AKYEMANSA DISTRICT ASSEMBLY SUB- PROGRAMME 1.1 General Administration
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Table of Contents PART A: STRATEGIC OVERVIEW ........................................................................................... 4 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DISTRICT .............................................................................. 4 REPUBLIC OF GHANA 3.0 VISION ......................................................................................................................... 5 4.0 MISSION STATEMENT ................................................................................................ 5 5.0 GOAL ........................................................................................................................... 6 6.0 CORE FUNCTIONS ......................................................................................................... 6 COMPOSITE BUDGET 7.0 DISTRICT ECONOMY .................................................................................................. 7 a. AGRICULTURE .................................................................................................................. 7 b. INFRASTRUCTURE ........................................................................................................... 7 c. HEALTH ............................................................................................................................. 8 FOR 2020-2023 d. WATER AND SANITATION ............................................................................................ 8 f. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ........................................................................................ 9 3.7 KEY DEVELOPMENT ISSUES / PROBLEMS ...............................................................10 2. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2019 .........................................................................................10 PROGRAMME BASED BUDGET ESTIMATES 3. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE PERFORMANCE ..........................................................11 a. REVENUE .........................................................................................................................11 b. EXPENDITURE .................................................................................................................13 1. NMTDF POLICY OBJECTIVES IN LINE WITH SDGs AND TARGETS AND COST .........14 FOR 2020 2. POLICY OUTCOME INDICATORS AND TARGETS .........................................................19 3. REVENUE MOBILIZATION STRATEGIES FOR KEY REVENUE SOURCES ..................20 PART B: BUDGET PROGRAMME/SUB-PROGRAMME SUMMARY ......................................21 PROGRAMME 1: MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ...............................................21 AKYEMANSA DISTRICT ASSEMBLY SUB- PROGRAMME 1.1 General Administration ...........................................................23 SUB- PROGRAMME 1.2 Finance and Revenue Mobilization ........................................26 SUB- PROGRAMME 1.3 Planning, Budgeting and Coordination .................................29 SUB- PROGRAMME 1.3 Legislative Oversights ............................................................32 SUB- PROGRAMME 1.5 Human Resource Management .....................................................35 Akyemansa District Assembly 2020 2020 Composite Budget- Akyemansa District 1 2 PROGRAMME 2: INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT ...........................38 SUB- PROGRAMME 2.1 Physical and Spatial Planning ......................................................41 SUB- PROGRAMME 2.2 Infrastructure Development ..........................................................44 PROGRAMME 3: SOCIAL SERVICES DELIVERY ..............................................................46 PART A: STRATEGIC OVERVIEW SUB- PROGRAMME 3.1 Education and Youth Development ..............................................49 SUB- PROGRAMME 3.2 Health Delivery ...............................................................................51 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DISTRICT SUB- PROGRAMME 3.3 Social Welfare and Community Development .............................56 The Akyemansa District is one of the thirty-tthree administrative districts of the Eastern SUB- PROGRAMME 3.4 Birth and Death Registration Services .........................................59 Region of Ghana with its capital at Akyem Ofoase. It was originally part of the Birim District PROGRAMME 4: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ..................................................................61 and later the Birim North District. In 2008, Akyemansa District was created out of the then SUB- PROGRAMME 4.1 Trade, Tourism and Industrial Development ................................62 Birim North District under Legislative Executive Instrument 1919 as part of the SUB- PROGRAMME 4.2 Agricultural Development .............................................................65 Government of Ghana’s decentralization programme to promote effective decentralized PROGRAMME 5: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ........................................................68 governance and also to speed up the development of the area. SUB- PROGRAMME 5.1 Disaster Prevention and Management .........................................70 SUB- PROGRAMME 5.2 Natural Resource Conservation and Management ......................73 The Akyemansa District is bordered by Birim North District to the North, the Asante Akyem PART C: FINANCIAL INFORMATION .....................................................................................92 South, Amansie East and Adansi South districts all in the Ashanti region to the West, Birim Central District to the South and Atiwa and Kwaebibirem districts to the East. The district has a very strategic location especially its capital Akyem Ofoase as it is situated among three major commercial towns and a mining town namely Oda, Nkawkaw and New Abirem respectively. With improved roads linking Ofoase to New Abirem and Oda through Ayirebi, the economy of the district stands a better chance of being improved. Ofoase can be described as a nodal or a confluence town as it is located at the meeting point of the New Abirem- Oda-Nkawkaw roads 2 The district has a land size of 667.17km constituting 3.4 percent of the land size and a population of 118,956 as at 2016 constituting (3.7%) percent share of the population of the Eastern Region of Ghana. The district is predominantly rural with few urban settlements which include Ofoase, Ayerebi, Abenase, Bontodiase and Adjobue. The district has 96 communities with Akyem Ofoase as the administrative capital. It also has four (4) area councils namely; Ofoase, Ayerebi, Akokoaso and, Abenase and thirty- 2020 Composite Budget- Akyemansa District 2020 Composite Budget- Akyemansa District 3 4 eight (38) Assembly members composed of Twenty-six (26) elected and Twelve (12) appointed. 5.0 GOAL The goal of the Akyemansa District is “To ensure sustainable agricultural development, improve human resource and achieve accelerated poverty reduction within the context of good governance” 2.0 POPULATION STRUCTURE The population of the district constitutes 3.7 percent of the total population of the Eastern 6.0 CORE FUNCTIONS Region. With an annual growth of 2.52% during the 2010 PHC, the district total projected population for 2020 is 125,104 of which 50.7% are Females and 49.3% are Males. The The core functions of the District (in accordance to Act 2016 Act 936) are outlined below: projected population for 2020, computed from the 2010 PHC, further indicates that about Exercises political and administrative authority in the district, provide guidance, 52.0 percent of female reside in the urban areas compare to 48.0 of male with equal give direction to, and supervise the other administrative authorities in the district. proportions (52%) of both sexes are in the rural localities. With an assumption of same sex ratio from 2010 PHC, the sex ratio for the district is 97.2 males per 100 females. Performs deliberative, legislative and executive functions. The urban localities have a sex ratio of 92.2 males per 100 females while the rural localities have a sex ratio of 100, which means that for every one male, there is equally Responsible for the overall development of the district and the preparation one female of development plans of the district; of the annual and medium term budgets of the district related to its development plans. The District is predominantly rural (65.1%) with few urban settlements. The district has five main settlements, which have attained urban status namely Ofoase, Ayirebi, Abenase , Bontodiasae and Adjobue. The district also formulates and executes plans, programmes and strategies for the effective mobilisation of the resources necessary for the overall development 3.0 VISION of the district. A Decentralized Public Service Unit that is well Positioned with a Client Oriented Acclaim It promotes and support productive activity and social development in the district and removes any obstacles to initiative and development. 4.0 MISSION STATEMENT Akyemansa District Assembly Exists to Accelerate the Development of the entire District Responsible for initiating programmes for the development of basic infrastructure by Planning and Implementing Development Programs and Projects in a coordinated and provide municipal works and services in the district. manner to ensure Efficiency so as to improve the Living Standards of the People. 2020 Composite Budget- Akyemansa District 2020 Composite Budget- Akyemansa District 5 6 Ensure the development, improvement and management of human settlements c. HEALTH and the environment in the district. Akyemansa has a District Health