service Dept. Available

Statistical Service Not available

2 Education, Science and

Sports

Education, Science and Sports Available

Ghana Library Board. Not available

3 Social Welfare and

Community

Development

Social Welfare Available

Community Development Available

4 Finance Controller and Accountant General Available

5 Physical Planning Department of Town and Country

Planning

Available

Department of Parks and Gardens Not available

6 Works Public Works Department Available

Department of Feeder Roads Not available

Rural Housing Not available

7 Trade and industry Trade Not available

Cottage Industry Not available

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Co-operatives Not available

8 Natural resource

conservation

Forestry Not available

Games and Wildlife Not available

9 Health District Health Administration

Team

Available

Environmental Division of MLG Available

10

MOFA

Department of Animal Health &

Production

Available

Department of Fisheries Available

Department of Agricultural

Extension Services

Available

Department of Crop services Available

Department of Agricultural

Engineering

Not Available

11 Disaster Prevention Fire Service Department Not available

NADMO Available

Source: Wa West District Assembly, 2013

1.8.2 Traditional Authority

Alongside the decentralized governance system is a parallel traditional governance system which

appears not to be in harmony with the district assembly system thereby stifling development in

the local area. Even though the two governance systems both seek the development of their area,

they are not able to complement each other as a team towards achieving the common goal of

development. This may be traced to the subtle power dynamics and competition for control of

resources between the two systems. The district has two paramountcies: Wechiau and

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Dorimonheaded by Wechiau Naa and DorimonNaa respectively. There are also divisional and

sub-divisional chiefs under the authority of the two paramountcies.

Interactions between District assembly and traditional authorities in the district is often limited to

ceremonial role of chiefs during major functions as well as seeking land from chiefs for

development.

A remarkable feature of the traditional governance system in Wa West District is that there are

no chieftaincy conflicts in other parts of the country.

1.8.3 Judiciary and Security

The principles of good governance are achieved on the back of increased staff strength and

logistical support given to judicial and security forces of any geographical setting. Paradoxically,

the Wa West District has no court to maintain law and order and to adjudicate both civil and

criminal cases. There is therefore the need for a law court, especially at Wechiau to maintain and

sustain the peace.onomic Governance

1.8.4.1 Sources of Revenue

The major sources of revenue available to the District Assembly can be grouped into three:

Internally Generated Fund/Traditional (IGF), Locally Central Government Transfers (CGT) and

Donor Transfers

Internally Generated Funds comprises Rates, Lands, Fees, Licenses, Trading Services and

Miscellaneous Sources. Central Government Transfers are derived from; Grants, which

comprises: District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) and HIPC Funds, MP common Fund and

District Development Facility (DDF). Donor transfers comprise of funds extended to the district

from development partners.

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Table 1.14 Internal Generated Fund

Type

2010 2011

2012

2013

Amount Percentage Amount Percent

age

Amount Percen

tage

Amount Percentage

Rates

5,502.10 7.47

3,392.76 4.45

3,853.00

11.92

15,371.30 14.80

Lands

23,190.90 31.49

28,300.0

0 37.09

800.00

2.48 - 0.00

Fees

and

Fines

15,917.90 21.61

13,083.5

0 17.15

10,554.2

5

32.66

34,331.60 33.06

Licen

ses

7,076.16 9.61

19,445.0

0 25.49

7,126.00

22.05

8,819.50 8.49

Rent

401.00 0.54

107.00 0.14

20.00

0.06 - 0.00

Invest

ment

8,066.27 10.95

10,340.5

0 13.55

5,325.00

16.48

7,794.00 7.51

Misce

llaneo

us

13,500.00 18.33

1,626.00 2.13

4,640.00

14.36

37,533.85 36.14

TOT

AL

73,654.33 100.00

76,294.7

6

100.00

32,318.2

5

100.00

103,850.25 100.00

SOURCE: Wa West District, 2013

From the above table, it is clear that the Assembly has a low IGF. This is as a result of the low

revenue base, unwillingness on the part of the community members to pay their tax obligations.

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Another major reason for the low IGF is poor reporting and accounting system. The Assembly

lacks the machinery to ensure proper accounting from revenue collectors.

Finally, it was identified that the relatively low level of economic activities in the District serves

as a barrier to any effort aimed at increasing revenue mobilization in the District. The low IGF

implies that the District is over dependent on external sources for the financing of its

development projects. This high degree of dependence could affect the autonomy of the

Assembly and undermine its decision-making system.

Table 1.15 External Source of Revenue

Type

2010 2011

2012

2013

Amount Percentage Amount Percentag

e

Amount Percentage Amount Percen

tage

DACF&

MPCF

213,635.0

2 15.02

1,669,774.

04 71.41

676,226.6

2 20.80

559,380.83 13.91

DDF

765,900.8

5 53.84

168,147.23 7.19

2,084,653.

57 64.14

1,586,839.

44 39.46

GSFP

13,000.00 0.91

11,930.00 0.51

206,134.0

0 6.34

785,877.30 19.54

CBRDP/

GSOP

92,283.10 6.49

106,316.64 4.55

124,358.9

8 3.83

628,855.14 15.64

DWAP

258,549.3

0 18.18

282,507.53 12.08

- 0.00

- 0.00

SRWSP - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 397,072.66 9.87

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HIPC

62,000.00 4.36

5,060.00 0.22

110,000.0

0 3.38

- 0.00

PWD

- 0.00

-

91,679.87 3.92

48,936.30 1.51

60,578.45 1.51

MSHAP

17,169.00 1.21

3,000.00 0.13

- 0.00

2,400.00 0.06

TOTAL

1,422,537.

27 100.00

2,338,415.

31 100.00

3,250,309.

47 100.00

4,021,003.

82 100.00

1.9 DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS OPERATING IN THE DISTRICT

Development Partners in the District contribute in diverse ways in the development of the

district. These organizations contribute immensely in the pr

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vision economic and social services to better the lot of the people in the district. The table below

shows the Development Partners operating in the District as well as their areas of operations.

Table 1.16 Development Partners and their Area of Operation

NO. DEVELOPMENT PARTNER AREA OF OPERATION

1 Plan Ghana Education, Health/HIV/AIDS, Livelihood/Food

security and, Water and Sanitation

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2 CRS School Supplementary Feeding Programme

3 SNV Capacity Building

4 CAMfed Education

5 CHALICE Education and Health

6. UNICEF Education, Health, Tourism, Water and

Sanitation

7 UNFPA Health

8 CARD Microfinance, food security, water and

sanitation

9 EDUCATION FOR LIFE Education

Source: Wa West District Assembly, 2013

An unfortunate happening is that some of these development partners do not inform the District

Assembly about their plans and implementation strategies in the communities they operate,

neither do they submit their annual reports for review. This has made it difficult to track their

performance and impacts in the communities in which they operate.

This weak collaboration between the District Assembly and these organizations need to be

addressed to enhance effective coordination of activities and the realization of desired results.

1.9 Summary of Key Development Problems

The under mentioned development problems have been identified in consultation communities

and identified groups as well as analysis of current development status of the district.

1. Lack of adequate tourism infrastructure

2. Ineffective cultural practices amongst small holder farmers leading to comparatively

lower yields

3. Inadequate and poor quality data and lack of proper monitoring system

4. poor surveillance of livestock diseases

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5. Increasing trends in deforestation, degradation and biodiversity loss with adverse

consequences for agriculture

6. Increasing frequency and impacts of droughts, floods, forest fires and other natural

hazards

7. Inadequate power supply infrastructure and access to electricity

8. Low accessibility to telephone facilities

9. Poor and inadequate internet infrastructure

10. Limited deployment of ICT infrastructure in educational institutions

11. Lack of spatial land use plans

12. Weak enforcement of planning and building regulations

13. Inadequate human and institutional capacities for land use planning

14. Inadequate access to quality and affordable water

15. Inadequate access to sanitation facilities and poor sanitation service delivery

16. Inadequate access to basic education

17. Infrequent and ineffective supervision of teaching and learning in educational institutions

18. Inadequate teacher housing facilities in deprived communities

19. High infant and maternal mortality

20. High morbidity and mortality from communicable diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS

and TB

21. High stigmatization of PLWHIV

22. Limited coverage of social protection interventions

23. Lack of reliable and adequate data on disable people

24. Low awareness of and violation of child rights

25. Poor performance of the local governance system due to inadequate participation

26. Inadequate women representation and participation in public life and governance

27. Inaccessibility of justice

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28. Limited public awareness and advocacy on rights and responsibilities

29. Weak internal revenue mobilization

30. Weak capacities of personnel and logistics shortfall

31. Weak employment generation capacities at the district level

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CHAPTER TWO

2.0 DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES

2.1 Introduction

This sub-section presents the prioritized development issues/problems identified and listed in the

previous section. These prioritized issues have been grouped under the pillars of the Medium

Term Development Policy Framework (MTDPF) document.

The focus of the MTDPF is to address the economic imbalances, re-stabilizing the economy,

placing it on a path of sustained accelerated growth and poverty reduction towards the

millennium development goals and middle income status within a measurable planning period.

2.2 List of development priorities in the district

In line with the priority areas of the MTDPF, the main development issues of the Wa West

District have been prioritized and presented under the seven thematic areas. These are shown in

the ensuing sub-sections.

Thematic Area1: Enhancing Competitiveness in Ghana’s Private Sector

1. Lack of adequate tourism infrastructure

Thematic Area 2: Accelerated Agricultural Modernization and Sustainable Natural

Resource Management

1. Ineffective cultural practices amongst small holder farmers leading to comparatively

lower yields

2. Increasing frequency and impacts of droughts, floods, forest fires and other natural

hazards

3. Increasing trends in deforestation, degradation and biodiversity loss with adverse

consequences for agriculture

4. Poor surveillance of livestock diseases

5. Inadequate and poor quality data and lack of proper monitoring system

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Thematic Area 3: Infrastructure, and Human Settlement Development

1. Inadequate access to sanitation facilities and poor sanitation service delivery

2. Inadequate access to quality water

3. Lack of spatial land use plans

4. Inadequate power supply infrastructure and access to electricity

5. Low accessibility to telephone facilities

6. Poor and inadequate internet infrastructure

7. Inadequate human and institutional capacities for land use planning

8. Weak enforcement of planning and building regulations

9. limited deployment of ICT infrastructure in educational institutions

Thematic Area 4: Human Development, Productivity and employment

1. Inadequate access to basic education

2. High morbidity and mortality from communicable diseases such as malaria,

HIV/AIDS and TB

3. High infant and maternal mortality

4. Limited coverage of social protection interventions

5. Inadequate teacher housing facilities in deprived communities

6. Loss of quality human and material resources due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic

7. High stigmatization of PLWHIV

8. Lack of reliable and adequate data on disable people

9. Low awareness of and violation of child rights

10. Infrequent and ineffective supervision of teaching and learning in educational

institutions

11. Lack of office accommodation for District Directorate of Education

Thematic Area 5: Transparent and Accountable Governance

1. Weak internal revenue mobilization

2. Weak capacities of personnel and logistics shortfall

3. Inadequate women representation and participation in public life and governance

4. Poor performance of the local governance system due to inadequate participation

5. Limited public awareness and advocacy on rights and responsibilities

6. Weak employment generation capacities at the district level


Thematic Area 6: Ensuring and Sustaining Micro-Economic Stability

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thematic area 7: oil and gas development

2.2 Application of Potential, Opportunities, Constraints and Challenges (POCC) to

Development Problems

From the examination of the current situation of the district, key issues identified were subjected

to the analysis of the Potentials, Opportunities, Constraints and Challenges of the district in

respect of MTDPF (2014-2017). The tables below present the Potentials, Opportunities,

Constraints and Challenges of the District in line with the thematic areas of the MTDPF (2014-

2017).

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TABLE 2.1 APPLICATION OF POCC TO KEY DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS – WA WEST DISTRICT

PROBLEM POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES CONSTRAINTS CHALLENGES

THEMATIC AREA : ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS OF GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR

TOURISM

Lack of adequate

tourism infrastructure

- Existence of Hippo

sanctuary

- DA support

- Sanctuary

Management Board

- Visitors centre

- accessible road

- Presence of GTB

- Ghana as a tourist

destination

- Development

partners ( e.g.

Calgary zoo)

- Existence of the

media

- Existence of

ministry of tourism

- Lack of modern

accommodation at

the tourist site

- Unattractive nature

of the tourist site

- Low marketing of

tourist attraction

- Low IGF

- Activities of hunters

- Activities of chain

saw operators

- Farming along the

Black Volta

- Inadequate donor

funding

- Poor access roads

- Bush fires

- limited involvement

of the DA

Conclusion: Lack of adequate tourism infrastructure can be addressed since enough potential and opportunities exist. The constraints

can be managed by collaborating effectively with the DA. Challenges can also be addressed through dialogue with development

partners, Ministry of Roads and by enacting and enforcing bye-laws on bush fires.

PROBLEM POTENTIALS OPPORTUNITIES CONSTRAINTS CHALLENGES

THEMATIC AREA : ACCELERATED AGRICULTURE MODERNISATION AND SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT

Low crop yields

- Availability of

extension officers

- Vast land for crop

production

- Availability of

- Good government

policies on agric

- Presence of

development

partners

- Inadequate

extension

officers

- Use of low

quality seeds

- Ineffective cultural

practices amongst

small holder farmers

- Soil infertility

- High cost of inputs

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labour force

- Presence of

information

department and van

to disseminate

information

- Presence of dams

and river bodies to

support irrigation

-

- Availability of

improved seeds

- Presence of

MOFA

- Availability of

input credit

schemes (Block

Farm, SADA)

- Collaboration

with research

institutions

(SARI)

- High extension/

farmer ratio

- Bush fires

- Lack of

favourable credit

facilities

- Activities of foreign

cattle herds men

- Over reliance on

rainfall

- Reducing extension

staff numbers

- Low/slow adoption

of technologies by

farmers

- Low recovery of

credit schemes by

farmers

Conclusion: The district abounds with enough potentials and opportunities to increase the production levels of crops. The constraints can

be managed through the development of appropriate programmes for the use of dams for irrigation. The challenges can also be managed

through collaboration with partners and appropriate Ministries for infrastructural development and the provision of inputs.

Reducing

productivity of land

Availability of vast land to

support shifting cultivation - Increasing

availability of

organic fertilizers

- Availability of

high yielding and

short duration

crop varieties

- Continuous

cropping

- Tedious use of

organic manure

compared to

inorganic fertilizer

- Continuous use

of chemical

fertilizers

- Low cost of

inorganic

fertilizer

comparative to

organic fertilizer

High post-harvest

losses

Available knowledge on

processing and storage

techniques

- Availability of

warehouses

- Poor maintenance

of available

warehouses

- Bush fires

- Inadequate

storage

facilities

- Poor road

network

- High investment

cost of communal

storage houses

- Inadequate

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market for

produce

- Competition with

cheaply imported

foreign products

-

Climate change

effects

Availability of water

bodies (Black volta, dams)

to support irrigation

- Introduction of

new crop

varieties suitable

to climatic

conditions

- Availability of

resource person

(s) on climate

change

- Collaborative

efforts between

various

stakeholders

(EPA, Hippo

sanctuary board

etc)

- Reducing

productivity of

staples

- Limited technical

know-how on

climate change

issues

-

- Changing rainfall

distribution

patterns

- Conservative

farmer attitudes

- Low/slow

adoption of

technologies by

farmers

Inadequate and poor

quality data and lack

of proper monitoring

systems

- Existence of farmer

groups

-

- Presence of

telecommunicatio

n facilities

- Presence of

MOFA

- Good road

network

- Presence of

NGOs

-

- Inadequate

capacities to collect

and analyze data

- Low IGF

-

- Dwindling donor

support

- Inadequate funds

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Prevalence of

livestock diseases

Availability of veterinary

staff - Presence of

veterinary unit

- Poor housing of

livestock/poultry

- Use of low quality

breeds

- Rising cost of

vaccines and hence

vaccinations

- High veterinary

/farmer ratio

- Inadequate

veterinary

officers and

vaccines

- Inadequate funds

- Absence of

regular livestock

censuses

- Absence of a

veterinary doctor

- Poor surveillance

due to inadequate

funds

Low production of

livestock

Availability of veterinary

staff.

Availability of crop

residue as supplementary

feed

Large numbers of livestock

farmers

- Presence of

veterinary unit

- Availability of

improved

livestock varieties

- Seasonal

availability of feed

and water

- Improper housing

of livestock

- End of livestock

Development

Project

- Farmers over-

reliance on

communal

grazing lands

- Low patronage of

vaccinations

Comments: The district abounds with enough potentials and opportunities to increase the production levels of livestock. The constraints

can be managed through the development of appropriate programmes such as provision of housing, use of high quality breeds, routine

vaccination, etc. The challenges can also be managed through collaboration with partners and MOFA.

Low fish production. - Availability of

fisheries officer

- Availability of

water bodies

- Ongoing

community

rehabilitation of

dams/dugouts

- Availability of

IDA in the

- Lack of fishing

inputs

- Lack of storage

facilities

- Lack of credit

facilities

- Poor road

network

- Inadequate field

staff

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region.

Comments: the constraints and challenges of fish production can be overcome by improving infrastructural development and building on

the opportunities and potentials in the District.

Inadequate and poor

quality data and lack of

proper monitoring

system

poor surveillance of

livestock diseases

- Availability of

vertinary officers

- Existence of

farmer groups

- DA data base on

cattle

- Presence of

telecommunicatio

n facilities

- Presence of

MOFA

- Good road

network

- Presence of

NGOs

- Availability of

credit in kind

scheme

- Inadequate

capacities to collect

and analyze data

- Low IGF

- Poor housing of

livestock/poultry

- Use of low quality

breeds

-

- Dwindling

donor support

- High vertinary

/farmer ratio

- Inadequate

vertinary

officers

and services

Comments: The district abounds with enough potentials and opportunities to increase the production levels of livestock. The

constraints can be managed through the development of appropriate programmes such as provision of housing, use of high quality

breeds, etc. The challenges can also be managed through collaboration with partners and MOFA.

Increasing frequency

and impacts of

droughts, floods, forest

fires and other natural

hazards

- Presence of

Traditional

authorities

- Presence of

NADMO in the

district

Existence of

- Development

partners

- EPA

- Forestry

commission

- Presence of FM

- establishment of

tree nursery in

talawona

- Absence of fire

service

department in

the district

- High prevalence

of charcoal

production

- Hunting

- High rate of

illiteracy

- Lack of bye

- Prolonged dry

season

- Weak

enforcement of

by-laws

- Erratic rainfall

pattern

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- provision of soka

pumps for

farmers along the

black volta

laws

Conclusion: the impact of droughts, floods, forest fires and other natural hazards can be effectively minimized through government

policies with the support of traditional authorities. The Constraint can be addressed through the introduction of alternative livelihood

programmes, public education and the enactment and enforcement of bye-laws. Challenges can be managed through collaboration

with NADMO.

Increasing trends in

deforestation,

degradation and

biodiversity loss with

adverse consequences

for agriculture

- Availability of

security personnel

- Presence of

traditional

authorities

- Presence of

Assembly/Unit

Committee

members

- Wechiau Hippo

sanctuary

- Existence of

forestry

commission

- Existence of EPA

- Presence of FM

stations

- Availability of

plantation

programmes

- Availability of

donor funding

- Illegal chainsaw

operation

- Poor farming

practices

- Rampant

Bushfires

- Charcoal burning

- Sand wining

- Erratic rainfall

pattern

Conclusion: There are enough potentials and opportunities for the district to harness in order to combat this menace. Strategies such as

bye-laws and alternative livelihood programmes can be designed to effectively handle the constraints. District will partner with the

partners/agencies to manage the challenge through dam/dug-out construction for irrigation.

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THEMATIC AREA : INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT

Inadequate power supply

infrastructure and access

to electricity

- High demand

for electricity

- DA support

- Cheap labour

force

- Presence of

high tension

lines along

many

communities

- GOG funds

- Presence of

NED/VRA

- SHEP

- Donor support

- Disperse nature of

settlement

- Absence of teak

plantation in the

region

- Rampant bush

fires

- High cost of

electricity tariffs

- High cost of electric

poles

- Low incomes

- Poor road network

Conclusion:On-going electrification projects coupled with DA support can mitigate the problem of electricity supply in the district. The

constraints can be mitigated through dialogue/sensitization with communities and enactment of bye-laws. The challenges can be

managed through advocacy, employment creation and improvement of the road network

Low accessibility to

telephone facilities

Poor and inadequate

internet infrastructure

limited deployment of

ICT infrastructure in

educational institutions

- high demand

- Peaceful

environment

- Investment

friendly

environment

- Presence of

educational

institutions

- Presence of

CICs

- Favourable

government

policy on ICT

- Presence of

network

providers in the

region

- Dispersed

settlement

- Poor road

network

- High rate of

illiteracy

- Inadequate supply

of electricity

- Limited ICT

facilities and ICT

technocrats

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Conclusion: The identified potentials and opportunities are enough to mitigate the problem. The constraints can also be managed

through sensitization/dialogue with communities and investment on the road and educational sectors. The challenges can also be

mitigated through dialogue with service providers to cover more communities and institutions.


THEMATIC AREA : INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT

WATER AND

SANITATION

Inadequate access to

quality water

- Existence of

WATSAN

committees and

DWST

- Existence of

boreholes

- Vibrant communal

spirit

- Presence of

development

partners

- Government

interventions

- Presence of the

Black Volta

river

- Dispersed settlement

pattern of communities

- Poor maintenance

culture

- Inadequate capacity of

DWST

- Inadequate logistics

- inadequate personnel at

the district works

department

- Irregular release of

DACF

- High cost of drilling

- Dwindling Donor

support

Conclusion: Effective collaboration with donors coupled with increasing government intervention can address the issue of inadequate

access to quality water. The district will develop programmes to handle the challenges identified and also manage the constraints as

these two are significant and can negatively affect the provision of potable water


sanitation facilities

and poor sanitation

service delivery

- existence of house hold

latrines, public and

institutional toilets

-local materials for

building

- implementation of the

sustainable rural water

programme

- Labour

- Zoomlion

- NGO’s

- development

partners(IDA/PRO

NNET/MAFORD,

SNV/)

- negative attitude of

community members

- Absence of bye laws

- Poor management of

existing facilities.

-

- Dwindling donor

support

- Inadequate staff of

the environmental

health unit

- Delay payments to

sanitation guards

-

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- Sanitation guards

CONCLUSION: Poor sanitation can be positively tackled with adequate collaboration with development partners, vigorous

behavioral change communication campaign.


THEMATIC AREA : HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT

EDUCATION


basic education

-Presence of PTA and

SMC

-Availability of school

infrastructure

-Availability of

traditional authority

- DA support

-Availability of land

-Communal labour

- Availability of

community teaching

assistants.

availability of national

service personnel

- On-going donor

support for school

infrastructure

development

- Capitation grant

- School feeding

programme

- GETFund, DWAP,

CBRDP, Plan Ghana

- Free school uniform

and exercise books

- MP Common Fund

- Poor school infrastructure

- Low income levels of

parents to support children

- Negative cultural

practices

- Ineffective PTAs and

SMCs

- Poor community

involvement in enrolment

drive

- Low IGF

- Negative attitude of

parents towards the

education of their children

- Donor fatigue

- Erratic release of

DACF

- Poor road network

- Inadequate trained

teachers

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Conclusion: Government interventions with the support of donors can increase access to basic education. The constraints can be

overcome through sensitization of communities and expanding the coverage of school feeding programme. The challenges can also

be mitigated through dialogue with development partners and sponsorship of teacher trainees.

Inadequate teacher

housing facilities in

deprived communities

- High communal

spirit

- Presence of

DACF/DDF

- Availability of

land and labour

- Support from

PTAs/SMCs

- Donor support

- Unwillingness of

teachers to stay in

deprived

communities

- Inadequate

community

motivation for

teachers

- Absence of

electricity in

most

communities

- Inadequate basic

social amenities

- inadequate

teacher

accommodation

and water for

schools

Conclusion: The district can effectively utilize the potentials and opportunities available to improve upon teacher housing. Provision

of basic social amenities such as electricity and the timely release of funds can also address the challenges and constraints.

Infrequent and

ineffective

supervision of

teaching and learning

- Availability of circuit

supervisors

- Availability of motor

- National Best

Teacher awards

scheme

- Poor road networks


- Poor motivation for

- Inadequate resources

from the National

level for monitoring

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in educational

institutions

bikes for monitoring

- Availability of

PTAs/SMCs

- Presence of

development

partners in

education sector.

- Commitment of

District Directorate

of Education

towards

monitoring and

supervision.

supervisors

- Poor implementation

of sanctions on poorly

performed teachers

- Negative attitude

towards funding of

monitoring activities

and supervision

- Refusal of teachers

to stay in

communities.

- absenteeism of

teachers

CONCLUSION: Monitoring can be improved since significant potentials and opportunities exist. The Constraint can be addressed

through dialogue with development partners/DA regarding funding.

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THEMATIC AREA : HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT

High infant and

maternal mortality

High morbidity and

mortality from

communicable

diseases such as

malaria, HIV/AIDS

and TB

- NHIS

- Presence of health

facilities

- Availability of IE &

C materials

- Practice of

community based

surveillance by

volunteers (CBSV)

- Availability of

midwives and TBAs

- Sponsorship of health

trainees

- Availability of

community health

extension workers

- Free maternal and

infant health policy

- Funding from

Global Fund for

malaria

- High donor interest

in health

- Availability of

vaccines for vaccine

preventable diseases


training institutions

- DACF/DWAP/UN

ICEF/JICA /MP and

other partners

- Inadequate CBSV

- Non commitment of

some CBSV

- Inadequate staff

- Low community

participation

- Inadequate transport and

equipment

- Few and aging

midwives

- Dispersed settlement

patterns of

communities

- Inadequate staff

accommodation

- Dwindling donor

funding

- Delay in the release

of funds

-

Conclusion: There exist significant potentials and opportunities to mitigate the situation. The Constraints and challenges are

significant and serious attention need to be paid in tackling them.

Loss of quality

human and material

resources due to the

HIV/AIDS pandemic


facilities

- DACF

- Availability of VCT

centres

- Presence

NGOs/CBOs

- Donor support

- Availability of

anti-retroviral drugs

- Inadequate VCT

centres

- Non – existence of

association of PLWHIV

- Inadequate knowledge

on the mode of HIV

- Absence of offices of

implementing

agencies in the

district

- Weak collaboration

between GAC and the

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High stigmatization

of PLWHIV

/AIDS transmission DA

- Centralized

distribution of anti-

retroviral drugs

Conclusion: Effective collaboration between AIDS commission, DA, Ghana Health service and implementing NGOs to reduce stigma

and decentralised the distribution of anti-retroviral drugs.

Limited coverage of

social protection

interventions

Lack of reliable and

adequate data on

disable people

Low awareness of

and violation of child

rights

- Department of social

welfare & community

development

- DACF

- Police

- Disability Fund

- Presence of LEAP

- Presence of

UNICEF in the

district

- Presence of Plan

Ghana and other

partners

- Disability Act, Act

715

- Act 560/98

- NHIS

- Education

institution for the

disable

- Limited data on the abuse

- Under resourced and

under staffed Dept. of

Social Welfare and

Community

Development

- Absence of child panels

- Low advocacy on child

rights

- Weakly organized

disability groups

- Limited donor

support

- Inadequate security

apparatus

Conclusion: The district can effectively utilize the potentials and opportunities available such as DACF, LEAP, donors’ etc. to

mitigate the identified development problems. The challenges and constrains can also be effectively addressed by resourcing the

department of social welfare and community development, forming well-organized disability groups and intensifying advocacy on

child rights.

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THEMATIC AREA: TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE

Weak employment

generation

capacities at the

district level

- Availability of raw

materials (sheanuts)

- Availability of labour

force - Mango plantations

- Afforestation

programme

- Vast land for

agriculture and

industrial

development

- Availability of

international

market - Availability of

support from

development

partners - GYEEDA

- SADA

- Block farming

- Micro credit

schemes

- Inadequate micro-

finance - Inadequate technical/

vocational skills

- Inadequate

entrepreneurial/mana

gerial skills - High illiteracy rat

- Inadequate irrigation facilities

- Poor attitude

towards agricultural

activities

- Inadequate

investment

opportunities

- Low diversification

- Seasonality of raw

materials - Bushfires - Lack of technology in

production process

- Inadequate market for

finished products - Untimely release of

funding

Conclusion: significant potentials and opportunities exist for local economic development. The Constraint and challenges can be managed

through the provision of technical/vocational/entrepreneurial know how, creation of conducive business environment for the thriving of

the private sector.



Weak internal

revenue

- Availability of markets

- Authority to levy rates

and charge fees

- Media

- Telecommunic

ation providers

- Unreliable database

- Revenue leakages

- Low economic activities

-Harsh National

economic conditions

- No National budget

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mobilization

Weak

capacities of

personnel and

logistics

shortfall

- Availability of

livestock

- Presence of Wechiau

Hippo Sanctuary

- New properties

springing up

- Tipper truck and tractor

- CICs

- Unit Committees

-

- NGOs

- Service

providers

in the district

- Citizens unwillingness

to pay tax

- Lack of logistics for

monitoring revenue

collection

- Low revenue base

- Non-operational CICs

- Inexperience revenue

staff

- Poor remuneration

allocation to support

functioning of sub-

district structures

Conclusion: Low Internal Revenue Generation can be positively addressed since significant potentials and opportunities exist. The

Constraint can be addressed through sensitization, increasing and building the capacity of revenue staff. and devising strategies to block

revenue leakages

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Inadequate women

representation and

participation in public

life and governance

Poor performance of

the local governance

system due to

inadequate

participation

- Available local

governance

structures

- Presence of Gender

desk office

- Availability of

community based

structures e.g. chiefs, ,

religious organizations

etc

- Existence of women

groups

- Participatory planning

process

- African women

Dev’t fund

- MOWAC

- Presence of

UNICEF

- International

conventions and

protocols

- Training and

capacity building

support from

NGOs and NCCE

- Presence of

UNFPA

-

- Illiteracy

- Unfavorable cultural

practices

- Lack of interest in

participation

- Poor social

mobilization

- Apathy by community

members

- Inadequate role

modules

- Unavailable

motivation for

women in local

governance

- Unfavorable

Political

environment

-

Conclusion: the problems can be positively addressed since significant potentials and opportunities such as donor support,

community based structures, etc exists. The Constraint and challenges can be addressed through sensitization and creating the

platform for women to participate in local governance.

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Inaccessibility of

justice

- Availability of Police

Post

- DACF/DDF

- Community police

- Traditional authority

- Department of social

welfare and

community

development

- Availability of

donors

- Commitment of

government to

fight crime

- Availability of

polce

commanders

bungalow and

junior staff

bungalow

- Inadequate

infrastructural facilities


- Low awareness of civic

rights

- Negative perception

about the justice

delivery system

- No judicial court

- No residence for

magistrate

-

- Inadequate

government funding

- Inadequate police

personnel

-

Conclusion: The situation can be positively tackled by providing infrastructural facilities, sensitization and resourcing the relevant

departments.

Limited public

awareness and

advocacy on rights

and responsibilities

- Existence of

institutions – CHRAJ,

NCCE, Information

Service, CSOs

- Traditional authorities

- Presence of

Development partners

- High illiteracy rate

- inadequate logistics

- Inadequate funding

- belief system

- Inadequate funding

for decentralized

institutions

- Non- enforcement of

laws

- Lack of political will

CONCLUSION: The situation can be positively tackled through public education and enforcement of applicable laws.

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CHAPTER THREE

3.0 DISTRICT GOAL, OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES

3.1 National Development Focus

The basic Goal of the Medium-Term Development Policy Framework (2014-2017) is to address

the economic imbalances, re-stabilizing the economy and placing it on a path of sustained

accelerated growth and poverty reduction towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals

and middle income status.

The broad strategic direction for the Medium-Term Development Policy Framework: Ghana

Shared Growth and Development Agenda (GSGDA), 2014-2017 focuses on the following:

i. Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability

ii. Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector

iii. Accelerated Agricultural Modernization and Sustainable Natural Resource

Management

iv. Oil and Gas Development

v. Infrastructure and Human Settlements

vi. Human Development, Productivity and Employment

vii. Transparent and Accountable Governance

3.2 District Development Focus

The District Development Plan has been formulated in line with the Medium Term Development

Policy Framework (2014-2017). This is to ensure that efforts are harmonized at all levels:

District, Regional and National levels. The peculiarities of the District were however taken into

consideration.

3.3 District Development Goal

Following the review of the 2010-2013 DMTDP under the GSGDA II, the goal of the district

under the Medium Term Development Policy Framework is “To improve the socio-economic

well-being of the Disrict through efficient and reliable provision of needed services).In order

to realize this goal, the district would intensively focus its efforts and resources on the broad

strategies of the Medium Term Development Policy Framework.

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3.4 District Development Prospects

The development prospects entails the projection of the district finances, population, services and

facilities requirements and environmental factors over the plan period of four years (2014-2017)

and related policy implications.

The output of this section forms the basis for the planning and programming phase of the plan.

They deal essentially with future trends in various variables and guide the achievement of the

district goal.

3.4.1 Population Projections

Population projections were undertaken so as to estimate future demand for both social and

technical infrastructure and establish indicators for the objectives over the plan period.

The mathematical method (arithmetic, geometric and exponential growth laws) of population

projection was used to project the population of the district for the next four years (2014-2017).

The population projections were based on the following assumptions:

Current growth rate will remain constant throughout the period

Migration will remain constant throughout the planned period

Table 3.1 Population Projection

Year Male Female Total

2014 38,397 40,688 79,086

2015 39,079 41,424 80,503

2016 39,714 42,084 81,797

2017 40,389 42,799 83,188

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Table 3.3.1 Population Projection by Area Council

Area

Council

2014 2015 2016 2017

Dorimon 21,623 21,990 22,364 22,744

Ga 17,617 17,990 18,221 18,531

Gurungu 9,613 9,777 9,943 10,112

Vieri 15,471 15,734 16,001 16,273

THEMATIC AREA:PRIVATE SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS CROP PRODUCTION

OBJECTIVE: To facilitate farmers' adoption of improved technologies for increased production

Crop Production Projections

CROP(Mt/Annum) 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Achie Target Target Achie Target Achie Target Achievement

Maize 6,960 7100 7,160

7,300 7,400

Rice 2,560 3,000 3,500 3,900 4,200

Sorghum 4,176 4,200 4,300 4,420 4,550

Groundnut 25,674 30,000 32,000 33,000 34,500

Millet 2,243 2,500 2,576 2,584 2,650

ANIMAL PRODUCTION PROJECTIONS

LIVESTOCK

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Achie Target Target Achie Target Achie Target Achie

Cattle 15,750 21000 21,890 22,050 23,100

Sheep 15,200 16,000 16,780 17,100 17,600

Goats 19,200 28,800 34,560 41,760 50,112

Pigs 12,500 16,250 21,125 25,350 27,885

Poultry 35,000 38,500 46,200 55,440 60,984

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3.5 Education Projection

Assumptions

Acceptable pupil-classroom ratio and pupil-teacher ratio at the K.G level is 35:1

Acceptable pupil-classroom ratio and pupil-teacher ratio at the primary and J.H.S level is

45:1

All classrooms needing major repairs should be replaced

Table 3.5.1 Pre-School Projections-Infrastructure

Year Projected

Enrolment

Existing no. of

class rooms

blocks

No. of classrooms

blocks required

Backlog

2013 5,246 60 90 30

2014 4,954 66 76 10

2015 5,455 72 84 12

2016 6,071 78 95 17

2017 8,414 84 156 72

Table 3.5.2 Pre-Projection-Quality of education

Year Projected

Enrolment

No of

Trained

Teacher

Pupil- Teachers

ratio

Required Backlog

2013 5,246 9 583:1 583 574

2014 4,954 12 412:1 413 401

2015 5,455 1,310 5:1 5 1,305

2016 6,071 1,578 4:1 4 1,574

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Table 3.5.1 Pre-School Projections-Infrastructure

Year Projected

Enrolment

Existing no. of class

rooms blocks

No. of classrooms

blocks required

Backlog

2013 5,246 60 90 30

2014 4,954 66 76 10

2015 5,455 72 84 12

2016 6,071 78 95 17

2017 8,414 84 156 72

Table 3.5.2 Pre-Projection-Quality of education

Year Projected

Enrolment

No of

Trained

Teacher

Pupil-

Teachers

ratio

Required Backlog

2013 5,246 9 583:1 583 574

2014 4,954 12 412:1 413 401

2015 5,455 1,310 5:1 5 1,305

2016 6,071 1,578 4:1 4 1,574

2017 8,414 2,945 3:1 3 2942

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Table 3.5.6 JHS Projection-Infrastructure

Table 3.5.7 JHS projections-Teachers

Year Projected

Enrolment

No. of trained

teacher

No. Teacher

pupil ratio

No. required Excess

2013 5,064 1,721 3:1 3 -

2014 5,502 1,926 3:1 3 -

2015 5,915 2,189 3:1 3 -

2016 6,146 2,397 3:1 3 -

2017 16,153 7,269 2:1 3 -

Table 3.6 Water Projection

Year Population Population

served

Population

served

Boreholes

Required

Backlog

2014 81,349 62,792 17,711 59 59

2015 81,797 67,073 14,724 10 69

Year Projected

Enrolment

Existing no.

of class

rooms blocks

No. of

classrooms

blocks required

Backlog

2013 5,064 160 15 145

2014 5,502 166 14 152

2015 5,915 172 14 158

2016 6,146 178 11 167

2017 16,153 184 7 177

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2016 83.188 71,541 11,647 29 98

2017 84,602 76,141 8,461 1 99

Table 3.7 Tourism Projection

VISITORS 2014 2015 2016 2017

Foreign 1,031 1,131 1,231 1,331

Domestic 1,539 1,739 1,939 2,139

Table 3.8 Health Sector Projection

2014 2015 2016 2017

Under 5

mortality rate

176/100,000 176/100,000 176/100,000 176/100,000

Maternal

mortality rate

0 0 0 0

Skilled delivery 50% 55% 60% 65%

Family planning

acceptance rate

45% 50% 55% 60%

HIV/AIDS

prevalence rate

1% 1% 1% 1%

Incidence of

malaria

50% 45% 40% 35%

NHIS coverage 85% 88% 90% 95%

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Table 3.9 Feeder Roads Projections

Table 3.10 Job Creation

Source of employment/Year 2010 2011 2012 2013

GYEEDA 600 725 840 945

Block farming 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500

EDIF sponsored mango project 200 100 100 100

New National Forest Plantation

Development Programme

300 100 100 100

Credit in kind 80 80 80 80

Table 3.11 Revenue Projection

SOURCE 2013 ACTUAL 2014 2015 2016 2017

IGF 103,850.25

150,850.00

158,392.50 166,312.13 174,627.73

DACF/MPCF 559,380.83

1,850,685.00

1,943,219.25 2,040,380.21 2,142,399.22

DDF 1,586,839.44

1,307,562.00

1,372,940.10 1,441,587.11 1,513,666.46

DONOR 1,025,927.80

3,216,200.00

3,377,010.00 3,545,860.50 3,723,153.53

OTHER

GOG 848,855.75

1,385,594.00

1,454,873.70 1,527,617.39 1,603,998.25

Type/Year 2014 2015 2016 2017

Spot

improvement/re

habilitation/surf

acing

14KM

10KM 25KM 5KM

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DISTRICT OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES

From the projections made, the following objectives and strategies were developed. These are

put into the various thematic areas as indicated below.

Focus Area District Development

Issue

District Objectives

linked to National Policy

Objectives

District Strategies linked

to National Strategies

Thematic Area: Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector

Developing the

Tourism Industry

for Jobs and

Revenue

Generation

1. Lack of adequate

tourism infrastructure

2. Inadequate promotion

of domestic tourism

Promote domestic tourism

to foster national cohesion

as well as redistribution of

income

Promote sustainable and

responsible tourism in

such a way to preserve

historical, cultural and

national heritage

Vigorously promote

domestic tourism to

encourage

Ghanaians to

appreciate and

preserve their

national heritage

and create wealth in

the communities.

Develop sustainable

ecotourism, culture

and historical sites

Thematic Area: Accelerated Agricultural Modernization and Sustainable Natural Resource

Management

Accelerated

Modernization of

Agriculture

1.Ineffective cultural

practices amongst small

holder farmers leading to

comparatively lower yields

Promote selected crop

development for food

security, export and

industry

Support production

of certified seeds

and improved

planting materials

for both staple and

industrial crops.

Promote the

adoption of good

agricultural

practices by

farmers

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Build capacities of

FBOs and CBOs to

facilitate delivery

of extension

services to their

members

Promote the

development of

selected staple

crops

Extend the concept

of nucleus- out

grower and block

farming schemes

and contract

farming to bridge

the gap between

large and small

scale producers

Improvement of

feeder roads linking

production areas to

market centers

Accelerated

Modernization of

Agriculture

2. Inadequate and poor

quality data and lack of

proper monitoring system

3. poor surveillance of

livestock diseases

Promote livestockand

poultry development for

food security and income

Intensify disease

control and

surveillance

especially for

zoonotic and

scheduled diseases

Strengthen the

institutional

collaboration for

livestock/poultry

statistics and

monitoring

Accelerated

Modernization of

Agriculture

4. Inadequate data for

fisheries management

(inland and marine)

5. Weak collaboration with

communities towards the

management of fisheries

resources

6. The application of

Promote fisheries

development for food

security and income

Promote the

gathering of data

for fisheries

management

Establish and

strengthen co-

management

mechanisms with local communities

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inappropriate and

unorthodox fishing

methods and techniques

for fisheries

resource

management

Revamp the current

fleet of fishing

crafts with modern

ones equipped with

appropriate storage

and processing

facilities Restoration of

degraded Forest

and Land

Management

7. Increasing trends in

deforestation, degradation

and biodiversity loss with

adverse consequences for

agriculture

Reverse forest and land

degradation

Encourage

reforestation of

degraded forest and

off-reserve areas

through the

Plantations

Development and

afforestation

programmes.

Enforce ban on

illegal chainsaw

operation and

constitute a

monitoring team to

ensure that

appropriate timber

species are

replanted on

degraded lands.

Promote

plantation/woodlot

development

among

communities to

meet the needs of

society

Natural Disasters,

Risks and

Vulnerability

8. Increasing frequency

and impacts of droughts,

floods, forest fires and

other natural hazards

Mitigate and reduce

natural disasters and

reduce risks and

vulnerability

Invest in early

warning and

response systems

Introduce education

programmes to

create public

awareness

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Increase capacity of

NADMO to deal

with the impacts of

natural disasters

Enact and enforce

bye-laws restricting

structures in flood

plains, water ways,

wetlands

Thematic Area 3. Infrastructure, Energy and Human Settlement Development

Energy Supply to

Support Industries

and Households

1. Inadequate power

supply infrastructure and

access to electricity

Provide adequate and

reliable power to meet the

needs of Ghanaians and

for export

Increase access to

modern forms of

energy to the poor

and vulnerable

especially in the

rural areas through

the extension of

national electricity

grid.

Information

Communication

Technology

Development for

growth

2. Low accessibility to

telephone facilities

3. Poor and inadequate

internet infrastructure

4. Limited deployment of

ICT infrastructure in


Promote rapid

development and

deployment of the

national ICT infrastructure

Increase coverage

of ICT

infrastructure.

Improve the quality

of telephone

services

Facilitate the

development of

community

information centers

Transport

Infrastructure:

Road, Rail, Water

and Air Transport

1. Uneven access to

transportation leading to

post-harvest losses

2. Insufficient facilities for

inland, air and water

transport development

Create and sustain an

efficient transport system

that meets user needs

Prioritise the

maintenance of

existing road

infrastructure to

reduce vehicle

operating costs

(VOC) and future

rehabilitation costs

Reinstate labour-

based methods of

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road construction

and maintenance to

improve rural roads

and maximize

employment

opportunities

Human

Settlements

Development

5. Lack of spatial land use

plans

6.weak enforcement of

planning and building

regulations

7. inadequate human and

institutional capacities for

land use planning

Promote a sustainable,

spatially integrated and

orderly development of

human settlements for

socio-economic

development

Develop

appropriate

planning models,

simplified

operational

procedures and

planning standards

for land use

planning

Adopt new and

innovative means

of promoting

development

control and

enforcement of

planning and

building regulations

Undertake capacity

building to up-

grade human

settlements and

land use planning

competencies

Water,

Environmental

Sanitation and

Hygiene

Water and Sanitation

8. Inadequate access to

quality water

9. inadequate access to

sanitation facilities and

poor sanitation service

delivery

Accelerate the provision

of affordable and safe

water

Accelerate the provision

and improve

environmental sanitation

Implement district

water and sanitation

plan (DWSP)

Strengthen Public-

Private and NGO

Partnerships in

water provision

Strengthen human

resource capacities

in water

management

Promote the

construction and

use of appropriate

and low cost

domestic latrines

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Adopt CLTS for the

promotion of

household

sanitation

Improve household

and institutional

sanitation

Integrate hygiene

education into

water and sanitation

delivery

Thematic Area 4. Human Development, Productivity and employment

Education Education

1. inadequate access to

basic education

Increase equitable access

to and participation in

education at all levels

Provide

infrastructure

facilities for

schools at all levels

across the district

particularly in

deprived areas

Provide uniforms

and exercise books

in public schools in

deprived

communities

Accelerate

integration of pre-

school education

into the FCUBE

programme

Accelerate the

rehabilitation /

development of

basic school

infrastructure

especially schools

under trees

Expand school

feeding

progressively to

cover all deprived

communities and

link it to the local

economies

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Education 2. Infrequent and

ineffective supervision of

teaching and learning in


3. Lack of office

accommodation for District

Directorate of Education

Improve management of

education delivery

Strengthen

monitoring and

evaluation and

reporting channels

undertake more

efficient teacher

development,

deployment and

supervision

train educational

managers/leaders in

management and

leadership skills

Provide office

accommodation for

district directorate

Education 4. Inadequate teacher

housing facilities in

deprived communities

Improve quality of

teaching and learning

Provide teacher

accommodation

Increase the

number of trained

teachers, trainers,

instructors and

attendants at all

levels

Provide distance

learning

opportunities for

serving teachers

Health 5. High infant and

maternal mortality

2. Improve access to

quality maternal, neonatal,

child and adolescent

health services

Increase access to

maternal, newborn,

child health

(MNCH) and

adolescent health

services

Strengthen the

Health Service to

deliver quality

MNCH services

HIV, AIDS, STIs,

and TB

6. High morbidity and

mortality from

communicable diseases

such as malaria, HIV/AIDS

Prevent and control the

spread of communicable

and non-communicable

diseases and promote

healthy lifestyles

Strengthen health

promotion,

prevention and

rehabilitation

Improve case

detection and

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and TB

management at

health facility level

Scale up

community and

home base

management of

selected diseases

Strengthen

surveillance,

reporting and

emergency

response

HIV, AIDS, STIs,

and TB

7. Loss of quality human

and material resources due

to the HIV/AIDS pandemic

8. High stigmatization of

PLWHIV

Ensure the reduction of

new HIV and AIDS, STIs,

TB transmission

Intensify

behavioural change

strategies especially

for high risk groups

Intensify advocacy

to reduce infection

and impact of HIV,

AIDS and TB

Prevent mother-to-

child transmission

Ensure safe blood

and blood products

transfusion

Improve access to

counseling and

testing, male and

female condoms

and integrated

youth friendly

services

Promote safe sex

practices

Social Protection 9. Limited coverage of

social protection

interventions

Progressively expand

social protection

interventions to cover the

poor

Improve targeting

of existing social

protection

programmes

Strengthen

monitoring of

social protection

programmes

Disability 10. Lack of reliable and Ensure a more effective

appreciation of and

Promote continuous

collection of data

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adequate data on disabled

people

inclusion of disability

issues both within the

formal decision making

process and in the society

at large

on PWDs

Promote the

implementation of

the provisions of

the disability ACT

Thematic Area 5: Transparent and Accountable Governance

Women

Empowerment

1. Inadequate women

representation and

participation in public life

and governance

Empower women and

mainstream gender into

socio-economic

development

Institute measures

to ensure increasing

proportion of

women government

appointees in DA

Sustain public

education,

advocacy and

sensitization on the

need to reform

outmoded socio-

cultural practices,

beliefs, perceptions

that promote gender

discrimination

Strengthen

institutions dealing

with women and

children issues

Public Safety and

Security


Improve the capacity of

security agencies to

provide internal security

for human safety and

protection

Improve

institutional

capacity of the

security agencies

including the Police

Engage in intensive

legal literacy and

rights awareness

and education for

all sectors of the

populace

Deepening the

Practice of

Democracy and

Institutional

Reform

3. Limited public

awareness and advocacy on

rights and responsibilities

Foster civic advocacy to

nurture the culture of

rights and responsibilities

Strengthen

interaction between

assembly members

and citizens

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Deepening the

Practice of

Democracy and

Institutional

Reform

6. Poor performance of the

local governance system

due to inadequate

participation

Enhance community

participation in

governance and decision

making

Develop plans that

are based on

engagement with

communities and

involve the full key

range of key

stakeholders

Strengthen existing

governance

structures such as

unit committees by

increasing their

awareness of

environmental

issues

Facilitate the

broadcasting of DA

proceedings and

activities on local

FM stations

Local Governance

and

Decentralization

Local economy

7. Weak employment

generation capacities at the

district level

Mainstream the concept of

local economic

development into planning

at the district level

Facilitate, develop

and implement

employment

programmes based

on natural resource

endowments and

competitive

advantage

Local Governance

and

Decentralization

4. Weak internal revenue

mobilization

5. Weak capacities of

personnel and logistics

shortfall

Ensure efficient internal

revenue generation and

transparency in local

resource management

Revisit IGF sources

Strengthen the

revenue bases of

the district

assembly

Develop the

capacity of the

district assembly

towards effective

revenue

mobilization

Local Governance

and

Decentralization

8. Weak capacity of

MMDAs

to ensure improved

performance and service

delivery

Ensure effective

implementation of the

Local Government

Service Act

Strengthen existing

sub-district

structures to ensure

effective operation

Strengthen the

capacity of

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9. Dysfunctional sub-

district structures

MMDAs for

accountable,

effective

performance and

service delivery

Access to Rights

and Entitlement

11. Low awareness of and

violation of child rights

Protect children from

direct and indirect

physical and emotional

harm

Create public

awareness on

children’s rights

Conduct research to

track cases of child

abuse for proper

resolution

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CHAPTER FOUR

4.0 DISTRICT PROGRAMME OF ACTION

4.1Introduction

This Chapter focuses on the various projects that will be implemented within the plan period

2014-2017 the responsibilities of the institutions/ units involved and the time frame for

implementation. The section also highlights the roles of stakeholders since the successful

implementation of programmes/ projects depends on the coordinated efforts of all stakeholders.

The role of all stakeholders is paramount to the successful implementation of programmes/

projects in this District Medium Term Plan 2014-2017. In the process of implementation

however, the anticipated role each stakeholder will play is highlighted.

The Local Government Act 462 designates District Assemblies not only as planning authorities

but also their implementation, monitoring and evaluation. To implement these projects/

programmes, it is therefore necessary that the District Assembly mobilizes funds both from

within and outside the district. The local revenue base needs to be fully assessed and restructured

to give the assembly a sound financial footing for projects implementation.

The departments/ agencies will provide technical guidance and facilitate the implementation of

desirable projects/ programmes.

The Chiefs, Opinion Leaders and Traditional Authorities and land owners need to be informed of

their responsibilities in implementing the programmes/ projects designed in the plan.

The District is mindful of the crucial roles played by Non-Governmental Organizations and the

Private Sector in support of various Projects/ Programmes in the District. The role of NGOs and

other Development Partners has been very crucial for the successful implementation of planned

programmes/ projects. It is hoped that the development partners will buy into the plan to enhance

the overall development of the district.

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Communities offer a lot of support starting from project identification, design and

implementation, monitoring and evaluation. They also play important roles by providing land

and other natural resources such as sand and stone towards project implementation. This is to

enhance the principle of community ownership and management for sustainability. In this

direction, communities provide labour, land, local expertise, counterpart funds, etc for project

implementation. It is hoped that communities would continue to offer their best through project

identification, implementation, monitoring and evaluation for sustainability

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Table 4.1 DISTRICT PROGRAMME OF ACTION

Thematic Area: Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector

Objective 1: Promote domestic tourism to foster national cohesion as well as redistribution of income

Objective 2: Promote sustainable and responsible tourism in such a way to preserve historical, cultural and national heritage

Activities Indicators TIMEFRAME Indicative Budget

(GH¢)

Implementing Agencies

2014 2015 2016 2017 GOG DONOR LEAD COLLABORATING

Organize radio talk shows to publicize the

tourist potentials of the district.

No. of radio talk

shows

10,000 WCHS DA

Design brochures and flyers on the tourism

potentials of the district

No. of brochures and

flyers procured

20,000 WCHS DA

Train tourist guards in tourist management Management trained 15,000 WCHS DA

Construct a canteen Canteen constructed 120,000 WCHS DA

Construct a guest house Guest house

constructed

100,000 WCHS DA

Institute tourism festival Annual festival

organized

20,000 WCHS DA

Sub total 190,000 45,000

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Thematic Area: Accelerated Agriculture Modernization and Sustainable Natural Resources Management

District Objective 1: Promote selected crop development for food security, export and industry

Activity

Indicators

Time frame Indicative Budget

GH¢


2014 2015 2016 2017 GOG DONOR Lead Collaborators

Train 960 farmers on

management practices of

dry season seed production

along the Black Volta

River

Increased

availability of

maize seed during

major season

10,062 MOFA

NRGP

Carry out 10,000 acres

maize grain block farm

project

Increased acreage

of maize grain

farm

431,079 MOFA

RSSP

RSSP

Engage 60 farmers for an

improved technology in

rice production

Increased yield

and no. of rice

farmers

9,483 MOFA

CRS, SARI

Train 3000 vegetable

(Tomato,okro and Chilli

pepper) farmers at Dam

sites on appropriate

agronomic practices

Increased acreage

of veg. farms,

Increased income

of farmers

7750

MOFA

NRGP

Conduct 3 demonstrations

for 240 farmers on new

uses of Root &Tubers

Utilization of root

and tubers

increased

4000 MOFA RTIMP

Introduce improved crop Farmers adopt

5860 MOFA

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varieties new improved

varieties.

Monitoring of pest and

diseases on crops

Pest and diseases

of crops

controlled

720 MOFA

Identify markets and link

to producers

Farmers have easy

access to markets

550 MOFA

Facilitate the development

of FBOs to the level of

input and service providers

Active FBOs

operating in the

District

747 MOFA

Build the capacity of field

officers and farmers in the

use of appropriate

technologies

Farmers adopt

appropriate

technologies

4646 MOFA

Conduct census on crop

production

10,000 MOFA DA

Organize annual farmers

day celebration

Farmers day

celebrated

40,000 MOFA DA

Spot improvement of

22No. roads

No. of roads

rehabilitated

14,454,002 FR DONORS

Construct a bridge over the

black Volta to link Burkina

Face

Bridge

constructed

1,000,000 FR DONORS

Rehabilitation of 2No.

roads

No. of non-

engineered roads

opened

1,200,000 FR DONORS

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Construction of steel bridge 2 steel bridges

constructed

1,300,00 FR DONORS

Surfacing of roads length of roads

surfaced

5,322,755 FR DONORS

Objective 2: Promote livestockand poultry development for food security and income

Activity Indicators

Time frame Indicative Budget

GH¢


2014 2015 2016 2017 GOG DONOR Lead Collaborators

Identify, update and

disseminate existing

livestock technologies

Improved

technologies

identified and

updated

12,000

MOFA


diseases on livestock

Pest and diseases

of livestock

controlled

720

MOFA

Provide adequate and

effective extension

knowledge in livestock

management for farmers

Framers

management

practices improved

1927

MOFA

Immunization of dogs, cattle,

poultry against rabies, CBPP,

PPR Anthrax and NCD

Livestock health

ensured

3725

MOFA

Train 140 livestock farmers

on livestock farming as a

Maximum profit

derived from

1531 MOFA

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business venture livestock rearing

Carry out livestock census

using the developed format

Population of

animal species

ascertained

1232

MOFA

Field and home visits by

AEAs on technologies

dissemination

Technologies

dissemination

ensured

1000

MOFA

Acquire and distribute

improved 400 sheep and 400

goats to credit in kind

beneficiaries

Local breeds of

sheep and goats

improved

30,000 MOFA LDP/DA

Sub-total 7500 59,635

Objective: Reverse forest and land degradation

Activities Indicator TIMEFRAME Indicative Budget

(GH¢)



Sensitize communities on the

dangers of deforestation/ bush

fires

No. of Communities

sensitized on the dangers of

deforestation/bush fires

8,000 EPA GFS

NADMO

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District Objective:Mitigate and reduce natural disasters and reduce risks and vulnerability

Activities Indicators Timeframe Indicative Budget


2014 2015 2016 2017 GOG DONOR LEAD COLLABORATORS

Organize 3 for a, 3 durbars and

workshops on disaster prevention and

response mechanisms

No. of for a, durbars and 10,000 NADMO DA

Form and train district volunteer

guards (DVGs) and District volunteer

committees on disaster prevention

and response mechanism.

No. of District Volunteer

Guard & District

Volunteer Committees

trained

10,000 NADMO DA

Map out disaster prone areas Disaster prone area

mapped out

500 NADMO DA

Assist communities to establish

tree nurseries and plantations

No. of Communities assisted

to establish tree nurseries and

plantations.

10,000 Parks and

Garden

DA, EPA

Form and train guards and fire

volunteer squads

No. of Guards and fire

volunteer squads formed and

trained

10,000 DA GFS

Provide fire volunteer squads

with protection

clothing/equipment

No. of Fire volunteer squads

provided with protective

clothing/equipment.

8,000 DA GFS

Sub total 00 36,000

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Develop a disaster preparedness plan

for the district

Availability of a Disaster

preparedness plan

500 NADMO DA

Train NADMO staff in disaster

management

No. of NADMO staff

trained in disaster

management

8,000 NADMO DA

Sub total 29,000

Thematic Area: Infrastructure, Energy and Human Settlement Development

District Objective: Provide adequate and reliable power to meet the needs of Ghanaians and for export

Activities

Indicator TIMEFRAME Indicative Budget

(GH¢)



Procure 200 low tension poles

annually

No. of low tension poles

procured

400,000 DA NGOs

Extend the national grid to 15

communities annually

No. of communities connected

to the National electricity grid

500,000 VRA DA

Sub total 900,000

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District Objective: Promote rapid development and deployment of the national ICT infrastructure

District Objective:Promote a sustainable, spatially integrated and orderly development of human settlements for socio-economic development


(GH¢)



Construct 2No. ICT

centers

ICT centers

constructed

200,000 DA NGOs

Procure 60No computers Computers procured 120,000 DA

Connect 2 centers to the

internet

ICT centers connected

to the internet

50,000 DA

Liaise with telephone

service providers to

increase their coverage

Telephone services

increased

2,000 DA MTN, Airtel, Vodafone,

Gloand Tigo

Sub total 370,000 00

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WATER AND SANITATION

Objective 1: Accelerate the provision ofaffordable and safe water

Objective 2: Accelerate the provision and improve environmental sanitation

Activities Indicators Timeframe Indicative Budget Implementing Agencies


Construction of 1No. small town

system

Small town system in place

and functioning

567,840 DA CWSA


(GH¢)



Develop lay-out for communities layouts

developed

20,000 DA Survey department,

Department Town and

Country Planning

Facilitate the development of

community resource maps

Communit

y resource

maps

developed

20,000 DA NGOs

Facilitate the engagement of building

inspectors

Building

inspectors

engaged

10,000 DA

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50,000

Construction of 61No. boreholes 61No. boreholes

constructed

580,000 DA CWSA, CBRDP

Construction of 20No. sanitation

facilities for schools

20No. sanitation facilities

constructed

140,000 DA CWSA

Construction of 10No. sanitation

facilities for health institutions

10No. sanitation facilities

constructed

100,000 DA Ghana Health Service

Construction of 2,500 Household

latrines

2,500 house hold latrine

constructed

1,000,000

Mechanise 4No. boreholes 4No. boreholes

mechanised

60,000 DA

Develop district specific Hygiene

Behaviour Change

Communication Plan

Hygiene Behaviour

Change Communication

Plan developed

5,000 DA Environmental Health

Unit

Conduct Hygiene Behaviour


campaign in 50 communities

Behaviour Change

Communication campaign

conducted


Unit

Facilitate the achievement status

ODF in 20 communities based on

the CLTS approach

20 ODF communities

achieved


Unit

Develop 5No. community

cemeteries

5No. community

cemeteries developed


Unit

Conduct 3No. Clean community

campaign/contest

3No. Clean community

campaign/contest

conducted


Unit

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Identify and train school health

teachers in 20 selected schools

school health teachers in

20 selected schools

identified and trained


Unit

Form and train school health

clubs in 20No. selected schools

School health clubs in

20No. selected schools

formed and trained


Unit

Train CBHV in 20 communities CBHV in 20 communities

trained


Unit

Form and train 58No. community

based WATSAN committees for

point sources

58No. community based

WATSAN committees

formed and trained


Form and train 1No. Water Board

for small town water system

1No. Water Board for

small town water system

formed and trained


Identify and train 5 Area

Mechanics and 58 Hand pump

care takers

5 Area Mechanics and 58

Hand pump care takers

identified and trained


Establish hand pump spare store hand pump spare store

established


Monitoring and Evaluation of

water and sanitation activities


Sub total 00 2,748,840

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Thematic Area:Human Development, Productivity and Employment

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

Activities Indicators Time frame Indicative budget Implementing Agencies


Support 40 needy pupils Needy students

supported

8,000 DA Development Partners

Sensitization of communities to

enroll their children and retain

them in school

Enrollment drive

carried out

1,000 1,000 DA Development Partners

Construct 20No. 6-Unit classroom

blocks with ancillary facilities

20 No. 6-unit classroom

blocks constructed

3,000,000 2000,000 DA Development Partners



14No. 3-unit classroom

blocks constructed




8 No. 2-unit classroom

blocks constructed

200,000 80,000. DA Development Partners

Provide 4000 school uniforms to

pupils

No. of school uniforms

provided


Provide 20,000 exercise books to

pupils

no. of exercise books

provided


Enroll 30No. schools into the

school feeding program

No. of schools enrolled 600,000 DA Development Partners

Construct 8No. Kitchens for the


No. of kitchens

constructed


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Organize sporting and cultural

activities

sporting and cultural

activities organized

40,000 DA Centre for National

Culture

conduct periodic school

mapping to determine extent

and locate the type senior

highypeoduction

objective 3- bridge gender

gap in access to education

(sh)

activities:

development of girls week

activities and using local

radio 1 media programmes

and civil society group to

educate on behaviour of ges

objective 6: promote science

and technical education at all

levels

activities:

provide suitable ICT and sd

facilities for SHS students

and their teachers

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activities:

provide equipped

laboratories

4,660,000 369,500

Objective 2objectives: to improve planning and management in the delivery of education by developing resource management,

decision-making and monitoring to district and institutions while retaining central responsibility for establishing norms, guides, and

system accountability.



Revive SMCs through training to

improve upon their supervision of

schools

SMCs revived and

trained


Support with funds/fuel for

monitoring and supervision

Monitoring activities

supported


Organize training workshops for

circuit supervisors and head

teachers to upgrade their skills

(monitoring tools/methods)

Capacities of circuit

supervisors built


review and make DEOC

functional at the district

level

provision of office furniture

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Conductannual head counts

on the district payroll.

provision of ICT equipment

train EMIS officials at the

district level on how to

analyze, interpret and use

EMIS data

conduct management

training for head teachers on

effective use of capitation

grant

publish resources,

distribution, allocation,

posting outcome in public

schools

train office personnel’s to

upgrade their financial

management system to

support GIFMIS

Objective 3:Improve quality of teaching and learning

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Sponsor 120 teacher trainees

and effectively bond them

No. teacher trainees

sponsored

24,000 DA Plan Ghana

Organize induction courses for

the new recruited trainees’

pupils’ teachers.

Induction courses

organized

2,000 500 DA Development Partners

Construct 20No. 3-Unit

teachers quarters

No. of teachers quarters

constructed

1,000,000 600,000 DA Communities

Institution of best teacher

award

Best teacher award

instituted

80,000 DA Development partners

Organize STME camps and

INSET

STME and INSET

organized

2,000 1,000 DA CHALICE, Plan

Ghana

Organize 2 inter-schools quiz

competition among schools

No. of Interschool quiz

competition for schools

organized.

24,000.00

DA

Development partners

Institute awards for Best

Performing Pupils

Existence of Awards for

Best Performing Pupils

40,000.00 DA Development partners

support schools to

organize school base inset

undertake because, SEA/

NEA

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organize spam using NEA

and sea results

Provide training for all

teachers in the use of

revise syllabus

Provide all schools with

an up-to-date curriculum

relevant to personal

Implement Best Teacher

Award

Sub total 1,104,000 600,000

OBJECTIVE 6: Promote science and technical education at all levels.



Liaise with development

partners to train ICT

teachers at the basic

levels

24,000 DA


partners to construct ICT

center at circuit centers

2,000 500 DA

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partners to build ICT

center at D.E.O

1,000,000 600,000 DA

objective 5improve management of education service delivery

Determine the realistic

vacancies in schools or

over staffing

80,000 DA

Conduct payroll audit 2,000 1,000 DA

Liaise with DA to support

teachers to embark on

distance education

24,000.00

DA

Organise INSET for

teachers in basic schools

40,000.00 DA

Draw up and circulate

guidelines to all schools

and through SMCS

communities on time

table that ensure

maximum teachers, pupils

contact time with the

SMC oversight of time

and task

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Construct store for district

directorate of education

Support teachers

undergoing the distance

learning programme

Continue to train

SMC/PTA to function

well

Conduct regular school

inspection and

disseminate reports in

timely manner

Provide training for circuit

supervisor’s and

inspection system

Provide materials and

logistics support to

supervisor and inspectors

Support with funds/fuel

for monitoring and

supervision

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Objective 1Improve access to quality maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health services



De-worm all children 2-5yrs

every six months

Deworming done and

reports written

15000 GHS MoH/NGOs

Establish 3 baby friendly

centers

Five baby friendly

centres established

120000 GHS Project Five Alive/MoH

Form 20 mother to mother

support groups to promote

breastfeeding.

Mother-to mother

support groups formed

20000 GHS NGOs

Sponsor 20 students in

Community Health Nursing &

General nursing and 12

midwives

32 students sponsored 224,000 GHS DA

Build capacity of health staff

and community agents to

implement C-IMCI

Health staff &

community agents

capacity built

15000 GHS NGOs

Hold monthly immunization

outreach

Children vaccinated

75000 GHS NGOs

Organize Health Education on

Exclusive Breast Feeding

Exclusive

breastfeeding,

Intensified

15000 GHS NGOs

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Construct 10No. CHPS

compound

700,000 700,000

Community fora on family

planning

Fora held and reports

written

15000 GHS PPAG /PLAN

Provide focused antenatal care Antenatal care

provided

8000 GHS Project Five Alive/MoH

Facilitate the establishment of

12 emergency transport

systems.

12 ETS established 12000 GHS MoH/PLAN

Organize education on skilled

delivery in 12 communities.

Education carried out

and reports written

12000 GHS NGOs

Organize Health Education for

TBAs on referral

TBAs educated 12000 GHS NGOs

Refresher training on

emergency delivery to CHOs.

CHOs trained 6000 GHS NGOs

Build 6 community Hostel in

sub-districts

Hostels build 900,000 DA NGOs

Refresher training on life

saving skills for midwives

Training done 6000 GHS NGOs

Complete theatre Wechiau 30,000

Construction of a polyclinic Wechiau 3,000,00

0

GHS DA

Sub total

3,970,00

30,000

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0

Objective 2: Prevent and control the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases and promote healthy lifestyles



Organize community durbars

to sensitize people on malaria

Community durbars

on malaria organised

45000 GHS NGOs

Procure and distribute bed nets

to children under five and

pregnant women

Bed nets distributed 60000 GHS NGOs

Sub total 00 80,000

Objective 3:Ensure the reduction of new HIV and AIDS, STIs, TB transmission



Health education on safe sex and

condom use.

Education carried out 12000 GHS NGOs

Counseling and testing all

pregnant women

Number of pregnant

women tested

6000 GHS NGOs

Conducting counseling and

testing and “know your status”

campaign

Know your status carried

out

45000 GHS NGOs

Facilitate the formation of

PLWHA Association in the

Association formed 3000 GHS

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district.

Establish CT/PMCT center Centre constructed 30000 GHS

Monitor and evaluate the

implementation of HIV/AIDS

programmes

Report on the

implementation of

HIV/AIDS activities

60,000

DA

Sub total 00 96,000

Objective 1:Progressively expand social protection interventions to cover the poor



Equip community Health

Insurance committees with

community mobilization

skills.

Community Health

Insurance committees

equipped with community

mobilization skills.

8,000 DA NHIS

Conduct a client’s

satisfaction survey at the end

of the year and the results

incorporated into the schemes

plans.

Clients satisfaction

survey conducted

30,000 DA NHIS

Organize capacity building

programs and refresher

training for NHIS staff

Capacity building


training for staff

organized

40,000 DA NHIS

Organize quarterly Quarterly monitoring and 8,000 DA NHIS

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monitoring and evaluation evaluation organized

Recruit and train data

collectors in all LEAP

beneficiary communities

Data collectors recruited

and trained

DSW & CD Dev’t Partners

Conduct LEAP beneficiary

for a in all beneficiary

communities

for a conducted DSW & CD Dev’t Partners

Identify and register NGOs,

CBOs and other

governmental agencies that

provides complementary

services and link them to

LEAP beneficiaries for

support

NGOs, CBOs etc

registered and linked to

LEAP beneficiaries


Organise 5 information

sharing sessions for

traditional rulers, assembly

members and departments on

cultural/traditional practices.

No. of information

sharing session for

traditional rulers,

assembly members and

departments on

cultural/traditional

practices organized

10,000

Social

welfare

Community

development

DA

Traditional Authorities

CHRAJ, NCCE

Ghana Police

Organize 5 training sessions

for stakeholders on the

domestic violence Law,

Children’s Act etc.

No. of training sessions

organized for

Stakeholders on the

domestic violence bill.

10,000 DA

CHRAJ

NCCE

Ghana Police

Strengthen institutions such

as DSW&CD, NCCE, Police

and allied institutions to deal

4000 DA

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with cultural / traditional

issues

Objective 2:A more effective appreciation of and inclusion of disability issues both within the formal decision making process and in the society at large

Conduct educational fora on

issues of disabilities through

durbars and radio talk shows

Durbars and radio

talk shows on

disabilities issues

conducted

3,000 DSW & CD Dev’t Partners

Intensify education on Act 715 Education conducted 1,000 DSW & CD Dev’t Partners

Organize PWDs into groups and

improve upon their capacities

PWDs groups formed

and capacities

improved


Register and properly dispose off

120 family welfare cases

No of welfare cases

handled and disposed

off


Activities Indicator TIMEFRAME Indicative Budget (GH¢) Implementing Agencies

2014 2015 2016 2017 GOG DONOR Lead Collaborating

Registration of PWDs in the

district

PWDs registered 1000 DSW & CD Dev’t Partners

Link PWDs with NGOs and other

service providers for support

services

PWDs linked to

NGOs and service

providers

1000 DSW & CD Dev’t Partners

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Objective: Protect children from direct and indirect physical and emotional harm.

Thematic Area:Transparent and Accountable Governance


2014 2015 2016 2017 GOG DONOR Lead Collaborating

Sensitize 50 communities on child

rights

No. of Communities

sensitized on the

rights of the child

5,000 5,000 Dept. of

Social

Welfare

NCCE ,DA

CHRAJ, NGOs

Organize durbars and radio talk

shows on harmful cultural

practices against children

Durbars and radio

talk shows organized

2,000

Form and inaugurate district child

panel

District child panel

formed and

inaugurated

4,000.00 4,000 Dept. of

Social

Welfare

NCCE ,DA

CHRAJ, NGOs

Organize review meetings on

child rights

No. of Review

meetings organized

1,000.00 2,000 Dept. of

Social

Welfare

NCCE ,DA

CHRAJ, NGOs

Support 16 Plan Ghana

communities child initiated

projects

16 Plan Ghana

communities

supported

24,000 DA Development

Partners

Sub total 10,000 11,000

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Objective 1: Enhance community participation in governance and decision making


(GH¢)



Build capacities of Assembly

Members and Unit Committees

Capacity of Assembly

members and Unit

Committees built

10,000 DA NGOs

Organise reviews and Public

hearings on Assembly activities

No. of Reviews and

public hearings

organised

20,000

Organise community durbars with

traditional authorities

No. of Community

durbars organised

10,000

Prepare Community Action Plans

and integrate them into district

plans

Community Action

Plans prepared and

integrated

10,000

Construct 2No. bungalows 2No. bungalows

constructed

320,000 DA NGOs

Complete DADU office DADU office

completed

70,000 DA NGOs

Build capacity of DA and Area

Council staff

Capacity of DA and

Area Council staff built

80,000 DA NGOs

Furnish District Assembly offices District assembly

offices furnished

10,000 DA NGOs

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Organise participatory monitoring

on development projects and

programmes

Participatory

monitoring organised

60,000 DA

Construct additional office

accommodation for DA

Additional office

accommodation for DA

constructed


Organise talk shows on DA

activities

No. of talk shows

organised

20,000 DA

Support community self help

projects

Community self help

projects supported


Procure vehicle for monitoring of

projects

vehicle for monitoring

of projects procured

80,000

Sub total 580,000 70,000

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Objective 2: Empower women and mainstream gender into socio-economic development


(GH¢)

Implementing

Agencies

2014 2015 2016 2017 GOG DONOR LEAD COLLOBRATORS

Organise 6 workshops for selected

women on decision-making processes

at the District level

No. of Workshops for

selected women on decision

making processes at the

district level organised

14,000 DA NGOs

Lobby assembly leadership to appoint

40% of 30% appointees as women

% of Assembly appointees

who are women

2,000 NGOs DA

Organise an education forum for 300

women and girls to create awareness

on breast cancer and reproductive

health

300 women and girls

sensitized on breast cancer

and reproductive health

3,600 DA NGOs

Sensitize 300 traditional leaders and

the general public on the need to

reduce out-migration of women and

girls

300 traditional leaders and

the general public sensitized

on the need to reduce out

migration of women and

girls

3756 DA NGOs

Organise a workshop to sensitize 300

traditional leaders and parents on the

dangers of girl elopement

300 traditional leaders and

parents sensitized on the


4149 DA NGOs

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Objective 3: Improve the capacity of security agencies to provide internal security for human safety and protection.

Objective 5: Ensure efficient internal revenue generation and transparency in local resource management

Sensitize 300 chiefs, wine sellers and

the general public on the effect of

alcoholism and drug addiction

300 Chiefs, wine sellers and

the general public sensitized

on the effect of alcoholism

and drug addiction

4450 DA NGOs

Sub total 31,955 00



Construct 1 no. Police

accommodation

Availability of police

accommodation in the

district

60,000 DA NGOs

Construct a District Court

Building

Availability of District

court in the district

70,000 DA NGOs

Construct 1 no. bungalow for

District magistrate

Availability of bungalow

for district magistrate

60,000 DA NGOs

Liaise and lobby police

administration for additional

personnel

No. of police personnel

posted to the district

3,000 DA NGOs

Sub total 193,000 00

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Activities Indicator TIMEFRAME Indicative Budget Implementing Agencies


Employ more

revenue/commission collectors

No. Of revenue/ commission

collectors engaged

1,000

DA

AREA COUNCIL

Organize refresher training for

revenue collectors

No. Of refresher training organised

for revenue collectors

10,000 DA AREA COUNCIL

Intensify monitoring and

supervision of revenue

collection in the district

No. Of Monitoring and supervision

of revenue collection conducted in

the district

20,000

DA

AREA COUNCIL

Organize bi-annual public fora

on revenue mobilization and

expenditure at the district level.

No. Of bi-annual public fora on

revenue mobilisation and

expenditures organised at the

district level

12,000

DA

AREA COUNCIL

Engage private firms in revenue

collection (out sourcing)

No. Of private firms engaged 500 DA AREA COUNCIL

Procure motorbikes for revenue

collectors

No. Of motorbikes procured

8,000

DA

AREA COUNCIL

Organize annual awards

ceremony for the best revenue

collectors.

No. Of annual awards organised

10,000

DA

AREA COUNCIL

Review fee fixing to include

newly identified revenue items

Fee fixing reviewed 1,000 DA AREA COUNCIL

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Objective 6:Mainstream the concept of local economic development into planning at the district level

Sub total 61,500 00


(GH¢)



Conduct sensitization seminar

on sheabutter extraction within

production communities

No. of sensitization

seminars on sheabutter

extraction conducted

4,000

BAC DA, NGOs, Dept. of

Community Dev’t

Formation of sheabutter

production groups in selected

communities

No. of Sheabutter

production groups

formed

2,000 BAC DA, NGOs, Dept. of

Community Dev’t

Conduct market research for

sheabutter

Availability of Market

research data for

sheabutter

5,000 BAC DA, NGOs

Purchase sheabutter equipment

for 10 producer groups

No. of sheabutter

producer groups

provided with equipment

200,000 BAC Donor Agencies, SADA

Build market linkages between

producers and buyers

Availability of Market

linkages between

producers and buyers

7,000 BAC DA, NGOs

Conduct management training

on quality control, records

No. of groups trained 10,000 BAC DA, NGOs, SADA

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keeping, marketing, costing

and pricing and credit

management for sheabutter

production groups in the

district.

Monitoring of performance of

producer groups

Production communities 10,000

Asses the employment needs

of the youths

Availability of list of

Employment needs of

the youths

3,000

NYEP,S

OCIAL

WELFA

RE

DA, MOE &S

Engage 945 youth under the

NYEP

No. of Youth employed

200 NYEP

DA

MOE &S

Engage 500 youth in the EDIF

sponsored mango plantation

project

No. of Youthengaged. 5,000 DA MOFA

Engage 600 youth in the New

National Forest Plantation

Development Programme

No. of Youth engaged. 5,000 DA MOFA

Sub - Total

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Table 4.2: summary of indicative budget by thematic areas

THEMATIC AREA

INDICATIVE BUDGET

TOTAL

% OF BUDGET FOR

THEMATIC AREA GOG DONOR

1. Enhancing competitiveness of Ghana's private

sector 190,000 45,000 235,000 0.51

2. Infrastructure and Human settlement 6,262,755 16,654,002 22,916,757 50.45

3. Accelerated Agricultural modernisation and

sustainable natural resource management 7,500 609,532 617,032 1.36

4. Human Development, Productivity and

Employment 15,470,279 5,207,340 20,677,619 45.53

5. Transparent and Accountable Governance 880,000 97,000 977,000 2.15

Total Budget 22,810,534 22,612,874 45,423,408 100.00

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4.2 INDICATIVE FINANCIAL PLAN FOR WA WEST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY 2010 –

2013

FINANCING THE GAP

From the analysis above, the total cost of financing the Medium Term Development Plan (2010 –

2013) stands at Forty FiveMillion, Four hundred and Twenty Three thousand, Four Hundred and

Eight Ghana Cedis (GH¢45,423,408) against an Indicative Financial Budget of Nineteen

Million, One Hundred and Sixty Three Thousand, Five Hundred and Thirty Four Ghana Cedis

(GH¢19,163,534). This reveals a financial gap of Twenty two million, three hundred and

thirteen thousand, eight hundred and seventy four Ghana Cedis (GH¢26,259,874).

In financing the gap, it is expected that more revenue and assistance would be mobilized from

the following sources;

The Assembly will make conscious efforts to scale up the volume of IGF through market

tolls and cattle rate collection.

There would also be frantic efforts at blocking all revenue leakages by providing accurate

data on properties, efficient and reliable revenue collection method and well trained and

motivated staff.

It is also expected that our Development Partners would support the district assembly.

Communities would be required to pay counterpart funds as their contribution to cost of

projects in some instances.

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CHAPTER FIVE

5.0 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN

5.1 Introduction

The attainment of the desired benefits from the District Medium Term Plan will depend on how

successfully it is coordinated and implemented to achieve the set objectives.

This section of the District Development Plan identifies projects whose implementation will

assist in the realization of the goal of the Medium Term Plan. Development programmes and

projects will be carefully phased out year by year within the Four-Year period and these will

reflect in the Annual plans indicating what action is to be taken, by whom and at what time.

5.2 Justification for Choice of Annual Action Plan and Location of projects

The specific location of projects is based on the following factors:

1. Needy or deprived areas in terms of socio-economic infrastructure and services,

accessibility, and spatial/ economic interaction.

2. Access to deprived areas where the production of agro-based raw material, food

crops and export crops can be improved.

3. Areas with the necessary threshold population. Notwithstanding this, some deprived

areas are supported.

4. Areas with the capacity to ensure high returns to investment due to availability of

needed facilities and markets.

5. Areas that have the potential to enhance community participation in the decision

making process and other issues related to good governance.

6. Areas which are centrally located to make information flow and sharing of cost

benefit effective. This includes areas that can generate local revenue for the district.

7. Communities with a proven capacity for self-help and local initiative.

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5.3 Implementation Factors

The implementation of planned programmes/ projects within the four-year period will take into

consideration certain administrative, social, climatic, and geological factors.

Some of these include:

Timely availability of funds and other inputs

Availability of personnel with the necessary technical skills and expertise

The seasonal calendar of the activities of rural population, especially farmers

Availability of surface/ underground water

The seasons and their effects on the roads

Sensitivity to cultural norms and practices of the people

5.4 Selection of Implementing Agency

The various implementing departments/ agencies, NGOs and donors were chosen for the

following reasons:

1. Existing and expected functions

2. On-going and planned projects by the agency in question

3. Technical resource availability

4. Expertise in the relevant field of project

The 2014 Annual Action Plan, based on the Programme of Action is as shown in table 5.1.

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2014 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN

THEMATIC AREA: ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS OF GHANA'S PRIVATE

SECTOR

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1. Promote domestic tourism to foster national cohesion as well as redistribution of income

2. Promote sustainable and responsible tourism in such a way to preserve historical, cultural and national

heritage

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

IMP

LE

ME

NTA

TIO

N

AGE

NCI

ES

INDICATOR 1 2 3 4 LOCAL

EXTERN

AL

LEA

D

COLL

ABOR

ATIN

G

Organize radio talk shows to

publicize the tourist potentials

of the district

Wa

No. of radio talk

shows 4,000

WC

HS DA

Train tourist guards in tourist

management

Wechiau

Tourist guides

trained 5,000.00

WC

HS DA

Construct a quest house

Wechiau

Quest house

constructed

100,000.0

0 DA WCHS

Organize tourism festival

Wechiau

Tourist festival

organized 10,000.00

WC

HS DA

Develop a car park at the

Hippo sanctuary

Talawona

20,000.00 DA WCHS

Sub Total 139,000

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THEMATIC AREA: ACCELERATED AGRICULTURAL MODERNIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Promote selected crop development for food security, export and industry

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEM

ENTATI

ON

AGENCI

ES

INDICATOR 1 2 3 4 LOCAL

EXTER

NAL LEAD

COLLABOR

ATING

Train 240 farmers on management practices

of dry season seed production along the

Black Volta River

Jumboso, Mwabase,

Konjogli, Buka,

Increased availability of

maize seed during major

season

2,515.50 MOFA NRGP

Carry out 2,500 acres maize grain block

farm project

District wide Increased acreage of

maize grain farm

107,769.75 MOFA LAP/RSSP

Engage 15 farmers for an improved

technology in rice production

Nahaa, Tindoma,

Wechiau

Increased yield and no.

of rice farmers

2,370.75 MOFA CRS/SAARI

Engage 17 communities in cowpea

production

District wide Increased cowpea

producers

4,312.50 MOFA WVI

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Train 75 vegetable (Tomato,okro and Chilli

pepper) farmers at Dam sites on appropriate

agronomic practices

Yeliyiri, Baleofilli,

Siiru, Balawa,

Dobaziiri,

Pigbengben,

Increased acreage of veg.

farms, Increased income

of farmers

1,937.50 MOFA NRGP

Cary out 150 acres rice block farm District wide no. of farmers and

acreage of rice farms

Train 1000 farmers on safe use of agro-

chemical

District wide Correct use of agro-

chemical ensured

700 MOFA NRGP

Train 125 farmer on compost preparation District wide Increased knowledge on

compost preparation

350 MOFA NRGP

Carry out media campaign to sensitized and

disseminate information on cassava

production, processing issues and marketing

District wide Interaction of

stakeholder promoted

125 MOFA RTIMP

Distribute 2000 improved cassava Cuttings

to 400 farmers

District wide Cassava production

increased

250 MOFA RTIMP

Conduct 3 demonstrations for 60 farmers on

new uses of Root &Tubers

District wide Utilization of root and

tubers increased

1,000 MOFA RTIMP

Educate and train consumers on appropriate

food combination of local available food

materials

District wide Consumers combine

appropriate local

available food materials.

1,128 MOFA NRGP

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Introduce improved crop varieties District wide Farmers adopt new

improved varieties.

1,465 MOFA NRGP

Build the capacity of cash crop farmers to

improve productivity and produce quality

District wide Cash crop farmers

produce good quality of

produce

361.25 MOFA NRGP

Monitoring of pest and diseases on crops District wide Pest and diseases of

crops controlled

180 MOFA NRGP

Identify markets and link to producers District wide Farmers have easy

access to markets

137.5 MOFA NRGP

Improve storage facilities along the value

chain

District wide Post harvest losses

reduced.

294.25 MOFA NRGP

Facilitate the development of FBOs to the

level of input and service providers

District wide Active FBOs operating

in the District

186.75 MOFA NRGP

Mainstream sustainable land management

(SLM) into the design of sector policies

programmes and

District wide Land use plan developed

by all communities

481.75 MOFA NRGP

Build the capacity of field officers and

farmers in the use of appropriate

technologies

District wide Farmers adopt

appropriate technologies

1,161.50 MOFA NRGP

Train 37 farmers in each zone on khebab

soya utilization and groundnut extraction

Wechiau, Dorimon

and Ponyentanga

Soya utilization and

groundnut extraction

improved.

225 MOFA NRGP

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develop stands and promote good

agricultural practices along the value

chain(including hygiene, proper use of

packge, grading standardidation

distrcit wide Good agricultural

practices along the value

chain improved

2500 MOFA RTIMP

Create awareness on gari processing to

women groups

District wide Increased knowledge on

gari processing

1500 MOFA RTIMP

Training of staff in ICT (microsoft office

suit, data entry and analysis)

District wide staff acquird knowledge

in ICT

3000 MOFA RTIMP

Educate and senstized farmers the

importance of soil improvement and the use

of farm yard manure.

District wide Soil fertility enhanced

800 MOFA

Train 100 farmers on simple farm record

keeping.

District wide Farmers acquired

knowledge in record

keeping 1600 MOFA

Apply approraite agricultural research and

technology to introduce economics of scale

in agriculral production

District wide Research and technology

enhanced

4500 MOFA

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Inprove the effectiveness of Research -

Extension-Farmer linkage and integrate the

concept into the agricultural research

system to increase participation of users in

technology development.

District wide Research- extension -

farmer linkage improved

3500 MOFA

Train FBO's and CBO's for Extension

delivery services in improved technologies.

District wide Extension delivery

services improved

2800 MOFA

Intensify dissemanation of updated crop

production technological packages

District wide Crop production package

upgraded

1500 MOFA

Organise three farmer field days on cassava

copping for planting

distrcit wide farmers skills improved

3000 MOFA RTIMP

Conduction of demonstrations on

cajanuscajan in four communities.

Four zones Cajaanuscajan

demonstration conducted

1500 MOFA PATECH

conduction of three WAAPP sweet potato

demoonstration in all the three zones of the

district.

three zones 3 WAAP demonstrations

organised

1800 MOFA WAAPP

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Conduction of nine baby rice

demonstrations and seven mother

demonstrations in each of the RSSP

lowlands.

Gurungu,

Tanina,Pole and

Chogsia

9 rice demonstrations

organised

1200 MOFA RSSP, SARI

Conduction of six AGRA maize

demonstrations

zones A,Band C Maize demonstration

conducted

1800 MOFA SARI

Training 150 women in each of the 3 zones

on income generating activities in areas of

ground nut oil extaction, shea butter

extraction, rice par boiling, weanimix

preparation

zones A,Band C Women income

improved

2400 MOFA

Conduct food demonstration for 50 women

in each zone using soya and cowpea for diet

improvement among farm families

zones A,Band C women knowledge on

soya and cowpea diet

improved

1200 MOFA

Conduct nutrition education for 70 women

in each zone using the three food groups

chart.

zones A,Band C 210 women acquired

knowledge in food group

chart

1120 MOFA

Conduct training on processing , prevention

and storage of vegetables for the off-season

for 70 women in each zone.

zones A,Band C 210 women trained on

processing, prevention

and storage of vegetables

1370 MOFA

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Train farm wives on home managemnet

practices such as construction of soakaway

pits, dry lines, raised platforms etc. for 70

women in each zone.

zones A,Band C Farmwives trained on

home sanitation

3360 MOFA

Educate 50 farm families on the importance

of family planning in agriculture.

District wide families educated on

family planning

1400 MOFA

Educate farm families on the hazards of

HIV/AIDS, prevention of the disease and

care of the affected people especially their

nutritional issues.

District wide farmers knowledge on

HIV/AIDS enhanced

1800 MOFA

Organise 25 women in each of the zones to

go into dry season farming especially along

the Black Volta

3 zones 75 women engaged in

dry season farming

1200

Organise gender mainstream training for 70

farm families in each zone.

zones A,Band C Gender mainstream

training organised for

210 farmers

1120 MOFA

Train 180 farm wifes on the importance of

iodized salt in the meals and linking them to

sources.

District wide Farm wives trained and

linked

2980 MOFA

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Training of 25 AEA's on the various actor

of value chain on cassava production.

District wide AEAs trained on cassava

value chain production

13400 MOFA

Oranise exposure visits for 90 women to

cassava processing centers.

90 women exposed to

processing centers

11500 MOFA

Training of 25AEA's on data collection on

RTIMP activities.

District wide Data collection on

RTIMP enhanced

880 MOFA

Link cassava farmers to financial institution

to access credit.

District wide Cassava farmers linked

to financial institutions

175 MOFA

Conduction of field demonstration on

bambaragroundnut in all zones

zones A,Band C Demonstration on

bambara nuts conducted

1600 MOFA

Conduct census on crop production District wide production levels of

major crops determined

10,000 MOFA NRGP

Sub Total 194,958 18,499



DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Promote livestock and poultry development for food security and income

ACTIVITIES LOCATION OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES

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INDICATOR 1 2 3

4 LOCAL EXTERNAL LEAD

COLLABORATI

NG

Identify, update and

disseminate existing livestock

technologies

District wide

Improved

technologies

identified and

updated 3,000 MOFA LDP/DA


diseases on livestock

District wide

Pest and diseases

of livestock

controlled 300 MOFA LDP/DA

Provide adequate and effective

extension knowledge in

livestock management for

farmers District wide

Framers

management

practices

improved 481.75 MOFA LDP/DA

Early detection, reporting and

controlling of livestock

disease District wide

Livestock health

ensured

400 MOFA LDP/DA

Immunization of dogs, cattle,

poultry against rabies, CBPP,

PPR Anthrax and NCD

District wide Livestock health

ensured

931.25 MOFA LDP/DA

Clinical field treatment, ecto

and endo parasite control

livestock movement and meat

inspection carried out annually

District wide

Livestock health

ensured

937.5 MOFA LDP/DA

Train 30 livestock farmers on

preservation and utilization of

crop residue for dry season

feeding of livestock

District wide Availability of

animal feed

ensured

337.5 MOFA LDP/DA

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Train 35 livestock farmers on

livestock farming as a

business venture

District wide Maximum profit

derived from

livestock rearing

382.75 MOFA LDP/DA

Carry out livestock census

using the developed format

District wide Population of

animal species

ascertained 5,000 MOFA LDP/DA

Sensitize livestock farmers on

importance of vaccination

against endemic diseases

District wide Livestock health

ensured

500 MOFA LDP/DA

Field and home visits by

AEAs on technologies

dissemination

District wide Technologies

dissemination

ensured

1,000 MOFA LDP/DA

Acquire and distribute

improved 00 sheep and 100

goats to credit in kind

beneficiaries

District wide Local breeds of

sheep and goats

improved

10,000 MOFA LDP/DA

Celebration of National

Farmers’ Day

District wide Competition of

crops and

livestock

encouraged 10,000 MOFA LDP/DA

Train CAHW to support

existing ones

District wide CAHW trianed

800

Sub Total 34,071

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DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Promote fisheries development for food security and

income

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES

INDICATOR 1 2 3 4 LOCAL EXTERNAL LEAD

COLLABORATI

NG

To train 120 youth in simple

net construction and

application in six fishing

communities.

Siiru,

Yeleyiri,Pongy

entanga,

120 youth trained

in net construction

and application 9610 MOFA

Siiru,

Yeleyiri,Pongy

entanga,

60 fish farmers

trained in fisheries

catch data

collection 3,400.00 MOFA

Facilitate the training of 120

fishmongers in HACCP

processing of fish in 4 dam

communities. Siiru,

Yeleyiri,Pongy

entanga,

120 fishmongers

equiped with

morden

technology of fish

processing 5750 MOFA

To facilitate the formation of

FFA's and CBFMC's for

resource protection in six dam

comminities.

Siiru,

Yeleyiri,Pongy

entanga,

10 FFA's and

CBFMC's formed

in 10 communities

4910 MOFA

To promote fish farming in 6

fishing communities.

District wide Increased

awareness of fish

farming in 6

communities 6710 MOFA

151 | P a g e

Train 60 fish farmers in 6

communities to detect and

manage fish disease problems

and facilitate the establishment

of a fish health center Siiru,

Yeleyiri,Pongy

entanga,

60 fish farmers

equiped with

knowledge in fish

health

5,210.00 MOFA

Train 6 fishpond construction

gangs in 6 communities.

District wide 6 Youth trained in

fishpond

construction 5355 MOFA

Train 60 youth in pond

stocking and fish feeding in 6

communities.

Siiru,

Yeleyiri,Pongy

entanga,

60 youth trained

in fish pond

stocking and

feeding 3400 MOFA

Introduction of control gear,

quotas and licensing in 10

fishing communities

District wide Fisheries

resources properly

monitored and

protected

1760 MOFA

To conduct stock assessment

and restocking of major dams.

District wide Aqurate fisheries

statistics

documented and

sufficient fish

provided in dams 4000 MOFA

To sensitize 10 fishing

communities on the fisheries

laws and regulations.

District wide 10 communities

sensitized on

fisheries

regulations and

Laws 6200 MOFA

Construct 4 cages in 2

communities

Siiru, Yeleyiri Four cages

constructed in 2

communities

along the Black

Volta 13660 MOFA

152 | P a g e

Facilitate the construction of 1

hatchery on 1 dam

Siiru 10,000 quality

fingerlings

produced to stock

dams and ponds

19,740 MOFA

Sub Total 87,705



DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Mitigate and reduce natural disasters and reduce risks and vulnerability

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

Organise public education on

the effect of flood in 50

communities District wide No. of Public

education

organised

2,000 NADMO DA, Devt Partners

Form 1,000 district volunteer

guards (DVGs) in 50

communities within the

district District wide

training

undertaken


Train 760 DVGs within the

district District wide DVGs Trained


Provide relief items to disaster

victims Wechiau Relief items

provided 18,000 NADMO DA, Devt Partners

Sub Total 48,000

153 | P a g e



DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Reverse forest and land degradation

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

Sensitize communities on the

dangers of deforestation/ bush

fires

District wide Communities

sensitised on the

dangers of

deforestation/bush

fires 4,000 DA

GFS, NADMO,

EPA

Sensitize 50 communities on

climate change and adaptation

strategies

District wide 50 communities

sensitized on

climate change

and adaptation

strategies 10,000 DA

GSOP, FSC, EPA,

Traditional

Authorities

Assist 3 communities to

establish tree nurseries

Ga, Gbache,

Yeliyiri

3 Communities

assisted to

establish tree

nurseries 42,831 DA

GSOP, FSC, EPA,

Traditional

Authorities

Assist 3 communities to

establish woolots and

plantations

Boro, Naha,

Poyentanga

3 Communities

assisted to

establish tree

woodlots and

plantations. 45,480 DA

GSOP, FSC, EPA,

Traditional

Authorities

Create 10km fire belt at the

Wechiau Hippo Sanctuary

Wechiau

Hippo

Sanctuary

10km fire belt

created

42,830 DA

GSOP, FSC, EPA,

Traditional

Authorities

154 | P a g e

Form and train fire volunteer

squads

District wide Fire volunteer

squads formed

and trained 10,000 DA GFS

Provide fire volunteer squads

with protection

clothing/equipment

District wide Fire volunteer

squads provided

with protective

clothing/equipme

nt. 8,000 DA

Sub Total 163,141

155 | P a g e


THEMATIC AREA: INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT

DEVELOPMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Provide adequate and reliable power to meet the needs of Ghanaians and for export

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDU

LE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATIN

G

Procure 200No. low tension

poles

200No. low

tension poles

procured 100,000 DA NED/VRA

Provide solar energy to 25No

institutions

Selected

Communities

25No. Institutions

provided with

solar energy 62,500 DA

Total 162,500

156 | P a g e



DEVELOPMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Promote rapid development and deployment of the national ICT

infrastructure

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATIN

G

Connect 2 centers to the

internet

Wechiau,

Dorimon

ICT centers

connected to the

internet

10,000

40,000

DA

Ministry Of

Environment,

Science &

Technology

Liaise with telephone service

providers to increase their

coverage Wechiau

Telephone

services increased

2,000

DA

MTN, Airtel,

Vodafone, Glo and

Tigo

Sub Total

12,000 40,000



DEVELOPMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Create and sustain an efficient transport system that meets user needs

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

157 | P a g e

Undertake labour intensive

spot improvement of Nyoli -

Dolinguo feeder road

Wechiau -

Tuolu

13 km labour

intensive road

rehabilitated 200,000.00 DA

GSOP, Feeder

Roads



DEVELOPMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Promote a sustainable, spatially integrated and orderly development of human settlements for socio-economic development

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATIN

G

Develop lay-out for 3

communities

Selected

communities

layouts developed

42,000 DA Survey department,

Department Town

and Country

Planning

Facilitate the development of

community resource maps

Selected

communities

Community

resource maps

developed

20,000 DA NGOs

Sub Total 62,000



DEVELOPMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1.Accelerate the provision of affordable and safe water


TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES

158 | P a g e

INDICATOR LOCAL EXTERNAL LEAD

COLLABORATI

NG

Construction of 15No.

boreholes

District wide 15No. boreholes

constructed 150,000

EHSU DA, CWSA

DWST/DPCU training on


Selected

communities

DWST/DPCU

trained on water

and sanitation

activities 10,000

EHSU DA, CWSA

Advocacy campaign on water

and sanitation activities

District wide Advocacy

campaign

conducted 10,000

EHSU DA, CWSA,

UNICEF

DWST Operational cost Wechiau DWST

Operational cost

met 3,000

EHSU DA, World Bank

Monitoring and Evaluation of


District wide M&E undertaken

10,000

EHSU DA, CWSA,

UNICEF

Sub Total 183,000



DEVELOPMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 2. Accelerate the provision and improve environmental

sanitation

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

159 | P a g e

Construction of 10No.

sanitation facilities for schools

District wide 10No. sanitation

facilities

constructed 140,000

EHSU DA, CWSA

Construction of 1,000

Household latrines

District wide 1000 house hold

latrine constructed

40,000

EHSU Environmental

Health Unit

Conduct Hygiene Behaviour


campaign in 10 communities

District wide Behaviour

Change

Communication

campaign

conducted 10,000

EHSU Environmental

Health Unit

Facilitate the achievement

status ODF in 5 communities

based on the CLTS approach

Selected

communities

5 ODF

communities

achieved

25,000

EHSU DA, DSW & CD

Conduct Clean community

campaign/contest

Selected

communities

Clean community

campaign/contest

conducted 10,000

EHSU Environmental

Health Unit

Identify and train school

health teachers in 5 selected

schools

Selected

communities

school health

teachers in 5

selected schools

identified and

trained 5,000

EHSU Environmental

Health Unit

Form and train school health

clubs in 5No. selected schools

Selected

communities

School health

clubs in 5No.

selected schools

formed and

trained 5,000

EHSU Environmental

Health Unit

Train CBHV in 5 communities Selected

communities

CBHV in 5

communities

trained 5,000

EHSU DA, DSW & CD

Identify and train 10 latrine

artisan as TOT

Selected

communities

10 latrine artisan

identified and

trained as TOT 5,00

EHSU CWSA

160 | P a g e

Sub Total 240,000


THEMATIC AREA: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY

AND EMPLOYMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Increase equitable access to and participation in education at all levels

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

Sensitization of communities

to provide at least 6 teachers

with accommodation.

District wide communities

sensitized

2,000

DA Plan Ghana,

Chalice


teachers quarters

District wide Teachers quarters

constructed

700,000

DA GES

Support 10 needy pupils District wide 10 needy pupils

supported 10,000

DA Plan GH, GES,

Chalice

Sensitization of communities

to enroll their children and

retain them in school

District Wide communities

sensitized

5,000

DA GETFUND/HIPC/

PLAN GH.


classroom blocks with

ancillary facilities

11No. 6-Unit

classroom blocks

with ancillary

facilities

constructed 1,671,322

DA GETFUND/GSOP/

HIPC/PLAN GH.

161 | P a g e




District Wide Classrooms

constructed

280,000

DA GETFUND/HIPC/

PLAN GH.




Classrooms

constructed

400,000

DA GES, MP

Provide 1000 school uniforms

to pupils

District Wide 1000 school

uniforms provided

10,000

DA GOG

Provide 5,000 exercise books

to pupils

District wide 5,000 exercise

books provided 3,000

DA GOG

Enroll 2No. schools into the


Selected

school

2No. schools

enrolled into the

GSFP 1,000

DA GOG

Construct 2No. Kitchens for

the school feeding program

Selected

schools

2No. Kitchens

constructed

80,000

DA Plan Ghana

Support 4 child initiated

projects

4 Plan Ghana

communities

4 child initiated

projects supported

20,000 DA

Plan Ghana

Organize sporting and cultural

activities

District Wide sporting and

cultural activities

organized 10,000

DA Plan GH, SNV,

Chalice

Sub Total 3,192,322

162 | P a g e


THEMATIC AREA: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND

EMPLOYMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1. Improve management of education delivery

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

Organize training workshops

for circuit supervisors and

head teachers to upgrade their

skills (monitoring

tools/methods)

District wide workshops

organised

5,000

DA GES

Support GES with funds/fuel

for monitoring and supervision

Funds provided

5,000

DA SNV,RAAP

Build capacities of

PTAs/SMCs

Selected

school capacities of

PTAs/SMCs built 20,000

DA Plan GH, SNV,

Chalice

Construct Office

accomodation for district

directorate of education Wechiau

Office

accommodation

built 100,000 DA GES, NGOs

Sub Total 130,000

163 | P a g e



EMPLOYMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1. Improve quality of teaching and

learning

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

Organize STME camps and

INSET

District

wide Camps and Insets

organised 10,000

DA Plan GH, GES,

Chalice

Organize pre-service training

for newly posted teachers

pre-service

training for newly

posted teachers

organized 10,000

DA Plan GH, SNV,

Chalice

Organize in-service training

for pupil teachers

District Wide in-service training

for pupil teachers

organized

10,000

DA Plan GH, SNV,

Chalice

Organize best teacher award District Wide best teacher

award organised 20,000

DA Plan GH, SNV,

Chalice

164 | P a g e

Organize induction course for

the new recruited trainees’

pupils’ teachers.

induction course

for the new

recruited trainees’

pupils’ teachers

organized

10,000

DA Plan GH, SNV,

Chalice

Organized awards for best

circuit supervisor

awards for best

circuit supervisor

instituted 20,000

DA Plan GH, SNV,

Chalice

Organise inter-schools quiz

competition among schools

District wide inter-schools quiz

competition

among schools

organized 20,000

DA Plan GH, SNV,

Chalice

Organized awards for Best

Performing Pupils

District wide awards for Best

Performing Pupils

organized 5,000

DA Plan GH, SNV,

Chalice

Sponsor 30 teacher trainees

and effectively bond them

District wide Teachers

sponsored and

bonded 150,000

DA MP, chalice

Institution of speech and prize

giving day by the end of

September each year.

District Wide speech and prize

giving day

instituted

10,000

DA CHALICE

Sub Total 265,000

165 | P a g e



EMPLOYMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1. Improve access to quality maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health services

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

De-worm all children 2-5yrs

every six months

District wide Deworming done

and reports

written 3,750 GHS MOH/NGOs

Conduct EPI coverage survey

within the period

District wide EPI coverage

conducted

2,500 GHS NGOs

Establish 1 baby friendly

centers

District wide 1 baby friendly

centre established

30,000 GHS

Project Five

Alive/MoH

Carry out food demonstration

on right combination of food

during complimentary feeding.

District wide Food

demonstration

carried out

42,00 GHS NGOs

Form 5 mother to mother

support groups to promote

breastfeeding.

District wide Mother-to mother

support groups

formed

937.5 GHS NGOs

Sponsor 5 students in

Community Health Nursing &

General nursing

District wide 5 students

sponsored

2,500 GHS DA

166 | P a g e

Build capacity of health staff

and community agents to

implement C-IMCI

Wechiau Health staff &

community agents

capacity built

382.75 GHS NGOs

Organize educational

campaign on malaria

prevention

District wide People educated

on malaria

prevention 5,000 GHS NGOs

Hold monthly immunization

outreach

District wide Children

vaccinationated 200 GHS NGOs

Conduct community growth

promotion

District Wide Children weighed

1,000 GHS NGOs



District wide Exclusive

breastfeeding,

Intensified 10,000 GHS NGOs

Construct 4No. CHPS

compound

Selected

CHPS zones

CHPS zones

operational 200,000 GHS DA

Organize education on skilled

delivery in 3 communities.

District wide Education carried

out and reports

written 3,000 GHS

GOG, DA,

UNFPA, JICA,

UNICEF F

Sponsor 3 additional midwifes District wide 12 additional

midwifes

appointed 6,000 GHS

GOG, DA,

UNFPA, JICA,

UNICEF

Organize Health Education for

TBAs on referral

District wide TBAs educated

3,000 GHS

GOG, DA,

UNFPA, JICA,

UNICEF

Refresher training on

emergency delivery to CHOs.

District wide CHOs trained

1,500 GHS

GOG, DA,

UNFPA, JICA,

UNICEF

Build 2 community Hostel in

sub-districts

District wide Hostels build

2,250 GHS

GOG, DA,

UNFPA, JICA,

UNICEF

Refresher training on life

saving skills for midwives

District wide Training done

1,500 GHS

GOG, DA,

UNFPA, JICA,

UNICEF

167 | P a g e

Sensitive communities on the

need to arrange for alternative

transport in times of

emergencies

District Wide Communities

sensitized on

alternative

transport in times

of emergencies 2,000 GHS

GOG, DA,

UNFPA, JICA,

UNICEF

Support communities to

arrange with GPRTU to

intervene in times of

emergencies

District Wide communities

supported to

arrange with

GPRTU 2,500 GHS

DA, UNFPA,

JICA, UNICEF

Establish a polyclinic Wechiau Polyclinic

established 3,000,000

GOG

Construct 2No. Staff quarters

for GHS

Wechiau 2No. Staff

quarters

constructed 160,000 GHS

DA, GSOP

Community fora on family

planning

District wide Fora held and

reports written 3,750 GHS PPAG, Plan Ghana

Provide focused antenatal care District wide Antenatal care

provided 2,000 GHS

Project Five Alive,

MoH

Organize Health Education

TBAs on referral

District wide Education carried

out and reports

written 2,250 GHS NGOs

Facilitate the establishment 12

emergency transport systems.

District wide 12 ETS

established

3,000 GHS MoH, Plan Ghana

Educate communities on post

abortion care.

District wide Evidence of

yearly reports 3,000 GHS NGOs

Refresher training for maternal

audit committees in the

district.

District wide Training held

3,000 GHS NGOs

Provide Antenatal Care District wide Number of

antenatal

attendance 2,250 GHS NGOs

168 | P a g e



District wide Exclusive

breastfeeding,

Intensified 3,000 GHS NGOs

Organise C4D dialogue on

prevention of maternal

mortality in 24 communities

District wide Meetings

organised and

minutes written

7,500 GHS NGOs

Sub Total 3,431,520

2014ANNUAL ACTION PLAN


EMPLOYMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1. Prevent and control the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases and promote healthy lifestyles

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

Organize community durbars

to sensitize people on malaria

District wide Community

durbars on

malaria organised 5,000 GHS

GOG, DA,

UNFPA, JICA,

UNICEF

Organise community clean up

campaigns and award best

communities.

District wide Clean up

campaigns carried

out

3,750 GHS

GOG, DA,

UNFPA, JICA,

UNICEF

Procure and distribute bed nets

to children under five and

pregnant women

District wide Bed nets

distributed

15,000 GHS

GOG, DA,

UNFPA, JICA,

UNICEF

169 | P a g e

Community sensitization on

early reporting for health care


sensitized and

reports written 5,000 GHS

GOG, DA,

UNFPA, JICA,

UNICEF

Sub Total 28,750



EMPLOYMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1. Ensure the reduction of new HIV and AIDS, STIs, TB transmission

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

Health education on safe sex District wide Education carried

out 3,000 GHS

DA, UNFPA,

JICA, UNICEF

Distribution of condoms District wide Condoms

provided 25,000 GHS

DA, UNFPA,

JICA, UNICEF

Counseling and testing all

pregnant women

District wide Number of

pregnant women

tested 1,500 GHS

DA, UNFPA,

JICA, UNICEF

Register all HIV clients and

transport them to ART centre

every month for their drugs

District wide PLWHA’s

transported to Wa

for their ART

3,000 GHS

DA, UNFPA,

JICA, UNICEF

Conducting counseling and

testing and “know your status”

campaign

District wide Know your status

carried out

11,250 GHS

DA, UNFPA,

JICA, UNICEF

170 | P a g e

Facilitate the formation of

PLWHA associations

District Wide Association

formed

750 GHS

DA, UNFPA,

JICA, UNICEF

Establish CT/PMCT center District Wide Center

constructed 7,500 GHS

DA, UNFPA,

JICA, UNICEF

Monitor and evaluate HIV/

Aids activities in the district District wide

HIV/AIDS

activities

monitored 15,280 DA GHS, NGOs

Sub Total 67,280



EMPLOYMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1. Progressively expand social protection interventions to cover the poor

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

Organize programs in the local

languages that will appeal and

be better understood by

residents.

District Wide Programs in the

local languages

that will appeal to

residents

organized 12,000 NHIS

DA, NGOs

Equip community Health

Insurance committees with

community mobilization

skills.

Wechiau Community

Health Insurance

committees

equiped with

community

mobilization

skills. 2,000 NHIS

DA, NGOs

171 | P a g e

Engage casuals to cope with

the work load

Wechiau Casuals engaged

to cope with the

work load 5,000 NHIS

DA, NGOs

Institute an award system for

agents, staff and providers as a

motivation

Wechiau Award system for

agents, staff and

providers

instituted as a

motivation 5,000 NHIS

DA, NGOs

Organize capacity building


training for staff

Wechiau Capacity building

programs and

refresher training

for staff organized

10,000 NHIS

DA, NGOs

Organize community

education and participation

through stakeholder meetings.


education and

participation

through

stakeholder

meetings


DA, NGOs

Organize quarterly monitoring

and evaluation

District Wide Quarterly

monitoring and

evaluation

meetings


DA, NGOs

Sub Total 39,000

172 | P a g e



EMPLOYMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1. Progressively expand social protection interventions to cover the poor

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

Recruit and train data

collectors in all LEAP

beneficiary communities 9

Communities

Data collectors

recruited and

trained

2,000 DSW & CD

Dev’t Partners

Conduct LEAP beneficiary

fora in all beneficiary

communities 9

Communities

Fora conducted

1,500 DSW & CD

Dev’t Partners

Identify and register NGOs,

CBOs and other governmental

agencies that provides

complementary services and

link them to LEAP

beneficiaries for support

District wide

NGOs, CBOs etc

registered and

linked to LEAP

beneficiaries

1,000 DSW & CD

Dev’t Partners

173 | P a g e

Organise 5 information

sharing sessions for traditional

rulers, assembly members and

departments on

cultural/traditional practices.

5

Communities

No. of

information

sharing session

for traditional

rulers, assembly

members and

departments on

cultural/traditional

practices

organized

2,000 DSW & CD

DA Traditional

Authorities

Organize 5 training sessions

for stakeholders on the

domestic violence Law,

Children’s Act etc.

5

Communities

No. of training

sessions

organized for

Stakeholders on

the domestic

violence bill.

1,000 DSW & CD

CHRAJ, NCCE

Strengthen institutions such as

DSW&CD, NCCE, Police and

allied institutions to deal with

cultural / traditional issues

Wechiau

1,500

Ghana Police,

CHRAJ, NCCE,

Ghana Police

Sub Total

9,000

174 | P a g e


THEMATIC AREA: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1. Enhance community participation in governance and decision making

Organise mass education

programmes on government

policies in 30 communities Selected

communities

No. of mass

education

programmes

organised

3,000 DSW & CD

NCCE, ISD


backward cultural practices

that fuel HIV infection

Selected

communities

No. of

sensitization

programmes

organised

1,500 DSW & CD

NCCE, GHS

Organise training for 50

women leaders (Maakaajie) on

group dynamics

District wide

No. of training

organised

1,500 DSW & CD

Dev’t Partners

Organise training for 20

women's groups on income

generating activities and

financial management

District wide

No. of training

organised

1,000 DSW & CD

Dev’t Partners

Sub Total

7,000

175 | P a g e



EMPLOYMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1. Ensure a more effective appreciation of and inclusion of disability issues both within the formal decision making process

and in the society at large

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

Registration of PWDs in the

district District wide

PWDs registered

1000


Link PWDs with NGOs and

other service providers for

support services

District wide

PWDs linked to

NGOs and service

providers

1000


Conduct educational fora on

issues of disabilities through

durbars and radio talk shows

District wide

Durbars and radio

talk shows on

disabilities issues

conducted

3,000


Intensify education on Act 715

District wide

Education

conducted

1,000


Organize PWDs into groups

and improve upon their

capacities

District wide

PWDs groups

formed and

capacities

improved

1,000


Sub Total

7,000.00

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THEMATIC AREA: TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE

GOVERNANCE

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Ensure effective implementation of the Local Government Service Act

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES

INDICATOR 1 2 3 4

LOCAL(

GH¢) EXTERNAL LEAD

COLLABORATI

NG

Organise quarterly reviews

and Public hearings on

Assembly activities District wide

No. of Reviews

and public

hearings

organised 10,000 DA

Review Fee Fixing Resolution Wechiau

2013 fees

prepared and

approved 10,000

Prepare and submit 2013

Composite Budget and Annual

Action plan Wechiau

2013 Composite

budget and

Annual Action

plan prepared and

submitted 12,000 DA

Organise public hearings on

District Assembly activities District wide

No. of public

hearings

organised 10,000 DA

Organise community

engagement sessions with DA

No. of community

engagement

sessions organised 10,000 DA

Organise participatory

monitoring on all development

projects and programmes:

District wide

No. of

participatory

monitoring

organised 135,000 DA

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Construct 1No. office

accommodation for DA Wechiau

1 No. office

accommodation

for DA

constructed

100,000 DA

Construct 2No. bungalows District wide 3No. bungallows

built

160,000

DA NGOs

Construct 3No. Semi-detached

quarters

Wechiau No. of Semi-

detached quarters

built

240,000

Procure office equipment and

furniture for HR Unit

Wechiau

15,000

DA MLGRD

Train DA Staff in ICT, record

keeping, financial

management, procurement

Wechiau DA staff trained

in various skills

25,000

DA

Train Assembly Members in

leadership skills, report

writing, group dynamics,

networking, etc

Wechiau Assembly

Members trained

in various skills

15,000

DA

Support DA staff to undergo

furhter studies within Ghana

Ghana Hihger

institutions

DA staff

supported for

further studies

20,000

DA NGOs

Support community self help

projects

Wechiau Availability of

logistics &

equipment for

Fire Service

20,000

DA Development

Partners

Sub Total 782,000

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GOVERNANCE

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1. Empower women and mainstream gender into socio-economic

development

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

Organise an education forum

for 300 women and girls to

create awareness on breast

cancer and reproductive health

District wide 300 women and

girls sensitized on

breast cancer and

reproductive

health

3,600 DA NGOs

Organise a workshop to

sensitize 300 traditional

leaders and parents on the


District wide 300 traditional

leaders and

parents sensitized

on the dangers of

girl elopement

4,149 DA NGOs

Sensitize 300 traditional

leaders and the general public

on the need to reduce out-

migration of women and girls

District wide 300 traditional

leaders and the

general public

sensitized on the

need to reduce out

migration of

women and girls

3,756 DA NGOs, CBOs

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Sensitize 300 chiefs, wine

sellers and the general public

on the effect of alcoholism and

drug addiction

District wide 300 Chiefs, wine

sellers and the

general public

sensitized on the

effect of

alcoholism and

drug addiction

4,450

Sub Total 15,955



EMPLOYMENT

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Protect children from direct and indirect physical and emotional harm

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG


child rights

District wide No. of

Communities

sensitized on the

rights of the child 2,500

DSW & CD NCCE, DA,

CHRAJ, NGOs

Form Community Child

Protection Teams


District Child

Protection Teams

750.00

DSW & CD NCCE, DA,

CHRAJ, NGOs

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Train Community Child

Protection Teams

Wechiau No. of trainings

organized for

District Child

Protection Teams

1,250.00

DSW & CD NCCE, DA,

CHRAJ, NGOs

Organise training for 30 club

formed on child rights and

advocacy

District wide 30 club formed on

child rights and

advocacy

2000 DSW & CD NCCE, DA,

CHRAJ, NGOs

Organize review meetings on

child rights and

responsibilities

Wechiau Review meeting

organized

750 DSW & CD NCCE, DA,

CHRAJ, NGOs

Register and properly handle

30 family welfare cases

District wide No. of families

registered

200

DSW & CD NCCE, DA,

CHRAJ, NGOs

Sub Total 7,450



GOVERNANCE

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Improve the capacity of security agencies to provide internal security for human safety and protection

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES

INDICATOR 1 2 3 4

LOCAL(

GH¢) EXTERNAL LEAD

COLLABORATI

NG

Acquire and demarcate land

for Police buildings

District wide No. of plots of

Land acquired and

demarcated for

police buildings

30,000.00

DA NGOs

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Construct 1 no. bungalow for

District Police Commander


bungalow for

district magistrate

80,000.00

DA NGOs

Construct district court

building

Wechiau Court building

constructed

200,000.0

0

DA Donors

Construct office accomodation

for Fire Service


office

accommodation

for fire service

30,000.00

DA GNFS,

Development

Partners

Provide logistics & equipment

to the Fire Service


logistics &

equipment for

Fire Service

5,000.00

DA GNFS,

Development

Partners

Construct Junior Police

Quarters

Wechiau Police barracks

constructed

200,000.0

0

DA Ghana Police

Service

Sub Total

545,000.0

0



GOVERNANCE

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: 1. Ensure efficient internal revenue generation and transparency in local resource

management

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

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Employ more

revenue/commission collectors

District Wide No. Of revenue/

commission

collectors engaged

2,000

DA AREA COUNCIL

Organize refresher training for

revenue collectors

Wechiau No. Of refresher

training organised

for revenue

collectors

2,000

DA AREA COUNCIL

Organize quarterly monitoring

and supervision of revenue

collection in the district

District Wide No. Of

Monitoring and

supervision of

revenue collection

conducted in the

district

4,000

DA AREA COUNCIL

Organize annual awards

ceremony for the best revenue

collectors.

Wechiau No. Of annual

awards organised

3,000

DA AREA COUNCIL

Collect districtwide data on

rateable properties

Selected

communities

Data collected

10,000

DA AREA COUNCIL

Sub Total 21,000

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GOVERNANCE

DISTRICT OBJECTIVES: Mainstream the concept of local economic development into planning at the district level

ACTIVITIES LOCATION

OUTPUT

TIME

SCHEDULE

ANNUAL

BUDGET

IMPLEMENTA

TION

AGENCIES


COLLABORATI

NG

Conduct technical training on

quality control for sheabutter

producers

Production

communities

Technical training

conducted on

quality control for

sheabutter

producers

10,000

BAC DA, NGOs, Dept.

of Community

Dev’t

Conduct market research for

sheabutter

National &

internationally

Availability of

Market research

data for sheabutter

10,000

BAC DA, NGOs, Dept.

of Community

Dev’t

Purchase 3 sheabutter

equipment for 3 producer

groups

Locally &

internationally

3 No. sheabutter

producer groups

provided with

equipment

60,000

BAC Donor Agencies,

SADA

Develop primary groups for

networking and market

linkage

District wide Primary

sheabutter groups

developed

12,000

BAC Donor Agencies,

SADA

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Sub Total 92,000

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CHAPTER SIX

6.0 MONITORING AND EVELUATION

6.1 Introduction

Monitoring and Evaluation are key to the successful implementation of any development plan,

programme or project.

The Monitoring and Evaluation of the DMTDP from2014-2017 cannot therefore be over

emphasized. This is expected to be done in a participatory manner and consistent with the NDPC

guidelines on Monitoring and Evaluation.

6.2 Objectives for Monitoring & Evaluation

To track the progress of indicators set

To track the implementation process set in the DMTDP

To ensure that the DMTDP achieves its set objectives and goals

6.3 Activities to Monitor

Input Delivery i.e., Resources to achieve the objectives and strategies

Output – provision of goods and services produced by inputs

Quality – both inputs and output

Programme/project coverage

Target groups – who are the beneficiaries and are they benefiting from the

projects/programmes

Effectiveness – to what extent is the project/programme achieving results.

Thus, this compares inputs and output or objectives and results. This is expressed in the form of

percentages, i.e., expected results and actual results

6.3 Stakeholder Analysis

Table 6.1 Identification and Analysis of Stakeholders

NO. STAKEHOLDERS RESPONSIBILITIES

1. National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) Provide M&E formulation

guidelines

2. Regional Co-ordinating Council/Regional Panning Co-

ordinating Unit

Policy formulation

Co-ordination of M&E

activities

3. District Assembly/Assembly Members Planning M&E activities

Co-ordinating M&E activities

Provides resources for M&E

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activities

4. Decentralized Departments & Agencies Collection of data

Preparation of M&E reports

5. Local community Support data collection

Demand accountability

6. Donor Agencies To monitor utilization of fund

inflows

Provides resources for M&E

Table 6.2 Assessing Needs, Conditions and Capacities for M&E

No. Capacity Indicators Score=1 Score=5 Score=10

1. Qualification of

personnel

Some staff have the

required education, but not

all

2. Staff compliment Most staff have the

requisite skills &

knowledge in some areas

but not all

3. Skills & knowledge Some staff have requisite

skills & knowledge in

some areas not all

4. Availability of funds Funds available to meet

basic costs but will not

allow DPCU to carry out

all activities in the M&E

Plan

5. Utilization of funds Funds are

spent as

budgeted in

accordance

with

DMTDP

6. Timely access to funds Funds released up to 6

months behind schedules

7. Leadership Funds released up to six

months behind schedules

8. Management Management is

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technically skilled

in all components

9. Workload Workload forces staff to

work overtime to complete

administrative

programming functions

10. Motivation/Incentives Some central government

motivation/incentives are

accessible (e.g. training)

11. Equipment/facilities Office space & furniture is

adequate but technology is

lacking for some staff

6.4 Data Collection and Collation

Data for Monitory and Evaluation of the DMTDP shall be both quantitative and qualitative. The

primary data shall be collected directly from the field by all sector departments, the DPCU,

community members, Assembly Members and Area Councilors. Secondary data shall also be

collected through review of research documents and others relevant documents in order to

support the primary data. This data would be source from sector departments, NGOs etc.

6.5 Data Analysis and Use of the Results

Data analysis shall be done through software such as the SPSS as well as other available data

softwares. The DPCU shall use regression analysis and frequencies to analyze the data. The

results of the data analysis would be discussed at a stakeholder forum and the outcome used for

future planning in the Short-term and Medium-Term.

6.6 Reporting

The DPCU shall prepare a report after, each monitoring for discussion by the District Chief

Executive, the Presiding Members and Chairmen of the Sub-Committees of the Assembly.

However, there would be mid-year and annual progress reports which shall be discussed at a

forum of stakeholder and presented to the General Assembly.

6.7 Dissemination of the Reports

It is not often possible to get all stakeholders to a forum to discuss reports. Therefore, to reach

out to a greater percentage of the stakeholders, there would be a Public Hearing on the reports

and this could be carried by the media. These Public Hearing would be held at the following

levels:

Unit Committee level

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Area Council level

District Assembly level

Table 6.4 M&E CALENDAR

ACTIVITIES TIMEFRAME ACTORS BUDGET

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4

2014 2015 2016 2017

Annual review of

DMTDP

DPCU GH¢10,000

Mid-Year review

of DMTDP

June June June June DPCU GH¢10,000

Annual progress

reviewed

workshop

Jan Jan Jan DPCU GH¢6,000

Preparation of

Annual Progress

Report

Feb Feb Feb Feb DPCU GH¢4,000

Dissemination May May May May DPCU GH¢6,000

Quarterly Review March June September Jan DPCU GH¢4,000

Quarterly Field

Visits

Jan - March April - June July - September October -

December DPCU GH¢6,000

6.9 EVALUATION

The participation M&E approach would be adopted in the evaluation of the DMTDP. This would

enable both right bearers and duty bearer to access the impact of interventions and challenges

affecting the effective implementation of the interventions.

In view of the above, the District Assembly would engage Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to

assist in using participatory methods to collect data for the evaluation of the DMTDP.

Some of the M&E techniques to be adopted are indicated below:

i. Citizen Report Cards

ii. Community Score Cards

iii. Focus Group discussing etc

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CHAPTER SEVEN

7.0. DISTRICT COMMUNICATION STRATEGY/PLAN

7.1. INTRODUCTION

Communication is key to the promotion of transparency and accountability. It also promotes

team spirit and team work since every actor in the particular activity is aware of what is going

on.

In view of the above, the Wa West District Assembly as part of the DMTDP 2014-2017 has

developed a communication strategy in order to enable all responsible agencies and persons are

abreast with the contents of the DMTDP and the role they are expected to play. This would be

done by disseminating the DMTDP throughout the district.

7.2. DISSEMINATION OF DMTDP

The DMTDP would be disseminated through Public Hearing and Fora where a presentation

would be done on the DMTDP for all stakeholders to know their roles and responsibilities in the

implementation of the Plan. Hence the programmes, projects and activities captured in the Plan

would be presented.

Moreover, there would be preparation of Annual Progress Report during Performance Review

Meetings which would be discussed at Public Hearings and Stakeholders Meetings to identify

the challenges for redress whiles enhancing the achievements made over the period.

In addition, there would be engagement meetings between right bearers and duty bearers where

there would be an interaction and feedback between right holders and duty bearers.

The feedback from such engagements would be discussed at the Sub-Committee level and the

General Assembly for possible redress of the issues raised by right bearers and duty bearers.

There would also be Town Hall Meetings at the Sub-district level to create a platform for the

people to also ask questions about government policies especially relating to the MTDP and the

MTPF for 2014-2017.

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Table 7.1: Budget for Communication Strategy


TIMEFRAME BUDGET

IMPLEMENTING

AGENCIES

2014 2015 2016 2017 GH¢ Lead Collaborating

Organize 4 Public

hearing on the MTDP

District wide 4 Public hearing

organized on MTDP

15,000 DPCU All Dec. Depts.

Traditional Authorities

Media

Organize 4 Mid-Year

Performance reviews

on MTDP

Wechiau 4 Mid–Year reviews

on MTDP organized

15,000 DPCU All Depts.

Media

Organize 4 annual

reviews on the MTDP

Wechiau 4 annual reviews on

MTDP organized

15,000 DPCU All Depts.

Media

Organize 5 Town Hall

meetings annually on

the MTDP

All Sub-

district

5 Town Hall

meetings organized

on the MTDP

30,000 DA All Depts.

Media

Organized

Engagement Meetings

between right bearers

and duty bearer

District wide Engagement

Meetings organized

between right

bearers and duty

bearer

30,000 DA All Service Providers

All Depts.

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Radio talk shows on

the implementation of

the MTDP

Wechiau Radio Talk Shows

on the

implementation of

the MTDP organized

10,000 DA Radio

Stations

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