Agotime-Ziope District Assembly

AGOTIME-ZIOPE DISTRICT ASSEMBLY

(AZDA)

DISTRICT MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN

DRAFT

2014-2017

………………………………

December, 2013

LIST OF ACRONYMS

AZDA Agotime-Ziope District Assembly

APR Annual Progress Report

BECE Basic Education Certificate Examination

CBOs Community Based Organizations

CBRDP Community Based Rural Development Programme

CSO Civil Society Organization

DA District Assembly

DACF District Assembly Common Fund

DCD District Coordinating Director

DCE District Chief Executive

DFO District Finance Officer

DM&E District Monitoring and Evaluation

DMTDP District Medium-Term Development Plan

DPCU District Planning and Co-ordinating Unit

DPO District Planning Officer

GHS Ghana Health Service

GES Ghana Education Service

GPRS (II) Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (2006-2009)

GSGDA Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda

MOFA Ministry of Food and Agriculture

M&E Monitoring and Evaluation

NDPC National Development Planning Commission

NGOs Non- Governmental Organizations

NYEP National Youth Employment Programme

PWD Public Works Department

TCPO Town and Country Planning Officer

Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...... 12 CHAPTER ONE ...... 14 1.0 Introduction ...... 14 1.1District’s Vision, Mission and Functions ...... 14 1.1.1 Vision ...... 14 1.1.2 Mission ...... 14 1.1.3 Functions ...... 14 PERFORMANCE REVIEW ...... 15 1.2 Performance Review of the District Medium Term Development Plan 2010-2013 ...... 15 1.2.1 Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability ...... 15 1.2.2 Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector ...... 18 1.2.3 Accelerated Agricultural Modernisation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management ...... 20 1.2.4 Oil and Gas Development ...... 22 1.2.5 Infrastructure and Human Settlement ...... 24 1.2.6 Human Development, Productivity and Employment ...... 26 1.2.7 Transparent and Accountable Governance ...... 28 1.2.8 Summary of Programme/Project Implementation Status ...... 29 1.2.9 Revenue and Expenditure Patterns of District Assembly ...... 31 1.2.10 PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED DURING IMPLEMENTATION ...... 32 1.2.11 LESSONS LEARNT ...... 32 DISTRICT PROFILE ...... 33 1.2.0 Introduction ...... 33 1.3.1 Establishment...... 33 1.3.2 PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT ...... 33 1.3.2.1 Location and Size ...... 33 1.3.2.2 Climate ...... 37 1.3.2.3 Vegetation ...... 37 1.3.2.4 Topography and Drainage ...... 38 1.3.2.5 Geology and Soil ...... 39 1.3.2.6 Natural and Built Environment ...... 39

1.3.2.7 Condition of Natural Environment ...... 40 1.3.3.1 Cultural Characteristics ...... 40 1.3.3.2 Ethnicity ...... 41 1.3.3.3 Traditional Knowledge ...... 41 1.3.3.4 Festivals ...... 42 1.3.3.5 Religion ...... 42 1.3.3.6 Communal Spirit ...... 42 1.3.4.1 Settlement Systems ...... 42 1.3.4.2 Hierarchy of Settlements ...... 43 1.3.5.1 Commodity Flows ...... 43 1.3.5.2 Space Economy ...... 43 1.3.5.3 Poverty ...... 43 THE ECONOMY OF THE DISTRICT ...... 45 1.3.6.1 Agriculture ...... 45 1.3.6.2 Agriculture Production ...... 47 1.3.6.3 Farming Methods ...... 48 1.3.6.4 Acreage Cultivated ...... 48 1.3.6.5 Extension Services ...... 48 1.3.6.6 Future Programmes / Project ...... 49 1.3.6.7 Livestock Sector Development...... 49 1.3.6.8 Crop Development Programmes ...... 49 1.3.6.9 Problems and Challenges Confronting the Agricultural Sector ...... 49 1.3.6.10 Food Security ...... 50 1.3.7.1 Financial Institutions ...... 50 1.3.7.2 Economic Activity Status ...... 50 1.3.7.3 Labour Force ...... 51 1.3.7.4 Occupation ...... 54 1.3.7.5 Industry ...... 55 1.3.8 LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUES ...... 55 1.3.9 TOURISM SECTOR ...... 56 1.3.10 Transportation Network and Infrastructure ...... 56 1.3.10.1 Roads ...... 56

1.3.11 GOVERNANCE ...... 57 1.3.11.2 The Sub-District Structures ...... 58 1.3.11.3 Traditional Authorities ...... 59 1.3.12 DISTRICT SECURITY ...... 59 1.3.12.1 Security Establishments ...... 59 1.3.12.2 Problems of the District Security ...... 60 1.3.13 District Assembly Finances ...... 60 1.3.13.1 Revenue Generation ...... 60 1.3.13.2 Financial Management in the District Assembly ...... 61 1.3.13.3 Problems of the District Finances ...... 61 1.3.14 SOCIAL SERVICES ...... 62 1.3.14.1 Education ...... 62 1.3.14.1.1 Academic Performance ...... 63 1.3.14.2 Information, Communication Technology (ICT) ...... 64 1.3.14.2.1 Ownership of mobile phones ...... 64 1.3.14.2.2 Use of internet ...... 64 1.3.14.2.3 Household ownership of desktop/laptops ...... 65 1.3.14.3 HEALTH ...... 66 1.3.14.3.1 Health Facilities ...... 66 Table 1.3.11 Health Facilities by Ownership ...... 66 1.3.14.3.2 Staff Strength of Health Services ...... 66 1.3.14.3.3 Disease prevalence ...... 66 1.3.14.3.4 Health Service Delivery ...... 67 1.3.14.3.5 District Mutual Health Insurance Scheme ...... 67 1.3.14.3.6 HIV/AIDS ANALYSIS ...... 67 1.3.14.3.6.1 HIV/AIDS PREVALENCE ...... 68 1.3.14.3.6.2 MAJOR CAUSES OF HIV/AIDS ...... 68 1.3.14.4. WATER AND SANITATION ...... 69 1.3.14.4.1 Bathing and Toilet Facilities ...... 69 1.3.14.5 VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS ...... 69 1.3.14.5.1 Major cases of vulnerability ...... 70 1.3.14.6 GENDER ANALYSIS ...... 71

1.3.14.6.1 The Biological Role of women as mothers ...... 71 1.3.14.6.2 Overburdened Domestic Roles for Girls and women ...... 72 1.3.14.6.3 Access to productive capital and Skills training ...... 72 1.3.14.7 Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy ...... 72 1.3.14.8 DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS ...... 72 1.3.14.8.1 Population ...... 72 1.3.14.8.2 Population Size and Distribution ...... 73 1.3.14.8.3 Sex ratio ...... 73 1.3.14.8.4 Dependency Ratio ...... 73 1.3.14.8.4 Age-Sex Structure ...... 75 1.3.14.8.5 Fertility ...... 76 1.3.14.8.6. Spatial Distribution of Population ...... 76 1.4 Key Development Gaps ...... 78 1.4.1 Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability ...... 78 1.4.2 Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector ...... 78 1.4.3 Accelerated Agricultural Modernisation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management ...... 78 1.4.4 Oil and Gas Development ...... 79 1.4.5 Infrastructure and Human Settlements ...... 79 1.4.6 Human Development, Productivity and Employment ...... 79 1.4.7 Transparent and Accountable Governance ...... 80 1.5 SUMMARY OF COMMUNITY NEEDS AND ASPIRATIONS BASED ON THE GSGDA II ...... 80 CHAPTER TWO ...... 85 DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES ...... 85 2.1 Harmonization of Community Needs and Aspirations with Identified Key Development Gaps/Problems/Issues (from Review of Performance and Profile) ...... 85 2.2 Linking Harmonized Key Development Problems/Issues under 2010-2013 to the National Medium- Term Development Policy Framework, 2014 – 2017...... 90 2.3 Development Projections ...... 97 2.3.1 The Exponential Method ...... 97 2.3.2 Educational projections ...... 100 2.3.2.1 Demand for Teachers ...... 100 2.3.3 Projections for Potable Water ...... 100

2.3.3.1 Demand for Boreholes ...... 100 2.3.4 Health projections ...... 100 2.3.4.1 Demand for Doctors ...... 100 2.3.4.2 Demand for Nurses ...... 101 2.3.4.3 Demand for Health Facilities ...... 101 2.3.5.1 Prioritization of Adopted Issues ...... 101 2.3.5.2 LIST OF PRIORITIZED ISSUES UNDER THE THEMATIC AREAS OF THE GSGDA 2014-2017 ...... 102 Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability ...... 102 2.3.6 ANALYSIS OF POTENTIALS, OPPORTUNITIES, CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES...... 103 CHAPTER THREE ...... 119 3. 0 DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES ...... 119 3.1 Development Focus ...... 119 3.2 District Development Goal ...... 119 3.3 ADOPTION OF DISTRICT OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES...... 122 CHAPTER FOUR ...... 141 4..0 DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES ...... 141 4.1 Poverty Mapping and Programming ...... 141 4.1.1 Poverty Status of the District ...... 141 4.3 Tentative Poverty Pockets ...... 142 4.4 Potentials and Constraints for Poverty Alleviation ...... 143 4.6 APPLICATION OF SUSTAINABILITY TOOLS ...... 145 4.7 DISTRICT COMPOSITE PROGRAM OF ACTION (2014 – 2017) ...... 164 4.8 INDICATIVE FINANCIAL PLAN ...... 194 CHAPTER FIVE ...... 197 5.0 ANNUAL ACTION PLANS ...... 197 5.1 DISTRICT ANNUAL ACTION PLAN (2014) ...... 197 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN ...... 222 5.2 DISTRICT ANNUAL ACTION PLAN (2015) ...... 222 ENSURING AND SUSTAINING MACROECONOMIC STABILITY ...... 222 5.3 DISTRICT ANNUAL ACTION PLAN (2016) ...... 242 5.4 DISTRICT ANNUAL ACTION PLAN (2017) ...... 262 CHAPTER SIX ...... 297

6.0 MONITORING AND EVALUATION ...... 297 6.1 Introduction ...... 297 6.2 Key Monitoring and Evaluation Objective ...... 297 6.3 Monitoring ...... 297 6.4 Evaluation ...... 298 CHAPTER SEVEN ...... 299 7.0 DISTRICT COMMUNICATION PLAN ...... 299 7.1 Introduction ...... 299 7.2 Conclusion ...... 300

List of tables TABLE 1.2.1 PERFORMANCE OF DMTDP 2010-2013- ENSURING AND SUSTAINING MACROECONOMIC STABILITY ..... 17 TABLE 1.2.2 PERFORMANCE OF DMTDP 2010-2013- ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS OF GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR ...... 19 TABLE 1.2.3 PERFORMANCE OF DMTDP 2010-2013- ACCELERATED AGRICULTURAL MODERNISATION AND SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ...... 21 TABLE 1.2.4 PERFORMANCE OF DMTDP 2010-2013- OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT ...... 23 TABLE 1.2.5 PERFORMANCE OF DMTDP 2010-2013- INFRASTRUCTURE AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS ...... 25 TABLE 1.2.6 PERFORMANCE OF DMTDP 2010-2013- HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT ... 26 TABLE 1.2.7 PERFORMANCE OF DMTDP 2010-2013- TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE ...... 28 TABLE 1.2.8 DISBURSEMENTS FROM FUNDING SOURCES ...... 31 TABLE 1.3.1: MAJOR AND POTENTIAL FOOD CROPS AND LIVESTOCK / PRODUCTION AREAS IN THE DISTRICT...... 46 TABLE 1.3.2: POPULATION 15 YEARS AND OLDER BY ACTIVITY STATUS AND SEX ...... 51 TABLE 1.3.3: ECONOMIC ACTIVITY STATUS OF THE POPULATION 15 YEARS AND OLDER BY SEX AND AGE ...... 52 TABLE 1.3.4 ROAD CATEGORIES AND LENGTH ...... 57 TABLE 1.3.5: ASSEMBLY’S REVENUE POSITION FROM JANUARY 2010 TO DECEMBER 2013 ...... 60 TABLE1.3.6: EXPENDITURE PATTERN FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS ...... 60 TABLE 1.3.5 ENROLMENT AT BASIC SCHOOLS 2010/2011 ACADEMIC YEAR ...... 62 TABLE 1.3.6 ENROLMENT AT BASIC SCHOOLS 2011/2012 ACADEMIC YEAR ...... 62 TABLE 1.3.7 ENROLMENT AT BASIC SCHOOLS 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR ...... 63 TABLE 1.3.8: BECE PERFORMANCE OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS ...... 64 TABLE 1.3.9: POPULATION 12 YEARS AND OLDER BY MOBILE PHONE OWNERSHIP, INTERNET FACILITY USAGE, AND SEX ...... 65 TABLE 1.3.10: HOUSEHOLDS HAVING DESKTOP/LAPTOP COMPUTERS, FIXED TELEPHONE LINES AND SEX OF HEAD ..... 65 TABLE 1.3.12 TOP TEN (10) DISEASES IN THE DISTRICT ...... 67 TABLE 1.3.13 HIV/AIDS SITUATION ...... 68

TABLE 1.3.14 NGOS AND THEIR OPERATIONAL AREAS ...... 70 TABLE 1.3.15: POPULATION BY AGE, SEX AND TYPE OF LOCALITY ...... 74 TABLE 1.3.16 POPULATION OF TEN (20) LARGER COMMUNITIES ...... 77 TABLE 1.4.1 COMMUNITY NEEDS AND ASPIRATION - COUNCIL: AGORTIME AREA COUNCIL...... 80 TABLE 1.4.2 COMMUNITY NEEDS AND ASPIRATION - COUNCIL: ZIOPE AREA COUNCIL ...... 82 TABLE 2.1.1 HARMONIZED COMMUNITY NEEDS AND ASPIRATION WITH DEVELOPMENT GAP FROM ...... 85 TABLE 2.1.2 HARMONIZED COMMUNITY NEEDS AND ASPIRATION WITH DEVELOPMENT GAP FROM ...... 85 TABLE 2.1.3 HARMONIZED COMMUNITY NEEDS AND ASPIRATION WITH DEVELOPMENT GAP FROM ...... 86 TABLE 2.1.4 HARMONIZED COMMUNITY NEEDS AND ASPIRATION WITH DEVELOPMENT GAP FROM ...... 87 TABLE 2.1.5 HARMONIZED COMMUNITY NEEDS AND ASPIRATION WITH DEVELOPMENT GAP FROM ...... 87 TABLE 2.1.6 HARMONIZED COMMUNITY NEEDS AND ASPIRATION WITH DEVELOPMENT GAP FROM ...... 88 TABLE 2.1.7 HARMONIZED COMMUNITY NEEDS AND ASPIRATION WITH DEVELOPMENT GAP FROM ...... 89 TABLE 2.2.1 ADOPTED ISSUES BY THEMATIC AREA OF THE GHANA SHARED GROWTH AND ...... 90 TABLE 2.2.2 ADOPTED ISSUES OF NMTDPF 2014-2017 LINKED TO HARMONIZED ISSUES OF GSGDA 2010-2013 ..... 93 TABLE 2.2.3: ESTIMATED POPULATION FOR THE DISTRICT ...... 98 TABLE 2.2.4: ESTIMATED POPULATION BY AGE AND SEX ...... 99 TABLE 2.2.5: ESTIMATED DEMAND FOR TEACHERS (2014-2017) ...... 100 TABLE 2.2.6: PROJECTED DEMAND FOR BOREHOLES (2014-2017) ...... 100 TABLE 2.2.7 PROJECTED DEMAND FOR DOCTORS (2014-2017)...... 101 TABLE 2.2.8 PROJECTED DEMAND FOR NURSES (SRN) ...... 101 TABLE 2.2.9 PROJECTED DEMAND FOR HEALTH FACILITIES ...... 101 2.3.1 ENSURING &SUSTAINING MACROECONOMIC STABILITY ...... 104 2.3.2 ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS IN GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR ...... 105 2.3.3. ACCELERATED AGRICULTURAL MODERNIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT .. 106 2.3.4 DEVELOPMENT OF OIL AND GAS ...... 108 2.3.5 INFRASTRUCTURE AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ...... 109 2.3.6 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT ...... 111 2.3.7 TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE ...... 114 TABLE 3.1 ADOPTED THEMATIC GOALS OF GHANA SHARED GROWTH RELEVANT TO THE DISTRICT ...... 119 TABLE 3.2.1 ENSURING AND SUSTAINING MACROECONOMIC STABILITY...... 122 TABLE 3.2.2 ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS IN GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR ...... 122 TABLE 3.2.3 ACCELERATED AGRICULTURAL MODERNIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ...... 123 TABLE 3.2.4 DEVELOPMENT OF OIL AND GAS ...... 126 TABLE 3.2.5 INFRASTRUCTURE AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS ...... 127 TABLE 3.2.6 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT ...... 129 TABLE 3.2.7 TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE ...... 136 TABLE 4.1 INTERPRETATIONS OF THE INDICATORS OF POVERTY ...... 141 TABLE 4.2 TARGET GROUPS’ UNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY ...... 142 TABLE 4.4: CHARACTERISTICS OF POVERTY POCKETS ...... 143 TABLE 4.5 POTENTIALS AND CONSTRAINTS FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION ...... 143 TABLE 4.6 DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME MATRIX ...... 144 TABLE 4.7 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 1 ...... 145 TABLE 4.8 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 2 ...... 147 TABLE 4.9 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 3 ...... 149 TABLE 4.10 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 4 ...... 151

TABLE 4.11 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 5 ...... 153 TABLE 4.12 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 6 ...... 155 TABLE 4.13 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 7 ...... 157 TABLE 4.14 COMPATIBILITY MATRIX FOR THE ANALYSIS OF DISTRICT ACTIVITIES AGAINST EACH OTHER ...... 160 TABLE 4.15 COMPATIBILITY MATRIX RECORD SHEET ...... 162 TABLE 4.2.1 DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES - ENSURING AND SUSTAINING MACROECONOMIC STABILITY ...... 164 TABLE 4.2.1 DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES - ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS OF GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR ...... 166 TABLE 4.2.3 DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES - ACCELERATED AGRICULTURAL MODERNISATION AND SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ...... 168 TABLE 4.2.4 DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES - OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT ...... 176 TABLE 4.2.5 DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES - INFRASTRUCTURE AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT DEVELOPMENT ...... 177 TABLE 4.2.6 DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT ...... 181 TABLE 4.2.7 DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES - TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE ...... 189 TABLE 4.3 FINANCIAL INDICATIVE PLAN ...... 194 TABLE 4.3.1 FINANCIAL PLAN ...... 195 TABLE 22: ESTIMATED TOTAL COST FOR ANNUAL PLAN – 2014 ...... 221 TABLE 7.1: COMMUNICATION PLAN FOR AGOTIME-ZIOPE DISTRICT ...... 299

List of Figures

Chart 1.1 Implementation Statuses of Projects in the DMTDP 2010-2013

Figure 1.2 Agotime-Ziope District in the National Context

Figure 1.3 Agotime-Ziope District in the Regional Context

Figure1.4: Map of Agotime Ziope District Figure 1.5: Vegetation Map of Agotime-Ziope District

Fig. 1.6 A Traditional Ruler Dancing in a Palanquin during a Kente Festival at Kpetoe

Fig. 1.7 Tomatoes Farm at Ziope

Fig. 1.8 Harvested Tomatoes awaiting buyers

Fig. 1.9 Kraal of Cattle at a Community in Agotime Traditional Area.

Fig. 1.10 Picture of a Kente Weaving Centre at Kpetoe Figure 1.11: Organogram of the District Assembly

Figure 1.12: Population pyramid, by age group and sex of the Agotime-Ziope District, 2010

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This District Medium Term Development Plan was prepared in accordance with the dictates of ACT 462, 1993 and section 1 (3) 2 (1) and 10 (3) of the National Development Planning Commission (system) ACT 480, 1994 and also in line with the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda (2014-2017) of the Government of Ghana.

The Agotime-Ziope District Medium Term Development Plan (2014-2017) serves as a legal document which spelt out the process of development or growth of the district within the next four years. It will therefore be adhered to by all Implementing Agencies as well as Development Partners so far as the growth of the District is concerned.

As a requirement from the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) concerning the preparation of the 2014-2017 DMTDP, a plan preparation team was inaugurated which included Heads of all Decentralized Departments and staffs of the three Area Councils. The Development Planning sub-Committee was also actively involved in the plan preparation. Other interest groups represented are Assembly Members who are the representatives of the local people. During the plan preparation, the NDPC guideline for preparation of the 2014-2017 DMTDP was used whiles the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda served as a reference document.

This plan reflects the needs and aspirations of the people of the district. The issues discussed borders on education, health, agriculture, employment, governance, poverty, human settlement and institutional development. In order to address the major challenges and to meet the needs and aspirations of the people, the district formulated a broad goal or development focus of “promoting sustainable socio-economic and infrastructural development in the district”.

It is believed that the achievement of this development goal will provide the necessary momentum for growth and poverty reduction. In this direction, fifteen strategic objectives were formulated based on the seven thematic areas and the key areas of concern of the district. In addition, specific thematic area objectives and strategies were formulated by the plan preparation team in consultation with other stakeholders with the aim of achieving the goals and finding lasting solutions to the developmental challenges of the district.

Planning continuous as far as the implementation, therefore, there is the need to make provisions for funding the implementation of the programs and projects outlined in the plan. The total estimated cost of the plan is (GH₵ 9,743,014.00). Planned expenditure over the plan period is estimated to be (GH₵ 9,743,014.00).

There is no financing gap between expenditure and revenue sources. This is however based on a critical assumption that funds from external sources will be forthcoming and on time. In addition, the Assembly will put in strenuous efforts to generate adequate funds for the implementation of the plan. However, experience has shown that delays and shortfalls often characterize the release of external funds. We therefore express cautious optimism in the success of the implementation of the plan. As can be seen from the table, funds for the implementation of the plan depend heavily on external funds. In fact, the largest chunk (83.72%) of the expected revenue comes from Central Government and External Donors. Unfortunately, inflows from the DACF are also untimely. This poses another serious challenge to the successful implementation of planed activities. It is the hope of the Assembly that this plan period will expect frequent and timely release of funds from the central government, Ministries and Departments and other donors. This will enable the District Assembly implement most of its major infrastructure programs in the education, water and sanitation, electricity supply, roads and agricultural sectors.

CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction This Chapter presents the District’s Vision, Mission and Functions to better inform stakeholders its future outlook and the processes of getting to the desired future. It also presents a review of the implementation of programmes in the immediate past District Medium Term Development Plan 2010-2013 highlighting the lessons learnt during its implementation and their implications to the current Medium Term Development Plan. Also presented in the chapter is the Analysis of Existing Current Situation. An essential part of this chapter also is the presentation of Community Needs and Aspirations.

1.1District’s Vision, Mission and Functions This part of the Plan presents the District’s future dream and a comprehensive mission to meeting the desired future. Its daily Administrative functions are also briefly presented here.

1.1.1 Vision The Agotime-Ziope District Assembly is to ensure a sustainable improvement in the living condition of the people under its Jurisdiction through the active participation of the People

1.1.2 Mission The Agotime-Ziope District Assembly exist to build a solid foundation for the achievement of food security, informed civil society, appropriate education for all as well as effective and efficient health delivery and a vibrant private sector while ensuring equity and the protection of the vulnerable and the excluded in the benefits derived therefrom within a democratic

1.1.3 Functions District Assemblies in Ghana have been mandated to ensure the overall development of the Areas under their Jurisdiction. In pursuance of this Assembly performs the following specific functions:

 Prepare and Implement Plans and Programmes for the Sustainable Development of the People in the District  Maintain Peace and Security in the District  Ensure the Delivery of Adequate Social Services in the District  Promote Private Sector Development etc

PERFORMANCE REVIEW 1.2 Performance Review of the District Medium Term Development Plan 2010-2013

This part of the plan is devoted to the review of the immediate District Medium Term Development Plan implemented from January, 2010 to December, 2013. It is an assessment of the level of implementation of Planned Programmes and Projects in the 2010-2013 DMTDP. The ultimate goal of the District Medium Term Development Plan 2010-2013 was to achieve an improvement in socio-economic development through the pursuance of massive infrastructure development and the development of human capital whilst enhancing good governance. Policy measures adopted for achieving the District Development Goal above were prioritized under the seven Thematic Areas of the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda. The performance Review therefore presents the status of achievement of the policy objectives contained in the plan and their indicator level as at December, 2013.

In general, the implementation of the plan suffered from inadequate and untimely releases of the anticipated major funds like the District Assembly Common Fund and the District Development Facility. The District was also unable to mobilize funds from other sources to augment funds from the regular sources mentioned above and these affected the level of achievement of set target. Also, centralized Agencies such as the Ministry of Education which implemented the GETFund projects made no reference to the plan as such, a number of projects were implemented outside the District Medium Term Development Plan. A total of 184 Programmes/Projects were planned for the period, 33.70 percent of these were fully implemented, 12.50 percent are still on-going and close to 46 percent was not implemented. Also, 3.8 percent of the planned projects were abandoned and about 4 percent of projects implemented in the period were not planned for. The specific performance of the District with respect to the achievement of specific policy objectives are presented under various Thematic Areas of the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda as per details below:

1.2.1 Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability The Major thrust of the District under this thematic Area was to increase Internally Generated Revenue Mobilization by 50% of the previous year’s performance and to pursue prudent management of the revenues of the Assembly. Two major programmes were implemented to achieve above. The first was a revenue improvement programmes which aimed at increasing at increasing not only the revenue base but also to enhance collection of the Internally Generated Funds. Specific Activities planned to be implemented under this programmee included the Compilation of reliable data on all assembly’s revenue sources, Education of tax payers on their obligations to the assembly, Valuation of ratable properties in the District in two major Towns and Recruit Revenue Collectors for Area Councils as well as Organize Capacity Building Programmes for Revenue Collectors.

The second programme was Enhancement of Revenue Management Programme. This was intended positioning the Assembly to prudently manage its finances. Specific activities planned to be executed under this programme included training of key public servant in the District on procurement, ensure the strict implementation of DMTDP and annual budgets, ensure effective accountability in the utilization of District Allocated funds and to allocate 20% of Internally Generated Funds (IGF) for capital projects in the District Annually.

Some achievements were made in the implementation of above measures; notable among them were the initiatives to increase Internally Generated Funds which saw the compilation and utilization of District socioeconomic Database to collect business operation fees in the District Capital. The database provided reliable information for locating the specific businesses premises and Revenue Collectors used such information to locate the various Business Premises and collected the needed fees. Realistic Revenue Targeting and Projections were also made during the 2013 Composite Budget Preparation using the Data Base. Similarly selected District Tender Committee and Review Boards were trained on the Public Procurement Law and the Practical Steps in executing their roles and responsibilities. This was to enhance the judicious use of public funds.

These achievements not withstanding some critical issues remained to be tackled these include the realization that tax payers were not adequately educated on tax payments as such the District Revenue collectors found it difficult colleting Business permits from them. Also the valuation of Physical Properties for the purpose of levying taxes to boost the IGF is still pending. The skills and number of revenue collectors remain unchanged due to limited funds to recruit and train new and old officers. These issues are expected to receive attention in the ensuing year. Table 2.1.1 presents the implementation statues of planned activities under the programmes of Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability thematic area.

Table 1.2.1 Performance of DMTDP 2010-2013- Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability THEMATIC POLICY PROGRAMME INDICATOR TARGET LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT REMARKS AREA OBJECTIVE 2010 2011 2012 2013 Improve Fiscal Revenue Percentage of 50% IGF 41.74% 38.96% 56.12% 71.03% There was steady Resource Improvement IGF Improvement progress to Mobilization Programme and Collected Annually achieving the Management objective Public Expenditure Number of 5% reduction 28 18 12 6 Audit There was Management Audit queries in Audit Audit Audit Audit Queries consistent decline Improvement Programme on Annual Queries Queries Queries Queries in audit queries Accounts Annually hence objective was achieved Percentage of 20% 3% 1.2% 2% 5% IGF Level was IGF used for Annually too low. Need for Capital effective means Development to improve performance Number of Once a year 1 1 1 1 Annual Annual Performance Performance Reviews were Review consistently done Meetings of DMTDP 2010-2013

1.2.2 Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector The role of the Private Sector is as crucial in the District Development Agenda as it is in the National Agenda as such; the District’s efforts at accelerating private sector development were characterized by the implementation of three main programmes including Enterprise Development Programme, Domestic Tourism Development Programme and Social Opportunity and Protection Programmes. Under the Enterprise Development programmes, planned interventions included measures aimed at improving access to land for private investment, facilitate the development of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) through the Provision of training and business development services, enhance access to affordable credit, make available appropriate but cost-effective technology to improve productivity. The District effort at promoting Domestic Tourism Development was characterized by measures to facilitate the constraction of a Tourism Receptive Facility and enhance the development of the Kente/Kete industry for revenue generation and socioeconomic development.

Similarly planned interventions under the Social Opportunity and Protection programme were aimed the promotion of income generating opportunities for the poor and vulnerable, including women and food crop farmers, enhancing access of the poor and vulnerable to social protection and Promote economic empowerment of women through access to land, labour, credit, markets, information, technology, business services and social protection including property rights

Limited successes were chalked in respect of achievement of above measures. Skills training programmes were provided to local artisans including tailors/seamstresses, barbers and beauticians, repairers of mobile phones and other crafts through the various skills training modules under the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneural Development Agency (GYEEDA). Successful beneficiaries were supported with start-up equipment and capital. Similarly the Kente/Kete weaving industry received the needed support through the District Support to its promotional Festival Annually. Also important was the utilization of Disability Fund to support the poor and vulnerable including People with Disabilities to undertake their individual development initiative. This is expected to enhance their status and a basic income for them to initiate their individual economic ventures.

One major constraint hindering the much needed development of this sector is the individual and uncoordinated nature of the sector. Dominated by peasants and largely illiterates with individual characters/traits some of which are detrimental to business prospecting; the sector deprives itself of receiving the needed investments due to high degrees of uncertainties that are associated with that investments. Table 1.2.2 presents the implementation status of planned programmes under the thematic area.

Table 1.2.2 Performance of DMTDP 2010-2013- Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector THEMATIC POLICY PROGRAMME INDICATOR TARGET LEVEL OF REMARKS AREA OBJECTIVE ACHIEVEMENT 2010 2011 2012 2013 Enhancing Improve Enterprise Number of 10 each year 12 26 32 0 Targets were Competitiveness efficiency and Development MSMEs exceeded for first of Ghana’s competitiveness Programme supported 3 years Private Sector of MSMEs Promote Tourism Tourism Centre for Nil Nil Nil Nil Although sustainable Development Information tourism construction of tourism to Programme Documentation documentation tourism receptive preserve Centre built and facility started, it historical, established management is yet to be cultural and systems completed natural heritage established Develop a Number of 1 festival each 1 1 1 1 Although, annual competitive Annual Kente year festivals were creative arts Promotional celebrated, much industry Festivals needs to be done celebrated to promote the kente industry Expand Job creation Number of 50 youth 57 76 139 0 Objective was opportunities programme people in the engaged each achieved for job creation Youth year Employment programmes

1.2.3 Accelerated Agricultural Modernisation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management The focus of the District in accelerating Agricultural Modernization and Sustainable Natural Resource Management was to adopt measures aimed at reducing the risk associated with Agriculture. This was to be pursued through the development of appropriate irrigation schemes, dams, boreholes and other water harvesting technologies to enhance dry season vegetable farming. It was also to promote access to land by women for agricultural purposes and to provide selective subsidies for the agricultural sector for the procurement of improved seeds, grade breeders and stock, pesticides and fertilizers. Other programmes were intended at creating awareness about environmental issues among all stakeholders and to develop an effective and efficient framework for collaboration with appropriate agencies to ensure environmental compliance.

Other objectives were aimed at improving agricultural productivity through the development of human capacity in agricultural machinery management, operation and maintenance within the public and private sectors as well as increase access to market facilities and reduction of post harvest losses through feeder roads improvement. Similarly, there were measures to promote selected crops for food security and the promotion of livestock and poultry development for food security and income

During the period under review some gains were made in the achievement of above including the arrangements for the delivery of subsidized inputs to farmers including fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides. The routine agricultural extension services helped in providing the needed guidance and advice to the ordinary crop farmers with the aim of increasing productivity. The livestock and poultry sectors also received technical services from the veterinary unit of the District Agricultural Development Unit. Table 1.2.3 shows the status of implementation of programmes and projects/activities planned for the period.

Table 1.2.3 Performance of DMTDP 2010-2013- Accelerated Agricultural Modernisation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management THEMATIC POLICY PROGRAMME INDICATOR TARGET LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT REMARKS AREA OBJECTIVE 2010 2011 2012 2013 Accelerated Promote Irrigation Number of 5 acres Nil Nil Nil Nil Objective was not Agricultural irrigation Development acreage under each year pursued; although Modernisation development Programme irrigation potentials exist for and Sustainable it to succeed. Natural Resource Management Improve Agricultural % increase in 2.6% 1.6% 2.3% 2.8% 2.83% There was steady science, Productivity volumes of increase in progress towards technology and Enhancement production volume of meeting the innovation Programme agricultural objective application outputs Improve post % of post 5% 28% 27% 30% 23% Post harvest losses production harvest losses reduction are still high due to management in post destruction of harvest farms by bush fires losses each and floods. year

1.2.4 Oil and Gas Development The District’s bid to take advantage over the emerging Oil and Gas Economy was to facilitate the Conversion of the opportunities offered by the oil and gas industry to create decent jobs. This was to be achieved through the Provision of incentives to facilitate local investments along the oil and gas value chain. Also, the District intended to strengthen institutional capacity for oil and gas development through the Provision of financial support to Local Residence to study courses in oil and gas at Higher Educational Institutions.

Some gains were made in the area of Institutional strengthening where local residence were nominated and supported to enroll in programmes at the National level aimed at training middle level manpower for the oil and gas industry. Similarly, the District participated in a public education forum aimed at creating awareness on the opportunities offered by the Oil and Gas Industry.

The above notwithstanding, challenges still exist in respect of the District ability to effectively convert the much needed opportunities for job creation for its residence in the Oil and Gas Industry. Institutional arrangements are yet to be established in the District to oversee programmes in oil and gas. Similarly, the initial infrastructure and capital required for operating businesses in the oil and gas industry is not readily attainable. Table 1.2.4 presents the implementation status of planned activities under Oil and Gas thematic Area

Table 1.2.4 Performance of DMTDP 2010-2013- Oil and Gas Development THEMATIC POLICY PROGRAMME INDICATOR TARGET LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT REMARKS AREA OBJECTIVE 2010 2011 2012 2013 Oil and Gas Ensure local Oil and Gas Number of 5% Nil Nil Nil 10% Objective was not Development content and Development investors in increment pursued until 2013 local Programme the oil and gas each year when attempts participation sector were made by across the oil private individuals and gas value to open fuel chain stations Ensure that Emergency Availability of No incidence There was practices in the preparedness safety of fires at adequate measures oil and gas programme to measures in all any oil and to prevent risk of industry are manage disasters oil and gas gas fires at all fuel consistent with in the oil and gas establishments establishment filling stations Ghanaian and industry in the District hence the international standards of objective was met environmental sustainability

1.2.5 Infrastructure and Human Settlement The major policy direction under this Thematic Area was to improve access to rural productive infrastructure through the improvement in feeder roads, improvement of market infrastructure, expansion of rural electrification programme. Some successes were chalked in respect of above. These included the rehabilitation of market infrastructure in Ziope and Kpetoe markets, spot improvement of feeder roads to farming communities and the expansion of electricity to rural Areas. 25km of feeder roads were also reshaped and eight culverts constructed to improve accessibility. The progress of activities is presented in table 1.2.5

Table 1.2.5 Performance of DMTDP 2010-2013- Infrastructure and Human Settlements THEMATIC POLICY PROGRAMME INDICATOR TARGET LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT REMARKS AREA OBJECTIVE 2010 2011 2012 2013 Infrastructure, Provide Rural Number of 5% 37 41 58 74 Much progress in and Human adequate, Electrification Communities increment the achievement of Settlements reliable and programme with each year objective affordable Electricity energy to meet Supply the national needs and for export

Create and Feeder Roads Kilometers of 45km each 5km 7km 25km 32km There was little sustain an Development feeder roads year progress in efficient and Programme developed achievement of effective objective transport system that meets user needs Promote a Community and Availability of Base maps Nil Nil Nil Nil Objective was not sustainable, Social Development and layouts pursued spatially Development Schemes for approved for integrated and programme Kpetoe and Kpetoe and orderly Ziope Ziope development of human settlements Strengthen the A very All new 10% 12% 21% 28% Needed logistics human and functional development for effective institutional physical conforms to functioning of capacities for planning building physical planning effective land department regulations department is still use planning and a challenge management

1.2.6 Human Development, Productivity and Employment The objectives of the programmes and projects implemented under this thematic Area were to improve access and quality of educational services delivery, improve access to quality health care as well as reduce the incidence of malaria and HIV/AIDS and other preventable diseases. These were to be achieved through the provision of Educational and Health Infrastructure and creating a conducive environment for efficient social services delivery. Significant achievements were recorded in this regard. A number of classroom blocks were initiated and a good number duly complete during the year. Similarly some health facilities were rehabilitated and plans are far advanced for the commencement of laboratory services at Ziope Health Centre. These notwithstanding critical challenges still remain and require urgent redress these include:

 Poor academic performance at the BECE  High incidence of Malaria  High dropout rate of girls at school due to teenage pregnancies etc.

Table 1.6 shows the level of achievement of planned activities under this thematic area.

Table 1.2.6 Performance of DMTDP 2010-2013- Human Development, Productivity and Employment THEMATIC POLICY PROGRAMME INDICATOR TARGET LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT REMARKS AREA OBJECTIVE 2010 2011 2012 2013 Human Increase School Number of 3 Schools 3 5 4 6 Much progress Development, inclusive and infrastructure schools each year made in the Productivity equitable access improvement constructed/ achievement of and to, and Programme rehabilitated objective Employment participation in education at all (EDUCATION) levels Improve quality Service Delivery Performance 70% passes 31% 35% 20.% 36% There was little of teaching and improvement at BECE and each year progress in learning Programme WASCE achievement of objective Human Improve the Institutional Number of 15 staff each 18 23 28 32 Objective was Development, policy strengthening and staff trained year achieved Productivity environment capacity building Number of Each Area Councils,

26 and and institutional programme Computers, department Environmental Employment ( capacity for stationery etc and sub Health, CNC and Human Capital effective human procured for districts to be Community Development, capital effective equipped Development lack Employment, development, administrative with computers and Productivity and and employment work computers, Accessories. Labour Relations policy ) management printers and stationery Human Bridge the Health Number of 1 each year 1 1 1 0 Needed funds Development, equity gaps in Infrastructure CHPS were not received Productivity access to health Improvement Compounds for the and care Programme constructed construction of Employment the last CHPs (HEALTH) Compound

Health services % of the 5% 6.8% 5.3% 5.6% 0% Coverage of delivery population improvement primary health programme with improved each year care services has access to improved primary health care services Enhance Prevalence of 5% reduction 23 15 13 18 Objective was not national rate of HIV, in new achieved capacity for the Malaria Case infection of attainment of fatality etc HIV each lagging health year. MDGs, as well

as non- communicable 12% N/A N/A 19,122 13,773 Significant diseases (NCDs) Reduction in progress made in and Neglected reported achieving Tropical cases of objective for the Diseases malaria each last 2 years (NTDs) year

1.2.7 Transparent and Accountable Governance The thrust of policy under this thematic area was to promote democratic, transparent and accountable local governance. This was to be achieved through the pursuance of the following objectives: to empower women to participate in local governance, improve upon security in the District, to encourage public-private participation in socio-economic development, to improve the economic and social well-being of the vulnerable and excluded in society, as well as improve the performance of Sub-District Structures. The outputs of activities planned for the year are as per details in table 1.2.7 below:

Table 1.2.7 Performance of DMTDP 2010-2013- Transparent and Accountable Governance THEMATIC POLICY PROGRAMME INDICATOR TARGET LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT REMARKS AREA OBJECTIVE 2010 2011 2012 2013 Transparent and Expand and Decentralisation Number of 70% of N/A N/A N/A 58 Much progress Accountable sustain enhancement communities Communities made in the Governance opportunities for programme consulted achievement of effective during objective citizen’s DMTDP engagement preparations Number of Twice each 0 0 0 1 There was little Annual Budget year progress in and Fee Fixing achievement of Consultation objective meetings with key stakeholders Number of Once each 1 1 1 1 Objective was Annual year achieved Performance Review Meetings Ensure effective Revenue % IGF 45% 47.8% -28% -25% -3.3% The IGF and efficient mobilization generated improvement maintained a resource enhancement

mobilisation, programme annually each year negative growth internal revenue during the last 3 generation and years resource management

1.2.8 Summary of Programme/Project Implementation Status A total of 184 Programmes/Projects were planned for the period, 33.70 percent of these were fully implemented, 12.50 percent are still on-going and close to 46 percent was not implemented. Also, 3.8 percent of the planned projects were abandoned and about 4 percent of projects implemented in the period were not planned for. Chart 1.1 presents the summary of programme/project implementation status.

Chart 1.1 Implementation Statuses of Projects in the DMTDP 2010-2013 Programme/Project Implementation Status 90

0 Fully implemented On-going Abandoned or Suspended Not Implemented Implemented but not in the DMTDP

Source: AZDA, Performance Review Report December, 2013

1.2.9 Revenue and Expenditure Patterns of District Assembly The cash flow of the District was not as expected, on the average, less than half of the budgeted amount for the period was received and this had a negative effect on the implementation of the plan. Indeed, the funds received were also in arrears for more than 2 Quarters and most of the grants expected to finance activities of key Departments like Agriculture, Education, Social Welfare and Community Development were not received. Table 1.2.8

Table 1.2.8 Disbursements from Funding Sources 2010 2011 2012 2013 Fundi Approved Amount Variance Approved Amount Variance Approved Amount Variance Approved Amount Variance Budget Received Budget Received Budget Received Budget Received ng Source DACF 1,700,000 1,224,417 475,582 1,700,000 1,43,6777 263,222 2,542,000 726,192 1,815,807 1,213,833 606,617 607,216 DDF ------340,000 481,152 141,152 268,237 156,801 111,436 IGF 157,786 168,847 11,060 216,696 120,117 96,579 15,6090 89,645 66,445 138,870 86,697 52,173 MP’s 100,000 96,841 3,158 100,000 119,592 19,592 240,000 38,917 203,082 120,000 70,840 49,159 CF Grants 342,816 345,783 2,966 340,000 502,218 162,218 1,612,212 1,253,010 359,201 6,894,050 889,651 6,004,398

1.2.10 PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED DURING IMPLEMENTATION

Delay in the preparation of the plan Poor coordination of the sector activities Delay in release of funds from central government Too much bureaucracy in implementing projects Inadequate funds for the programme/project implementation Too many interference from central government especially in the disbursement of the DACF

1.2.11 LESSONS LEARNT

The District Development Goal can be achieved if all implementing Agencies strictly adhered to the DMTDP during the plan period Development projects when well-coordinated could lead to balanced development Adequate development funds when released on time could enhance sustainable development If the capacity of Area Councils are improved they could be relied on to implement self-help projects DMTDP could be successfully implemented when stakeholders are informed adequately about the plan and their respective roles in its implementation.

DISTRICT PROFILE 1.2.0 Introduction This part of the plan presents the information on the description of the current state of the District. It contains details of the physical features, social socioeconomic characteristics, administrative systems as well as population dynamics of the District.

1.3.1 Establishment

Agotime-Ziope District was established by Legislative Instrument (LI 2080) of Parliament in 2012 when the then Adaklu-Anyigbe District Assembly was split into Agotime-Ziope and Adaklu Districts. Its capital is Agotime Kpetoe

1.3.2 PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT 1.3.2.1 Location and Size Agotime-Ziope District is bordered by the Republic of Togo to the East; Akatsi North and Central Tongu Districts to the South and the Adaklu District to the West and North. The District covers a total land area of Three Hundred and Fifteen kilometres square (315.65km2). This makes it one of the smallest Districts in the country in terms of the land area (size). It has a population density of 88.75 persons per square kilometre (88.75p/km2).

The location of the District close to the Republic of Togo makes it a transition point for cross border trade between citizens of Ghana and Togo. Its proximity to Togo also facilitates the easy smuggling of essential petroleum products from neighbouring towns to the Republic of Togo where prices of such are relatively higher. Measures therefore need to be put in place to check this phenomenon for the economic advancement of the country. Figures 1.1 and 1.2 show the District Maps in National and Regional Contexts. The District outline in shown in figure 1.3

Figure 1.2 Agotime-Ziope District in the National Context

Figure 1.3 Agotime-Ziope District in the Regional Context

Figure1.4: Map of Agotime Ziope District

1.3.2.2 Climate Generally, the District has an annual temperature ranging between 22°C to 32°C. Mean Annual temperature is 32°C. Higher temperatures exceeding 32°C is experienced in March and the lowest temperature of 22°C is experienced in August. This temperature conditions are good for food crop cultivation such as maize, sweet potato, tomatoes, yam, cassava and groundnut. However, average temperatures during the dry season causes higher evapotranspiration making water bodies dry up. This affects water availability for crop and household uses. There is therefore need for the adoption of measures to conserve water for agriculture and domestic uses.

The District experiences double maxima rainfall pattern commonly referred to as major and minor seasons. The major season starts from Mid-March to July while the minor from August to November. The dry season, which is dominated by the dry harmattan winds, extends from December to February in the district. The mean annual rainfall of the District ranges between 20.1mm and 192mm. The highest rainfall occurs in June and has mean value of 192mm while the lowest rainfall is in December recording a value of 20.1mm. No farming activities take place during the dry season and livestock farming in the district suffers. Water for domestic use also becomes a major problem in almost all settlements. People travel long distances on foot in search of water for domestic use.

1.3.2.3 Vegetation The major vegetation cover in District is savannah woodland. However, few areas, mostly along the River Tordzi and other streams have tree species typical of the semi-deciduous forest. There are also strands of borassius spicies (Agorti) used for construction works. The borassius palm serves as economic tree for most people. Figure 1.4 shows the Vegetation cover of the District

Figure 1.5: Vegetation Map of Agotime-Ziope District

1.3.2.4 Topography and Drainage The District is characterised by a generally low lying flat lands. The dominant feature of the topography is the large espouses of flat often low-lying land predisposed to flooding during the rainy season. The predominantly flat lands allow for easy roads and other infrastructure development and also present a good opportunity for livestock rearing. However the plat lands are susceptible for easy flooding of roads, farmlands and other properties. Accessibility to some communities in the District is largely reduced due to the floods and the untarred roads. Some parts of the District therefore become unmotorable during the rainy season

The drainage system is dominated by the Tordzi River running through Apegame, Kpetoe and a numbers of communities in the Ziope Sub-District. Other water bodies include streams like

Kpoduekpodue and other intermittent streams. The water bodies are by no means capable of supporting irrigation in their current form. However potentials exist for dam construction to conserves the storm water which often floods most of the District causing damages to life and properties. The large volumes of water that come with rains are allowed to waste without any effort to conserve it for future use in the dry seasons when water crisis is an annual affair. This trend needs to be reversed through proactive measures aimed at dam construction to conserve flood water for domestic and economic uses in the dry seasons.

1.3.2.5 Geology and Soil The District is underlain with two major geological formations namely the forest soil (Forest ochrosols, lethosols and intergrades found in communities bordering the Adaklu District), and Savannah soil (Heavy clay soil). The savannah soils are suitable for the cultivation of crops like maize, cassava, groundnuts, cowpea and a variety of vegetables. Some areas are also good for oil palm cultivation.

1.3.2.6 Natural and Built Environment The built environment consist of individual dwelling places, public infrastructure such as roads, schools, clinics, water facilities among others. The condition of individual dwelling places varies from moderate to poor in towns and villages respectively. On the average, houses in towns are moderately built and maintained with enough ventilation but lack facilities like household toilets and kitchens. The condition of houses in the rural areas however lives much to be desired. Houses in these areas are poorly built and maintained. A typical house in the rural areas is normally built with local materials with little ventilation and lightening and is often left to deteriorate showing visible cracks and weak walls. Most of these houses have no toilet and bathroom facilities and their occupants resort to open defecation or make use of available public toilets. Other problems associated with the built environment include: poor drainage system, haphazard buildings and poor environmental sanitation. Developments of physical structures are haphazard because of inadequate planning, lack of development schemes and layouts to guide construction particularly in the urban centres and unwillingness to adherence to major building regulations.

One other problem of the built up environment is waste management. In this regard, two areas have been identified to be of interest to the environmental situation in the district. These are Liquid waste and solid waste management.

1.3.2.7 Condition of Natural Environment The natural environment could best be described as one in transition from a once forested to badly degraded grassland. The natural Environment suffers from annual destruction from Bush fire and other resources losses such as tree felling for fuel wood and charcoal making. The persistent grazing of the fields by cattle also affects effective vegetation growth leaving some parts of the land with short grasses and compact ground as a result persistent stepping of the ground. A major environmental concern especially with respect to rural areas is the problem of competing land use pattern between cattle owners and farmers. Each year there have been reported cases of destruction of farm land by grazing cattle and this often lead to petty conflicts with prospects of generating into large scale ones. This phenomenon needs to be resolved through effective land use planning which will demarcate land for each of the competing uses with clear boundaries.

Built Environment consists of dwelling places, roads, market and other infrastructure. The environmental infrastructures for public uses include toilet facilities, storm drains and water facilities. These are largely poorly developed also faces the following challenges:

i. Poor drainage system in the whole district. ii. The absence of layouts in the District, meaning land use planning and development control which are critical for orderly development are non-existent. iii. Unavailability of the relevant cartographic maps for planning.

1.3.3.1 Cultural Characteristics The culture of a people defines the way of life of the people. The Agotime-Ziope has a very diverse cultural set-up. The rich cultural set up of the District is characterized by Traditional hierarchy of Traditional Leadership Consisting of Paramount Chiefs, Sub Chiefs, Queen Mothers, Stool Fathers, Clan Heads and Youth Leaders. The Traditional rulers are the custodians of the cultures, beliefs and practices of the people of people.

Fig. 1.6 A Traditional Ruler Dancing in a Palanquin during a Kente Festival at Kpetoe

1.3.3.2 Ethnicity The District is made of Two Traditional Areas: Agotime Traditional Area and Ziope Traditional Area. The Agotime People are Traditionally Dangbe speaking who have migrated from somewhere in the greater Accra Region to their present home due to intra ethnic conflict. Some of the Agotime Communities include Kpetoe, Apegame, Batume Junction, Akpokofe, Adedome etc. The Traditional Language of the Agotimes is Dangbe. This language is not widely spoken in the Agotime communities currently save Apegame due to the adoption of the Ewe Language by many Agotimes as a household one. The Ziope Traditional Area is made up of Ziope as its capital and 57 Communities. Some of these communities include, Honugo, Shilandre, Wudzedeke, Kayeme, etc. The people of this traditional area are mixture of Anlos, Avenors among other Ewes dialects. The centre of traditional Authority in District is the Traditional Councils of the Paramouncies. Andos are found within the Agotime Traditional area. Some Ando Communities include Wortikpo, Kpehadzi, etc.

1.3.3.3 Traditional Knowledge The people of the District are expert weavers of unique varieties of kente. Kente weaving is a household occupation within the Agotime Traditional Area and it is believe that every Agotime Native was born with inert skills in the craft or learns it at his/her very tender age. Farming is also a general occupation in the District and variety food crops are produced by the people.

1.3.3.4 Festivals The main festivals celebrated by the people in District are the Kente/ ‘Kete’ festival and Food Festival. The Kente Festival is normally called “Agbamevor za”and is celebrated by the people of the Agotime Traditional Area. It is a weeklong colourful event aimed at showcasing the famous hand woven beautiful and varieties of Kente/‘Kete’. Similarly Agbleza (food Festival) is celebrated by the people of Ziope to showcase the food production potential of the area. These festivals attract tourists from all over the world to the district and are major function of the local economy

1.3.3.5 Religion Christianity is predominantly the major religion in the District constituting (74.2%). Among the Christian population, the three most dominant religious denominations in the district are Pentecostal/ Charismatic (31.6%), followed by Protestants (16.7%) and Catholic (15.1%). Other religious affiliations include Islam (5.8%), traditionalist (14.5%) and others (1.2%). Also 4.3 percent of the population has no religious affiliation. Islam and Catholic religions have marginally more proportions of males than females while the other religions have more females proportions than males.

1.3.3.6 Communal Spirit The traditional set up is a very important tool for social mobilization and development. Using this as a focal point development decisions are made and implementation arrangement shaped to reflect concerns of the people. Over the years however, communal spirit is gradually declining especially in the larger settlements such as Kpetoe and Ziope. This may attributed urbanization which has made people tend to pursue individual gains rather than communal gains. This phenomenon affects the response of people for meetings and for communal activities. There is therefore need to reactivate high communal spirit in these two communities. Communal spirits in the smaller settlements is however still encouraging.

1.3.4.1 Settlement Systems The District has a dispersed settlement system. The two major communities are located on the Ho- Aflao High way. Other few communities including, Akpokope, Batume Junction, Sarakope, Wudome, and Kakuve are also along the High way. All other communities are located off the main road. They are however liked to each other through feeder roads both engineered and un engineered.

All the major communities along the High way have basic social infrastructures, such as schools and water facilities. Their access to health services is also high since the three larger settlements including Kpetoe, Ziope and Akpokope have health facilities. Remotely located settlements have reduced access to social facilities in general but their access to educational facilities and infrastructure is relatively

42 higher than Health. Essential water facilities are also lacking in remote areas than more accessible settlements.

1.3.4.2 Hierarchy of Settlements Kpetoe and Ziope are the higher order settlements in the District. Being the District capital, Kpetoe provides both Primary and Secondary services. It is the centre of all administrative activities of the District Assembly, and its departments including services of other government agencies like Civic Education, Non Formal Education etc. It is also provides postal, security and other social services including markets and commercial services such as banking and micro finance. Similarly, Ambulance, Court and Fire Services and Information Communication Technology Services will soon commence in Kpetoe. In terms of Educational services, Kpetoe provides Primary and Secondary Education services. Ziope is the next order settlement providing Area Council Services, Market and police post it also offer Secondary Education and a rural bank. With respect to health both higher order settlements provides only primary health care services. All other settlements provide primary services basically in education and health where the highest level is basic.

1.3.5.1 Commodity Flows The market analysis seeks to determine the areas of influence, noting the type of goods traded, their origins, destinations, as well as measuring the levels of market activities or volumes traded in the district. The major markets in the District include Kpetoe, and Ziope. The Kpetoe market has five days cycle. These markets enable the people in the District to move from place to place in order to buy and sell. The major foodstuffs that are normally found in the markets include tomatoes, plantain, maize cassava, among others. This is because about 90% of the rural folks are predominantly into farming.

1.3.5.2 Space Economy The District links economically with major marketing centres in the neighbouring Districts and towns. Specifically, the District trades with the Ho Municipality, Akatsi, Ketu South and Ketu North Districts. The District is also economically linked with Accra and Tema Metropolis as well as the Republic of Togo. Major trade items in these spatial relations are foodstuffs and kente cloths.

1.3.5.3 Poverty Poverty is considered to be a multi-faceted concept. For many, it is the lack of money. Others perceive it as the inability of individuals to utilize available resources to better their lots. The poverty situation in the District is wide spread but its intensity is high in the rural areas than in urban settlements of Ziope and Kpetoe. In the urban localities people have increased access to alternative employment

43 opportunities including petty trading of consumable and items household items. Similarly, opportunities for learning trades and vocations such as tailoring, hair dressing, masonry, carpentry and welding etc are available in the urban localities than rural areas. The presence of alternative opportunities tends to increase urban household incomes and skills than rural ones. This often translates into improved housing for urban dwellers of the two towns. Housing condition in rural areas however leaves much to be desired. Also access to social service such as education, markets, transport, and communication are more in the urban localities than rural areas. The majority of the people in the rural areas are food crop farmers. Farming at this level is at subsistence and often characterized by low outputs. The resulting incomes are therefore low sometimes unable to meet the household needs for the year. Investment is therefore largely absent or negligible. This phenomenon predisposes the people to a vicious cycle of poverty manifested in poor housing conditions, poor sanitation facilities and lack of access to potable water.

THE ECONOMY OF THE DISTRICT 1.3.6.1 Agriculture The most dominant economic sector in the District is agriculture which employs about 70 percent of the labour force. The District is well known in the region for the production of tomatoes and maize. Other major food and tree crops produced in the district are rice, sweet potatoes, yam, cassava, cowpea, groundnut and urban vegetables (i.e. tomatoes, garden eggs, pepper, okro and water melon). Maize and cassava are the main staple foods and therefore grown by majority of farmers across the district. These two crops are grown as mono crops. Maize production is mostly done by the people of Ziope.

Fig. 1.7 Tomatoes Farm at Ziope

Fig. 1.8 Harvested Tomatoes awaiting buyers

The livestock sector plays an important role in the lives of the people as the district is endowed with large livestock populations of cattle, sheep, goats, poultry and others. About 30%of agricultural land available in the district is used by livestock farmers as pasture for animals. If properly harnessed and developed, job opportunities would be created for the youth in the district. The youth and farmers can be trained by the Agricultural institutions in the Region and the country at large and adequately resourced in the form of loans and encouraged to go into livestock production.

The table below shows the major and potential food crop and livestock / production areas.

Table 1.3.1: Major and Potential food crops and livestock / production areas in the District. No. Crop/Livestock Major Production Areas Potential Production Areas

1 Maize Kpetoe, Ziope, , Keyime, Akpokope Keyime, Akpokope,

Groundnut Kpetoe, Akwettey, Apegame, Ziope wudzedeke.

3 Cassava Ziope, Akwettey, Kpetoe, Akpokope Batume Junction,

4 Yam Kpetoe

5 Tomatoes Akpokope, Ziope

6 Okro Abuadi, Tsrefe,

7 Pepper Ziope, Akpokope, Kpetoe, Sarakope Sarakope

8 Garden egg Ziope, Akpokope, Sarakope Akwetey

9 Sheep and Goat All over the district but with high All over the district. concentrations in Adaklu communities.

10 Cattle All over the district. All over the district.

11 Grasscutter The district has high potential for grasscutter rearing.

Fig. 1.9 Kraal of Cattle at a Community in Agotime Traditional Area.

1.3.6.2 Agriculture Production Agricultural production in the district is characterised by crop and animal production. In the animals sector some farmers own cattle from 10-30 per herd per farmer on the average whiles some 47

own 50-100 or more per person. Small ruminants (sheep and goats) are also abundant. There are three commercial poultry farms in the district which are in eggs, broiler and cockerel production.

Mixed cropping is common as well as mono cropping in some crops such as cowpea, vegetable and minor season maize. There is commercial production of perennial crops such as mango, cashew and oil palm. Mixed farming is practiced by many farmers including commercial farmers. The people are mainly small scale farmers with few commercial farmers. By way of agricultural diversification some farmers are in non-traditional crops and animal production such as mushroom, beekeeping, snail production and grass cutter rearing.

1.3.6.3 Farming Methods Subsistence farming is common in the small communities where cutlasses and hoes are the major tools used on the farm. Some farmers also use zero tillage with spraying. Tractor tillage is practiced for those who can afford the expensive ploughing fee. Most farmers practice land rotation and shifting cultivation but fallowing is decreasing with increasing population. Two seasons are done in a year – major and minor. Land preparation starts in February and reaches peak in April and again in September. Weeding or under cultivation operations take place throughout the year. Nucleus farming is carried out by Andos who establish permanent settlements in areas where land is abundant.

1.3.6.4 Acreage Cultivated Out of the 1200 square kilometres of agricultural land available in the district only 10% is under crop cultivation. About 30% of the land area is used by livestock farmers as pasture for animals.

1.3.6.5 Extension Services Agricultural Extension service is available for farmers in the district. Agricultural Extension Agents are stationed at 9 Operational areas in the district. Besides there are 1 Veterinary Technical Staff at Kpetoe who deliver animal health care services throughout the district. These officers reach the breadth and length of the district with Extension advice to farmers. They organise farmers into FBOs and train them on animal production, traditional and non-traditional crop production. Other services extended to farmers include field days and trips, production techniques, record keeping, home management, good nutrition, HIV/AIDS awareness creation, gender mainstreaming, and at now, the bird flu awareness creation.

1.3.6.6 Future Programmes / Project The District has a great potential for both animal and crop production. There is therefore the need to step up agricultural production systems to improve the living standard of the rural poor farmers. For the achievement of the above the following Programmes/Projects need to be considered seriously for funding.

1.3.6.7 Livestock Sector Development The livestock sector plays an important role in the lives of the people as the district is magnificently endowed with large livestock populations of cattle, sheep, goats, poultry and others. If properly harnessed and developed job opportunities would be created for the youth in the district. The youth and farmers can be trained in the Agricultural institutions in the region, adequately resourced in the form of loans and encouraged to go into livestock production.

1.3.6.8 Crop Development Programmes  Financial assistance to crop farmer groups in kind for tractor services and inputs which will be well monitored by Agricultural Extension Agents.  Exploration of market avenues for commercial production of perennial tree crops and other exportable crops.  Encourage all year round vegetable production by building dams, dugouts etc. at vantage points and provision of small irrigation machines with accessories to farmer groups.  Building capacity of farmers, by the establishment Farmers Training Centres at Ziope and Kpetoe to train farmers/farmer groups in all disciplines of agriculture. Sourcing funds to establish or implement the above programmes will go a long way to increase agricultural production in the district.

1.3.6.9 Problems and Challenges Confronting the Agricultural Sector The following problems and challenges are hindering agricultural production in the District.

 Inadequate logistics. There is only one (1) old pick up and three (3) motor mikes for all the 21 staff members, making movement to farmers difficult.  Destruction of crops by cattle (i.e. attitude of Fulani herdsmen).  Indiscriminate cutting of trees for charcoal production and bush burning.  Inadequate Veterinary Technical Staff to man the livestock endowed district  Insufficient funds for agricultural activities.  Inadequate credit facilities to farmers.

 Use of rudimentary tools for farming makes average farm sizes small and tractor services are limited resulting in low productivity. 1.3.6.10 Food Security Given the nature of agriculture development in the District food security is not guaranteed. The high risk of production and post harvest management makes the sector highly vulnerable to production losses. Food prices therefore respond basic shocks and treats of climate variability, volumes of production at a particular time and demand for commodities at a time. Generally, however, food prices are high during the lean seasons, moderate during normal harvest period and very low during bumper harvest. This unstable price regime is a major hindrance for the sector growth as it normally leads to large scale losses. This has negative effect on savings and capital formation required for development.

1.3.7.1 Financial Institutions The only bank in the District is Unity Rural Bank- Ziope, with a branch at Kpetoe. The absence of commercial banks in the District does not encourage saving. Many workers and residents have to travel to Ho in order to access banking facilities. This retards growth of the local economy. The District Assembly is encouraging and will facilitate for the establishment of additional banks in the District.

1.3.7.2 Economic Activity Status Table 1.3.2 shows that, 72.9 percent of the District’s population aged 15 years and older are economically active and 27.1 percent are economically not active. Among the economically active population, 97.7 percent is employed and 2.3 percent unemployed. This is contrary to a wide held public opinion of a perceived high unemployment in the district. The table further reveals that 91.9 percent of the employed population actually worked, 7.9 percent did not work but had jobs to go back to and 0.2 percent did voluntary work without pay. The proportion of employed male is higher (98.0%) and that of females (97.4%). A slightly higher proportion of males (0.2%) did voluntary work without pay than males (0.1%).

The table further shows that 57.3 percent of the unemployed population are looking for work for the first time and are available for work while 42.7 percent worked before, seeking work and available for work. Higher proportion of females (60.7%) than males (52.5%) are seeking work for the first time and available. While a higher proportion of males (47.5%) than female (39.3%) has worked before, seeking work and available. The table further shows that more than half (53.4%) of the economically not active population is in full time education, 15.9 percent did home duties,17.8 percent are too old/sick to work. Also 6.9 percent are sick or disable and 2.6 percent are pensioners. In terms of the sex composition of this population a higher proportion of female (22.4%) than males (7.6%) did home duties. However a greater proportion of males (66.3%) than females (43.3%) are in full time 50 education. Also 21.9 percent of females are not employed because they are too old/young to work as against 12.4 percent of males.

Table 1.3.2: Population 15 years and older by activity status and sex Total Male Female

Activity status Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent

Total 17,502 100.0 8,175 100.0 9,327 100.0

Economically active 12,759 72.9 6,094 74.5 6,665 71.5 Employed 12,466 97.7 5,974 98.0 6,492 97.4 Worked 11,460 91.9 5,510 92.2 5,950 91.7 Did not work but had job to go back to 986 7.9 450 7.5 536 8.3

Did voluntary work without pay 20 0.2 14 0.2 6 0.1 Unemployed 293 2.3 120 2.0 173 2.6 Worked before, seeking work and available 125 42.7 57 47.5 68 39.3

Seeking work for the first time and available 168 57.3 63 52.5 105 60.7

Economically not active 4,743 27.1 2,081 25.5 2,662 28.5 Did home duties (household chore) 756 15.9 159 7.6 597 22.4 Full time education 2,531 53.4 1,379 66.3 1,152 43.3 Pensioner/Retired 124 2.6 84 4.0 40 1.5 Disabled/Sick 329 6.9 129 6.2 200 7.5 Too old/young 842 17.8 258 12.4 584 21.9 Other 161 3.4 72 3.5 89 3.3

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

1.3.7.3 Labour Force The age structure of a population is an important factor in determining the labour force of the District. Table 1.3.3 presents information on the distribution of persons 15 years and older by sex, age and activity status. The data indicates that, persons 15 years and older constitute 62.5 percent. The age group with the highest proportion of employed population is 45-49 (92.1%). The second highest is the 50-54 age group (92.0%) and the age group with the least employed population is 15-19 age group. For the unemployed, the Age group 20-24 recorded the highest figure of 4.0 percent while the age 51 group 45-49 recorded the lowest figure of 0.3 percent. The data further reveals a greater proportion (69.8%) of the economically not active population is in the 15-19 age-group. This is followed by the 65+ age group which recorded 41.3 percent of the economically not active population.

In terms of sex, males in the 50-54 recorded the highest proportion (94.7%) of the employed population while 15-19 age group recorded the least, 33.9 percent. For the unemployed, the highest percentage 3.5 percent occurred in the 20-24 age group while 45-49 age group has the least proportion (0.2%) of the unemployed population. The highest proportion of the economically not active population is in 15-19 age group (65.6%) for males while the lowest (4.5%) is in the 40-44 age group. For the female population, the highest proportion of the employed population is in the 44-49 age group (90.4%) while the lowest proportion is in the 15-19 age group (24.0%). Among the unemployed female the highest proportion (4.6%)is in 20-24 age group while the lowest (0%) is recorded in the 55- 59 age group. The table further revealed the highest proportion of the economically not active females (74.5%) is in the 15-19 age group.

Table 1.3.3: Economic Activity Status of the Population 15 years and older by sex and age

Economically not All Status Employed Unemployed Age active

group Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent

Both sexes

Total 17,502 100.0 12,466 71.2 293 1.7 4,743 27.1

15-19 2,910 100.0 850 29.2 30 1.0 2,030 69.8

20-24 2,526 100.0 1,511 59.8 102 4.0 913 36.1

25-29 2,155 100.0 1,811 84.0 62 2.9 282 13.1

30-34 1,652 100.0 1,458 88.3 29 1.8 165 10.0

35-39 1,570 100.0 1,434 91.3 17 1.1 119 7.6

40-44 1,298 100.0 1,181 91.0 16 1.2 101 7.8

45-49 1,089 100.0 1,003 92.1 3 0.3 83 7.6

50-54 1,062 100.0 977 92.0 4 0.4 81 7.6

55-59 688 100.0 621 90.3 5 0.7 62 9.0

60-64 662 100.0 519 78.4 17 2.6 126 19.0

65+ 1,890 100.0 1,101 58.3 8 0.4 781 41.3

Male

Total 8,175 100.0 5,974 73.1 120 1.5 2,081 25.5

15-19 1,545 100.0 523 33.9 9 0.6 1,013 65.6

20-24 1,259 100.0 767 60.9 44 3.5 448 35.6

25-29 1,049 100.0 895 85.3 22 2.1 132 12.6

30-34 778 100.0 715 91.9 11 1.4 52 6.7

35-39 674 100.0 625 92.7 7 1.0 42 6.2

40-44 596 100.0 561 94.1 8 1.3 27 4.5

45-49 456 100.0 431 94.5 1 0.2 24 5.3

50-54 451 100.0 427 94.7 3 0.7 21 4.7

55-59 332 100.0 309 93.1 5 1.5 18 5.4

60-64 268 100.0 220 82.1 5 1.9 43 16.0

65+ 767 100.0 501 65.3 5 0.7 261 34.0

Female

Total 9,327 100.0 6,492 69.6 173 1.9 2,662 28.5

15-19 1,365 100.0 327 24.0 21 1.5 1,017 74.5

20-24 1,267 100.0 744 58.7 58 4.6 465 36.7

25-29 1,106 100.0 916 82.8 40 3.6 150 13.6

30-34 874 100.0 743 85.0 18 2.1 113 12.9

35-39 896 100.0 809 90.3 10 1.1 77 8.6

40-44 702 100.0 620 88.3 8 1.1 74 10.5

45-49 633 100.0 572 90.4 2 0.3 59 9.3

50-54 611 100.0 550 90.0 1 0.2 60 9.8

55-59 356 100.0 312 87.6 - 0.0 44 12.4

60-64 394 100.0 299 75.9 12 3.0 83 21.1

65+ 1,123 100.0 600 53.4 3 0.3 520 46.3

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

1.3.7.4 Occupation The occupation of a person refers to the type of work the person is engaged in at the establishment where the person works. The total number of all the persons employed in the various occupations in the District stands at 12,466 persons. This represents 44.5 percent of the total population. Skilled Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Workers constitute more than half (52.0%) of the population. This means that agriculture is the dominant occupation in the District. Craft and related Trade Workers are the next highest occupation involving 20.6 percent of the population. This is due to the presence of the kente industry in the District. Other occupations include Service and Sales Works (14.7%), Professionals (4.0%), Elementary Occupations (2.8%) and Plant and machine operators and Assemblers (2.4%). Managers constituted only 1.4 percent of the population.

In terms of sex, females constitute 55.4 percent of the Skilled Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Workers- the dominant occupation while male share is 48.2 percent. In the Professional Occupation however, males (2.0%) dominate females (0.8%).In the Service and Sales workers occupation, females recorded a higher proportion (24.5%) than males (4.1%)

Fig. 1.10 Picture of a Kente Weaving Centre at Kpetoe

1.3.7.5 Industry The industry of a person refers to the type of product produced or services rendered by the person at his/her workplace. More than half of the population (51.4%) is in the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Industry. Manufacturing is the second highest industry (17.7%), followed by wholesale and retail; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (11.8%) The remaining industries employ less than 5 percent of the population. Females (54.8%) dominate their male (47.8%) counterparts in the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing industry. Similarly, in the whole sale and retail; repair of motor vehicles and motor cycles females (18.5%) further dominate males (4.5%). Also in the Accommodation and Food Service Activities, females constitute 7.6 percent while male’s share is only 0.6 percent of the population. On the contrary, in the manufacturing sector, males recorded a higher proportion (25.4%) than females (10.5%).

1.3.8 LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUES The concept of Local Economic Development as a model of Local Development (LED) is gradually gaining recognition in Ghana. The major thrust of the District in promoting LED is to embark on measures aimed at identifying the key stakeholders through which partnerships could be fostered to promote effective utilization of the identified resources for effective exploitation which could lead to large scale job creation for improved living conditions of the people. It is also identify the immediate bottlenecks to current economic growth and design measures for improvement. To this end a number of measures have been implemented to enhance Local Economic Development. These include the formation of Co-operative Societies among farmers and artisans for the purposes of accessing credit for the expansion of their businesses. A number of these Co-operative Societies were assisted to access financial support. The District also organized Skills Enhancement Training Programmes in the areas of ICT, Carpentry, Masonry, Fitting, hairdressing and Tailoring. The impact of these training programmes on the beneficiaries is the improved skills they exhibit in their various professions. The District also facilitated the provision of infrastructure to promote Kente Weaving Industry and provided financial assistance to Kente Weavers.

The above notwithstanding the following still remain as critical challenges for local Economic Development:-

 Limited resources in terms human capital and finance. The District lacks skilled personnel in the various trades who can regularly visit and help streamline the operation of business even after skills training programmes.  The District’s efforts at providing financial support directly to enhance local economic development annually is being hindered due to deductions from its allocation of the District Assemblies Common Fund by the Fund Administrator. This affects actual releases to the District there by reducing the amount of funds available to implement planned activities.

 Also, the District Department of Co-operatives charged with the responsibility of co-ordinating local businesses is poorly funded and hence incapable of executing this role effectively.  At community level, most business holders are largely unwilling to participate in activities aimed at promoting local economic development due to inadequate awareness.

1.3.9 TOURISM SECTOR Agotime-Ziope is a major tourism destination in the Region. The rich culture of the District which is displayed during the Agbamevor Za (Kente Festival) of the Agotime People serves as an important attraction for people all over the Country. The Week Long Festival comes in September and devoted to showcase Kente exhibits of the Agotime Varieties of Kente.

1.3.10 Transportation Network and Infrastructure The Transport sector in the District is least developed and dominated by mini bus services normally from Ho. These services are quite effective in serving the transportation needs of the residents located along the Ho-Aflao main Highway. It takes an average of Six (6) minutes waiting time for residents on the main Highway to access the services of these mini busses at the normal peak hours (5:30am- 6:15pm). Inter-community transportation within the District shows a different situation. Vehicular movement into the communities off the main Highway is limited and is witnessed only on periodic market days of important communities like Kpetoe, Ziope and Apegame. On ordinary days residents rely on the services of commercial motor cycles to commute from one location to another. This services rendered by the commercial motorcyclist although unlawfully; serves the transportation needs of the people in the absence of any alternative means of transportation.

1.3.10.1 Roads The total road network in the District is about 165.1km. This is categorized into Highways, consisting of the Ho-Kpetoe-Ziope Highway, and Feeder Roads including engineered, partially engineered and un engineered roads. The only road with bitumen surface is the 41km stretch of the major highway from Ho through Kpetoe to Aflao. In addition to this about 3kms of streets in the Kpetoe Township are tarred. The rest are either gravelled or bush tracks accessible only during the dry season. The major gravel roads are the Kpetoe-Apegame road and the Ziope-Wudzedeke road. The major challenge is the maintenance of these gravelled roads. The problem associated with road transportation in the area is the construction of new roads and maintenance of existing ones. The conditions of the various categories of roads are as per details below.

Table 1.3.4 Road Categories and Length

Road Condition Engineered Roads Partially Un Engineered Bitumen Engineered Roads Roads Surface Roads

Gravel Roads (DFR) GHA

Total 63.8km 22.3km 38.0km 41.0km

Good 60% 20% 0% 93%

Fair 25% 20% 0% 7%

Poor 15% 60% 100% 0%

Source: (District Feeder Roads Engineer September 2013)

1.3.11 GOVERNANCE Good governance is dependent on the efficient and decentralised management of public policy whereby people are empowered to participate and influence the process of poverty reduction and the sustainable growth of the economy. To achieve good governance at the district level, it is important to consider the local governance structures at that level, including traditional authorities, NGOs / CSOs, Area Councils and the decentralised department among others.

The former Adaklu-Anyigbe District Assembly established by Legislative Instrument 1741 of 2004 was split into Agotime-Ziope and Adaklu District Assemblies in 2012. The Agotime-Ziope District Assembly was therefore established by Legislative Instrument 2080 of 2012. The Assembly is the highest Political and Administrative Authority in the Area under its jurisdiction. The structure of the Assembly includes the District Coordinating Directorate and nine (9) Decentralised Departments out of eleven (11) statutory departments. The district is in the process of ensuring the operation of the remaining department. The District Planning Coordinating Unit (DPCU) which is responsible for Co- ordinating the development planning activities of the Assembly forms a very important component of this structure.

The District Chief Executive is the representative of the President of the Republic of Ghana in the District and is the political head of the District. However, the District Co-ordinating Director is the Head of the Administration (the coordinating directorate).

1.3.11.1 The District Assembly Structure

The General Assembly, which is the Legislative and Deliberative Body of the Assembly, consist of Twenty-Five Members including Fifteen (15) elected members and Nine (9) Government appointees. Other members include the District Chief Executive and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Agotime- Ziope Constituency who is an ex-officio member of the Assembly. The district has Two (2) sub- district structures namely Agotime Area Council and Ziope Area Council.

The Assembly works through its Executive Committee and its sub-Committees. Five of these committees namely; Development Planning, Finance and Administration, Justice and Security, Works and Social Services Sub-committees are statutory. The Assembly has the power to form other non statutory Sub-committees as may be necessary.

Due to lack of office space, most of the Decentralised Departments are not yet in place and the few ones in place are scattered with some located far from the Co-ordinating Directorate.

Figure 1.11: Organogram of the District Assembly

District Assembly

Executive Committee (DCE as the Chairman) DA Administration (DCD as the Head)

Development Social services Works Sub- Finance and Justice and Others planning sub- sub-committee Committee Administration Security Sub- committee Sub- Committee Committee

1.3.11.2 The Sub-District Structures There are 2 Area Councils under the district located at Kpetoe, and Ziope. The District Assembly benefited from the support from the Danish Government Support to District Assemblies II (DSDA II) prior to its full assumption as a district (then with Ho District Assembly) and latter the Community Based Rural Development Project. This made it possible to operationalize all it sub-district structures to bring governance close to the doorsteps of the people.

There were a series of training workshops held to build the capacity of the core staff of the Area Councils, namely, secretary, treasurer and a typist employed to enable them perform their duties creditably. Fortunately, the council offices are all operational currently but the major problem they face is the non-payment of allowances and salaries to the staff.

1.3.11.3 Traditional Authorities There are two (2) Traditional Areas in the district namely; Agotime, and Ziope. These two (2) Authorities constitute important paramount stools for the Agotime, and Ziope and Traditional Areas. These paramount Stools offer complementary services in the Administration of the District. As custodians of the lands, they arbitrate on local matters brought to their attention and offer the necessary local services as are referred to them. 5District has about 120 communities.

1.3.12 DISTRICT SECURITY The security in the District is managed by the District Security Council (DISEC) of the Assembly comprising the District Chief Executive as its Chairperson and Security Personnel from the Ghana Police Service- Kpetoe Divisional Command, Staff of the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI), Immigration Service, and Customs. These Security Services are well established in the District and readily render their services when needed. In addition to above, members of the 66 Artillery Regiment from Ho also offers their services to the DISEC. The traditional set-up also helps to maintain law and order in the District. They serve as the first point of call to residents on domestic disputes and offer alternative conflict resolution services to people who request for these services. They are also often being major contact persons for security issues involving land.

The District is generally peaceful however; there exist packets of conflicts with respect to land ownership especially in the Agotime Traditional Area between Agotimes and Andos which is being managed by the DISEC. There are also potential succession disputes which require urgent management before they escalate.

1.3.12.1 Security Establishments The District has a Divisional Police Command which is currently located in Kpetoe. A District Police Head Quarters is currently under construction. There is also a police station in Ziope. Similarly, there are two Border Check Points in the District man by the Ghana Immigration Service located at Batume Junction and Apegame.

The District is also host to the only Training School for Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority where both Officers and Recruits are trained. 59

1.3.12.2 Problems of the District Security I. Inadequate Office Accommodation for the police II. Inadequate residential Accommodation for the police III. Limited logistics for security operatives

1.3.13 District Assembly Finances 1.3.13.1 Revenue Generation The Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) is generally very low, due to the high poverty level of the people in the district; Revenue sources in the District consist of levies and rates collected from the people in the District. IGR has therefore averaged only about 16.92% of the total revenue generated by the Assembly in a year. The record below shows the position:

Table 1.3.5: Assembly’s Revenue Position from January 2010 to December 2013 Year Total Revenue Local Revenue Government Local Revenue % Grants of total Revenue 2010 168,847 345,783 514,630 32.81

2011 120,117 502,218 622,335 19.30

2012 89,645 1,253,010 1,342,655 6.68

2013 86,697 889651 976,348 8.88

Source: AZDA, District Finance Office, 2013

In view of the low internally generated revenue, the Assembly depends heavily on government Grants, especially the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) for its development activities. Unfortunately, the common fund is inadequate and its releases are irregular.

Table1.3.6: Expenditure Pattern for the past four years No./Item 2010 % 2011 % 2012 % 2013 %

Amount Amount Amount Amount (GH¢) (GH¢) (GH¢) (GH¢)

1. Pers. 54,499 3.60 47,648 2.68 502,765 21.02 528,076 25.55 Emoluments

2. T & T 32,155 2.12 20,035 1.13 10,382 0.43 10,791 0.52

3. General 39,329 2.60 22,277 1.25 14,705 0.61 13,190 0.64 Expenditure

4. Maintenance/ 1,275 0.08 581 0.03 671 0.03 933 0.05 Repairs Ren.

5. Miscellaneou 40,969 2.71 11,422 0.64 12,190 0.51 4,160 0.20 s

6. Capital 1,238,463 81.84 1,519,789 85.54 768,704 32.14 678,283 32.81 Expenditure

7. Donor 106,593 7.04 138,686 7.81 1,066,652 44.60 815,859 39.47 Funding

8. Assembly’s 25 0.00 16,360 0.92 15,587 0.65 15,930 0.77 own projects

9. Total 1,513,308 100.00 1,776,798 100.00 2,391,656 100.00 2,067,222 100.00

Source: AZDA District Finance Office, 2013

1.3.13.2 Financial Management in the District Assembly The District Accounts are managed by professional staff from the District Finance Office. The staff have the requisite skills in handling disbursements of the various Accounts of the Assembly and advice on financial issues. Disbursements of funds are guided by available budgetary and financial regulations of the Country and also by the Public Procurement Act 663 of 2003 and the Internal Audit Agency Act.

1.3.13.3 Problems of the District Finances  Limited revenue barriers  Limited number of revenue collectors  Limited logistics for revenue collection  Poor revenue collection  Inadequate market infrastructure  Limited knowledge of citizens on tax obligation  Unwillingness to honor tax obligations  Poor data base on taxes especially physical properties

1.3.14 SOCIAL SERVICES The Social Services in the District comprises services from Education, Health, Information, Communication Technology, Housing and Water and Sanitation.

1.3.14.1 Education Education is one of the most important sectors of the District. Education Services is provided from a District Directorate in Kpetoe which is currently in a rented premise. The Sector is divided into 5 circuits with a total enrolment of 18,789 Pupils at the Basic Schools as at December, 2013. Enrollment at the Basic Schools has been progressing over the past three Academic Years. Enrolment in the 2010/2011 Academic Year was 16,369 pupils, this increased to 18,767 pupils in the 2011/2012 Academic and currently 18,789 in the 2013/2014 Academic Year.

Table 1.3.5 Enrolment at Basic Schools 2010/2011 Academic Year

Level of Schooling Boys Girls Total

Kindergartens 2062 1997 4059

Primary 4862 4498 9360

Junior High School 1563 1387 2950

Total 8487 7882 16369

Source: District Education Directorate, Kpetoe, 2013

Table 1.3.6 Enrolment at Basic Schools 2011/2012 Academic Year

Level of Schooling Boys Girls Total

Kindergartens 2376 2362 4738

Primary 5545 5240 10785

Junior High School 1746 1498 3244

Total 9667 9100 18767 Source: District Education Directorate, Kpetoe, 2013

Table 1.3.7 Enrolment at Basic Schools 2012/2013 Academic Year

Level of Schooling Boys Girls Total

Kindergartens 2405 2522 4927

Primary 5459 4943 10402

Junior High School 1832 1628 3460 Total 9696 9093 18789 Source: District Education Directorate, Kpetoe, 2013

The District has both public and private educational institutions. The facilities range from Kindergarten to Senior Secondary School. Though the district could not boast of any tertiary institutions, its strategic location has provided the proximity to such facilities located at Ho, Amedzorfe and Akatsi.

Although the District could be described as over staffed based on the number of teachers at post, there are inadequate teaching staff in the Schools especially in deprived communities. This situation is due largely to low enrollment in deprived school giving an abnormally higher pupil-teacher ratio meanwhile the number of teachers required for a primary school may not be up. This depicts a situation of too many schools than is required in the District. There is therefore need to suspend the creation of new schools in communities if quality education is to be attained.

1.3.14.1.1 Academic Performance Over the last three years the performance of pupils in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has declined from 51% in 2011 to 22% in 2013. Some rural community schools scored absolutely zero percent in the BECE during the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 examinations. Some of these schools are Batume Junction JHS, Akwetteh JHS, and Takuve. The poor performance is attributed to inadequate teaching and learning materials and inadequate trained teachers as a result of too many schools and reduced contact hours as a result of dispersed nature of schools. Schools are located at almost every community where access to social services are lacking forcing teachers live in nearby communities and only commute daily to their respective schools. This does not only lead to lateness and teacher absenteeism and hence a reduction in contact hours but also promotes child absenteeism and the combined effects of these is the poor performance. The Current release of the BECE puts the District Average performance at 22% an improvement over the 2012 performance of 20.10%. The table below depicts the performance score for the past three years.

Table 1.3.8: BECE Performance over the past three years Years Candidates presented Candidates who Total percentage scored General obtained aggregate 6-30 performance

Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total % score

2013 297 228 525 76 38 114 26% 17% 22% Fair

2012 517 418 935 110 78 188 21% 19% 20% Fair

2011 472 433 905 249 206 455 58% 44% 51% Good

Source: Agotime-Ziope District Directorate of Education, 2010

In addition to the above, below are some major issues affecting the Educational Sector Performance in the District, they include the following: -

 In adequate decent classrooms, some classes are held under trees and sheds In adequate trained teachers in the District

 Failure of some parents to cater adequately for their wards in school, this result in poor academic performance and drop out  Some parents engage their wards in economic activities e.g. Kente weaving and farming  Teenage pregnancy

1.3.14.2 Information, Communication Technology (ICT) Information Communication Technology is a vital tool in development. The ICT sector information is centered on ownership and use of mobile phones, internet facilities and ownership and use of desk and lap top computers

1.3.14.2.1 Ownership of mobile phones Table 5.1 presents information on population 12 years and older by ownership of mobile phone and use of internet facility in the Agotime–Ziope district. The table indicates that out of 9,170 males, 57.8.percent own mobile phones and out of 10,279 females 42.2 percent own mobile phones.

1.3.14.2.2 Use of internet Table 5.1 further indicates that 72.1 percent of males (9,170) and 27.9 percent of females (10,279) use the internet in the District.

Table 1.3.9: Population 12 years and older by mobile phone ownership, internet facility usage, and Sex I C T Indicators Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent

Population 12 Population having mobile Population using years and older phone internet facility

Total 19,449 100.0 7,129 100.0 481 100.0

Male 9,170 47.1 4,119 57.8 347 72.1

Female 10,279 52.9 3,010 42.2 134 27.9

Source: Ghana Statistical Service, 2010 Population and Housing Census

The network operators available in the District include Vodafone, MTN, Tigo, Expresso and Airtell. The quality of these network services are poor due partly from interference by the Togocell and weak signals from the available networks. This situation needs to be corrected by the various network operators as they attempt to improve the quality of their services nation-wide. There is one (1) post office in the district. However, with an intervention of a private institution an internet café has been established at Kpetoe. An ICT Centre will soon be commissioned to provide quality ICT services in the District. There is the need for collaboration between government and private sector to enhance the effective utilization of the ICT centres for improved local economy.

1.3.14.2.3 Household ownership of desktop/laptops Table 5.2 shows the distribution of households with desktop/laptops computers and sex of household heads. The table indicates that out of 4,442 household headed by males, 82.7 percent have computers and 17.3 percent of household headed by females (2,578 households) have desktops/laptops computers.

Table 1.3.10: Households having desktop/laptop computers, fixed telephone lines and Sex of head Number of Households Sex of Number of Number of Households Perce having fixed phone household head households Percent having computers nt lines Percent

Total 7,020 100.0 162 100.0 5 100.0

Male 4,442 63.3 134 82.7 5 100.0

Female 2,578 36.7 28 17.3 - 0.0

Source: Ghana Statistical Service, 2010 Population and Housing Census

1.3.14.3 HEALTH Health is an important sector of the District Social Services Delivery System. Health Services are provided by the District Directorate of Health with a District Health Management Team coordinating the delivery of services. For the purposes of easy health administration, the District is divided into three Sub Districts comprising: Kpetoe, Ziope and Keyeme.

1.3.14.3.1 Health Facilities The District has a number of Health facilities including three Health Centres located at Kpetoe, Ziope and Keyime. It also has Three CHPS Compounds at Afegame, Akpokope and Wudzedeke. These facilities provide primary health care services to communities under their catchment areas.

Table 1.3.11 Health Facilities by Ownership S/N Category Ownership Number 1 Health Centre Government 3 2 Maternity Home Private 1 3 CHPS Government 3 4 RCH/FP Clinic Government 7 Total 14

1.3.14.3.2 Staff Strength of Health Services Health service delivery is delivered by various categories of health personnel posted to the District. The District Health Directorate has a total of 61 Health Professionals as at December, 2013 but required 112 professionals for effective service delivery leaving a staff deficit of 51 personnel.

1.3.14.3.3 Disease prevalence The District just like others in the country has successfully eradicated and eliminated diseases such as polio, guinea worm and cholera as no case was reported in the district between the years 2009 to 2013. However, Malaria continues to be the largest reported disease in the district and constituted 51% of all out patient attendance in 2013. Detection rate for Tuberculosis has not been the best as most of the health centres in the district have no laboratory unit. Out of the 3 health centres in the district, only Kpetoe health centre is operating a laboratory service. Although a laboratory block has been completed at Ziope Health Centre, it is yet to be put to use. The District epidemiological profile shows a concurrent significant prevalence of communicable and non-communicable diseases as per details in table below. As obtained from the DHD at Dec. 2013.

Table 1.3.12 Top Ten (10) Diseases in the District DISEASED CASES %

Malaria 13,773 50.88 Acute Respiratory Infections 4418 16.32

Anaemia 1826 6.75 Rheumatism/Joint Pains 1723 6.37 Intestinal Worms 1613 5.96 Skin Diseases & Ulcers 1246 4.60 Diarrhoa Diseases 1106 4.09 Hypertension 572 2.11 Road Traffic Accident 404 1.49 Sickle Cell Diseases 388 1.43 Source: (District Health Directorate, 2013)

1.3.14.3.4 Health Service Delivery The District Directorate of the Ghana Health Services pursues health service provision under two broad categories: Public Health Services which provides population based services and Institutional Based Services (Institutional care) which usually target individuals who visit any of the health facilities for services.

1.3.14.3.5 District Mutual Health Insurance Scheme The Mutual Health Insurance Scheme covers the Agotime-Ziope and Adaklu District Assemblies as such official figures of its membership are for the two Administrative Districts. As at December, 2013 a total 29,074 Members registered under the Mutual Health Insurance Scheme in the district. This represents about 42 percent of the population of the Schemes Catchment Area. The Scheme has improved access to; Health care delivery; about 1,949 pregnant women benefited from this scheme in 2013. This has also helped to reduce child mortality in the District. As at December 2013 about 21,103 youth under 18 years were able to register under the NHIS. The Scheme has helped minimize the health care component of household budgets and enable them have more disposable income.

1.3.14.3.6 HIV/AIDS ANALYSIS HIV and AIDS is one major Developmental issue in the District because it has a cross cutting effect on all the Development Concerns in the District. For instance its prevalence has negative effects on agricultural activity by lowering the productive capacity of infected persons since their energy levels get lower and output per person per day reduces. Similarly due to the ill health that is normally associated with it, the need for medical care increases with infected persons serving as a major drain on their household incomes leaving the families poorer. The stigma that is often associated with HIV/AIDS has devastating social consequences and this can remain with affected families for years. 67

1.3.14.3.6.1 HIV/AIDS PREVALENCE The HIV prevalence among the adult population as at the end of 2009 stood at 0.1% with an approximated number of (42) people living with HIV/AIDS as at the end of 2009. As at June 2011, (276) people knew their HIV status and (20) were positive representing 8.1%. Below is the table for HIV/AIDS prevalence between 2009 and June 2013

Table 1.3.13 HIV/AIDS Situation YEAR No. Counseled No. Tested Positive

2009 784 47 6.0

2010 544 23 4.2

2011

2012

2013 1034 882 18

Source: Health Service Directorate, 2013

The District has a PMTCT (Prevention Mother to Child Transmission) centre at Kpetoe health Centre, Counseling and Testing Visits have also been created at the following facilities: Wudzedeke, Afegame, and Kpetoe.

1.3.14.3.6.2 MAJOR CAUSES OF HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS has many known causes but in the context of the District the major cause include but not limited to the following:

 Proximity to the Republic of Togo The District shares boundaries with the Republic of Togo as such social integration between its citizens and known high spots in the Republic of Togo.

 Poverty The poverty situation of household heads in the District makes them unable to meet their parental responsibilities to their dependants. This normally compels these dependants to adopted negative lifestyles just to fend for themselves and these predispose them to the risk of acquiring the disease.

 Ignorance and Neglect of preventive Measures The major known preventive measures for HIV/AIDS include Abstinence from Sex, being Faithful to one negative sexual partner, and the Regular and appropriate use of condom during sexual intercourse. Given the wide public health campaign on these preventive measures many are still ignorant about it and some still discard the disease as a myth. Similarly a good number of the population who are aware of the preventive measures still fail to use them in their sexual lives. This is evident in the high numbers of Teenage pregnancies and pregnancies outside formal unions.

1.3.14.4. WATER AND SANITATION The availability, accessibility, affordability and reliability of improved drinking water is an important aspect of the health of household members in the District. Households in the District obtain their drinking water from diverse sources. The main sources of drinking water in the District are public standpipes, borehole / pump/ tube well, River stream and dugout /pond / Dam.

Most households (26.9%) rely on public tap/ standpipe. Public tap/stand pipe is the most common source of water for urban localities serving 68.4 percent of the population while this contributed only 19.4 percent service for the rural population. Conversely, boreholes were more common in rural areas than urban localities constituting just 5.3 percent for urban localities and 29.0 percent for rural areas. River/Stream constituted an insignificant source for urban population contributing just 0.3 percent while it serves 15.5 percent of the rural population.

1.3.14.4.1 Bathing and Toilet Facilities Toilet and bath facility constitute important sanitary facilities for households. Their presence in dwelling units provides so much convenience to households. Increased access to these facilities is important in maintaining high levels of hygiene and good health. The 2010 Population and Housing Census indicates that about 24 percent of households in the District have no toilet facilities and resort to open defecation. 1,878 households used pit latrines and only 219 households used W. C. toilets. This means that open defecation is wide spread in the District and more pronounced in rural areas than urban areas while W. C. usage is more in urban localities than rural. In terms of bathroom facility usage, 1,639 households out of a 7,128 own bathrooms for exclusive use, 1,937 households used shared opened cubicles. Shared Separate bathroom in the same house provided services for 1,270 households and 948 households have no facility but use open space around houses for bathing. Other bathroom types include private opened cubicles which were used by 808 households, 269 households bathed in other houses and 11 households used public bath houses. In urban localities, the highest bathroom type for households was shared open cubicle which was used by 688 households followed by shared separate bathroom in the same house (485), own bathroom for exclusive use was for 295 households and 179 households bathed in open spaces around houses. In rural areas however, own bathroom for exclusive use was the common type being used by 1,344 households, 1,249 households used shared open cubicles and the number of household using shared separate bathroom in the same house was 785. Open spaces around houses were used by 769 households in the rural areas while private open cubicles were used by 709 (Source: Ghana Statistical Service, 2010 Population and Housing Census)

1.3.14.5 VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS Vulnerability describes the inability of a person or place to withstand shocks or threats. This phenomenon often manifest itself in livelihood losses, ill health, lack of productive opportunities and natural disasters often associated with bush fires, floods, and draught. There are also issue of physical

69 vulnerability relating mishandling and abuse of children or deliberate denial of from school or other forms of skills training.

1.3.14.5.1 Major cases of vulnerability 1. Child Abuse 2. Child Labour 3. Children in conflict with the law Statistics show that every year over 10 children go contrary to the law and unfortunately due to absence of a law court in the District they have to be transported to either Ho or Dzodze for trial. 4. HIV/AIDS 5. Floods 6. Bush fires. Other issues include the exclusion of People Living with HIV (PLWHIV). About 50 PLWHIV are in such difficult situation. There is the need for intensive education on the issue.

The District statistics on disability revealed that over 250 people are disabled some of whom are also orphans. The only major Social Protection Infrastructure for these disables, Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) - Godwin Amway Academy, located at Wodome Community has ceased to operate for some years now. In order to solve the problems associated with vulnerability and exclusion, non- governmental organizations and development partners continue to collaborate with the District Assembly to bring relief to the affected persons. Some of the interest groups are tabulated below.

Table 1.3.14 NGOs and their Operational Areas SN. Name of NGO/CBO/Development Area of Operation Partner

1 Seek to Save Foundation Immunization and Malaria Control

2 Pencil of Promise Education

3 Rural Aid Foundation Support for youth, women and children; Human Rights Advocacy and HIV/AIDS awareness creation

4 Philanthropist Host Family Service Private sector development; care and support for PLWHIV and support for education

5 Talent Development for Women Economic empowerment of women; Reproductive health issues; Enterprise (TDWEC) Education, Eco-tourism

6 Bridge Volta, Ghana Education, Eco-tourism, Economic empowerment of women

7 GLOWA Economic empowerment of women, HIV/AIDS and Reproductive health issues; Gender and Education

8 Actions for the Integral Environmental protection, water and sanitation, small scale Development Of Deprived enterprise development, disaster and relief services, agriculture Communities (ADICODE) and food security

9 Ghana Outlook Ghana Education and Health related issues

10 IN NETWORK Human Rights Advocacy, Child Rights/Abuse, Child Development and Education, Church planting and evangelism

11 Life for the People Mission Health awareness, Education, water and sanitation, women and children, income generation venture and agro forestry

12 Rescue Club HIV/AIDS awareness creation, Environmental Health/ Sanitation

13 Changed life foundation Health, Education

14 Tailors Union Health Club Care and Support for OVCs, Vocational training for the Youth.

15 Agotime Women Development Economic Empowerment of Women, Agriculture Association (AWODA)

16 Agbesia Farmers Association Agriculture- Cultivation of food crops

17 Afegame Disables Self help Group Agriculture- Animal husbandry and Framing.

Source: Social Welfare Department, 2013

1.3.14.6 GENDER ANALYSIS Gender has been defined as the socially constructed roles between males and females. It can also be seen as differential roles assigned by the society for males and females. Most of these roles give men and boys undue advantages over women and girls. Men are often seen as family heads and heir apparent of their family wealth and fortunes. Women on the other hand are considered as people who will marry out of the family to join their husbands’ families as such cannot be entrusted with the family fortunes. This conception tends to deprive women of access to productive capital such as land and skills training. It even has implications for education as most families prefer educating boys to girls. Gender is therefore one of the cross cutting issues of the District Development Process as it has implications for all aspects of the District Development. The major Gender Concerns therefore include:

1.3.14.6.1 The Biological Role of women as mothers Women have the God Given Role as bearers of children. This child bearing role affects their economic activeness negatively. It also constrains them physically in their daily interaction with their male counterparts. This role is also a source of death for some unfortunate women who for some preventable but often neglected reasons lose their lives. It is therefore necessary to initiate measures aimed at addressing this biological concern of women and girls. This may include the vigorous implementation of mother health care policy of the Ministry of Health by each health care centre in the District, improvement in health infrastructure eg. CHPS Compounds etc.

1.3.14.6.2 Overburdened Domestic Roles for Girls and women Society has assigned women as the keepers of homes. To this end, they are responsible for not only raising children but also do most of the domestic choirs as sweeping, fetching of water, weeding the compound, washing the dishes, cleaning the toilet, fetching firewood, cooking, running the home kiosk etc. Men and boys’ roles may just be to take the major decisions as head of the family and get the best education. It is gratifying to note that most of the assigned roles for women are often unpaid and not quantified jobs and this make their contribution largely unrecognized. This puts them at a disadvantage position as against their males. To address this concern there is the need for effective public campaigns on equal rights and equal share of work. Men should be encouraged to take up domestic roles as their female counterparts.

1.3.14.6.3 Access to productive capital and Skills training Men are often prioritized to receive the best education and training as against women. They are also entrusted with family resources such as land and real estate. Women at best can only be given rooms in family houses but are not usually considered as owners of family estate. This denies them access to rent which is a major source of capital for investment. This action requires more engagement with custodians of customs and the vigorous pursuance of girl-child education in the District and the implementation of the Interstate Succession Law of Ghana

1.3.14.7 Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy The District Economy is gradually losing its character because of the global issues of climate change. Rainfall pattern is currently erratic leading to high risk of crop failures since farming is rain-fed. Also floods are a common phenomenon in recent years and result in massive loss of properties. Prolonged draughts are also being experienced and this does not only lead to crop failure but discourages farming. The phenomenon of climate change as described above requires the adoption of an integrated approach to reducing the risk and enhancing adaptive measures often being captured in the ideals of the concept of Green Economy. To this end public facilities have been designed to include concerns of persons with disabilities, need to conserve energy, use of local materials and strengthened to withstand floods and strong winds and excessive temperatures. Also, the Statutory Planning Committee of the Assembly is to consider above issues in their decision to approve applications for Development Permits

1.3.14.8 DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS 1.3.14.8.1 Population The concept of human- centered development is one of the distinct features of the new planning system. It calls for the analysis of the basic demographic characteristics like population size, structure, growth rate and distribution in space with a view of establishing their needs and ability to contribute towards the achievement of stated goals.

1.3.14.8.2 Population Size and Distribution The size and Distribution of the District population by age, sex and type of locality is presented in

Table 1.3.15. The table indicates that the district has a total population of 28,013 with 13,498

(48.2%) males and 14,515 (51.8%) females. The population is predominantly rural (21,216) representing 75.7% living in rural localities and 6,797 in urban localities representing 24.3 percent in urban localities. The age structure of the population reveals that the most populous group is age group is 0 –4 age group (3,880). This represents 13.9 percent of the population. The age group with the lowest proportion of the populations is 95 – 99 (0.1%). The first four age groups. Thus 0-19 constitutes nearly half of the population (47.9%) of the total population and indicates that the population in the district has the tendency to grow for a considerable number of years, all other things being equal. This has economic implications for the development of the district. Requiring the implementation of Early Childhood Development measures aimed at building the capacity of the population at this age group to take up the district development in future. A pattern of a declining population with advancing age can also be observed from the table.

1.3.14.8.3 Sex ratio The District has a total sex ratio of 93.0. This means that for every hundred females, there are 93 males. The sex ratio is high for females in all age groups except for the age groups 5 – 9, 10 - 14 and 15-19.

The total population in the working age group (15 – 64) is 15,612 representing 55.7 percent of the population. Males constitute 47.45 percent of this population while females constitute 52.54 percent. This is an important recipe for economic development in the district.

1.3.14.8.4 Dependency Ratio The age-dependency ratio of the district is 79.4. This means that for every 100 persons in the working age group (15-64), there is about 79 dependants. The age dependency ratio is slightly higher for male (82.2) than female (76.9). It is also lower in the urban localities (70.4) than the rural areas (82.6) as shown on the table 1.3.15

Table 1.3.15: Population by Age, Sex and type of locality Sex Type of locality

Age Group Both Sexes Male Female Sex ratio Urban Rural

Sex Type of locality

Age Group Both Sexes Male Female Sex ratio Urban Rural

Total 28,013 13,498 14,515 93.0 6,797 21,216

0 - 4 3,880 1,929 1,951 98.9 773 3,107

5 - 9 3,367 1,685 1,682 100.2 766 2,601

10 - 14 3,264 1,709 1,555 109.9 766 2,498

15 - 19 2,910 1,545 1,365 113.2 755 2,155

20 - 24 2,526 1,259 1,267 99.4 624 1,902

25 - 29 2,155 1,049 1,106 94.8 577 1,578

30 - 34 1,652 778 874 89.0 459 1,193

35 - 39 1,570 674 896 75.2 357 1,213

40 - 44 1,298 596 702 84.9 325 973

45 - 49 1,089 456 633 72.0 308 781

50 - 54 1,062 451 611 73.8 241 821

55 - 59 688 332 356 93.3 201 487

60 - 64 662 268 394 68.0 143 519

65 - 69 416 182 234 77.8 121 295

70 - 74 622 259 363 71.3 153 469

75 - 79 345 147 198 74.2 105 240

80 - 84 274 96 178 53.9 64 210

85 - 89 117 40 77 51.9 27 90

90 - 94 82 30 52 57.7 24 58

95 - 99 34 13 21 61.9 8 26

Total 28,013 13,498 14,515 93.0 6,797 21,216

0-14 10,511 5,323 5,188 102.6 2,305 8,206

15-64 15,612 7,408 8,204 90.3 3,990 11,622

65+ 1,890 767 1,123 68.3 502 1,388

Age-dependency ratio 79.4 82.2 76.9 70.4 82.6

Source: Ghana Statistical Service, 2010 Population and Housing Census

1.3.14.8.4 Age-Sex Structure The age and sex structure of the District’s population is depicted graphically in a population pyramid as presented in figure. 2.1. The population pyramid shows a pattern of lower population in each age group with advancing age except in the case of age group 70-74 where the population in this age group is higher than the preceding age group 65-69. It also shows that there is a slightly higher proportion of males in the age groups 5 – 9, 10-14 and 15-19. This may be attributed to higher male out migration than females or the dangers associated with the male’s life styles that cause them to die earlier than their female counterparts.

Figure 1.12: Population pyramid, by age group and sex of the Agotime-Ziope District, 2010 Age 95+ 90-94 85-89 80-84 75-79 70-74 65-69 60-64 55-59 50-54 45-49

40-44 Male 35-39 Female 30-34 25-29 20-24 15-19 10-14 5-9 0-4

2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500

Population

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

1.3.14.8.5 Fertility Fertility is a very important factor in determining the size of population of any locality aside mortality and migration. The Agotime-Ziope District has a Total Fertility Rate of 2.9. This is less than the Regional average of 3.4. The General Fertility Rate for the District is 82.6 and Crude Birth Rate is 2.1

1.3.14.8.6. Spatial Distribution of Population The district population like most other populations is not evenly distributed. The 2010 PHC revealed a pattern of population concentration in the District capital and other larger settlements. The major settlements are strategically located on the only trunk road from Kpetoe to Ziope. The concentration of people in these major towns put significant stress on existing social services such as schools, health and water facilities and on land for agriculture and residential activities. The population of most

76 communities in the hinterland ranges from 50 to about 200 people. The table below shows the population of 20 major communities in the District.

Table 1.3.16 Population of Ten (20) larger communities Community Population Agotime Kpetoe 6,797 Ziope 2,194 Akpokope 1,103 Agotime Abenyinase 1,078 Atiave 1,066 Agotime Afegame 965 Dohia 907 Agohome 866 Adedome 858 Astrulume 821 Keyime 697 Wortsikpo 689 Old Takuve (Afegame) 681 Silliandre 672 Abordahe 651 Agordeke 623 Kporta 513 Dramave Noi 494 Asafoatse Kope 453 Segbale 451 Source: Ghana Statistical Service, 2010 Population and Housing Census

1.4 Key Development Gaps During the situational analysis of the District, major development challenges came up for consideration and inclusion into the 2014-2017 Development plan and for possible solutions to address them. The gaps were categorized under the three Thematic Areas in the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda II. The problems are as follows:

1.4.1 Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability  Inadequate capacity to attract investment Funds  Weak capacity to generate adequate incomes for Development

1.4.2 Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector  High cost of production due to high cost of inputs

 Use of rudimentary tools for farming makes average farm sizes small.

 Poor storage and processing facilities leading to post harvest losses.

 Poor marketing of kente products

 Poor nature of road and network

 Poor accessibility to farming communities

 Over dependence on rain-fed agriculture

 Limitation in accessing the benefit from the Youth in Agriculture Programme

 Inadequate market infrastructure for agricultural product.

1.4.3 Accelerated Agricultural Modernisation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management  Inadequate farm inputs (e.g. Agro chemicals, seeds, fertilizers) in the District.

 Low agricultural output due to subsistence farming practices.

 Destruction of crops by cattle belonging to the Fulani herdsmen.

 Indiscriminate cutting of trees for charcoal production and fuel wood.

 Indiscriminate bush burning.

 Inadequate Agric Extension and Veterinary Staff

 Lack of transport facilities for the Agric Extension Officers

 Inadequate micro-finance and credit facilities to farmers.

1.4.4 Oil and Gas Development  Weak capacity to take advantage of emerging oil and gas industry for sustainable local economic development

1.4.5 Infrastructure and Human Settlements  Inadequate energy supply for rural socioeconomic development  Poor road network  Weak capacity to promote orderly development of human settlements  Poor housing conditions in rural areas  Inadequate supply of potable water  Indiscriminate defaecation in open places  Inadequate Sanitary Health workers  Indiscriminate disposal of wastes  Poor transportation system  Unplanned settlements patterns  Poor quality of telecommunication system/coverage.  Deplorable state of the Post Office buildings/facilities in the District.  Inadequate banking facilities  Poor condition of market centres

1.4.6 Human Development, Productivity and Employment  High school dropout rate in the District  Inadequate teachers in pre and basic schools.  Ineffective supervision of schools due to inadequate logistics.  Poor status of educational infrastructural facilities.  Inadequate dormitories and hostels for Agotime and Ziope SHS  Lack of a Permanent Office Accommodation for the District Education Directorate.  Lack of a means of transport for Ziope SHS  Inadequate teaching and learning materials  Poor reception of teachers by the communities.  Lack of accommodation for teachers and educational staff.  High incidence of malaria in the District  High prevalence of HIV and AIDS  Poor Health service delivery  Inadequate health infrastructure  Low coverage of Expanded Programme on Immunization)  Lack of District Hospital  Lack of District Health Directorate office.

1.4.7 Transparent and Accountable Governance  Low revenue generation  Low communal spirit  Inadequate staff accommodation for DA staff  Inadequate logistical support for the Assembly, especially the Decentralised Departments and Area Councils.  Low capacity of Assembly members in the discharge of their functions.  Inadequate motivation of the staff of the Area Councils, Unit Committees and Assembly members  Low operational capacity and non co-ordination of CSO activities.  Low women participation in decision making.  Lack of involvement of physically challenged in decision making  High incidence of Child Labour at Cattle ranches/ Kente Weaving Communities.  Negative attitudinal, socio-cultural and religious practices towards the Persons with Disability (PWDs).  Lack of employment opportunities for trained disabled persons.  Inadequate access to Legal Aid Service by women.

1.5 SUMMARY OF COMMUNITY NEEDS AND ASPIRATIONS BASED ON THE GSGDA II This section presents the Needs and Aspirations of the people obtained during community and stakeholder consultation meetings held at the communities, sub District and District level. In the absence of any Community Action Plan or updated Area Council Plans, this activity was deemed necessary to enable the Plan preparation Team Elicit the needed inputs from the communities and other stakeholders to complement gaps obtained from the performance Review and the Compilation of the District Profile. These inputs would therefore constitute the key action points in the subsequent stages of the plan preparation. The inputs are presented on Area Council Basis for the sake of convenience

Table 1.4.1 Community Needs and Aspiration - Council: Agortime Area Council Theme Needs/Aspirations Communities

Ensuring and Enhanced Capacity of Kpetoe Sustaining revenue collectors Macroeconomic Effective Revenue collections Stability Blocking loopholes in revenue collection Create Data base of revenue sources Effective tax education Enhanced management of District Finances

Enhancing Construction of market sheds Kpetoe Construction of dam Wodome, Kpotoe competitiveness Provision of tractor services Mangoase, Agbesia 80 in Ghana’s Development of tourism Kpetoe receptive facility Private sector Development of tourism site Akpokope Construction of a craft Village Akpokope Promoting kete industry Agotime Traditional Area Provision of micro credit Akpokope, Kpetoe, Adedome, Kpetoe, Apegame, Abenyinase Provision of Tractor Services Kpetoe, Amedikpui, Kpehadzi, Kporta, Apegame etc Skills training for youth Abenyinase, Adedome, Sarakope, Akwettey, Apegame etc Promotion of Local Economic Kpetoe Development Activities Accelerated Appropriate irrigation schemes Apegame, Kpetoe, Mangoase, Agbesia, Wortikpo Agricultural Enhanced easy access to land Kpetoe, Wortikpo, Kpehadzi etc Modernisation especially for women Subsidies for agricultural inputs Asafokope, Kpatakope, Kpehadzi etc and Sustainable

Natural Develop human capital in Apegame, Kpetoe, Mangoase, agricultural machinery Agbesia, Asafokope, Kpatakope, Resource management, operation and Kpehadzi, Area Council. Management maintenance within the public sector Wortikpo, Kpetoe, Apegame etc. Provision of farm inputs Wortikpo, Apegame, Agbessia Construction of dam Oil and Gas Trained personnel in the Oil and Asafokope, Wodome, Sarakope, Gas industry Akpokope, Kpetoe Development Oil and gas filling points. Kpetoe, Akwettey, Akpokope, Protection of the natural Wudome, Batume Junction, environment from associated oil Sarakope and gas hazards Infrastructure Mangoase, Agbesia, Amedikpui, Provision of potable water Kporta, Kpehadzi, Amedikpui, and Human Apegame etc. Settlement Apegame, Akpokope, Amedekpui, Construction of Institutional Adedome, Kpetoe market Toilet Facilities Kpetoe, Sarakope, Akwettey, Construction of speed ramps Wudome, Batume Junction, Akpokope, Abenyinase Construction of roads Agbesia, Apagame, Vedome, Kpehadzi, Asafokope, Kporta Construction of culverts Amedekpui, Kporta, Construction of bridge Agohokpo Extension of electricity Kpehadzi, Kporta, Asafokope, Vakpo Development of layout Kpetoe, Abenyinase, Akpokope, Beh, Akpokope, Batume Junction 81

Human Provision of Classroom Blocks Abenyanase, Asafokope, Wodome, Mangoase, Kpetoe, Adedome Development, Provision of teachers Quarters Mangoase, Abodahe, Vedome, Productivity Agohokpo etc Kpetoe, Vedome, Agohokpo etc and Enhanced Teaching and Learning Vedome, Agohokpo, etc Employment Kpetoe, Apegame, Kpetoe, Expansion of School Feeding Mangoase, Agbesia, Asafokope, programme Kpatakope, Kpehadzi Kpetoe, Sarakope, Mangoase, Kpotar, Wortikpo, Agbesia, Amedikpui Provision of Health Kpetoe, Apegame, Beh, Batume Infrastructure Junction, Akpokope etc Improved health service Kpetoe, Apegame, Beh, Batume delivery Junction, Akpokope etc Strengthened Agricultural Cooperatives Apprenticeship training for youth in computing, carpentry, masonry, fitting, hairdressing, tie and dye making. Promotion of the kete Industry Transparent and Accessories to Area Councils Council Office Remunerate Area Council Staff Area Council Accountable and councilors Governance Provision of Staff Kpetoe Accommodation Provision of Office Kpetoe Accommodation High citizen participation in Kpetoe, Akwettey, Adedome, decision making at the District Apegame, Abenyinase etc Assembly Increased women Participation Kpetoe, Akwettey, Adedome, in Local Governance Apegame, Abenyinase etc Improved participation of

PWDs in decision making Increased interaction between Kpetoe, Akwettey, Adedome, Communities and Assembly Apegame, Abenyinase etc Members

Table 1.4.2 Community Needs and Aspiration - Council: Ziope Area Council Theme Needs/Aspirations Communities

Sustaining Enhanced Capacity of Ziope macroeconomic revenue collectors stability Effective Revenue collections 82

Blocking loopholes in revenue collection Data base of revenue sources Effective tax education

Enhancing Extension of electricity Dzramave/Dorglobo, Atiave/Avevo, Kpatsiklo Rehabilitation of Dam Keyime, Atiave/Avevo,Wudzedeke, Dohia, competitiveness Adzovime/Kakadedzi, Shilandre/Vedome, in Ghana’s Construction of Dam Kortsrala, Atsrulume Dzramave/Dorglobo, Silandre/Vedome, Private sector Wudzedeke, Noanyikpo, Kortsrala,Dohia,Agorkpo,Wuvi Development of tourism Keyime, Bedzame, Dzramave/Dorglobo, receptive facility Atiave/Avevo,Wudzedeke Promoting kete industry Adzovime/Kakadedzi, Shilandre/ Vedome, Kortsrala, Atsrulume, Dzramave/Dorglobo Development of tomatoes Keyime, Ziope, Ajunkor processing plant Provision of micro credit Ajunkor, Ziope, Keklebessi, Keyime, Wudzedeke Establishment of mini Keyeme market Accelerated Appropriate irrigation Ziope, Keyime, Dzramave/Dorglobo, schemes Atiave/Avevo,Kpatsiklo, Agricultural Enhanced easy access to Keyime, Atiave/Avevo,Wudzedeke, Ziope, Modernization land especially for women Dzramave/Dorglobo, Atiave/Avevo,Kpatsiklo Subsidies for agricultural Keyime, Atiave/Avevo,Wudzedeke, Ziope, and Sustainable inputs Dohia Natural Resource Develop human capital in Ziope, Wudzedeke Honugo etc Management agricultural machinery management, operation and maintenance within the public sector

Establishment of Keyeme experimental farm

Oil and Gas Trained personnel in the Ziope Oil and Gas industry Development Oil and gas filling points. Protection of the natural environment from associated oil and gas hazards Infrastructure and Construction of Road Keyime, Honugo, Agokpo, Agbalevi, , Rehabilitation of Roads Kortsrala,Vedome Human Resource Dohia, Shilandre, Keyeme, Bedzame, Development Adzovime/Kakadedzi, Atiave/Avevo, Agokpo,

Provision of potable water Agbalevi, Kporta/Aforkpui, Ajonko, etc

Rehabilitation of Dohia, Ziope, etc classroom blocks Honugo, Adzovime/Kakadedzi, Atiave/Avevo, Construction of Agokpo, Agbalevi etc. Institutional Toilet Facilities Ziope Market, Dohia, Bedzame, Dzramave/Dorglobo etc Human Construction of Ziosec, Dzramave, Shilandre, etc Classroom Blocks Development, Provision of teachers’ Wudzedeke, Keyeme, Vedome, Kporta Productivity and Quarters ZioSec, Takuve, Bedzame, Adzovime/Kakadedzi, Atiave/Avevo, Agokpo, Employment Agbalevi, Kporta/Aforkpui Provision of Health Dohia, Shilandre, etc. Facilities Strengthened Agricultural Area Council Cooperatives Apprenticeship Training Area Council for Youth in computing, carpentry, masonry, fitting, hairdressing, tie and dye making. Transparent and Provision of computer Area Council Office and accessories to Area Accountable Councils Governance Remunerate Area Council Ziope Area Council Staff and councilors

CHAPTER TWO DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES

2.1 Harmonization of Community Needs and Aspirations with Identified Key Development Gaps/Problems/Issues (from Review of Performance and Profile)

This part of the plan presents the harmonization of community needs and aspirations with identified development gaps ascertained from performance of DMTDP 2010-2013 as wells as those from the current situation or District profile. The objective of this is to ascertain the degree to which community needs and aspirations relate to identified development gaps. The details are presented in table 2.1 to 2.7 in accordance with the Thematic Areas of the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda

Table 2.1.1 Harmonized Community Needs and Aspiration with Development Gap from Performance Review and Profiling- Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability Community Needs/Aspirations Identified key Development Score Gaps/Problem/Issues (from Performance and Profile) Enhanced Capacity of revenue Weak capacity to generate adequate 2 collectors incomes for Development Effective Revenue collections 2 Blocking loopholes in revenue 2 collection Data base of revenue sources 2 Effective tax education 2 Enhanced management of District Weak capacity to Manage District 1 Finances Finances Average Score 1.8 Comment: There was strong relationship between community Needs and Aspirations and identified development gaps, however the last one recorded a weak relationship since it relates more with the Central Administration than the Communities.

Table 2.1.2 Harmonized Community Needs and Aspiration with Development Gap from Performance Review and Profiling- Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector Community Needs/Aspirations Identified key Development Score Gaps/Problem/Issues (from Performance and Profile) Construction of market sheds and Poor storage and processing facilities 2 ware housing facilities leading to post harvest losses. Establishment of mini market Inadequate market infrastructure 2 Construction of dam Over dependence on rain-fed 2 agriculture Provision of tractor services Use of rudimentary tools for farming 2

makes average farm sizes small Development of tourism receptive Poor marketing of kente products 2 facility Construction of a craft Village 2 Skills training for youth Limitation in accessing the benefit 2 from the Youth in Agriculture Programme Construction and rehabilitation of Poor accessibility to farming 2 feeder roads linking farms to communities markets centre Promoting kete industry Inadequate promotion of Agotime 2 Kente Provision of micro credit High cost of production due to high 2 cost of inputs Average Score 2.0

Table 2.1.3 Harmonized Community Needs and Aspiration with Development Gap from Performance Review and Profiling- Accelerated Agricultural Modernization and Sustainable Natural Resource Management Community Needs/Aspirations Identified key Development Score Gaps/Problem/Issues (from Performance and Profile) Appropriate irrigation schemes Overdependence on rain fed 2 Agriculture Enhanced easy access to land Low agricultural output due to 2 especially for women subsistence farming practices. Subsidies for agricultural inputs Inadequate farm inputs (e.g. Agro 2 chemicals, seeds, fertilizers) in the District. Develop human capital in Inadequate Agric Extension and 2 agricultural production, Veterinary Staff machinery management, operation and maintenance Lack of transport facilities for the Agric Extension Officers Protection of farm lands from Destruction of crops by cattle 2 animals belonging to the Fulani herdsmen Provision of Tractor services Low agricultural output due to 2 subsistence farming practices. Establishment of experimental Lack of transport facilities for the 2 farm Agric Extension Officers Indiscriminate cutting of trees for 0 charcoal production and fuel wood. Indiscriminate bush burning 0 Inadequate micro-finance and credit 0 facilities to farmers Average Score 2.0

Table 2.1.4 Harmonized Community Needs and Aspiration with Development Gap from Performance Review and Profiling- Oil and Gas Development Community Needs/Aspirations Identified key Development Score Gaps/Problem/Issues (from Performance and Profile) Trained personnel in the Oil and Weak capacity to take advantage of 2 Gas industry emerging oil and gas industry for Oil and gas filling points sustainable local economic 2 Protection of the natural development 2 environment from associated oil and gas hazards Average Score 3.0

Table 2.1.5 Harmonized Community Needs and Aspiration with Development Gap from Performance Review and Profiling- Infrastructure and Human Settlement Community Needs/Aspirations Identified key Development Score Gaps/Problem/Issues (from Performance and Profile) Improved Rural Housing Poor housing conditions in rural areas 2 Provision of potable water Inadequate supply of potable water 2 Construction of Institutional Indiscriminate defaecation in open 2 Toilet Facilities places Inadequate Sanitary Health workers 2 Indiscriminate disposal of wastes

Construction of speed ramps Poor road network 2 Construction of roads 2 Construction of culverts 2 Construction of bridge 2 Poor transportation system 2 Extension of electricity to rural Inadequate energy supply for rural 2 Areas socioeconomic development Development of layouts and Weak capacity to promote orderly 2 Development Schemes development of human settlements Unplanned settlements patterns 2 Provision of Market Sheds Inadequate and Poor condition of 2 market infrastructure Inadequate banking facilities 0 Poor quality of telecommunication 0 system/coverage. Deplorable state of the Post Office 0 buildings/facilities in the District. Average Score 2.6

Table 2.1.6 Harmonized Community Needs and Aspiration with Development Gap from Performance Review and Profiling- Human Development, Productivity and Employment Community Needs/Aspirations Identified key Development Score Gaps/Problem/Issues (from Performance and Profile) Provision of classroom Blocks Poor condition of educational 2 infrastructural facilities. Provision of dormitories Inadequate dormitories and hostels 2 for Agotime and Ziope SHS Enhanced teaching and learning Ineffective supervision of schools due 2 to inadequate logistics. Inadequate teaching and learning 2 materials Inadequate teachers in pre and basic 2 schools Provision of Teachers’ Quarters Lack of accommodation for teachers 2 and educational staff. Poor reception of teachers by the 2 communities Lack of a Permanent Office 0 Accommodation for the District Education Directorate. Construction of Health Facilities Lack of District Hospital 2 Lack of District Health Directorate 2 office Improved health service delivery Low coverage of Expanded 2 Programme on Immunization Poor Health service delivery 2 High incidence of malaria in the 2 District High prevalence of HIV and AIDS 2 Strengthened Agricultural 0 Cooperatives Apprenticeship training for youth 0 in computing, carpentry, masonry, fitting, hairdressing, tie and dye making Promotion of the kete Industry Extension of School Feeding High school dropout rate in the 2 Programme District Lack of a means of transport for 0 Ziope SHS Average Score 2.8

Table 2.1.7 Harmonized Community Needs and Aspiration with Development Gap from Performance Review and Profiling- Transparent and Accountable Governance Community Needs/Aspirations Identified key Development Score Gaps/Problem/Issues (from Performance and Profile) Accessories to Area Councils Inadequate logistical support for the 2 Assembly, especially the Decentralised Departments and Area Councils. Provision of Office Inadequate staff accommodation 2 Accommodation High Citizen participation in Low communal spirit 2 decision making at the Assembly Improved interaction between Low capacity of Assembly members 2 Communities and Assembly in the discharge of their functions. Members Enhanced women participation in Low women participation in decision 2 Local Governance making. Improved Participation of PWDs Lack of involvement of physically 2 in Decision making challenged in decision making Lack of employment opportunities 1 for trained disabled persons. Negative attitudinal, socio-cultural 0 and religious practices towards the Persons with Disability (PWDs). Remunerate Area Council Staff Inadequate motivation of the staff of 2 and councilors the Area Councils, Unit Committees and Assembly members Low revenue generation 0 Low operational capacity and non co- 0 ordination of CSO activities. High incidence of Child Labour at 1 Cattle ranches/ Kente Weaving Communities. Average Score 2.29

2.2 Linking Harmonized Key Development Problems/Issues under 2010-2013 to the National Medium-Term Development Policy Framework, 2014 – 2017 This part of the plan presents the link between the Harmonized Key Development Problems/Issues under the 2010-2013 DMTDP with the relevant Thematic Areas of Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda.

Table 2.2.1 Adopted Issues by Thematic Area of the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda NMTDPF THEMATIC 2014- ADOPTED ISSUES 2017 AREA Ensuring and Sustaining -Weak budget formulation and implementation Macroeconomic Stability - Leakages in revenue collection Enhancing Competitiveness of -Inadequate managerial and technical skills Ghana’s Private Sector -Poor entrepreneurial culture -Inadequate Infrastructure such as roads etc -Lack of adequate market information -Inadequate job creation -Limited access to finance -Informal nature of businesses -Limited technical and entrepreneurial skills -Low productivity -Weak linkages between agriculture and industry -Inadequate promotion of domestic tourism Accelerated Agricultural -Low level of agricultural mechanization Modernisation and Sustainable -High cost of agricultural machinery and equipment Natural Resource Management -High incidence of drudgery in agriculture -Low adoption of technology -Limited access to extension services, especially by women agricultural operators -Poor rural road infrastructure -Weak systems for disaster prevention, preparedness and response (gaps in legal and policy frameworks) -Inadequate agribusiness enterprises along the value chain -Seasonal variability in food supply and prices High dependence on seasonal and erratic rainfall -Inadequate incentives and subsides -Limited integration of sustainable land and water management schemes into agriculture extension -Low application of technology especially among small holder farmers leading to comparatively lower yields -Low level of husbandry practices, low productivity and poor handling of livestock/ poultry products -Limited awareness of climate change and its impacts -Unsustainable exploitation of natural resources -Frequent droughts, floods, forest and other fire outbreaks Oil and Gas Development -Inadequate local technical and financial capacity for the development of the oil and Gas industry 90

-Challenges of ensuring environmental sustainability in the oil and gas industry Infrastructure and Human -Poor quality and inadequate road transport networks Settlements -Inadequate facilities for PWDs in the transport system -High cost of providing ICT services -Poor quality of ICT services -Inadequate community/social centres especially in the urban areas -Over dependence on wood fuel -Limited awareness of energy conservation measures -Overburdening of women and children with the collection and use of fuel wood and charcoal -High exposure of women to indoor pollution -Inadequate human and institutional capacities for land use planning -Ineffective enforcement of planning regulations -High rate of rural-urban migration -Poor and inadequate rural infrastructure and services -Limited local economic development (micro and small scale enterprises development) -Poor quality of rural housing -Inadequate access to quality and affordable water -Lack of maintenance of water systems -Inadequate funding -Inadequate access to environmental sanitation facilities -Poor disposal of waste -Poor hygiene practices and inadequate hygiene education Human Development, Education: Productivity and Employment -Inadequate and inequitable access particularly after the basic level and for persons with special needs -Weak management and supervision -Poor quality of teaching and learning especially at the basic level -Inadequate knowledge and life skills for managing personal hygiene, fire safety, environment, sanitation and climate change -High levels of unemployment and under-employment especially among the youth and groups with special needs -Low levels of Technical/vocational skills -Lack of entrepreneurial skills for self-employment -Inadequate apprenticeship opportunities

HEALTH -Huge gaps in geographical and financial access to quality health care (e.g. urban and rural as well as rich and poor) -Public and users' concerns about the quality of healthcare 91

-High morbidity and mortality for malaria, HIV & AIDS and TB -Lack of comprehensive knowledge of HIV and AIDS/STIs, especially among the vulnerable groups -High level of youth unemployment including graduates -Inadequate training and skills development -Inadequate consideration of the needs of youth with disability Transparent and Accountable -Limited coverage of social protection interventions Governance -Inadequate funding for social protection interventions -High incidence of poverty among older people -High incidence of violation of children’s rights -Weak enforcement of laws on the rights of children -Significant number of children of school-going age not in school -Lack of appreciation of issues affecting Persons With Disability (PWDs) -Lack of effective implementation of legislation and policies especially Act 715 and UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD) -Inadequate coordination and integration of population concerns into the development planning process -Lack of appropriate coordination mechanism on poverty reduction -High level of poverty among women due to lower literacy rates -Heavier time burdens and limited access to productive resources -Insufficient public ownership and participation in governance processes by the citizenry -Limited awareness, advocacy and enforcement of rights and responsibilities -Non-functioning sub-district structures -Inadequate infrastructure at the MMDA level especially the newly created districts -Weak financial base and management capacity of the District Assemblies -Poor linkage between planning and budgeting at national, regional and district levels

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in public life and governance -Insufficient candidature of females in elections -Barriers in accessing justice (physical, economic, social) -Inadequate facilities for legal education -Ineffective enforcement of laws -Weak linkage between planning, budgeting and M&E -Limited resources and budgetary allocations for M&E -Low compliance with M&E guidelines

Table 2.2.2 Adopted Issues of NMTDPF 2014-2017 linked to Harmonized Issues of GSGDA 2010-2013 Thematic Area Adopted Issues of NMTDPF 2014-2017 Harmonized Issues of 2014-2017 DMTDP 2010-2013 Ensuring and -Weak budget formulation and - Weak capacity to Manage Sustaining implementation District Finances Macroeconomic Stability - Leakages in revenue collection -Weak capacity to generate adequate incomes for Development Enhancing -Inadequate managerial and technical skills -High cost of production due Competitiveness -Poor entrepreneurial culture to high cost of inputs of Ghana’s -Inadequate Infrastructure such as roads etc -Inadequate market Private Sector -Lack of adequate market information infrastructure -Inadequate job creation -Limitation in accessing the -Limited access to finance benefit from the Youth in -Informal nature of businesses Agriculture Programme -Low productivity -Use of rudimentary tools for -Weak linkages between agriculture and farming makes average farm industry sizes small -Over dependence on rain- fed agriculture -Poor storage and processing -Inadequate promotion of domestic tourism facilities leading to post harvest losses. - Poor marketing of kente products Accelerated -Low level of agricultural mechanization -Low agricultural output due Agricultural -High cost of agricultural machinery and to subsistence farming Modernisation equipment practices. and Sustainable -Low adoption of technology Natural Resource -Limited access to extension services, -Inadequate Agric Extension Management especially by women agricultural operators and Veterinary Staff -Poor rural road infrastructure -Lack of transport facilities for the Agric Extension -Inadequate agribusiness enterprises along Officers the value chain 93

-Seasonal variability in food supply and -Overdependence on rain fed prices High dependence on seasonal and Agriculture erratic rainfall -Inadequate incentives and subsides -Inadequate farm inputs (e.g. -Limited integration of sustainable land and Agro chemicals, seeds, water management schemes into agriculture fertilizers) in the District extension -Low application of technology especially among small holder farmers leading to comparatively lower yields -Low level of husbandry practices, low -Destruction of crops by productivity and poor handling of livestock/ cattle belonging to the Fulani poultry products herdsmen -Limited awareness of climate change and its impacts -Unsustainable exploitation of natural -Indiscriminate cutting of resources trees for charcoal production -Frequent droughts, floods, forest and other and fuel wood. fire outbreaks -Indiscriminate bush burning Oil and Gas -Inadequate local technical and financial Weak capacity to take Development capacity for the development of the oil and advantage of emerging oil Gas industry and gas industry for -Challenges of ensuring environmental sustainable local economic sustainability in the oil and gas industry development Infrastructure -Poor quality and inadequate road transport Poor road network and Human networks Settlements -Inadequate facilities for PWDs in the Poor transportation system transport system -High cost of providing ICT services -Poor quality of ICT services -Inadequate community/social centres especially in the urban areas -Over dependence on wood fuel -Limited awareness of energy conservation measures -Inadequate energy supply -Overburdening of women and children with for rural socioeconomic the collection and use of fuel wood and development charcoal -High exposure of women to indoor pollution -Inadequate human and institutional -Weak capacity to promote capacities for land use planning orderly development of human settlements -Ineffective enforcement of planning -Unplanned settlements regulations patterns -High rate of rural-urban migration -Poor and inadequate rural infrastructure -Inadequate banking and services facilities 94

-Poor quality of telecommunication system/coverage. - -Limited local economic development Inadequate and Poor (micro and small scale enterprises condition of market development) infrastructure

-Poor quality of rural housing -Poor housing conditions in rural areas -Inadequate access to quality and affordable water -Inadequate supply of -Lack of maintenance of water systems potable water -Inadequate funding -Inadequate access to environmental -Indiscriminate defaecation sanitation facilities in open places - -Poor disposal of waste Indiscriminate disposal of wastes -Poor hygiene practices and inadequate -Inadequate Sanitary Health hygiene education workers Human Education: -Inadequate dormitories and Development, -Inadequate and inequitable access hostels for Agotime and Productivity and particularly after the basic level and for Ziope SHS Employment persons with special needs -Weak management and supervision -Ineffective supervision of schools due to inadequate logistics. -Poor quality of teaching and learning -Poor condition of especially at the basic level educational infrastructural facilities. -Inadequate knowledge and life skills for -Inadequate teaching and managing personal hygiene, fire safety, learning materials environment, sanitation and climate change -Inadequate teachers in pre -High levels of unemployment and under- and basic schools employment especially among the youth and -Lack of accommodation for groups with special needs teachers and educational -Low levels of Technical/vocational skills staff -Lack of entrepreneurial skills for self- - Lack of a Permanent Office employment Accommodation for the -Inadequate apprenticeship opportunities District Education Directorate

-Huge gaps in geographical and financial -Lack of District Hospital access to quality health care (e.g. urban and -Lack of District Health rural as well as rich and poor) Directorate office -Public and users' concerns about the quality -Poor Health service delivery of healthcare -High morbidity and mortality for malaria, - Low coverage of Expanded HIV & AIDS and TB Programme on Immunization -Lack of comprehensive knowledge of HIV - High incidence of malaria 95

and AIDS/STIs, especially among the in the District vulnerable groups -High prevalence of HIV and -High level of youth unemployment AIDS including graduates -Inadequate training and skills development -Inadequate consideration of the needs of youth with disability Transparent and -Limited coverage of social protection -Negative attitudinal, socio- Accountable interventions cultural and religious Governance -Inadequate funding for social protection practices towards the Persons interventions with Disability (PWDs). -High incidence of poverty among older people -High incidence of violation of children’s High incidence of Child rights Labour at Cattle ranches/ -Weak enforcement of laws on the rights of Kente Weaving children Communities -Significant number of children of school- going age not in school -Lack of appreciation of issues affecting -Lack of involvement of Persons With Disability (PWDs) physically challenged in -Lack of effective implementation of decision making legislation and policies especially Act 715 -Lack of employment and UN Convention on the Rights of opportunities for trained Persons with Disability (UNCRPD) disabled persons -Inadequate coordination and integration of population concerns into the development planning process -Lack of appropriate coordination mechanism on poverty reduction -High level of poverty among women due to lower literacy rates -Heavier time burdens and limited access to productive resources -Insufficient public ownership and -Low capacity of Assembly participation in governance processes by the members in the discharge of citizenry their functions -Limited awareness, advocacy and -Low operational capacity enforcement of rights and responsibilities and non co-ordination of -Non-functioning sub-district structures CSO activities -Inadequate infrastructure at the MMDA -Inadequate logistical level especially the newly created districts support for the Assembly, -Weak financial base and management especially the Decentralised capacity of the District Assemblies Departments and Area -Poor linkage between planning and Councils budgeting at national, regional and district -Inadequate staff levels accommodation -Weak orientation of MMDAs towards job creation -Poor relationship between MMDAs and the 96

Private Sector -Low communal spirit -Inadequate basic infrastructure and social services in deprived areas -Slow progress in the elimination of gender- based inequalities -Lack of gender responsive budgeting -Inadequate representation and participation -Low women participation in of women in public life and governance decision making -Insufficient candidature of females in elections -Barriers in accessing justice (physical, economic, social) -Inadequate facilities for legal education -Ineffective enforcement of laws -Weak linkage between planning, budgeting Low revenue generation and M&E -Limited resources and budgetary allocations for M&E -Low compliance with M&E guidelines

2.3 Development Projections Population is a sine qua non to all planning exercises. This is because it is both a consequence and determinant of development. Human resources and needs vary according to the size, composition and distribution of the population. It is for these reasons that the population projections for the planned period have been made to facilitate the calculation of services and facilities needed for the period. Using a growth rate of 1.0 % (2000-2010) and the 2010 base year’s population of 28,013 the arithmetic and geometric models were applied in estimating the populations for the planned period.

2.3.1 The Exponential Method The Exponential formula is defined as:

rt P= Poe

Where P = the current (base Year) population

Pt = the future population r = the population growth rate t = the projection period in years e = 2.718282 is a constant

The model used was based on the following assumptions:

 Population growth rate will remain constant  Net migration will be zero  Fertility will remain unchanged  The age-sex structure will remain the same over the planned period 97

The outcome of the population projections for the plan period is shown below

Table 2.2.3: Estimated Population for the District Year Male Female Total 2013 28,866 2014 14062 15100 29,162 2015 14143 15150 29293 2016 14268 15402 29670 2017 14420 15556 29976

Table 2.2.4: Estimated Population by Age and Sex Cohorts 2014 2015 2016 2017 Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total 0-4 2006 2030 4036 2026 2050 4076 2046 2071 4117 2066 2092 4158 5-9 1753 1749 3502 1771 1766 3537 1789 1784 3573 1807 1802 3609 10-14 1778 1618 3396 1735 1634 3369 1752 1650 3402 1770 1667 3437 15-19 1607 1420 3027 1623 1434 3057 1639 1448 3087 1655 1462 3117 20-24 1310 1318 2628 1323 1331 2654 1336 1344 2680 1349 1357 2706 25-29 1091 1150 2241 1102 1162 2264 1102 1174 2276 1113 1186 2299 30-34 809 909 1718 817 918 1735 825 927 1752 833 936 1769 35-39 701 932 1633 708 941 1649 715 950 1665 722 960 1682 40-44 620 730 1350 626 737 1363 632 744 1376 638 751 1389 45-49 495 659 1154 500 666 1166 505 673 1178 510 680 1190 50-54 470 635 1105 475 641 1116 480 647 1127 485 653 1138 55-59 345 371 716 348 375 723 351 379 730 355 383 738 60-64 279 410 689 282 414 696 278 418 696 290 422 712 65-69 189 243 432 191 245 436 193 247 440 195 249 444 70-74 270 378 648 273 282 555 276 386 662 279 390 669 75-79 153 206 359 155 208 363 159 210 369 161 212 373 80-84 100 185 285 101 187 288 102 189 291 103 191 294 85+ 86 157 243 87 159 246 88 161 249 89 163 252 Total 14062 15100 29162 14143 15150 29293 14268 15402 29670 14420 15556 29976

2.3.2 Educational projections 2.3.2.1 Demand for Teachers The national standard for teacher- pupil ratio for primary is 1:35.

Table 2.2.5: Estimated Demand for Teachers (2014-2017) Year Primary school J.S.S. Existing Required Backlog Existing Required Backlog 2014 322 387 85 154 85 - 2015 334 365 22 165 88 - 2016 334 367 23 165 88 - 2017 334 367 23 165 88 -

2.3.3 Projections for Potable Water 2.3.3.1 Demand for Boreholes The demand for potable water provision (boreholes) was established using the Community Water and Sanitation standards of 300 people per borehole. The existing number of boreholes as at 2013 was 62; an additional 38 boreholes are needed to satisfy the existing population in 2017. By the end of 2017 the required number of boreholes to meet the demands for potable water provision shall be 38 as can be seen from the table below.

Table 2.2.6: Projected Demand for Boreholes (2014-2017) Year Population Existing Required Backlog 2014 29,162 62 97 35 2015 29,293 62 97 35 2016 29,670 62 98 36 2017 29,976 62 100 38

2.3.4 Health projections 2.3.4.1 Demand for Doctors By the planning standards of Doctor/patient ratio (1:10,000), there will be pressure on the existing Doctor in the District. In 2017 for instance 2 doctors will be needed to meet the health needs of the people. There is therefore the need for concerted efforts to attract and retain more doctors into the District. The table below shows the projected demand for doctors in the planned period.

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Table 2.2.7 Projected Demand for Doctors (2014-2017) Year Population Existing Required Backlog 2014 29,162 0 2 2 2015 29,293 0 2 2 2016 29,670 0 2 2 2017 29,976 0 2 2

2.3.4.2 Demand for Nurses With a planning standard of one nurse for 5000 people the projected demand for nurses for the planned period is as contained in the table below

Table 2.2.8 Projected Demand for Nurses (SRN) Year Population Existing Required Backlog 2014 29,162 2 6 4 2015 29,293 2 6 4 2016 29,670 2 6 4 2017 29,976 2 6 4

2.3.4.3 Demand for Health Facilities Using a population threshold of 20,000 people for a Health Centre; 10,000 people for a CHPS compound, the table below shows the projected demand for various health facilities in the District over the medium term.

Table 2.2.9 Projected Demand for Health Facilities District Hospital Health Centre CHPS Compound Year Existing Required Backlog Existing Required Backlog Existing Required Backlog 2014 0 1 1 3 - - 3 6 3 2015 0 1 1 3 - - 3 6 3 2016 0 1 1 3 - - 3 6 3 2017 0 1 1 3 - - 3 6 3

2.3.5.1 Prioritization of Adopted Issues The following issues were prioritized by consensus at stakeholders’ workshop under the Thematic Areas of the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda 2014-2017. The prioritized issues were arrived at using the following criterion:

 The impact of an issue on the larger proportion of the District population  The issue’s linkage effect on meeting basic human needs or rights

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 The multiplier effects of an issue on the local economy  The issue’s impact on even development In addition to above, special consideration were also given to issues with cross cutting effects including HIV/AIDS, gender equality as well as climate change, green economy and sustainable development concerns.

2.3.5.2 LIST OF PRIORITIZED ISSUES UNDER THE THEMATIC AREAS OF THE GSGDA 2014-2017 Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability  Enhancing IGF Collection  Blocking loopholes and leakages in revenue collection  Build capacity for effective revenue management and accountability Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector

 Upgrading the skills of artisans  Provide support to traders  Promotion of tourism Accelerated Agricultural Modernization and Sustainable Natural Resource Management

 Provision of irrigation facility  Provision of storage facilities  Provision of micro credit to farmers  Establishment of farm input stores  Rehabilitation and improving of Feeder Roads  Improved access to extension services  Construction of cold stores  Construction of market stalls  Provision of agro-processing equipment  Provision of farm machinery  Creating a database for agricultural development

Oil and Gas Development

 Support the development of Human Capital for the Oil and Gas Sector  Support the establishment of Oil and Gas Filling Stations

Infrastructure and Human Settlements

 Provision of child development centres  Provision of safety nets for the vulnerable and the excluded  Safe Water and Environmental Sanitation  Provision of household and Institutional Toilet Facilities  Provision of potable water

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 Provision of garbage collection containers  Provision of efficient, disability friendly Transport System  Extension of Rural Electrification  Improvement of housing conditions  Provision of market infrastructure  Preparation of Development Schemes and Layouts for Communities  Enforcement of Building regulations  Planting of trees at all public places  Protection of water bodies

Human Development, Productivity and Employment

 Rehabilitation of school infrastructure  Creating enabling environment that will attract and retain professionals  Construction of school blocks with toilets, urinals, and furniture  Construction of community centres,  Training and retention of teachers  Provision of teacher’s accommodation  Construction of CHPS compounds  Rehabilitation of existing health facilities  Increased supply of logistics at health facilities  Creating enabling environment for effective HIV/AIDS prevention as well as mitigating the effects on the PLWHAs and their relations

Transparent and Accountable Governance

 Construction of permanent office blocks for GES, NADMO, GHS, Fire Services, DADU  Implementation of gender sensitive Budget  Creating enabling environment for good local governance  Provision of adequate logistics for Sub District Structures  Construction of a District Police Head Quarters and Police Posts  Empowerment of women to take-up leadership positions  Encourage women participation in local governance  Construction of District Magistrate Court  Strengthening capacities of personnel of DA and Departments

2.3.6 ANALYSIS OF POTENTIALS, OPPORTUNITIES, CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES POCC analysis shows certain abilities and threats that can promote or hinder the achievement of the goal, objectives and strategies set out by the District. The POCC analysis is carried out to ascertain the feasibility of implementing the prioritized development issues identified from the harmonized needs and aspiration of the district. This analysis was done by the planning team in

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2.3.1 Ensuring &Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability Issues to be Potentials opportunities Constraints Challenges addressed Poor Revenue Revenue items in Existence of Inadequate Inadequate Generation the district e.g. Government revenue resources for markets, laws on financial collectors revenue transport, management e.g. collection property/industry FAR Poor motivation rate, commercial of revenue In adequate centre etc. Existence of collectors trained revenue revenue collectors Existence of DA mobilization fee-fixing consultants resolution

Existence of Area Councils to collect ceded revenue

Poor expenditure Existence of Existence of govt Inadequate Low enforcement management qualified laws on public logistics of rules on administration expenditure financial mgt staffs management

Existence of CSOs to ensure transparency and accountability

Right to information bill

Existence of Africa Peer Review Mechanism Remarks Despite the inadequate trained revenue collectors to handle the administration of revenue in the district, the situation can be improved if the capacity of the collectors is enhanced through training. The huge potential of available revenue items can be harnessed to help mobilize more revenue for the district assembly

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2.3.2 Enhancing Competitiveness in Ghana’s Private Sector Issues to be Potentials Opportunities Constraints Challenges addressed Dwindling Existence of Govt. policy on Limited Limited interest in employment apprenticeship job creation for employment technical/vocational opportunities, centres e.g. the youth opportunities education especially for tailoring, the youth. hairdressing, National youth Lackadaisical inadequate funding bakery, fitting employment attitude to Lack of etc programme apprenticeship delay in payment of opportunities to among the youth allowance for gain and retain NYEP employees skills, through Inadequate innovative vocational and Inadequate means as well as technical schools employment apprenticeship avenues in Ghana. and Limited private employment. firms in the district

Get rich quick syndrome among the youth Limited Existence of Govt’s policy on Inadequate Competition with exploitation of carving industry tourism accommodation other tourist sites potentials in the for tourist tourism sector Kente weaving Ghana tourist Inadequate industry board Inadequate knowledge on Over- security tourist products in dependence on Existence of Ministry of measures the district traditional shrine tourism sources of Poor conditions revenue of roads

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Lack of professionalism to enhance the productivity of the industry Increasing Effectiveness of Presence of Overdependence Increasing interest culture traditional national on fuel wood in tourism as a adulteration and leaders environmental and charcoal as business environmental laws major sources of

105 degradation Presence of energy for sacred grooves Ministry of cooking lands and Existence of forestry Increase in dept of forestry population and DEHO Environmental protection agency at Ho Remarks Public-private partnership has been widely accepted as the best way to achieve national and local development. It is expected that the district will make maximum use of the numerous potentials and opportunities available to build this relationship for sustainable growth and development.

2.3.3. Accelerated Agricultural Modernization and Sustainable Natural Resource Management Issues to be Potentials Opportunities Constraints Challenges addressed Low agricultural Existence Favourable Inadequate dams Limited financial/ productivity and of streams government policy Low rainfall credit institution output due to and rivers on agriculture and pattern in the over-dependence for women district Harsh collateral on rainfall irrigation employment requirement Inadequate funds Poor rainfall pattern Low access of to construct women to land dams/dug-outs Poor rainfall pattern including irrigated land Inadequate credit Existence Favourable Inadequate credit Hash collateral support facilities of financial government policy institutions requirements for agricultural institutions production Favourable Low loan Untimely release Existence interest rate recovery rate funds of FBOs Misappropriation of loan facilities Low level of Existence Govt. policy to Absence of Inadequate mechanization of district establish tractor agriculture budgetary support due to limited directorate pool technology from government availability and of school access to agriculture Availability of hire appropriate purchase facility at Inadequate agric agricultural MOFA officers machinery, equipment and Non-availability

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Inadequate post- production infrastructure Poor nature of Existence Access to road Inadequate IT Delay in release of roads to of road fund centres in the funds for road production centres network district construction and Donors provision of Inadequate market Existence (DANIDA, MCA) Inadequate local information of dept of resources feeder Existence of Limited marketing roads telecommunication extension for networks producers, traders Existence and exporters of internet services High incidence of Large Favorable Small scale Inadequate funds for poverty among trucks of Government. farming poverty reduction farmers, farm land Policy on Difficulty in projects/programmes especially food Availability agriculture accessing credit Delay in release of crop farmers of market for farming funds Crop Labour intensive boarder farming trade Rain-fed agriculture Poor management Availability Existence of Poor grazing Inadequate Agric practices (feeding of animal research land and Extension Staff and health care) agriculture institutes supplementary and low extension feeding Inadequate logistics productivity services Availability of for monitoring livestock Culture of free Inadequate Organized development range availability of livestock projects management

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Inability of local Large track livestock farmers of grazing to match the stiff land competition from cheap import

Low awareness of food safety lending to practices such as use of inappropriate handling, transportation of livestock/livestock products

Poor quality of data and monitoring system Remarks Agriculture is the major economic activity in the district. To accelerate agriculture modernization and agro-based industrial development, the district needs to make maximum use of the prevailing government policy on agriculture modernization. In addition, the existence of rivers can be used for effective irrigation farming.

2.3.4 Development of Oil and Gas Issues to be Potentials opportunities Constraints Challenges addressed High Existence of National support Lack of land use Inadequate environmental Environmental with regards to plan allocation funding for the concerns of the Protection provisions made for industries EPA to carry out oil and gas Agency (EPA) in the GSGDA involved in oil its core function. industry with highly policy and gas hence skilled personnel framework for haphazard sitting in environmental oil and gas of these management. industries with Existence of its associated Existence of refinery to environmental District Strategic supply material effects and Environmental to local filling possible disasters Assessment stations in case of (SEA) Plan with emergencies.

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clear budget lines for oil related Low environmental prioritization to management implement the SEA plan by the District.

High inflammability of oil and gas industry products. Limited skills in Large percentage Existence of High poverty Expensive and oil and gas of youth in skills educational level of citizens inadequate oil industry and acquiring/training provisions and hindering their and gas training related jobs age group courses relating ability to afford institutions to oil and gas oil and gas skill training Limited Availability of oil Existence of Low capacity for Highly skilled employment and gas government’s oil and gas nature of oil and opportunities for downstream agenda to build downstream gas industry the employable industries such as citizens’ capacity industries to hinders youth filling stations in oil and gas provide prospective employment youths from opportunities getting employed. Remarks The focus of government in promoting the oil and gas industries coupled with large percentage of youths in the working class will help surmount the expensiveness of oil and gas training and capacity building to create employment opportunities for the youth and the population at large in the district.

2.3.5 Infrastructure and Human Development Issues to be Potentials Opportunities constraints Challenges addressed Poor nature of Availability of Access to Low internally Delay in release roads skilled labour LSDGP generated fund of govt. and donor funds Availability of Delay in the road network implementation Existence of of donor projects departments of feeder roads

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(DFR) Poor Existence of Existence of Absence of Inadequate implementation Town & country govt. policy on layout for resources for the and weak planning dept. MTDPF communities security agencies enforcement of to enforce planning and Existence of regulations building security agencies regulations Existence of DA sub-committee on works Haphazard, Existence of Existence of Absence of Poor uncontrolled and Town & country govt. policy on layout for enforcement of uncoordinated planning dept. MTDPF communities planning urban regulations of developments Ghana. Inadequate Existence of Central Gov’t Inadequate Delay and access to DWST support for sanitation frequent release sanitation sanitation equipment of funds facilities and Existence of poor sanitation DEHO Existence of Poor culture on service delivery zoomlion environmental Availability of company cleanliness sanitation equipments Uneven and un Existence of Source of Absence of Inadequate planned spatial department of funding from the layouts for the logistics for town development town and country district Common communities planning Planning. Fund department for Existence of DA adequate Sub-committee supervision. on works Poor Large scale of Existence of Indiscriminate Plastic waste environmental land for final zoomlion disposal of waste menace sanitation disposal site services Inadequate waste Adequate disposal unskilled labour equipment

Absence of final disposal site Remarks: the main issue under the thematic area is inadequate production infrastructure. This aspect of improving production infrastructure especially road and sanitation infrastructure, its constraints and challenges of making available adequate resources for the provision of the infrastructure in the district. Fortunately, the LSGDP is accessible at the district level and the existence of relevant institutions such as department of feeder roads, town planning and

110 environmental health in the district can facilitate improvement of production infrastructure in the district. The DA needs to resource Town planning and the security agencies to strictly enforce the building regulations in the district.

2.3.6 Human Development, Productivity and Employment Issues to be Potentials Opportunities Constraints Challenges addressed Inadequate Existence of Assistance of Inadequate Inadequate access to District Education national service residential incentive package quality pre- Directorate scheme in accommodation for teachers school education for teachers education Availability of public and private Existence of Poor access to schools teacher training rural schools colleges in the Availability of region and the Lack of utility teaching and country services in learning materials underserved Govt policy on areas District quality sponsorship for education Inadequate teacher trainees logistics to enhance quality supervision Low school High number of Free basic Inadequate KG Untimely release of enrolment basic schools school classrooms funds education Poor condition Inadequate good Inadequate funds of basic Capitation classroom educational grant infrastructure infrastructure School feeding programme

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Existence of donor funds Inadequate Availability of Favourable Absence of Inadequate access to SHS govt. policy boarding incentives for quality second facilities teachers cycle education Availability of

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graduate teachers Inadequate Inadequate classrooms budgetary allocation Lack of facilities e.g. Untimely release of vehicles, science funds lab, computer lab etc Weak availability of Favourable Low interest in Education by infrastructure private vocational govt policy on technical and students for TVET and technical science and vocational institutes technology education Inadequate education technical and vocational institutes in the district

Inadequate technical and vocational equipment for teaching and learning

Inadequate to Existence of one Favourable Inadequate High cost of science and science resource govt policy on science resource pursuing science technical centre science and centres courses education technology Organization of education Inadequate Inadequate science annual STME motivation for and technology Existence of science teachers teachers universities in and students Ghana Inadequate funds for organizing STME Feminization Existence of non- Favorable Outmoded Inadequate funds of poverty due formal education government custom against for poverty to lower Policy women reduction literacy rates, Lack of access projects/programme heavier time to irrigated farm Delay in release of burdens, and lands. funds lower access to productive resources Large gaps in Existence of NHIS Donor support Inadequate Large migrant

112 access to health for health health facilities population which care between Availability of service e.g. EU, and exert pressure on urban and rural referral septum CBRDP infrastructure limited health as well as rich infrastructure and poor Availability of Inadequate NGOs and health staff Socio-economic CBOs in health practices sector Lack of accommodation Inadequate source for community of funds for health health workers projects

Community apathy High infant and Availability of Free NHIS for Inadequate Delay in the maternal health facilities pregnant budgetary payment of health mortality women allocation insurance claims by Existence of DHD central NHIS National and Inadequate international health Community apathy policies and infrastructure support for infant and Poor access to maternal health facilities mortality High incidence Existence of National and Inadequate Favourable of malaria District Health international education environment for Directorate policies on breeding mosquito malaria High cost of Statutory 1% from treated mosquito DACF to support nets Malaria Prevention Poor sanitation Existence of EHOs culture

Inadequate human resource High Existence of DHD National and Inadequate Nearness to the prevalence of international education Ghana-Togo HIV/AIDS Existence of policies on boarder NGOs/CBOs/FBOs HIV/AIDS High on HIV/AIDS unemployment High peer influence level Statutory allocation of 0.5% from DACF

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Inadequate Existence of Existence of Inadequate Inadequate funds population data Statistical Service national logistics for planning Department population council Existence of Birth and Death Registration

Existence of Immigration Service Department Remarks Human Resource development has taken central stage in the development of this nation. As such the government of Ghana is making strenuous efforts to ensure that the youth have access to quality education. The District must therefore take advantage of this opportunity to develop its human resource base for local economic development. Even though there are inadequate educational and health infrastructure in the District, there is enough potentials as well as opportunities that can be harnessed for human development. It is however very important that adequate financial allocations are made towards the realization if these aims most especially in the areas of education and health.

2.3.7 Transparent and Accountable Governance ISSUES TO BE POTENTIALS OPPORTUNITIES CONSTRAINTS CHALLENGES ADDRESSED Lack of public Existence of Favourable Lukewarm Delay in release ownership and DPCU government attitude of of planning harmonization Policies citizens towards guidelines of the Existence of sub- participatory development district structures planning Inadequate funds Existence of Political NCCE intolerance Untimely release of funds Weak sub- by central govt. district structures Low interaction Existence of Mass media Weak sub- Inadequate awareness and public institutions district budgetary advocacy on e.g. NCCE NEPAD structures support and civic rights and untimely release responsibilities Established UTAs Favourable govt. Inadequate of funds by the policy logistics support central govt

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Existence of Dist. for NCCE Information Existence of Service Ghana Integrity Inadequate Initiative advocacy personnel group Existence of Existence of Favourable Inadequate High cost of communication DPCU government Policy remuneration for involving gap between Assembly community in Assembly Existence of Existence of members participatory members and NCCE NGOs in local decision making citizens governance Inadequate Existence of logistics support Inadequate Assembly for NCCE to funds Existence of sub- disseminate districts structures information Delay in release of funds by Non- central involvement of government citizens in planning

Political intolerance

High illiteracy among populace Weak internal Presence of very Existence of Min. Lack of relevant Low revenue large revenue base Of Local data on revenue remuneration of mobilization Government items staff Availability of policy on revenue Over revenue staff generation by Inability to Generally low dependence on MMDAs implement income level of DACF and Fee-fixing RIAP citizens in the other external resolution and The monitoring District grants Annual Budget and evaluation Inadequate function of RCC quality revenue Reluctance of F&A sub- staff the people to committees pay tax Inadequate logistics for revenue collectors Inadequate Existence of Favourable govt. Discrimination Male women NGOs and CSOs Policy on women against women dominance representation such as women’s empowerment in decision and right advocacy in making High illiteracy

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Unwillingness Outmoded of women to customs that take leadership neglect women positions

Weak sub- district structures Inadequate Existence of Favourable govt Indiscipline Political support for Social Welfare policy among the youth interference in victims of Dept, Legal the work of the violence Literacy Existence of Inadequate security Volunteers and Ghana Integrity logistics support agencies Para Legals Initiative for the security agencies Untimely Existence of Local Existence of release of funds NGO National Laws No law court Perceived Existence of police corruption service among security agencies

Low remuneration for law enforcement agencies High level of Existence of Government Unemployment Perceived violent crimes security agencies Policy on fighting corruption including such as police crime especially Low among security crimes armed immigration, court armed robbery remuneration of agencies robbery security staff High Indiscipline and immigration in intolerance to the District among people Trade liberalization Risks associated Existence of Existence of Absence of Bush fires with fire, floods NADMO National Office of layouts for every and other NADMO community Inadequate natural disasters Existence of Fire funding for the

116 to life and Service NADMO Regional Haphazard departments property Office development in Existence of fire urban areas Inadequate volunteers and National Security logistics and Disaster Volunteer Council staff for Groups NADMO and Fire Service Existence of District Disaster management committee Inadequate Existence of Availability of Low internally Influence of access to and extensive and road telecommunication Generated Funds Political leaders high cost of network service providers (IGF) social services Poverty among Availability of Availability of people extensive DACF telecommunication facilities

Existence of Health, education and water electricity facilities Poor Existence of Presence of NGOs Lack of data Non adherence cooperation department of (for children, base for the of NGOs to among social welfare women, disabled, vulnerable and collaborate with stakeholders in PLWHAS, etc) excluded the district promoting the Existence of DA assembly welfare of the sub-committee on vulnerable and Social Services excluded Frequency Well established Favourable Poor parental Poverty level of abuse of traditional set-ups government policy care parents children an on child abuse harmful Existence of Single parenting traditional Departments of practices Social Welfare Child Labour

Outmoded cultural practices Limited Existence of Existence of Mass Inadequate staff Inadequate and capacity for NCCE Media untimely release effective Inadequate of funds by

117 education and Existence of logistics support central enforcement of Information for NCCE and government rights and Service Information entitlement Department Service Dept Lack of Existence of Existence of mass High Cost of Inadequate fund adequate and internet services media connecting reliable data- internet service Untimely based to inform Availability of to the office of release if funds planning and Computer in the the DA budgeting District Assembly Poor Poor record coordination of Existence of keeping habit activities at the Statistical Service District Level Department Inadequate information Existence of storage facilities DPCU and Finance Office Absence of well equipped data base office Remarks Transparent and accountable government is a major concern in every development organization. Even though this seems to be very difficult to achieve, the District is endowed with enough potential to ensure transparent and accountable government. Despite the few issues of perceived corruption among public servants and security operatives, the District can make enough progress when adequate resources are put in this course.

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CHAPTER THREE 3. 0 DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES

3.1 Development Focus Development focus is the key issue that needs to be pursued in order to eliminate development problems and bring about improved living conditions of the people in the district. Based on the participatory process and considering the major development challenges of the District, the development focus/theme is “to improve sustainable socio- economic and infrastructural development in the district”.

3.2 District Development Goal With the aim of achieving the development focus set above, the District has formulated below as its Development Goal: To achieve an improvement in socio-economic development through the pursuance of massive infrastructure development and the development of human capital whilst enhancing good governance.

Table 3.1 Adopted Thematic Goals of Ghana Shared Growth Relevant to the District Thematic Area Adopted Thematic Goals of the District Ensuring and Sustaining 1. Improve fiscal revenue mobilization and management Macroeconomic Stability 2. Improve public expenditure management Enhancing Competitiveness 1. Improve efficiency and competitiveness of MSMEs of Ghana’s Private Sector 2. Accelerate technology-based industrialization with strong linkages to agriculture and other natural resource endowments 3. Promote sustainable tourism to preserve historical, cultural and natural heritage Accelerated Agricultural 1. Promote Agriculture Mechanisation Modernisation and 2. Promote seed and planting material development Sustainable Natural Resource 3. Increase access to extension services and re-orientation of Management agriculture education 4. Improve post-production management 5. Promote irrigation development 6. Promote sustainable environment, land and water management 7. Promote livestock and poultry development for food security and income generation 8. Reverse forest and land degradation 9. Promote efficient land use and management systems 10. Promote efficient land use and management systems Oil and Gas Development 1. Ensure local content and local participation across the oil and gas value chain

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2. Ensure that practices in the oil and gas industry are consistent with Ghanaian and international standards of environmental sustainability Infrastructure and Human 1. Create and sustain an efficient and effective transport Settlements system that meets user needs 2. Increase the use of ICT in all sectors of the economy 3. Develop social, community and recreational facilities 4. Promote a sustainable, spatially integrated and orderly development of human settlements 5. Streamline spatial and land use planning system 6. Strengthen the human and institutional capacities for effective land use planning and management 7. Create an enabling environment to accelerate rural growth and development 8. Improve and accelerate housing delivery in the rural areas 9. Promote proactive planning for disaster prevention and mitigation 10. Accelerate the provision of adequate, safe and affordable water 11. Accelerate the provision of improved environmental sanitation facilities Human Development, 1. Increase inclusive and equitable access to, and participation Productivity and in education at all levels Employment 2. Promote the teaching and learning of science, mathematics and technology at all levels 3. Improve management of education service delivery 4. Improve quality of teaching and learning 5. Create opportunities for accelerated job creation across all sectors 6. Reduce under-nutrition and malnutrition related disorders and deaths among infants and young children and women in their reproductive ages 7. Bridge the equity gaps in access to health care 8. Improve governance, management and efficiency in health service management and delivery 9. Improve access to quality institutional service delivery, and quality mental health services 10. Enhance national capacity for the attainment of lagging health MDGs, as well as non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) 11. Ensure the reduction of new HIV and AIDS/STIs infections, especially among the vulnerable groups 12. Ensure integration of youth concerns into national development planning processes and programmes 13. Ensure adequate capacity and skills development of the youth with disability

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14. Promote effective child development in all communities, especially deprived areas 15. Protect children against violence, abuse and exploitation 16. Ensure effective appreciation of and inclusion of disability issues 17. Integrate population variables into all aspects of development planning at all levels 18. Develop targeted economic and social interventions for vulnerable and marginalized groups 19. Reduce poverty among food crop farmers and fisher folks Transparent and Accountable 1. Expand and sustain opportunities for effective citizen’s Governance engagement 2. Enhance platforms for engagement with civil society and private sector and improve responsiveness by governance institutions 3. Strengthen and promote the culture of rights and responsibilities 4. Ensure effective implementation of the decentralisation policy and programmes 5. Ensure effective and efficient resource mobilisation, internal revenue generation and resource management 6. Integrate and institutionalize district level planning and budgeting through the participatory process at all levels 7. Mainstream Local Economic Development (LED) for growth and local employment creation 8. Strengthen policy formulation, development planning, and M&E processes for equitable and balanced spatial and socio-economic development 9. Ensure equity and social cohesion at all levels of society 10. Improve transparency and access to public information 11. Promote gender equity in political, social and economic development systems and outcomes 12. Safeguard the security, safety and protection of the rights of the vulnerable in society, especially women and the girl child 13. Promote women’s access to economic opportunity and resources, including property 14. Promote transparency and accountability 15. Improve access to affordable and timely justice 16. Enhance Peace and Security 17. Harness culture for national development 18. Enhance efficiency and effectiveness of the national M&E system at all levels

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3.3 ADOPTION OF DISTRICT OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES This part of the plan presents the Harmonized issues, corresponding adopted policy objectives as well as the adopted strategies required to address the development issues over the plan period.

Table 3.2.1 Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability Focus Area Issue Policy Objective Strategies Fiscal Policy Poor Revenue Improve fiscal Eliminate revenue collection leakages Management Generation resource Strengthen revenue institutions and administration mobilization Poor Expenditure Improve expenditure Review the administrative framework for earmarked Management management funds to ensure efficiency in the management of public funds Weak budget Improve the legislative and institutional framework for formulation and budget formulation and implementation Implementation

Table 3.2.2 Enhancing Competitiveness in Ghana’s Private Sector Focus Area Issue Policy Objective Strategies Growth and Inadequate managerial Improve efficiency Facilitate the provision of training and Development of and technical skills and competitiveness of business development services MSMEs Limited access to MSMEs Support the promotion of cost effective finance technology to remove value chain Informal nature of constraints businesses Provide opportunities for MSMEs to Limited technical and participate in all Public-Private entrepreneurial skills Partnerships (PPPs) and local content arrangements Mobilize resources from existing financial and technical sources to support MSMEs

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Industrial Inadequate and obsolete Accelerate 1. Promote technology transfer and research Development technologies technology-based and development to drive industrial Low productivity industrialization with transformation Weak linkages between strong linkages to 2. Encourage Local Economic agriculture and industry agriculture and other Development (LED) based on the Inadequate and unreliable natural resource resource endowments of districts infrastructure endowments 3. Support the development of a strong raw material base for industrial development Developing the Inadequate promotion of Promote sustainable 1. Ensure tourism planning in District Tourism Industry domestic tourism tourism to preserve Development plans to promote tourism historical, cultural and development natural heritage 2. Develop sustainable eco-tourism, culture and historical sites 3. Eradicate emerging threats to tourism particularly sex tourism

Table 3.2.3 Accelerated Agricultural Modernization and Sustainable Natural Resource Management Focus Area Issue Policy Objective Strategies Agriculture Low level of agricultural Promote Agriculture 1. Develop human capacity in agriculture Productivity mechanization Mechanisation machinery management, operation and maintenance within the public and private sectors 2. Mainstream gender issues into agriculture mechanization

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Limited access to extension Increase access to 1. Increase access and improve allocation of services, especially by extension services resources to districts for extension service women agricultural and re-orientation of delivery taking cognisance of gender operators agriculture education sensitivity 2. Address socio-cultural issues that limit women’s access to extension services and agric education Limited participation of 1. Formulate and adopt agriculture education beneficiaries in extension syllabus that promotes agriculture and programme planning and aquaculture as a business at all levels of implementation at the local education level

Production risks/ -Seasonal variability in Promote irrigation 2. Develop and promote appropriate and bottlenecks in food supply and prices development affordable irrigation schemes including Agriculture -High dependence on dams, boreholes, and other water harvesting Industry seasonal and erratic rainfall techniques for different categories of farmers and agro ecological zones 3. Rehabilitate viable existing irrigation infrastructure and promote their efficient utilisation 4. Promote private sector participation in irrigation development , management and utilisation 5. Promote land reforms targeting equal access to irrigated land by men, women and persons with disabilities Limited integration of Promote sustainable 1. Promote the development of community land sustainable land and water environment, land use plans and enforce their use, particularly management schemes into and water in urban and peri-urban agriculture agriculture extension management 2. Facilitate land tenure arrangements that yield win-win outcomes for both tenants and land holders

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Low level of husbandry Promote livestock 1. Strengthen research into large scale breeding Livestock and practices, low productivity and poultry and production of guinea fowls, cattle, sheep, Poultry and poor handling of development for and goats especially in the northern regions Development livestock/ poultry products food security and 2. Strengthen existing training facilities and income generation establish additional ones in animal health 3. Support the production of rabbits and grass- cutters 4. Support large scale cultivation of maize and soya beans for the formulation of animal feed 5. Promote public awareness on food safety and public health 6. Promote integrated crop-livestock farming Land Management Increasing population Reverse forest and 1. Develop and implement regulatory and Restoration of pressure on land land degradation framework for land use planning at all levels Degraded Forest Loss of soil fertility 2. Intensify implementation of national forest plantation development programme 3. Apply appropriate agriculture intensification techniques to reduce forest land clearance 4. Integrate watershed management to combat desertification Climate Variability Limited human resource Enhance capacity to 1. Implement alternative livelihoods strategies and Change capacity in Climate Change adapt to climate to minimize impacts of climate change on issues change impacts the poor and vulnerable especially women 2. Manage water resources as a climate change adaptation strategy to enhance productivity and livelihoods 3. Minimize climate change impacts on socio- economic development through improved agricultural practices Natural Disasters, Weak capacity to manage Enhance capacity to 1. Increase capacity of NADMO to deal with Risks and the impacts of natural mitigate and reduce the impacts of natural disasters Vulnerability disasters and climate the impact of natural 2. Intensify public awareness on natural

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change disasters, risks and disasters, risks and vulnerability vulnerability Frequent droughts, floods, 1. Enforce regulations and bye-laws restricting forest and other fire the development of structures in flood-plains, outbreaks water-ways, wetlands, etc

Table 3.2.4 Development of Oil and Gas Focus Area Issue Policy Objective Strategies Local Content Inadequate local content Ensure local content Expand and strengthen the capacity of Ghanaians for Development and local participation and local participation in all segments of the oil and gas especially in the upstream participation across industry oil and gas industry the oil and gas value chain Protection of the Challenges of ensuring Ensure that practices Develop adequate capacity of environmental Environment environmental in the oil and gas management and regulatory institutions to monitor sustainability in the oil and industry are and enforce regulations for sustainable management gas industry consistent with of the oil and gas industry Ghanaian and international standards of environmental sustainability

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Table 3.2.5 Infrastructure and Human Settlements Focus Area Issue Policy Objective Strategies Transport Inadequate facilities for Create and sustain 1. Prioritise the maintenance of existing road Infrastructure: PWDs in the transport an efficient and infrastructure to reduce vehicle operating Road, Rail, Water system effective transport costs (VOC) and future rehabilitation costs and Air Transport system that meets 2. Improve accessibility to key centres of user needs population, production and tourism 3. Sustain labour-based methods of road construction and maintenance to improve rural roads and maximise employment opportunities Information High cost of providing ICT Promote rapid 1. Create the enabling environment to promote Communication services development and the mass use of ICT Technology Poor quality of ICT deployment of the 2. Facilitate the development of Community Development services national ICT Information Centres (CICs) nationwide infrastructure 3. Facilitate the connectivity of all educational institutions to the internet -Insufficient ICT Increase the use of 1. Encourage ICT training at all levels professionals ICT in all sectors of 2. Accelerate the implementation of National e- -Limited use of ICT as a the economy Governance programme tool to enhance the 3. Support SMEs to make use of services made management and efficiency available by national internet backbone of businesses Spatial/Land Use Ineffective and inefficient Streamline spatial 1. Integrate land use planning into the Medium- Planning and spatial/land use planning and land use Term Development Plans at all levels Management and implementation planning system 2. Expand the use of Geographic Information particularly in the urban System (GIS) and GPS in spatial/land use areas planning at all levels Weak enforcement of Facilitate ongoing 1. Accelerate the enactment of coherent legal planning and building institutional, framework for land use planning regulations technological and 2. Adopt new and innovative means of legal reforms in promoting development control and support of land use enforcement of the planning and building

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planning regulations Rural Development High rate of rural-urban Create an enabling 1. Improve access to social and infrastructure and Management migration environment to services to meet basic human needs Poor and inadequate rural accelerate rural 2. Introduce sustainable programmes to attract infrastructure and services growth and investment for the growth and development development of the rural areas 3. Facilitate the proper utilization of rural and peri-urban lands by improving land use and land management schemes Housing/Shelter: Haphazard land Improve and 1. Provide technical assistance to communities development accelerate housing to support basic house-building skills Poor quality of rural delivery in the rural training programmes, technical information housing areas service and low cost house design and construction 2. Partner UN-HABITAT in the provision of housing units in rural communities 3. Encourage the MMDAs to use a portion of their Common Fund to embark on the construction of social housing units Water, -Inadequate access to Accelerate the 1. Ensure sustainable funding for rural water Environmental quality and affordable provision of delivery Sanitation and water adequate, safe and 2. Develop and manage alternative sources of Hygiene -Lack of maintenance of affordable water water, including rain water harvesting water systems 3. Adopt cost effective borehole drilling Inadequate funding technologies 4. Establish cost effective mechanism for water quality monitoring and purification schemes including the use of ultraviolet technology 5. Strengthen PPPs in water provision 6. Implement measures for effective operations, maintenance and systematic upgrading of water facilities Inadequate access to Accelerate the 1. Promote the construction and use of modern

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environmental sanitation provision of household and institutional toilet facilities facilities improved 2. Expand disability-friendly sanitation Poor disposal of waste environmental facilities sanitation facilities 3. Scale up the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) for the promotion of household sanitation 4. Review, gazette and enforce MMDAs bye- laws on sanitation 5. 8.3.8 Facilitate the acquisition of land for the development of engineered land-fill sites for the treatment and disposal of solid and liquid waste in all major cities and towns 6. Provide modern toilet and sanitary facilities in all basic schools Poor hygiene practices and Ensure the 1. Incorporate hygiene education in all water inadequate hygiene development and and sanitation delivery programmes education implementation of 2. Promote behavioural change (hand washing health and hygiene with soap, household water treatment and education as a safe storage, safe excreta disposal) to curtail component of all open defecation in communities water and sanitation programmes

Table 3.2.6 Human Development, Productivity and Employment Focus Area Issue Policy Objective Strategies Education Inadequate and inequitable access Increase inclusive 1. Remove the physical, financial and social particularly after the basic level and equitable access barriers and constraints to access to and for persons with special needs to, and participation education at all levels in education at all 2. Expand delivery modes including distance levels education, open schooling, transition education and competency-based training for

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Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) 3. Mainstream education of children with special needs 4. Roll out a programme for the attainment of universal access to second cycle education 5. Bridge the gender gap and access to education at all levels Weak management and Improve 1. Strengthen capacity for education supervision management of management education service 2. Ensure efficient development, deployment delivery and supervision of teachers Poor quality of teaching and Improve quality of 1. Ensure adequate supply of teaching and learning especially at the basic teaching and learning materials level learning 2. Review and standardize curricula especially at the basic, TVET and Non-Formal education level 3. Deploy adequately qualified teachers and improve teachers’ time-on-task 4. Expand the Untrained Teachers Diploma Education (UTDE) programme to reduce the number of untrained teachers by, at least, half in the medium-term 5. Institutionalise the In-Service Education and Training (INSET) programme at the basic level Inadequate knowledge and life Ensure continued 1. Equip community members with life skills to skills for managing personal provision of life manage personal hygiene, fire safety, hygiene, fire safety, environment, skills training and environment, sanitation and climate change sanitation and climate change management for 2. Provide all public basic schools with modern managing personal toilet facilities and improved access to hygiene, fire safety, potable water environment,

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sanitation and climate change Human Capital -High levels of unemployment and Create opportunities 1. Develop schemes to support self- Development, under-employment especially for accelerated job employment, especially among the youth Employment, among the youth and groups with creation across all 2. Promote more labour intensive and value- Productivity special needs sectors added industries and Labour -Low levels of 3. Promote demand-driven skills development Relations Technical/vocational skills programmes -Lack of entrepreneurial skills for self-employment -Inadequate apprenticeship opportunities Nutrition Persistent high under-nutrition and Reduce under- 1. Accelerate the adoption and implementation malnutrition especially among nutrition and of approved Nutrition policy as well as the children, older people, pregnant malnutrition related Food Safety policy and lactating women and women disorders and deaths 2. Enhance access to adequate nutrition and of reproductive age, particularly in among infants and related services to all especially women rural areas and northern Ghana young children and during pregnancy, underserved communities women in their and vulnerable groups reproductive ages 3. Scale up evidence-based health and food- based nutrition interventions to reduce child malnutrition focusing on the 1000 days window of opportunity Health Huge gaps in geographical and Bridge the equity 1. Strengthen the district and sub-district health financial access to quality health gaps in access to systems as the bed-rock of the national care (e.g. urban and rural as well health care primary health care strategy as rich and poor) 2. Review and accelerate the implementation of CHPS strategy especially in under-served areas 3. Scale-up community and home-based management of selected diseases using standardised protocols and guidelines 4. Expand the coverage of the NHIS to include

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the poor and marginalised 5. Integrate traditional medicine into existing health service delivery system 6. Review and implement the capital investment and sector-wide infrastructure development plans targeting under-served areas 7. 4.1.7 Use ICT to leverage access to quality healthcare in under-served areas Weak leadership, governance and Improve 1. Build leadership and management capacities management at all levels of the governance, at all levels of the healthcare delivery system health sector management and 2. Strengthen decentralized health governance efficiency in health and management structures service management 3. Accelerate the development of the Health and delivery Acts into LIs, and policies 4. Introduce performance management schemes and strengthen health facilities management 5. Strengthen inter-agency and inter-sectoral collaboration for healthcare delivery system 6. Promote Public-Private Partnerships in the health sector at all levels to increase access to quality health services 7. Expand the training and appropriate deployment of key middle level health professionals (midwives, specialised nurses, physician assistants, etc.) -Public and users' concerns about Improve access to 1. Improve access to quality clinical services, the quality of healthcare quality institutional especially the management of emergencies service delivery, and and accidents -Huge unmet need for mental quality mental health 2. Strengthen outreach by specialists to regions health services services and districts 3. Improve blood transfusion services 4. Strengthen diagnostic services at all levels

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5. Improve access to quality pharmaceutical services at all levels 6. Improve access to quality ambulance services High morbidity and mortality for Enhance national 1. Improve community and facility-based malaria, HIV & AIDS and TB capacity for the management of childhood illnesses attainment of 2. Intensify and sustain Expanded Programme lagging health on Immunisation (EPI) MDGs, as well as 3. Scale up quality adolescent sexual and non-communicable reproductive health services diseases (NCDs) and 4. Improve and scale up community-based Neglected Tropical malaria case management Diseases (NTDs 5. Scale up and sustain the continuous Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINs) distribution and use 6. Review and scale up vector control strategies for malaria control 7. Ensure commodity security for the malaria, HIV & AIDS and TB programmes HIV & AIDS -High stigmatization and Ensure the reduction 1. Expand and intensify HIV Counselling and and STIs discrimination of new HIV and Testing (HTC) programmes -Lack of comprehensive AIDS/STIs 2. Intensify education to reduce stigmatization knowledge of HIV and infections, especially 3. Intensify behavioural change strategies AIDS/STIs, especially among the among the especially for high risk groups for HIV & vulnerable groups vulnerable groups AIDS and TB -High HIV prevalence among the 4. Promote the adoption of safer sexual youth and in some communities practices in the general population; 5. Promote healthy behaviors and the adoption of safer sexual practices among PLHIV, MARPs and vulnerable groups 6. Develop and implement prevention programmes targeted at the high risk groups and communities

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7. Scale-up and improve the quality of elimination of mother-to-child transmission (eMTCT) of HIV services 8. Intensify advocacy with key stakeholders to reduce infection and impact of malaria, HIV & AIDS and TB 9. Strengthen collaboration among HIV & AIDs, TB, and sexual and reproductive health programmes The Youth Inadequate integration of youth Ensure integration of 1. Mainstream youth development issues into concerns including gender and youth concerns into National Development Policy frameworks, vulnerability dimensions, into national plans and programmes in all sectors and at national development planning and development all levels decision-making processes planning processes 2. Enhance capacity and provide resources for and programmes the implementation of the New National Youth Policy 3. Accelerate the enactment of the Youth Bill and its accompanying Legislative Instrument Inadequate consideration of the Ensure adequate 1. Improve and establish youth training needs of youth with disability capacity and skills institutions targeting the youth with special development of the needs youth with disability Child Low awareness of and regard for Promote effective 1. Promote advocacy and create public Development the rights of children child development in awareness on the rights of children and Protection High incidence of violation of all communities, 2. Formulate and implement key policies and children’s rights especially deprived appropriate programmes to enhance child Weak enforcement of laws on the areas protection and development rights of children 3. Mainstream children’s issues in development planning at all levels especially those of children with special needs 4. Enhance capacity to enforce laws protecting children 5. Improve human, material and financial

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resources for child development, survival and protection 6. Review and implement the Early Childhood Care and Development Policy -Prevalence of abuse, violence and Protect children 1. Promote alternative forms of education, exploitation of children including against violence, including transitional programmes to child trafficking and others worst abuse and mainstream out-of-school children, forms of child labour (WFCL) exploitation particularly in the most deprived areas for -Absence of a comprehensive children withdrawn from the WFCL Child Protection Policy 2. Establish clear institutional arrangements for identification, withdrawal, rehabilitation and social integration of children engaged in unconditional WFCL 3. Promote and implement programmes and policies on integrated area-based approaches towards child labour-free zones (CLFZS) 4. Provide adequate education facilities, health care, nutrition and recreation to enhance children’s physical, social, emotional and psychological development Disabilities -Lack of appreciation of issues Ensure effective 1. Mainstream issues of disability into affecting Persons With Disability appreciation of and development planning processes at all levels (PWDs) inclusion of 2. Improve funding for disability programmes -Lack of effective implementation disability issues of legislation and policies especially Act 715 and UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD Population Inadequate coordination and Integrate population 1. Strengthen capacity of relevant stakeholders Management integration of population concerns variables into all to integrate population issues into and Migration into the development planning aspects of development planning and policy making for National process development Development planning at all levels

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Poverty Lack of appropriate coordination Enhance institutional 1. Create appropriate platforms for institutional Reduction and mechanism on poverty reduction arrangements for collaboration on poverty reduction Income sectoral 2. Strengthen the capacity of oversight Inequalities collaboration on institutions on poverty reduction poverty reduction 3. Enhance implementation and reporting on international agreements pertaining to poverty reduction High incidence of poverty, Develop targeted 1. Coordinate and redistribute development especially among disadvantaged economic and social projects and programmes in a manner that groups interventions for ensures fair and balanced allocation of vulnerable and national resources across ecological zones, marginalized groups gender, income and socio-economic groups, including PWDs 2. Build the capacity of MMDAs and Regional coordinating Councils to develop harmonized regional infrastructure, promote growth and create

Table 3.2.7 Transparent and Accountable Governance Focus Area Issue Policy Objective Strategies Deepening the Practice Insufficient public Expand and sustain 1. Promote coordination, harmonization and of Democracy and ownership and opportunities for ownership of the development process Institutional Reform participation in governance effective citizen’s 2. Enhance avenues for citizens’ engagement processes by the citizenry engagement with Government at all levels to ensure responsiveness and accountability from duty bearer Local Governance and Weak leadership and Ensure effective 1. Implement the National Decentralization Decentralization managerial capacity at implementation of Action Plan MMDA level the decentralisation 2. Review and consolidate legislation on local policy and governance

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programmes 3. Formalize performance appraisal of MMDCEs Non-functioning sub- 1. Promote Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) district structures arrangements for infrastructural development Inadequate infrastructure at for the newly created districts the MMDA level especially the newly created Weak financial base and Ensure effective and 1. Provide investment and capacity building management capacity of efficient resource grants to MMDAs under District the District Assemblies mobilisation, Development Facility (DDF) and Urban internal revenue Development Grant (UDG) Improve the generation and capacity of finance and administrative staff resource of MMDAs management 2. Institute measures to block leakages and loopholes in the revenue mobilisation system of MMDAs 3. Ensure effective monitoring of revenue collection and utilisation of investment grants 4. Develop reliable business and property database system including the street naming and property addressing -Limited implementation Integrate and 1. Deepen fiscal decentralization– ensure of institutionalize finalization and implementation of the fiscal decentralisation district level intergovernmental fiscal transfers policy including composite planning and 2. Strengthen engagement between assembly budgeting budgeting through members and Citizens -Gaps in communication the participatory 3. Deepen the integration and and accountability between process at all levels institutionalization of district level planning MMDAs and citizens and budgeting through the participatory -Poor linkage between process at all levels planning and budgeting at 4. Institutionalise democratic practices in Local

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national, regional and Government structures district levels -Weak orientation of Mainstream Local 1. Facilitate the implementation Local MMDAs towards job Economic Economic Development Programmes at the creation Development (LED) district levels -Poor relationship between for growth and local 2. Promote local business enterprises based on MMDAs and the Private employment creation resource endowments for job creation Sector Gender Equity and -Slow progress in the Promote gender 1. Integrate gender into government policy and Women Empowerment elimination of gender- equity in political, planning systems and financial frameworks, based inequalities social and economic and their implementation at all levels -Low recognition of gender development 2. Target the attainment of gender balance on equity in public sector systems and all government-appointed committees, (public sphere) outcomes boards and other official bodies including the -Lack of gender responsive amendment of the Local Government Act budgeting 1993, (Act 462), to reserve 40% of -Inadequate representation government appointees of MMDAs for and participation of women women in public life and 3. Institutionalise gender responsive budgeting governance 4. Target and bridge capacity gaps for the -Insufficient candidature of active and equal participation of women and females in elections men at all levels of civil society, economy, peace building and governance Ensuring public safety -Prevalence of sex- Safeguard the 1. Adopt legal, legislative and operational and security discrimination and security, safety and measures to reinforce the principle of gender perceived harassment of protection of the equality and equity in personal status and women rights of the civil rights -Managing multiple roles, vulnerable in 2. Ensure the integration of a gender socio-cultural, time and society, especially perspective in the development of all mobility limitations of women and the girl government policies, processes and women and girls child programmes, systems and structures -Prevalence and practice of outmoded customs inimical

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to the rights of women and girls -Inadequate support for victims of violence especially women and girls

Rule of Law and access -Barriers in accessing Improve access to 1. Increase the number and improve quality of to Justice justice (physical, affordable and court infrastructure economic, social) timely justice 2. Implement gender policy to increase access Inadequate facilities for to justice by women and vulnerable groups legal education 3. Expand Court-connected ADR services -Inadequate legal within the justice delivery system representation for the vulnerable and excluded -Slow pace of judicial processes and procedures Public Safety and -Incidence of violent Improve internal 1. Enhance institutional capacity of the security Security crimes security for agencies -Weak monitoring and protection of life and 2. Improve border management technology, regulation of private property infrastructure and institutional inspection security firms 3. Review existing laws to streamline and -Tendency of communal effectively regulate and monitor private conflicts and disputes sector involvement in the provision of -High rate of road traffic internal security accidents and associated 4. Intensify road user education and ensure fatalities strict enforcement of rules and regulations -Inadequate community 5. Enhance the preparedness of disaster and citizen involvement in management agencies to effectively respond public safety to emergencies -Proliferation and 6. Intensify public education on drug and trafficking of small and psychotropic abuse illicit arms National Culture for -Lack of a comprehensive Harness culture for 1. Strengthen the existing regulatory and

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Development National Culture Policy national institutional framework on culture -Limited attention to issues development 2. Mainstream culture in the nation’s social and of culture in national economic development agenda development 3. Assist less endowed traditional authorities to -Limited documentation on document their culture and history Ghanaian culture and 4. Accelerate the establishment of fully- history functional Centres for National Culture in all -Few well-equipped regions and enhance their capacity to Centres for National promote culture Culture across the regions 5. Restructure the National Commission on and districts Culture -Low patronage of local creative industry

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CHAPTER FOUR 4..0 DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES This part of the plan presents the development Programmes emanating from the prioritized development issues and reflecting critical issues concerning poverty and the pro poor programmes.

4.1 Poverty Mapping and Programming 4.1.1 Poverty Status of the District The following are the indicators used in identifying the poverty status of the District. The indicators were identified based on the understanding of the various stakeholders and interest groups in the District.

Table 4.1 Interpretations of the Indicators of Poverty District Stakeholder Manifestation/Indicators Causes Central Administration Environmental degradation Mismanagement of resources Streetism Embezzlement and corruption Increase in social vices Low revenue Mud/Thatch house DHMT Poor sanitation Ignorance Inadequate quality food Carelessness GES High illiteracy rate Laziness Low quality of food eaten Lack of prioritization Department of Agriculture Shabby physical appearance Lack or resources Low school enrolment and Laziness high school drop out Poor Planning Poor harvest/catch Department of Social Welfare Dilapidated buildings Illiteracy Civil strife Ignorance Traditional Council Inability to influence decision Poor/bad governance Political Representatives Inadequate grassroots Apathy participation Lack of access to information Low income Low wages/salaries NGOs/CSOs Lack of policy harmonization Conflicts with Government Private Duplication of activities Sector Diversion of funds Shoddy job/projects In coming pout out with a true reflection of the issues raised by the various stakeholders, a survey was conducted in the three area councils. The table below shows the description of poverty as perceived by

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Table 4.2 Target Groups’ Understanding of Poverty Stakeholders Understanding of Poverty Causes Farmers Inability to provide three square meals Unfavourable weather Inability to pay school fees/buy Poor yield/Lack of cash crops books/uniform Low prices Frequent quarrelling/fighting Absence of Local marketing centres High cost of transportation to market centres Youth migration Public Sector Inability to provide three square meals Low wages/salaries Workers Inability to access educational Embezzlement opportunities/services Lack of technical knowhow of utilizing resources and opportunities Lack of credit facilities to do business Traders Lack of basic necessities of life e.g. Low prices of produce food, clothing and opportunities Weak local economy Low purchasing power/declining economy Small Scale Inadequate housing and poor sanitation Small market for goods and Industries Small market size services Poor health condition Dumping of shoddy goods Chiefs and Elders High number of unemployed youth Laziness among youth Lack of capital to do business Lack of capital to do business Rampant litigation over land Rampant litigation over land People without basic needs Source: Ho District Poverty Profile & Pro-Poor Programme, 2004

4.3 Tentative Poverty Pockets The tentative poverty pocket shows spatially the characteristics, manifestation and dimensions of poverty within the Area Councils of the District. This was done taking into consideration the socio- economic base of the areas. The District is divided into two poverty pockets and ranked from 1st and

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2nd as poor and the least poor respectively. By this ranking the Ziope Area is ranked the poorest and Agotime is least poor

Table 4.4: Characteristics of Poverty Pockets Pocket Poverty characteristics / manifestation 1 = Ziope Abundant Borassus species Fairly good soil structure High unemployment Old dilapidated buildings Poor physical appearance Food Shortage Low income levels No industrial establishment 3 = Agotime Food insecurity Abundant water resources No fire station Low income levels Source: Ho District Poverty Profile & Pro-Poor Programme, 2004

4.4 Potentials and Constraints for Poverty Alleviation During dialogue and interview with the various stakeholders and communities, it was realized that in reducing poverty in the District, many potentials exist. In another development, many challenges were also envisaged. Below is the table showing the potentials and constraints perceived by the stakeholders.

Table 4.5 Potentials and Constraints for Poverty Alleviation District Level Stakeholder Potentials Constraints Central Administration Highly trained Human Low incentive/motivation Resources Inadequate funds DHMT Trained Health professionals Lack of funds Improved working coalition Lack motivation GES Literacy classes Poor working conditions Scholarship and credits Illiteracy/Low capacity Department of Agriculture Abundant water and land for Lack of irrigation facilities farming Inadequate market centres Department of Social Welfare Welfare scheme for vulnerable Under funded Available Institutional Discrimination and Structures exist for Stigmatization help/assistance Traditional Council Existence of enlightened Disunity and infighting leaders Poor infrastructure network Abundant labour and land Political Representatives High awareness about rights Inadequate resources and privileges Non-involvement in decision NGOs/CSOs Abundant human and material Duplication of activities and resources waste resources Farmers Increased Acreage cultivation Difficulty in accessing land through credit support and credit 4.5 Formulation of Development programmes

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Within the framework of Ghana’s development approach as contained in the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda and the Guidelines for preparation of DMTDP 2014-2017, this section presents the development programmes which can accelerate socio economic development for sustained growth in the District. Based on the above framework, a holistic development programme is proposed for the District. This development approach follows on the integrated development approach reflecting critical issues of the Green Economy, Gender Mainstreaming, Climate Change issue, HIV/AIDS, Social Protection among others. The bases for the Development programmes are the prioritized development issues.

Table 4.6 District Development Programme Matrix Thematic Area Programme Ensuring and Sustaining Revenue Improvement and Management Programme Macroeconomic Stability

Enhancing Competitiveness of 1. MSMEs Capacity Enhancement programme Ghana’s Private Sector 2. Enterprise Development Financing Programme 3. Tourism Development Programme

Accelerated Agricultural 1. Agricultural Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Modernization and programme Sustainable Natural Resource 2. Food and livestock Development Programme Management 3. Agricultural Land Management and Climate Change programme 4. Natural Disasters and vulnerability reduction programme Oil and Gas Development Oil and Gas Development Programme Infrastructure and Human 1. Transport sector Development programme Settlements 2. Feeder Roads Improvement Programme 3. Rural Development Progrmme 4. Settlement and Land Use Planning Programme 5. Housing Development Programme 6. Water and Sanitation Development Programme Human Development, 1. Educational Infrastructure Improvement Programme Productivity and Employment 2. Educational Services Improvement Programme 3. Employment creation programme 4. Health infrastructure improvement Programme 5. Health Services Enhancement programme 6. HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other Communicable Disease Control Programme 7. Child Development and Protection Programme 8. Vulnerability and Social protection programme targeting the Disabled and the aged 9. Poverty reduction programme Transparent and Accountable 1. Local services Delivery Programme Governance 2. Local Economic Development Programme 3. Gender Mainstreaming Programme

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4.6 APPLICATION OF SUSTAINABILITY TOOLS Table 4.7 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 1 Activity statement: Construction of Roads

Criteria-Basic Aims and Objectives Indicators Performance Measure

EFFECTS ON NATURAL RESOURCES

Protected Areas and Wildlife: should be conserved and these Sensitive areas resources should be enhanced where practicable shown on (GIS) maps 0 1 2 (3) 4 5

Degraded land: Areas vulnerable to degradation should be Vulnerable 0 1 (2) 3 4 5 avoided, and already degraded land should be enhanced areas shown on (GIS) maps

Energy: The activity should encourage efficient energy use, and Quantity/type of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 maximize use of renewable rather than fossil fuels fuel/energy required

Pollution: Discharges of pollutants and waste products to the Quantity/type of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 atmosphere, water and land should be avoided or minimize pollutants and waste

Use of Raw Materials: All raw materials should be used with Quantity and 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 maximum efficiency and recycled where practicable types of materials

Rivers and Water Bodies: Should retain their natural character Minimum 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 flows/water levels set

EFFECTS ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONDITIONS

Local Character: and cohesion of local communities should be Use of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 maintained and enhanced where practical GIS/database to highlight sensitive areas

Health and Well-being: The activity should benefit the Financial and 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 workforce and local communities in terms of health and well- other being, nutrition, shelter, education and cultural expression contribution

Gender: The activity should empower women No. of women 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 empowered

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Work for Local people: Priority should be given to providing No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 jobs for local people and particularly women and young people employed

Participation: Active participation and involvement of local Description of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 communities should be encouraged(especially vulnerable and proposals to excluded sections) meet this aim

Access: to land should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Access: to water should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 assisted

Access: to transport should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 3 4 (5) assisted

Sanitation: should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Equity: Adverse and beneficial impacts from development Environmental 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 should be distributed equitably and should not discriminate report against any groups, especially vulnerable and excluded people

Vulnerability and Risk: of drought, bush, floods crisis and Occurrence 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 conflicts and epidemics should be reduced monitored

EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY

Growth: The activity should result in development that Financial plan 0 1 2 3 4 (5) encourages strong and stable conditions of growth showing projected growth and monitoring

Use of Local Materials and Services: The activity should result Description of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 in the use of raw materials and services from local industries where sources possible

Local Investment of Capital: Development should encourage the Description of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 local retention of capital and the development of downstream investment industries, utilizing local raw materials, product and labour strategy

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Table 4.8 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 2 Activity statement: Construction of Markets

Criteria-Basic Aims and Objectives Indicators Performance Measure

EFFECTS ON NATURAL RESOURCES

Protected Areas and Wildlife: should be conserved and these Sensitive areas 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 resources should be enhanced where practicable shown on (GIS) maps

Degraded land: Areas vulnerable to degradation should be Vulnerable 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 avoided, and already degraded land should be enhanced areas shown on (GIS) maps

Energy: The activity should encourage efficient energy use, and Quantity/type of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 maximize use of renewable rather than fossil fuels fuel/energy required

Pollution: Discharges of pollutants and waste products to the Quantity/type of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 atmosphere, water and land should be avoided or minimize pollutants and waste

Use of Raw Materials: All raw materials should be used with Quantity and 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 maximum efficiency and recycled where practicable types of materials

Rivers and Water Bodies: Should retain their natural character Minimum 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 flows/water levels set

EFFECTS ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONDITIONS

Local Character: and cohesion of local communities should be Use of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 maintained and enhanced where practical GIS/database to highlight sensitive areas

Gender: The activity should empower women No. of women 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 empowered

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Work for Local people: Priority should be given to providing No. of people 0 1 2 3 4 (5) jobs for local people and particularly women and young people employed

Participation: Active participation and involvement of local Description of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 communities should be encouraged(especially vulnerable and proposals to excluded sections) meet this aim

Access: to land should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Access: to water should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Access: to transport should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 assisted

Sanitation: should be improved No. of people 0 1 (2) 3 4 5 assisted

Vulnerability and Risk: of drought, bush, floods crisis and Occurrence 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 conflicts and epidemics should be reduced monitored

EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY

Growth: The activity should result in development that Financial plan 0 1 2 3 4 (5) encourages strong and stable conditions of growth showing projected growth and monitoring

Use of Local Materials and Services: The activity should result Description of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 in the use of raw materials and services from local industries where sources possible

Local Investment of Capital: Development should encourage the Description of local retention of capital and the development of downstream investment industries, utilizing local raw materials, product and labour strategy 0 1 2 3 4 (5)

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Table 4.9 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 3 Activity statement: Construction of Irrigation Schemes

Criteria-Basic Aims and Objectives Indicators Performance Measure

EFFECTS ON NATURAL RESOURCES

Protected Areas and Wildlife: should be conserved and these Sensitive areas 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 resources should be enhanced where practicable shown on (GIS) maps

Degraded land: Areas vulnerable to degradation should be Vulnerable 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 avoided, and already degraded land should be enhanced areas shown on (GIS) maps

Energy: The activity should encourage efficient energy use, and Quantity/type of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 maximize use of renewable rather than fossil fuels fuel/energy required

Pollution: Discharges of pollutants and waste products to the Quantity/type of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 atmosphere, water and land should be avoided or minimize pollutants and waste

Use of Raw Materials: All raw materials should be used with Quantity and 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 maximum efficiency and recycled where practicable types of materials

Rivers and Water Bodies: Should retain their natural character Minimum 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 flows/water levels set

EFFECTS ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONDITIONS

Local Character: and cohesion of local communities should be Use of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 maintained and enhanced where practical GIS/database to highlight sensitive areas

Health and Well-being: The activity should benefit the Financial and 0 1 2 3 4 (5) workforce and local communities in terms of health and well- other being, nutrition, shelter, education and cultural expression contribution

Gender: The activity should empower women No. of women 0 1 2 3 4 (5) empowered

Work for Local people: Priority should be given to providing No. of people 0 1 2 3 4 (5)

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Participation: Active participation and involvement of local Description of communities should be encouraged(especially vulnerable and proposals to excluded sections) meet this aim 0 1 2 3 4 (5)

Access: to land should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 assisted

Access: to water should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 3 4 (5) assisted

Access: to transport should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Sanitation: should be improved No. of people 0 1 (2) 3 4 5 assisted

Equity: Adverse and beneficial impacts from development Environmental should be distributed equitably and should not discriminate report against any groups, especially vulnerable and excluded people 0 1 2 3 4 (5)

Vulnerability and Risk: of drought, bush, floods crisis and Occurrence 0 1 2 3 4 (5) conflicts and epidemics should be reduced monitored

EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY

Growth: The activity should result in development that Financial plan 0 1 2 3 4 (5) encourages strong and stable conditions of growth showing projected growth and monitoring

Use of Local Materials and Services: The activity should result Description of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 in the use of raw materials and services from local industries where sources possible

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Table 4.10 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 4 Activity statement: Training Programmes

Criteria-Basic Aims and Objectives Indicators Performance Measure

EFFECTS ON NATURAL RESOURCES

Protected Areas and Wildlife: should be conserved and these Sensitive areas 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 resources should be enhanced where practicable shown on (GIS) maps

Degraded land: Areas vulnerable to degradation should be Vulnerable 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 avoided, and already degraded land should be enhanced areas shown on (GIS) maps

Energy: The activity should encourage efficient energy use, and Quantity/type of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 maximize use of renewable rather than fossil fuels fuel/energy required

Pollution: Discharges of pollutants and waste products to the Quantity/type of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 atmosphere, water and land should be avoided or minimize pollutants and waste

Use of Raw Materials: All raw materials should be used with Quantity and 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 maximum efficiency and recycled where practicable types of materials

Rivers and Water Bodies: Should retain their natural character Minimum 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 flows/water levels set

EFFECTS ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONDITIONS

Local Character: and cohesion of local communities should be Use of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 maintained and enhanced where practical GIS/database to highlight sensitive areas

Gender: The activity should empower women No. of women 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 empowered

Work for Local people: Priority should be given to providing No. of people 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 jobs for local people and particularly women and young people employed

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Participation: Active participation and involvement of local Description of 0 1 2 3 4 (5) communities should be encouraged(especially vulnerable and proposals to excluded sections) meet this aim

Access: to land should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Access: to water should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Access: to transport should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Sanitation: should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 assisted

Vulnerability and Risk: of drought, bush, floods crisis and Occurrence 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 conflicts and epidemics should be reduced monitored

EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY

Growth: The activity should result in development that Financial plan 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 encourages strong and stable conditions of growth showing projected growth and monitoring

Use of Local Materials and Services: The activity should result Description of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 in the use of raw materials and services from local industries where sources possible

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Table 4.11 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 5 Activity statement: Drilling of Boreholes

Criteria-Basic Aims and Objectives Indicators Performance Measure

EFFECTS ON NATURAL RESOURCES

Protected Areas and Wildlife: should be conserved and these Sensitive areas 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 resources should be enhanced where practicable shown on (GIS) maps

Degraded land: Areas vulnerable to degradation should be Vulnerable 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 avoided, and already degraded land should be enhanced areas shown on (GIS) maps

Energy: The activity should encourage efficient energy use, and Quantity/type of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 maximize use of renewable rather than fossil fuels fuel/energy required

Pollution: Discharges of pollutants and waste products to the Quantity/type of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 atmosphere, water and land should be avoided or minimize pollutants and waste

Use of Raw Materials: All raw materials should be used with Quantity and 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 maximum efficiency and recycled where practicable types of materials

Rivers and Water Bodies: Should retain their natural character Minimum 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 flows/water levels set

EFFECTS ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONDITIONS

Local Character: and cohesion of local communities should be Use of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 maintained and enhanced where practical GIS/database to highlight sensitive areas

Gender: The activity should empower women No. of women 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 empowered

Work for Local people: Priority should be given to providing No. of people 0 1 2 3 (4) 5

153 jobs for local people and particularly women and young people employed

Participation: Active participation and involvement of local Description of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 communities should be encouraged(especially vulnerable and proposals to excluded sections) meet this aim

Access: to land should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Access: to water should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 3 4 (5) assisted

Access: to transport should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Sanitation: should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 3 4 (5) assisted

Equity: Adverse and beneficial impacts from development Environmental 0 1 2 3 4 (5) should be distributed equitably and should not discriminate report against any groups, especially vulnerable and excluded people

Vulnerability and Risk: of drought, bush, floods crisis and Occurrence 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 conflicts and epidemics should be reduced monitored

EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY

Growth: The activity should result in development that Financial plan 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 encourages strong and stable conditions of growth showing projected growth and monitoring

Use of Local Materials and Services: The activity should result Description of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 in the use of raw materials and services from local industries where sources possible

Local Investment of Capital: Development should encourage the Description of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 local retention of capital and the development of downstream investment industries, utilizing local raw materials, product and labour strategy

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Table 4.12 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 6 Activity statement: Tourism Development

Criteria-Basic Aims and Objectives Indicators Performance Measure

EFFECTS ON NATURAL RESOURCES

Protected Areas and Wildlife: should be conserved and these Sensitive areas 0 1 2 3 4 (5) resources should be enhanced where practicable shown on (GIS) maps

Degraded land: Areas vulnerable to degradation should be Vulnerable 0 1 2 3 4 (5) avoided, and already degraded land should be enhanced areas shown on (GIS) maps

Energy: The activity should encourage efficient energy use, and Quantity/type of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 maximize use of renewable rather than fossil fuels fuel/energy required

Pollution: Discharges of pollutants and waste products to the Quantity/type of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 atmosphere, water and land should be avoided or minimize pollutants and waste

Use of Raw Materials: All raw materials should be used with Quantity and 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 maximum efficiency and recycled where practicable types of materials

Rivers and Water Bodies: Should retain their natural character Minimum 0 1 2 3 4 (5) flows/water levels set

EFFECTS ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONDITIONS

Local Character: and cohesion of local communities should be Use of 0 1 2 3 4 (5) maintained and enhanced where practical GIS/database to highlight sensitive areas

Gender: The activity should empower women No. of women 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 empowered

Work for Local people: Priority should be given to providing No. of people 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 jobs for local people and particularly women and young people employed

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Participation: Active participation and involvement of local Description of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 communities should be encouraged(especially vulnerable and proposals to excluded sections) meet this aim

Access: to land should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Access: to water should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 assisted

Access: to transport should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 assisted

Sanitation: should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 assisted

Vulnerability and Risk: of drought, bush, floods crisis and Occurrence 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 conflicts and epidemics should be reduced monitored

EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY

Growth: The activity should result in development that Financial plan 0 1 2 3 4 (5) encourages strong and stable conditions of growth showing projected growth and monitoring

Use of Local Materials and Services: The activity should result Description of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 in the use of raw materials and services from local industries where sources possible

Local Investment of Capital: Development should encourage the Description of 0 1 2 3 4 (5) local retention of capital and the development of downstream investment industries, utilizing local raw materials, product and labour strategy

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Table 4.13 SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA MATRIX 7 Activity Statement: Construction of Buildings-schools, bungalows, offices, silos, health facilities etc

Criteria-Basic Aims and Objectives Indicators Performance Measure

EFFECTS ON NATURAL RESOURCES

Protected Areas and Wildlife: should be conserved and these Sensitive areas 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 resources should be enhanced where practicable shown on (GIS) maps

Degraded land: Areas vulnerable to degradation should be Vulnerable 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 avoided, and already degraded land should be enhanced areas shown on (GIS) maps

Energy: The activity should encourage efficient energy use, and Quantity/type of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 maximize use of renewable rather than fossil fuels fuel/energy required

Pollution: Discharges of pollutants and waste products to the Quantity/type of 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 atmosphere, water and land should be avoided or minimize pollutants and waste

Use of Raw Materials: All raw materials should be used with Quantity and 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 maximum efficiency and recycled where practicable types of materials

Rivers and Water Bodies: Should retain their natural character Minimum 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 flows/water levels set

EFFECTS ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONDITIONS

Local Character: and cohesion of local communities should be Use of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 maintained and enhanced where practical GIS/database to highlight sensitive areas

Gender: The activity should empower women No. of women 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 empowered

Work for Local people: Priority should be given to providing No. of people 0 1 2 3 4 (5) jobs for local people and particularly women and young people employed

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Participation: Active participation and involvement of local Description of 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 communities should be encouraged(especially vulnerable and proposals to excluded sections) meet this aim

Access: to land should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Access: to water should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Access: to transport should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 assisted

Sanitation: should be improved No. of people 0 1 2 3 (4) 5 assisted

Vulnerability and Risk: of drought, bush, floods crisis and Occurrence 0 1 2 (3) 4 5 conflicts and epidemics should be reduced monitored

EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY

Growth: The activity should result in development that Financial plan 0 1 2 3 4 (5) encourages strong and stable conditions of growth showing projected growth and monitoring

Use of Local Materials and Services: The activity should result Description of 0 1 2 3 4 (5) in the use of raw materials and services from local industries sources where possible

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Key

0 1 2 3 4 5

Not Relevant Works Works against On balance – Supports the Strongly strongly the aim has neutral aim support the against the aim effects on the aim aim

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Table 4.14 COMPATIBILITY MATRIX FOR THE ANALYSIS OF DISTRICT ACTIVITIES AGAINST EACH OTHER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

No. District Construction Construction Construction Training Drilling of Tourism Construction of Roads of Markets of Irrigation Programmes Boreholes Development of Buildings Activity Schemes

District Activity

1 Construction (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) of Roads

2 Construction (X) (O) (O) (X) (X) of Markets

3 Construction of Irrigation Schemes (X) (X) (O) (O)

4 Training (X) (X) (O) Programmes

5 Drilling of (X) (X) Boreholes

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6 Tourism (X) Development

7 Construction of Buildings

Key

(X): Mutually supportive; (- ): Potential to conflict with each other; (O) No significant interaction

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Table 4.15 COMPATIBILITY MATRIX RECORD SHEET No. Score Reason for (in)compatibility

1&2 (X) Roads will increase access to markets

1&3 (X) Roads will enhance access to irrigation sites

1&4 (X) Roads will enhance training programmes by facilitating easy movement of people and training materials

1&5 (X) Road construction will facilitate movement of drilling materials

1&6 (X) Roads will increase access to tourism sites

1&7 (X) Roads will facilitate easy movement of building materials

2&3 (X) Markets will provide convenient space for the sale and storage of irrigation products

2&4 (O) No significant interaction

2&5 (O) -Do-

2&6 (X) Markets will promote the attraction of tourists

2&7 (X) Markets will facilitate construction by making available all building materials

3&4 (X) Training will enhance efficient and appropriate use of irrigation facilities

3&5 (X) Boreholes will provide water for irrigation development

3&6 (O) No significant interaction

3&7 (O) No significant interaction

4&5 (X) Training will enhance efficient and sustainable use of boreholes

4&6 (X) Training will enhance local participation in tourism development

4&7 (O) No significant interaction

5&6 (X) Boreholes will provide potable water that will promote tourism development

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5&7 (X) Boreholes will provide water that will enhance construction of buildings

6&7 (X) Buildings such as rest houses, motels, etc will facilitate tourism development by providing adequate accommodation and other supporting infrastructure

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4.7 DISTRICT COMPOSITE PROGRAM OF ACTION (2014 – 2017) District Goal: Ensure the Generation of Adequate Funds for District Development

District Objective: To Improve Fiscal Resource Mobilization

Thematic Area: Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability

Table 4.2.1 Development Activities - Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability Activities Location Time Frame Indicative Indicators Source of Funding Implementing Budget Agencies 2014 2015 2016 2017 IGF GoG/Other Lead Collab s orating Update data District- 13,000.00  Data on 10,000.0 3,000 District DPCU on all ratable wide ratable 0 Finance properties and properties Office persons and persons compiled Undertake District- 50,000.00  Register of 50,000 District DPCU valuation on wide Physical Valuation all properties properties Board Undertake 16 District- 32,000.00 4 No tax 2,000.00 30,000 District ISD/N No. tax wide education Finance CCE education organized Office Recruit 10 DA 500.00  10 500.00 District DPCU qualified revenue Finance Revenue collectors Office Collectors recruited Organize 4 DA and 12,000.00  Capacity 2,000.00 10,000.00 District District No. capacity Area building Finance Revenu building Councils workshop Office e workshops for organized Section Revenue staff for

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revenue collectors Procure DA  Needed 34,000 DA District Logistics for logistic Revenu Revenue procured e Collection and Section Monitoring

Objective 2: Improve Expenditure Management Organize 2 DA 10,000.00  Procurement 10,000.0 DA DPCU No. Capacity capacity 0 building for workshop key staff on organized for procurement key staffs Organize DA 5,000.00  Annual 5,000.0 District General annual forum forum 0 Administratio Assembly to account to organized to n General account to Assembly and general public assembly and public Set aside 20% DA 20% of IGF District General of IGF set aside Administratio Assembly annually for n capital development Undertake DA 4,000.00  DMTDP 4,000.00 DPCU Developme annual Annual nt Sub- performance performance Committee review of the reviewed DMTDP

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District Goal: Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness of MSMEs

District Objective 1: Improve Efficiency and Competitiveness of MSMEs

Thematic Area: Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector

Table 4.2.1 Development Activities - Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector Activities Location Period Indicative Indicators Source of Funding Implementing Budget Agencies 2014 2015 2016 2017 IGF GoG/Ot Lead Collabor hers ating Facilitate the District – 10,000.00  Capital 10,000.0 DA Departm acquisition of Wide acquisition 0 ent of capital by by MSMEs Coopera MSMEs improved tive Organize District- 32,000.00  Apprenticesh 10,000 22,000.0 DA Departm apprenticeship Wide ip training 0 ent of training for organized for Coopera MSMEs MSMEs tives Assist women District – 30,000.00  Land, credit, 3,000.00 NBSSI DA to access land, wide information, credit, technology, information, business technology, services business accessibility services and improved for social women as protection well as social including protection and poverty rights poverty rights Enroll 1,000 District- 200,000  200,000 NYEP DA 1 unemployed in wide 1,000 apprenticeship unemployed

166 training enrolled in apprenticeshi p training Train 800 District- 10,000.00  800 10,000.0 NBSSI/ NYEP/ unemployed wide unemployed 0 Commun NBSSI youth and youths ity women in trained in Develop pomade, different ment Weanimix, crafts powder preparation, Omo, soap and different crafts Register and District- 12,000.00  All MSMEs 12,000.0 DA Departm license wide licensed and 0 ent of MSMEs registered Coopera tive Objective 2: To promote sustainable tourism to preserve historical, cultural and natural heritage Construct 1No. Kpetoe 193,000  2No tourism 10,000 183,000 Ministry DA, Tourism receptive of Ghana Receptive facilities Tourism Tourist Facilities constructed Board (GTB) Facilitate the Akpokope  Construction of a Kente Craft Village Develop Kpetoe 21,000  History and 21,000 DA tourist and Ziope tradition brochure on heritage historical, documented cultural and natural

167 heritage of the District Promote District- 42,000  Festivals and 42,000 DA Traditio festivals and wide cultural nal other cultural celebrations Councils celebrations promoted

District Goal: Promote Efficiency in Agricultural Production and Productivity

District Objective 1: Promote Agricultural Mechanization

Thematic Area: Accelerated Agricultural Modernisation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management

Table 4.2.3 Development Activities - Accelerated Agricultural Modernisation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management Activities Location Time Frame Indicative Indicators Source of Implementing Budget Funding Agencies 2014 2015 2016 2017 IGF GoG/Ot Lead Collabor hers ating Procurement of Kpetoe 100,000  Number of 100,00 DA DADU Tractors tractor procured 0 Support the Keyeme  Keyeme Dam 400,00 MOFA DA Reconstruction of constructed 0 Dams Train 20 farmers Selected 1,000.00  20 farmers 1,000.0 DADU FBOs in the O&M of Commun trained on 0 small scale ities small scale irrigation irrigation technologies O&M technologies Objective 2: Increase Access to Extenstion Services and Reorientation of Agricultural Education Train 20 DADU 1,000.00  20 extension 1,000.0 DADU DA extension workers trained 0

168 workers on on irrigation irrigation and and water water management management skills and technologies and technologies skills Train 20 Selected 1,000 20 community 1,000 DADU FBOs community communi livestock agents livestock agents ty and disease and disease surveillance surveillance volunteers trained volunteers Organize 4 No. District- 2,500.00  4No. 2,500.0 DADU FBOs stakeholder wide stakeholder 0 meeting on food meeting on security and food security emergency and emergency preparedness preparedness organized Organize District- 7,200.00  Quarterly 200 7,000.0 DADU Disease quarterly wide surveillance 0 Research surveillance and and disease Institute monitoring and monitoring disease organized Organize 200 District- 1,000.00  200 farmer 1,000.0 DADU FBOs farmer group to wide groups 0 go into Block organized and Farming block farming programme rolled out Organize 4 No. District- 2,000.00  4No. annual 2,000.0 DADU ISD annual education wide education 0 campaign on campaign on agric extension agric extension

169 delivery delivery organized Conduct survey Major 1,000.00  Survey on 1,000.0 DADU Market of market market market 0 Users situation and centres situation and price information price information conducted Organize 2 No. DA 1,000.00  2No. training 1,000.0 DADU DA training workshop for 0 workshop for extension staff extension staff on on post harvest post harvest handling handling organized Organize 1 No Selected 1,120.00  1No Capacity 120 1,000.0 DADU FBOs Capacity building FBOs building 0 programme for programme for 10 FBOs to serve 10 FBOs to as input and serve as input supply agents and supply agents organized Organize District- 1,000.00  Capacity for 1,000.0 DADU Food capacity building wide food processors 0 Processo for food in value rs processors in addition built Associati value addition on

Objective 2: To increase growth in income and reduce variability Hold 2 No. District- 1,000.00  2No. meeting 1,000.00 DADU Stakeholder meeting for 50 wide for 50 s stakeholders in stakeholders agric service in agric

170 delivery service delivery held Organize 2 No. District- 2,000.00  2No. capacity 2,000.00 DADU FBOs capacity wide building building workshop for workshop for farmers and farmers and processors on processors on improved improved productivity productivity and and produce produce quality quality organized Undertake District- 1,000.00  Extensive 1,000.00 DADU MOFA intensive wide surveillance surveillance on on bird flu bird flu undertaken Encourage the District- 800.00  FBOs formed 800.00 DADU FBOs formation of wide FBOs Organize 2 No. District- 1,000.00  2No. 1,000.00 DADU FBOs, awareness wide awareness Processors workshops on workshops on laws for grading laws for and grading and standardization standardizatio of agric n of agric production production organized Hold quarterly District- 2,000.00  Quarterly 2,000.00 DADU FBOs, meeting with wide meeting with Marketers, private sector on private sector Exporters product on product development development

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held Organize District- 1,250.00  Capacity 250 1,000.00 DADU Forestry capacity wide building Dept. building program for program for 25 25 nursery nursery operators in operators in all all tree crop tree crop growing areas growing areas to to expand and expand and improve improve quality quality of tree of tree crop crop seedlings seedlings organized Trained 50 District- 1,000.00  50 farmers 1,000.00 DADU FBOs farmers in wide trained in intensive intensive livestock livestock mgt, management, recording record keeping keeping and and financial financial mgt management Promote value District- 3,500.00  Produce value 500 3,000.00 DADU FBOs, addition wide addition Exporters, (produce promoted Marketers processing, blending, packaging and commercializati on Organize District- 6,400.00  Quarterly 400 6,000.00 Veterinary FBOs quarterly wide vaccination Service Dept. vaccination for for poultry,

172 poultry, small small ruminants and ruminants and cattle cattle organized Hold quarterly District- 1070  Quarterly 70 1000.00 DADU DA consultative wide consultative meeting with meeting with DA on provision DA on of adequate provision of market adequate infrastructure market infrastructure held Train 50 market District- 1,000.00  50 market 1,000.00 DADU Market women on the wide women Women use of standards trained on the Association and grading use of s standards and grading Organize 1 No. District- 500.00  1No. meeting 500 DADU DA meeting with wide with DA and DA and other other stakeholders on stakeholders GAPSs on GAPSs organized Construct 2 No. Keyeme 50,000  2 No. market 50,000.0 PWD DPCU market centres Apegam centres 0 e constructed Construction of Kpetoe 250,000  Access to 10,000 240,000 PWD DPCU Market Sheds market infrastructure improved Rehabilitation of Kpetoe 15,000.0  Poor market 15,000.0 PWD DPCU

173 poor market Ziope 0 structures 0 structures in 2 rehabilitated market centres in 2 market centres  Objective 3: To reverse forest and land degradation Train 20 MOFA 1,000.00  20 MOFA 1,000.00 DADU Forestry staff on staff trained Dept. sustainable land on sustainable management land (SLM) management (SLM) Train 20 MOFA DA 1,000.00  20 MOFA 1,000.00 DADU Forestry staff on staff trained Dept environmental on issues environmenta l issues Organize 2 No. District 1,000.00  2No. 1,000.00 DADU Forestry stakeholders Assembl stakeholders Dept meeting on y meeting on environmental environmenta issues l issues held Carry out 40 10 1,280.00  40 280 1,000.00 DADU FBOs demonstrations selected demonstration on soil and commun s on soil and water ities water management management carried out Formulate bye- DA 1,000.00  bye-laws 1,000.00 DADU DA laws in support formulated in of SLM support of activities SLM activities

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Objective 5: To improve institutional coordination and stakeholders participation Organize annual DA 3,280.00  annual inter- 3,280.00 DADU Decentralize inter- departmental d departmental meeting on Department meeting on agric agric s development development held Organize 18 District- 3,600.00  18 quarterly 3,600.00 DADU FBOs quarterly wide monitoring, monitoring, supervision supervision and and field field visits visits undertaken Prepare and DADU 1,440.00  Agric M&E 1,440.00 DADA DPCU implement Agric Plan prepared M&E Plan and implemented Objective 6: To promote the application of science and technology in food and agriculture Train 10 field DADU 1,160.00  10 field 1,160.00 DADU FBOs officers and 100 District- officers and farmers on the wide 100 farmers use of new trained on the technologies use of new technologies Organize annual DA 1,000.00  annual 1,000.00 DADU DA District Plan District Plan Session (RELC) Session (RELC) organized Conduct 40 field District- 9,280.00  40 field 9,280.00 DADU FBOs demonstration wide demonstration on crops/animals on to enhance crops/animals

175 adoption of to enhance improved adoption of technologies improved technologies conducted

District Goal: Promote Oil and Gas Development for Sustainable Local Development

District Objective 1: Ensure Local Content and Local Participation across the Oil and Gas Value Chain

Thematic Area: Oil and Gas Development

Table 4.2.4 Development Activities - Oil and Gas Development Activities Location Time Frame Indicative Indicators Source of Funding Implementing Budget Agencies 2014 2015 2016 2017 IGF GoG/Oth Lead Collabora ers ting Sponsor District- 23,000.00  Capacity in 1,000.00 22,000.0 DA interested wide Oil and Gas 0 youth to study related courses related Businesses to the Oil and improved Gas Industry Support the Ziope 100,000  Local 100,000 DA establishment Kpetoe entrepreneu of Oil and Gas Akpokope rs supported Filling Points Apegame to establish filling points for Oil and Gas Regulate all District 24,000.00  24,000.0 DA E businesses in wide nvironment 0

176 the Oil and protected Gas sector from Oil with respect to and Gas environmental related concerns hazards

District Goal: Promote the Accelerated Development of Infrastructure and Human Settlement Development for Rapid Socioeconomic Development

District Objective 1: Create and Sustain an Efficient and Effective Transport System That Meet Users’ Need

Thematic Area: Infrastructure and Human Settlement Development

Table 4.2.5 Development Activities - Infrastructure and Human Settlement Development Activities Location Time Frame Indicative Indicators Source of Funding Implementing Budget Agencies 2014 2015 2016 2017 IGF GoG/ Lead Collabo Others rating Construct Selected 100,000  50 100,000. DFR DPCU 50km rural communities kilometer 00 roads road constructed Upgrade 25km Selected rural 50,000.00  25km rural 50,000.0 DFR DPCU rural roads roads roads 0 upgraded Rehabilitate Selected roads 2,000,000  2,000,00 Ministr DA D major roads in istrict major 0.00 y of the District roads Transp rehabilitated ort

Objective: To Streamline Spatial and Land Use Planning Systems Procure 1 No. DA 45,000  1No. pick-up 45,000.00 Town DPCU

177 pick-up for procured for Planning Town Town Dept Planning Planning Department Department Prepare District- 30,000  Layouts 30,000.00 Town Office layouts for all wide prepared for Planning Councils communities all Dept in the District communities in the District Produce copies Area 500.00  Layouts 500.00 Town Area of layouts for Council copied to the Planning Councils the 2 A/Cs two area Dept councils Sensitize District- 2,500.00  Citizens 2,500.00 Town ISD/NCCE citizens on wide sensitized on Planning planning and planning and Dept. building building regulations of regulations of Ghana Ghana

Prepare and Kpetoe 30,000.0  Layouts 5,000 25,000.00 DA DTCP implement Ziope 0 prepared and layout for implemented larger communities Enforce District 12,000  Building 2,000 10,000.00 DA DTCP building wide regulations regulations enforced Strengthen District 20,000  Spatial 2,000 18,000.00 DA DTCP spatial wide planning planning improved Objective: Accelerate the provision of adequate, safe and affordable water Extend pipe Selected 200,000  pipe borne 200,000.00 DWST PWD

178 borne water to Communit water 50 ies extended to underserved 50 communities underserved communities Construct Selected 150,000  boreholes 150,000.00 DWST PWD boreholes in Communit constructed in 30 needy ies 30 needy communities communities Organize 4 District- 2,000.00  4No. public 2,000.00 DWST ISD No. public wide awareness awareness programmes programmes on available on available water water provision provision programs and programs and their efficient their efficient use use Objective : Accelerate the provision of improved environmental sanitation facilities Support District- 50,000  Citizens 50,000.00 DEHO DWST citizens to wide construct construct household household latrines latrines through DA’s support Provide 50 Selected 40,000  50 refuse 40,000.00 DPCU Contractor refuse vantage containers containers at points provided at vantage points vantage each year points Construct 20 Selected 100,000  20 No. 6 100,000.00 DWS DEHO No. 6 seater communiti seater W.C.

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W.C. toilets es toilets and and urinals urinals constructed Acquire and 20,000  Final waste 20,000 DEHO DPCU develop final disposal site waste disposal acquire and site developed Organized District- 4,000  clean-up 4,000.0 DEHO DA quarterly wide exercise 0 clean-up organized in exercise in the the District in District every quarter of the year Construct 2 Agortime, 80,000  2 No. 80,000.00 DEHO DPCU No. slaughter Ziope , slaughter houses houses constructed Desilt choked Major 1,500  choked 1,500.0 DEHO Office of gutters and roads and gutters and 0 Assembly culverts towns culverts Members desilted Objective: Improve and Accelerate Housing Delivery in Rural Areas Train Artisans District 90,000  Number of 90,000 DA and Masons in wide Artisans improved Trained housing development Lobby Kpetoe 40,000  Amount of 40,000 DA UNHABIT Development Donor AT to support Assistance rural housing received development

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District Goal: Promote Human Capital Development for Enhanced Productivity and Employment

District Objective 1: Increase Inclusive and Equitable Access to, and Participation in Education at all Levels

Thematic Area: Human Development, Productivity and Employment

Table 4.2.6 Development Activities - Human Development, Productivity and Employment Activities Location Time Frame Indicative Indicators Source of Funding Implementing Budget Agencies 2014 2015 2016 2017 IGF GoG/ Lead Collabor Others ating Sponsor 50 Needy Pre 20,000.00 50 teacher 20,000 DED DEPT trainee and Basic trainees teachers Schools supported annually annual Establish All JHS and 25,000.00 Career 25,000.0 School DED career SHS counseling unit 0 Authorit counseling established ies services at the JHS and SHS Organize District- 100,000 Monthly 20,000 80,000.0 DED DA monthly wide monitoring and 0 monitoring supervision and organized in the supervision in District the District Procure 1 No. Office of 45,000.00 1No. Pick-up 45,000 DED DA Pick-up for GES procured for monitoring monitoring and and supervision supervision Construct Kpetoe 50,000 Office 50,000 DED DA office accommodation

181 accommodatio for District n for District Directorate of Directorate of Education Education constructed Make 60,000  DA The 60,000.0 DA DED budgetary Supplement indicati 0 allocation in Budget ve support of  Financial amount “Untrained Statement allocate Teacher  GES Report d Training for Diploma in Basic Education” (UTDBE) Procure 1 No. ZIOSEC 100,000  2No. school 100,000 DED School school bus for buses Authoriti a Senior High procured for es School the Senior High Schools Supply text Underserve 100,000  Text books 10,000. 90,000.0 DED School books to d Schools supplied to 0 Authoriti schools underserved es schools Supply mono Selected 400,000  Mono desks 50,000 350,000 DED DA desks to Schools supplied to deprived deprived schools schools

Rehabilitate 8 Selected 80,000  8No 80,000 PWD DED No. classroom Schools classroom blocks blocks

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rehabilitated Construct 18 Selected 1,200,00  18No 3 and 4 1,200,00 PWD DED No. 3 and 4 communiti 0 classroom 0 units es (refer to blocks classroom needs constructed blocks assessmen t Construct 4 Selected 400,000  4No. 10 units 400,000. PWD DED No. 10 units communiti teachers 00 teachers es bungalow bungalow constructed Construct 2 AGOSEC- 800,000  2No 800,000 PWD DED No. Kpetoe dormitories Dormitories block for 2 Block for 2 senior high Senior High schools Schools in the constructed in District the district Objective: Improve management of Education Service Delivery Support the District 30,000  Minutes of 30,000 DA DED meetings of wide school school management management committee Committees meetings Objective: Bridge the Equity Gap in Access to Health Services Rehabilitation Kpetoe 50,000  7No clinics 50,000.0 PWD GHS of 3 No. Ziope, rehabilitated 0 Clinics Keyeme Procure Kpetoe, 45,000  Health 45,000.0 GHS DA adequate Ziope, equipment 0 health Keyime procured for equipment for all health all health centres

183 centres Construct Kpetoe, 150,000  150,000. PWD IGHS improved Ziope, mproved 00 water and Keyime water and sanitary Akpokope sanitary facilities in all Apegame facilities health centres Wudzdeke constructed in all health centres Construct 8 Shilandre 200,000  200,000. PWD 1GHS No. CHPS Agohokpo 8No CHPS 00 compound Dohia compound Yevi, constructed Takuve, Obemla, Dzremave Construct Kpetoe 850,000.  850,000 DA DGHS District istrict hospital Hospital constructed Establish 2 Ziope, & 90,000  2No 20,000.0 GHS PWD No. lab service Keyeme laboratory 0 centres Health centres centres established Lobby for 38 All Health 1,000.00  38 health 1,000.0 GHS DA health workers centres workers 0 lobbied for Objective : To reduce the incidence of malaria and HIV/AIDS Organize 20 District 90,000  20No 1,000.0 1,000.00 GHS ISD No. Hospital community 0 community for for a in a in promoting promoting insecticide insecticide Treated Net treated net

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(ITN) organized Supply ITN at All 20,300  ITN supply 1,000.0 1,300.00 GHS DA,HMCP all levels Health 0 centres Scale up Ziope, 4,000.00  VCT/PMCT 2,000.0 2,000.00 GHS NACT,DA VCT/PMCT Wudzede increased 0 ke, Establish Ziope, 3,000.00  Adolescent 1,000.0 2,000.00 GHS UNFPA adolescent Kpetoe, corner 0 corners at all established at health centres all health centres Organize District- 1,000.00  Quarterly 1,000.0 GHS ISD quarterly wide sensitization 0 sensitization on healthy on healthy lifestyle and lifestyle and malaria malaria prevention prevention and and control control Organize 4 District- 10,000  4No capacity 2,000.0 8,000.00 GHS CBSVs No. capacity wide building for 0 building for community community based Based surveillance Surveillance volunteers Volunteers organized (CBSV) Organize 4 District- 8,000.00  4No spraying 8,000.00 GHS DEHO No. spraying wide of pest and of pest and insecticide insecticide breeding breeding areas areas

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organized Organize 20 5,000.00  20No 5,000.00 GHS ISD, No. education education Opinion campaign on campaign on Leaders HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS organized Objective : To strengthen disease surveillance Organize All 3,000.00  Case search 1,500.0 1,500.00 GHS Opinion active case Health organized at 0 Leaders search at all centres all levels levels Organize 4 District- 4,000.00  4No. 2,000.0 2,000.00 GHS ISD No. wide sensitization 0 sensitization campaign on campaign on diseases diseases organized Organize District- 3,000.00  Annual 1,500.0 1,500.00 GHS CBSVs annual review wide review 0 meeting for meeting CBSVs organized for CBSVs Objective 5: To increase membership of NHIS from 62.7% to 92% by 2017 Organize Selected 61,000.0  Sensitization 61,000.00 DMHIS ISD sensitization communi 0 forum in 305 forum in 305 ties communities communities organized Organize Office of 6,000.00  Annual 6,000.00 DMHIS DPCU annual DMHIS capacity capacity building building for organized for DMHIS Staff DMHIS staffs Organize Office of 5,000.00  Annual 5,000.00 DMHIS Service annual DMHIS workshop Providers

186 workshop for organized for service service providers providers Organize All 10,500  Service 10,500.00 DMHIS Internal quarterly Service delivery Auditors monitoring of Provider monitored service quarterly delivery Objective: Integrate Population Variables into all Aspects of Development Planning at all Levels Procure 2 No. District 5,000.00  2No computer 5,000.00 GSS Dept. DA Computer and Statistical and of Birth Accessories Office, accessories and Death Birth and procured Registry Death Registry  Assist 30 District- 1,000.00  30 Agriculture 1000.00 Department Financial PWDS to wide Cooperative of Institutions Establish societies Cooperativ Agriculture assisted to es Cooperative access Societies to financial access support financial support Encourage District- 500.00  artisans and 500.00 Department Professional artisans and wide other of Groups other professionals Cooperativ professionals formed strong e to form strong associations associations Organize District- 1,600.00  1,600.00 Department wNBSSI workshop for wide orkshop for 8 of

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8 inactive inactive Cooperativ cooperative cooperative es societies societies organized Organize District- 100,000  apprenticeshi 100,000 NYEP Professional apprenticeship wide p training Groups training for organized for 200 youths 200 youth and PWDs Train 100 Agotime, 3,000.00  100 youths 3,000.00 NBSSI Department youths in soap, Afegame, trained in of Culture Bead, Batik, Ziope, soap, Bead, Tie and Dye Batik, Tie and making Dye making Organize District- 700.00  capacity 700.00 Dept. of Cooperative capacity wide building Cooperativ Societies building on programme es management on for 40 management cooperatives organized for societies 40 cooperatives societies Organize 1No. Agotime 700.00  1 No. 700.00 Centre for NBSSI Training Tradition Training National workshop for al Area workshop Culture 100 Kente organized for weavers 100 Kente weavers

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District Goal: Ensure Efficient and Effective Delivery of Local Governance Services

District Objective 1: To Expand and Sustain Opportunities for Effective Citizen Engagement

Thematic Area: Transparent and Accountable Governance

Table 4.2.7 Development Activities - Transparent and Accountable Governance Activities Location Time Frame Indicativ Indicators Source of Funding Implementing e Budget Agencies 2014 2015 2016 2017 IGF GoG/ Lead Collabor Others ating Sensitize 10 District- 1,500.00  10 women 1,500.00 Social NCCE women groups wide groups Welfare in local sensitized on governance local governance Assist 50 District- 2,000.00  50 women 2,000.00 NCCE Electora women to wide assisted to l contest in contest Commis District District sion Assembly Assembly elections elections Make DA 15,000.0  Indicative 5,000.00 10,000.0 DA Security budgetary 0 funds 0 Agencie allocation for allocated s security in the District Hold 8 No. District- 4,000.00  8No. 4,000.00 Fire NADM education on wide education on Service O, ISD bush fire bush fire prevention in prevention in the the communities communities

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organized Enact and DA 700.00  Bye-laws 700.00 General District enforce bye- enacted and Assembl Adminis laws on bush enforced y tration fire Organize 4 District- 2,000.00  4 No. Safety 2,000.00 Security DISEC No. Safety wide awareness Agencies awareness campaign campaign organized Organize 4 DA 2,000.00  4 No. 2,000.00 NADO Fire No. capacity capacity Service building for building for institutions institutions responsible for responsible disaster for disaster management management organized Educate District- 1,134.00  Citizens 1,134.00 Centre Traditio citizens on the wide educated on for nal relevance of the relevance National Authorit their culture of their Culture ies culture Organize District- 800.00  Sensitization 800.00 Centre School sensitization wide seminars on for Authorit seminar for culture National ies pupils on organized for Culture culture pupils Attend Nation-wide 1,000.00  DA 1,000.00 Centre Art Regional and participated for Performi National in regional National ng Festivals of and national Culture Groups arts and festival of culture Arts and

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culture Organize District- 2,800.00  annual 2,800.00 DA Stakehol annual regular wide regular ders stakeholder stakeholder forum on forum on development development issues in the issues in the District District organized Organize 4 no. District- 4,000.00  4 no. 4,000.00 DPCU Office education on wide education on of the the DMTDP the DMTDP Assembl and annual and annual y budget budget member organized s Create DA 9,000.00  Database on 9,000.00 Social DPCU database on vulnerable Welfare the vulnerable and excluded Dept people in the created District Organize 4 District- 10,500.0  4 No. 10,500.0 Social Vulnera No. capacity wide 0 capacity 0 Welfare ble building building groups programme for programme 100 vulnerable for 100 and excluded vulnerable and excluded organized Organize District- 75,000.0  apprenticeshi 75,000.0 Social NYEP apprenticeship wide 0 p training 0 Welfare training program for Dept. program for 150 150 vulnerable vulnerable

191 and excluded and excluded organized Hold annual District- 1,000.00  annual 1,000.00 Social NGOs, meeting with wide meeting with Welfare Develop development development ment partners on partners on Partner provision of provision of quality social quality social services to the services to vulnerable the vulnerable held Hold 8 No. District- 1,500  8No. 1,500.00 Social Vulnera sensitization wide sensitization Welfare bility programme in programme related support of in support of NGOs vulnerable and vulnerable excluded in and excluded communities in communities held Assist District- 10,000.0  Vulnerable 10,000.0 Social NBSSI Vulnerable to wide 0 assisted to 0 Welfare NYEP access loans access loans Recruit 4 staff 500.00  Staffs 500.00 and train A/C recruited and staff to run the trained to run Council the A/C Procure 3 No. The 3 Area 9,000.00  3No 9,000.00 Computer and Council computer and accessories accessories procured Make The 3 Area 800.00  Budgetary 800

192 budgetary Councils allocation allocation to made pay and motivate staff and councilors Recruit 15 The 2 Area 800  15 revenue 800.00 Revenue Councils collectors Collectors recruited

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4.8 INDICATIVE FINANCIAL PLAN This aspect of the plan details the cost of the medium term development. It spells out the total estimated cost of the programme and projects designed under each of the seven thematic areas of the MTDPF (2014 – 2017)

Table 4.3 Financial Indicative Plan Sector Cost D/A Others Thematic Area Revenue and 51,500.00 10,500.00 41,000.00 Sustaining Expenditure Macroeconomic Management Stability Sub-total 51,500.00 10,500.00 41,000.00 Road Infrastructure 2,150,000.00 2,150,000.00 Infrastructure energy Human settlement 78,000.00 500.00 77,500.00 and human settlement development development Water 352,000.00 352,000.00 Sanitation 295,500.00 25,500.00 270,000.00 Production and 735,000.00 735,000.00 Marketing Infrastructure Sub – total 3,610,500.00 26,000.00 3,584,500.00 Agriculture 74,180.00 3720 70,460.00 Accelerated

Production agricultural Sub-Total 74,180.00 3720.00 70,460.00 modernization and

agro-based industrial Employment 107,500.00 1,900.00 105,600.00 Enhancing Generation Competitiveness in Tourism Development 316,000.00 15,500.00 301,500.00 Ghana’s Private Sector Sub-Total 423,500.00 17,400.00 407,100.00 Education 3,380,000.00 80,000.00 3,300,000.00 Developing the human Health 1,393,800.00 14,000.00 1,379,800.00 resources for national Population 18,000.00 18,000.00 development Management

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Sub-Total 4,791,800.00 94,000.00 4,697,800.00 Transparent an 237,034.00 9300.00 227,734.00 Transparent and Accountable Accountable Governance Governance Sub-Total 237,034.00 9300.00 227,734.00 Income Generation 345,500.00 20,500.00 325,000.00 Infrastructure energy Opportunities and human settlement Spatial development 62,000.00 9,000.00 53,000.00 development Sub-Total 407,500.00 29,500.00 378,000.00 Oil and Gas 147,000.00 1,000.00 146,000.00 Oil and Gas Development Development Grand Total 9,743,014.00 190,420.00 9,552,594.00

Table 4.3.1 Financial Plan This aspect shows the sources of funding for the Plan. The table below gives details of the various sources and the estimate amount expected from them SN. Source of funding Amount Expected Percentage Justification (GH₵) Contribution 1. IGF 190,420.00 1.67 With the base figure of GH₵ 97,248.00, the District is expected to increase its IGF by more than 50 percent by 2013 amounting to GH₵ 190,420.00 2. District Assembly’s Common 9,552,594.00 83.72 Holding the 2009 figure of GH₵ Fund 1,388,129.37, it is expected that the DA will receive over GH₵ 9,552,594.00 within the plan period 3. LSDGP 300,000.00 2.63 A local Service delivery and Governance Programme where money

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is made available to undertake spot improvement of selected feeder roads provide water and sanitation facilities and services 4. DDF 420,000.00 3.68 It is expected that the prudent management system being put in place, the District will benefit from the District Development Facility 5. Ministry of Food and 54,506.50 0.48 The amount expected for various Agriculture interventions and programmes in the ministry 6. Donors 893,042.32 7.83 Funds from international and individual development partners Total Expected Revenue 11,410,562.82 100

This is because there is no financing gap between expenditure and revenue sources. This is however based on a critical assumption that funds from external sources will be forthcoming and on time. In addition, the Assembly will put in strenuous efforts to generate adequate funds for the implementation of the plan. However, experience has shown that delays and shortfalls often characterize the release of external funds. We therefore express cautious optimism in the success of the implementation of the plan. As can be seen from the table, funds for the implementation of the plan depend heavily on external funds. In fact, the largest chunk (83.72%) of the expected revenue comes from external government and external donors. Unfortunately, inflows from the DACF are also untimely. This poses another serious challenge to the successful implementation of planed activities. It is the hope of the Assembly that this plan period will expect frequent and timely release of funds from the central government, Ministries and Departments and other donors. This will enable the District Assembly implement most of its major infrastructure programs in the education, water and sanitation, electricity supply, roads and agricultural sectors.

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CHAPTER FIVE 5.0 ANNUAL ACTION PLANS Based on the programme of action, annual plan of actions were formulated. This constitutes basically those projects or activities which will be implemented in the 2014. They form the basis upon which subsequent activities in the plan will be carried out.

5.1 DISTRICT ANNUAL ACTION PLAN (2014) ENSURING AND SUSTAINING MACROECONOMIC STABILITY

Goal: To increase internally generated revenue and to ensure prudent expenditure management

Activities Location Output Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH Local External Lead Collaborating

GSGDA Objective: Improve Fiscal Resource Mobilization

Update data on District- Data on all 4,900.00 District Finance DPCU all ratable wide ratable Office properties and properties and persons persons compiled

Undertake Agotime, Valuation 26,000.00 District DPCU valuation on Ziope undertaken Valuation Board all properties

Undertake 6 Kpetoe Education 3,300.00 District Finance ISD/NCCE No. tax undertaken Office education Abenyinas e

Apegame

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Akpokope

Ziope

Agbagodo

Recruit Kpetoe 5 revenue 5,500.00 DA Revenue officers officials employed

Organise Kpetoe Capacity of 12,700.00 District Finance Capacity Revenue Office Building Officials Workshop for improved Revenue Mobilization

Provide District- Capacity for 3,600.00 DPCU logistics for wide revenue revenue collection collection improved

Undertake Kpetoe & Locality 25,000.00 25,000.00 DPCU street naming Ziope identification and house enhanced numbering

Objective 2: To improve Public Expenditure Management

Organize DA Public made 1,250.00 District General annual forum aware of Administration Assembly

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Organise Kpetoe Capacity for 2,000.00 DPCU Capacity public Building procurement Workshop for improved Procurement Staff

Set aside 20% DA 5% of IGF set District Finance DA of IGF aside Office annually for capital development

Undertake DA DMTDP 1,000.00 DPCU Development performance review Planning Sub- review of the undertaken Committee DMTDP

Total 57,250.00 53,000.00

ENHANCING COMPETIVENESS IN GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Local External Lead Collaborating

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Objective : To diversify and expand tourism industry for revenue generation

Participate in Ho Local Economic 6,000.00 Committee Volta Region Volta Trade and Activities Members Trade, Investment Fair Promoted Investment and Cultural Committee

Support the Kpetoe Tourism 6,000.00 DA Celebration of and development Kente Ziope supported (Agbamovorza) and Other Festivals

Facilitate the Kpetoe Tourism 5,000.00 DA completion of the reception and tourism receptive information facility generation enhanced

Objective: Expand Opportunities for job creation (Promoting Local Economic Development)

Establish Local Kpetoe Administrative 3,000.00 DA Economic and Political Development processes for an Initiative in the LED Initiative District put in place

Assess the Local District- The Strengths, 9,000.00 DPCU Other Economy wide Weaknesses, stakeholders

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Opportunities, and Threats of the District Economy identified

Formulate a Kpetoe LED Goal 4,000.00 DPCU Other Strategic Plan for Defined and stakeholders the LED Programmes/ Initiative projects and activities outlined to meet the goal

Objective : To promote income generating opportunities for the poor and vulnerable, including women and food crop farmers

Identify District – Women’s 2,000.00 WIAD DPCU, MOFA Women’s wide vegetable Vegetable farming group farming identified groups

Monitor the District Activities of 3,000.00 DPCU DADU activities of wide selected selected women’s women’s farming groups farming monitored groups and collect money

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Objective : To progressively expand social protection interventions to cover the poor

Implement the District- Expanded 237,949.00 DA DIC of the Ghana School wide school feeding School feeding Feeding programme programme programme implemented

Train 40 District- Capacity of 4,560.00 DA Other Disable wide PWDs in stakeholders Women and 10 business Disabled Men management on Enterprise improved Development

Support to District- Status of PWDs 48,000.00 AADA Committee for People With wide improved People with Disabilities Disabilities

Support for 4 Selected Local 25,000.00 DPCU PWD Community Communit development Initiated ies initiatives Projects promoted

Establish/form District- Virgin Clubs 200.00 GCC DPCU virgin/abstinen wide established in ce clubs in eight schools eight (8) across the schools district

Organize District- Quizzes 300.00 GCC DPCU quizzes for the wide organized for

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Objective 8: Reduce feminized poverty

Support District- Provided 2,000.00 NBSSI DA Women wide financial organizations support various women’s organization

Assist women District- Women’s 3200 MOFA, DA DPCU groups with wide groups assisted start-up capital with start-up capital

Gender District- Gender related 10,000.00 DPCU DSW Mainstreaming wide activities enhanced

Objective: enhance spatial development

Preparation of Kpetoe Base Map, 20,000.00 District Town DA Base Map, Township Master Plan & and Country Master Plan Layout Dept and Layout prepared

Acquisition of Kpetoe Assembly lands 100,000.00 District Town DA Public Lands acquired and Country Dept

Undertake Kpetoe Spatial 34,000.00 District Town DA

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Zoning in 2 development and Country Communities enhanced Dept

Enforcement Kpetoe Spatial 4,900.00 District Town DA of building and Ziope development and Country regulations enhanced Dept

Consultancy 40,000.00 services

Total 568,109.00

ACCELERATED AGRICULTURE MODERNIZATION AND AGRO-BASED INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

Goal: To modernize agriculture for food security, wealth creation, employment generation and poverty reduction

Objective 1: To ensure food security and emergency preparedness by 2014

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Local External Lead Collaborati ng

Celebrate District- Farmers’ day 10,000 DADU DA Farmer’s Day wide Celebrated

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Support for food District- Food production 1,000 DADU DA crops wide increased Development

Support for District- Animal 2,000 DADU DA animal wide production development increased

Monitoring and District- Improved 1,000 DADU DA Extension wide coordination of Services agricultural activities

Total 14,000.0 0

OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT

Objective 1: To improve access to land for private investment

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Local External Lead Collaborating

Objective : To diversify and expand tourism industry for revenue generation

Support Local District- Local Economic 6,000.00 DPCU DA Residence to wide Activities study oil and gas Promoted related programmes

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Support the Kpetoe Local Economic 6,000.00 DA establishment or Activities expansion of oil Promoted and gas filling stations

Total 12,000.00

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INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT

Objective : To improve upon the sanitation in the District by 2014

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Local External Lead Collaborating

Undertake District- Awereness created 24,000.00 PWD DEHO public wide on the need to education on preserve natural the negative resources impacts of degrading natural resources

Maintenance District- Sanitation 10,000.00 PWD DEHO of Sanitation wide equipments equipments maintained

Provide for District- 40,000 PWD DPCU sanitation and wide management issues

Develop final Aquired site for 40,000.00 DPCU DEHO disposal site disposal of solid waste developed

Organise District- Environmetal 25,000.00 PWD DA Quarterly wide cleaniness

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Objective : To pursue and expand market access

Rehabilitation Kpetoe Market 20,000 PWD DPCU of Toilets Market rehabilitated Facilities

Construction Kpetoe Market 60,000.00 DPCU PWD of 16 Unit infrastructure Market Stalls improved

Construction Ziope Market 67,000.00 DPCU PWD of 16 Unit infrastructure Market Stalls improved

Provide Street District- Provided street 25,000.00 PWD DPCU lights wide lights

Support for District- Extended 30,000.00 PWD DPCU Rural wide electricity to some Electrification communities in projects the district

Maintain Kpetoe, Visibility security 20,000.00 PWD DPCU streetlights in situation improved 4 communities Ziope Batume Junction,

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Objective: Ensure sustainable Development in the Transport Sector

Upgrade 25km District- Access to 20,000.00 DoFR DPCU of Feeder wide communities Roads improved

Upgrade 25km 1. Bedzame- Community 40,000.00 DoFR DPCU of Feeder Kortsrala- access improved Roads Kayeme

2.Mangoase -Kpehadzi

3.Kakadedzi -Silandri

4.Sarakope- Vadzakpo

5.Kpetoe- Agohokpo

6. Kpetoe- Mangoase

Reshaping of 1.Sarakope- Accessibility in selected feeder Vodzakpo communities roads improved 2.Ziope- Bedzame- Keyeme

3.Togbega

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Junction- Kpetoe Mkt.

4.Kpetoe- Kpehadzi

5.Togbe Bina Residency Road

Objective: Accelerate the provision of adequate and safe water

Provision of Potable water 44,000.00 potable water coverage to 4 improved Communities

Organise Efficient use of 2,000.00 DA DWST public Water achieved awareness programmes on efficient utilisation of water

Extend potable Kpetoe Potable water 20,000.00 DA DWST water to Senior coverage Staff improved Bungalows

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Construction Sanitation 60,000.00 DA DWST of 2No-5 coverage Seater improved Institutional Latrines

Construction Ziope Sanitation services 15,000.00 DA DWST of 1-No animal improved Pen

Total 40,000.00 522,000.00

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT

Education

Goal: To increase standard of education in the District

Objective: To promote teaching and learning by 2014

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Local External Lead Collaborating

Celebrate Kpetoe 50 teachers 10,000 DED DEPT national day for trained best teacher/worker award

Support for District- Circuit 6,000 DED DEPT Science wide supervision in the Technology and District organized Mathematics Education Clinic

Education- District- Scholarship 16,000 DA DED Scholarship wide granted

Support for District- Girl-Child 16,000 DED DA Girl-Child wide education Education supported

Provision of District- Teaching and 16,000 DED DA Desk to schools wide learning enhanced

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Objective 2: To improve upon education infrastructure in 20 communities by 2014

Construct 1No. Anglican 1 No. Classroom 100,000 PWD DPCU 3 unit classroom JHS block, office and block, office store constructed and store

Construction of Kpetoe RC 1 No. 3 unit 70,000 PWD DPCU 1No. 3 unit JHS, classroom block, classroom office & store block, office & constructed store

Construction of Akpokope 1 unit classroom 90,000 PWD DPCU 1No. 3 unit D/A Prim. block, office and classroom Sch. store rerofed and block, office & constructed store

Construction of Atsrulume 1 unit classroom 39,000 DPCU PWD 1No. 3 unit block, office and classroom store rerofed and block, office & constructed store

Construction of Bedzame 1 unit classroom 1No. 3 unit block, office and classroom store rerofed and block, office & constructed store

Construction of SDA 1 unit classroom 100,000 PWD DPCU 1No. 3 unit Primary block, office and

213 classroom Sch. store rerofed and block, office & Kpetoe constructed store

Cladding and Hornugo 7 unit classroom 210,000 DPCU PWD Completion of block, office and 3No. 6-Unit store completed Classroom and rehabilitated Block.

Health

Goal: To improve health care for majority of the people in the District

Objective: To improve upon infrastructure in 50% of the Public health institutions by 2014

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Local External Lead Collaborating

Procure Ziope Access to Laboratory 20,000 PWD GHS equipment for a Community services enhanced Laboratory at Health Ziope Health Centre Centre

Provide Akpokope Accessed to health 20,000.00 DPCU GHS Furniture and services enhanced other logistics for the operation of a CHPS Compound

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Objective : To reduce the incidence of malaria and HIV/AIDS and other preventable diseases by 20% by 2014

Support DRI on District - 5,000.00 GHS ISD HIV/AIDS wide

Control Malaria Efforts made to control 5,000.00 GHS DA malaria

National District- Immunization programme 5,000.00 GHS DA Immunization wide organized Programme

Organize 1 No. District- Pest and insecticides 2,000.00 GHS DEHO spraying of pest wide spraying organized and insecticide breeding areas

Objective: Support Sports Development

Support sports District- Youth talents enhanced 5,000.00 GES development in wide schools

Total 735,000.00

TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE

Objective: To promote democratic, transparent and accountable local governance

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Local External Lead Collaborating

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Objective : To improve upon Disaster management and emergency preparedness

Strengthen the District- Level of vulnerability to 20,000.00 DA NADMO, Fire capacity of wide risk associated with natural Service NADMO to disaster reduced Manage Disaster

Support the District- NADMO’s capacity to 8,000.00 DA operational Plan wide prevent and mitigate the for NADMO effects of Disasters enhanced

Provision for Unforeseen circumstances 50,000.00 DA contingencies and emergency issues addressed

Objective : To encourage public-private participation in socio-economic development by 2014

Organize District- Stakeholder forum on 1,500.00 DA. Stakeholders sensitization wide development held programmes for the communities

Objective : To improve the economic and social well-being of vulnerable and excluded in society

Support for District- Database on PWDs 48,000.00 Social DPCU programmes of wide Welfare People with Dept. Disabilities (PWDs)

Promote the District- 1,000.00 Social NGOs,

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Rights of the wide Welfare Development vulnerable and Partners the Excluded

Promote Child District- Citizens educated against 2,000.00 Social Vulnerability Welfare wide PWDs discrimination Welfare related Groups

Construction of District- Accesses for the disabled 10,000.00 Social PWD access for the wide Welfare disabled

Identify five (5) District- Five girls identified and 650.00 GCC/CD DPCU school drop outs wide enrolled into vocation (girls) and enrol schools of their choice them into vocation of their choice

Objective: To improve the performance of the D/A and Sub-District Structures by 2014

Completion of Kpetoe 4 Senior Staff 93,000.00 DA DA 2No. Semi accommodated Detached Bungalows

Procure 1 No. Kpetoe Data processing and 9,000.00 DPCU Area Council Computer and storage improved at accessories for Kpetoe Kpetoe Area Council

Procure a motor Ziope Administrative 5,400.00 DPCU Area Council cycle for Ziope activities improved in Area Council Kpetoe

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Provision for Kpetoe Utility bills promptly 80,000.00 DA DA Cost related to paid Utility usage by DA Central Administration

Organise 4No- Kpetoe Statutory meeting 15,000 DA DA General requirements met Assembly Meetings

Procurement of Kpetoe Adequate stationery 35,000.00 PWD DPCU Stationery for provided Office use

Supply & Kpetoe Overhead Tank 20,000.00 PWD DPCU Installation of supplied for office Overhead water complex tanks for office Complex

Procurement of Kpetoe Office equipments 25,000.00 PWD DPCU Office procurement Equipment

Operation and Kpetoe Functional capacity of 60,000.00 PWD DPCU Maintenance of machines and Offices and equipment enhanced Office Equipment

Operation and District-wide Fuctionality of physical 60,000.00 PWD DPCU Maintenance of properties enhanced

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Physical Properties belonging to the Assembly

Provision of Poly Kpetoe & Water storage 20,000.00 DWD DPCU Tanks for DA Akpokope improved Offices and CHPS Compound

Prepare District Kpetoe A 4-Year Medium 32,000.00 DPCU DA Medium Term Term Development Development Plan prepared Plan 2014-2017

Fencing of Kpetoe Security at the 40,000.00 PWD DPCU DCE’s Residency improved Residency

Monitor and District-wide Projects monitored and 10,000.00 DA DPCU evaluate projects evaluated

Provision for District-wide Administrative services 66,560.00 DA running and enhanced Administrative Expenses

Provision for Kpetoe Development Planning, 10,000.00 DA DPCU development Management and Planning, Budgeting enhanced Management and Budget

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Implementation

Total 15,000.00 707,110.00

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Total Cost for the Annual Plan

The total amount budgeted for the annual plan for 2014 is GH₵ 2,576,952.00. The cost has been broken down under economic, social, administration and environment.

Table 22: Estimated Total Cost for Annual plan – 2014

Thematic Area Amount (GH₵)

Ensuring And Sustainable Macroeconomic Stability 110,250.00

Enhancing Competiveness In Ghana’s Private Sector 568,109.00

Accelerated Agricultural Modernization And Sustainable Resource 14,0000.00 Management

Oil and Gas Development 12,000.00

Infrastructure, Energy and Human Settlement 562,000.00

Human Development, Productivity and Employment 735,000.00

Transparent And Accountable Governance 722,110.00

Total 2,576,952.00

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ANNUAL ACTION PLAN Based on the programme of action, annual plan of actions were formulated. This constitutes basically those projects or activities which will be implemented in the 2015. They form the basis upon which subsequent activities in the plan will be carried out.

5.2 DISTRICT ANNUAL ACTION PLAN (2015) ENSURING AND SUSTAINING MACROECONOMIC STABILITY Goal: To increase internally generated revenue and to ensure prudent expenditure management

Activities Location Output Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH Estimated Sources of Lead Collaboratin Cost Funds g

GSGDA Objective: Improve Fiscal Resource Mobilization

Update data on all District-wide Data on all 4,900.00 DACF District DPCU ratable properties ratable Finance Office and persons properties and persons compiled

Undertake 6 No. tax Kpetoe Education 3,300.00 IGF District ISD/NCCE education undertaken Finance Office Abenyinase

Apegame

Akpokope

Ziope

Agbagodo

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Recruit Revenue Kpetoe 5 revenue 5,500.00 IGF DA officials officers employed

Provide logistics for District-wide Capacity for 3,600.00 DPCU revenue collection revenue collection improved

Undertake Street Kpetoe & Revenue 50,000.00 DACF Street Naming Chiefs and Naming and Ziope collection Committee Elders Property Addressing improved

Objective 2: To improve Public Expenditure Management

Organize annual DA Public made 1,250.00 DACF District General forum to account to aware of Administra Assembly General Assembly accounts tion and public

Undertake DA DMTDP review 1,000.00 DACF DPCU Development performance review undertaken Planning Sub- of the DMTDP Committee

Total 57,250.00

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ENHANCING COMPETIVENESS IN GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Local External Lead Collaborating

Objective : To diversify and expand tourism industry for revenue generation

Support the Kpetoe Tourism 6,000.00 DA Celebration of and Ziope development Kente supported (Agbamovorza) and Other Festivals

Objective: Expand Opportunities for job creation (Promoting Local Economic Development)

Establish Local Kpetoe Administrative 3,000.00 DA Economic and Political Development processes for an Initiative in the LED Initiative put District in place

Support Skills Kpetoe LED activities 4,000.00 DPCU Other development of the enhanced stakeholders youth

Objective : To progressively expand social protection interventions to cover the poor

Implement the District- Expanded school 237,949.00 DA DIC of the School Ghana School wide feeding feeding Feeding programme programme programme implemented

Train 40 District- Capacity of 4,560.00 DA Other Disable Women wide PWDs in stakeholders

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Support to District- Status of PWDs 48,000.00 AADA Committee for People With wide improved People with Disabilities Disabilities

Support for the District- Local 25,000.00 DPCU PWD Development of wide development SME’s initiatives promoted

Gender District- Gender related 10,000.00 DPCU DSW Mainstreaming wide activities enhanced

Objective: Enhance tourism development

Support the Akpokope Kente products 120,000.00 DA MoTI construct of a promoted Kente Craft Village

Total

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ACCELERATED AGRICULTURE MODERNIZATION AND AGRO-BASED INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

Goal: To modernize agriculture for food security, wealth creation, employment generation and poverty reduction

Objective 1: To ensure food security and emergency preparedness by 2015

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Local External Lead Collaboratin g

Celebrate Farmer’s District- Farmers’ day 10,000 DADU DA Day wide Celebrated

Support for food District- Food production 1,000 DADU DA crops Development wide increased

Support for animal District- Animal production 2,000 DADU DA development wide increased

Monitoring and District- Improved 1,000 DADU DA Extension Services wide coordination of agricultural activities

Total 14,000.0 0

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OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT

Objective 1: To improve access to land for private investment

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Estimated Source of Lead Collaborating Cost Funds

Objective : To diversify and expand tourism industry for revenue generation

Support the Kpetoe Local Economic 6,000.00 DACF DA establishment or Activities expansion of oil Promoted and gas filling stations

Support Skills District Skills in oil and 10,000.00 DACF DA acquisition of wide gas related residents in the oil activities and gas sector improved

Total 16,000.00

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INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT

Objective : To improve upon the sanitation in the District by 2015

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Estimated Cost Source of Lead Collaborating Funds

Provide for District- 40,000 DACF PWD DPCU sanitation and wide management

Organise District- Environmetal 25,000.00 DACF PWD DA Monthly clean wide cleaniness improved up exercises

Support for District- Extended electricity 30,000.00 DACF PWD DPCU Rural wide to some Electrification communities in the projects district

Maintain Kpetoe, Visibility security 20,000.00 DACF PWD DPCU streetlights in 4 situation improved communities Ziope Batume Junction,

Ebe

Objective: To improve Road Infrastructure

Upgrade 25km 1. Trigoni- Community 40,000.00 DACF DoFR DPCU of Feeder Roads Alorkpui- access

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Wudzedeke improved

2.Wukpe-Dohia- Tsavange

3.Dohia- Bedzame- Aforkpui

4.Agorkpo- Tumor-Shiavi- Adzorvi

5.Wuga-Kpexor- Dawuve

6. Wudzedeke Junc-Naoyikpo

7. Abodahi juc. – Amezakorpe

8. Wudasi- Kporta

9. Obemla- Anatikorp

10. Agorhokpo- Azamatikope

11. Abodahi Junc-Agodeke

12. Amedikpui-

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Vedome

13. Dadipedo junc – Dadipedo Kpenko –Avele

14. Keklebeshie – Kpenkor- Wuvevia

Objective: Accelerate the provision of adequate and safe water

Provision of Potable water 44,000.00 DACF potable water to coverage improved 4 Communities

Total 40,000.00 522,000.00

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DEVELOPING THE HUMAN RESOURCES FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Education

Goal: To increase standard of education in the District

Objective: To promote teaching and learning by 2015

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Local External Lead Collaborating

Support for District- Circuit 6,000 DED DEPT Science wide supervision in the Technology and District organized Mathematics Education Clinic

Education- District- Scholarship 16,000 DA DED Scholarship wide granted

Objective 1: To improve educational infrastructure

Construct 1No. Anglican 1 No. Classroom 100,000 PWD DPCU 3 unit classroom JHS block, office and block, office store constructed and store

Construction of Kpetoe 1 No. 3 unit 70,000 PWD DPCU 1No. 3 unit SDA JHS, classroom block, classroom office & store block, office & constructed store

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Construction of Akpokope 1 unit classroom 90,000 PWD DPCU 1No. 3 unit D/A Prim. block, office and classroom Sch. store rerofed and block, office & constructed store

Construction of Adzonkor 1 unit classroom 39,000 DPCU PWD 1No. 3 unit block, office and classroom store rerofed and block, office & constructed store

Support the Atsrulume 1 unit classroom Construction of block, office and 1No. 3 unit store rerofed and classroom constructed block, office & store

Support the Obemla 1 unit classroom 100,000 DACF PWD DPCU Construction of block, office and 1No. 3 unit store rerofed and classroom constructed block, office & store

Cladding and Hornugo 7 unit classroom 210,000 DACF DPCU PWD Completion of block, office and 3No. 6-Unit Yevi store completed Classroom and rehabilitated Block.

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Rehabilitation District- 20,000 DACF of selected wide schools

Provision of 20,000 furniture to Agosec

Organise 5,000 Workshop and Training for Youth

Support Adult 6,000 Functional Literacy programme

Organise Mass Meetings for Communities

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Health

Goal: To improve health care for majority of the people in the District

Objective: To improve upon infrastructure in 50% of the Public health institutions by 2015

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Local External Lead Collaborating

Procure Ziope Access to Laboratory 20,000.00 PWD GHS equipment for a Community services enhanced Laboratory at Health Ziope Health Centre Centre

Provide Akpokope Accessed to health 20,000.00 DPCU GHS Furniture and services enhanced other logistics for the operation of a CHPS Compound

Construction of Shilandre Access to health service 170,000.00 DPCU GHS 1No. CHPS enhanced Compound

Construction of Obemla Access to health service 170,000.00 DPCU GHS 1No. CHPS enhanced Compound

Rehabilitation of Access to health service 86,000.00 DPCU GHS 3 No Health enhanced Centres District

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Wide

Objective : To reduce the incidence of malaria and HIV/AIDS and other preventable diseases by 20% by 2015

Support DRI on District – 10858.68.00 GHS ISD HIV/AIDS wide

Control Malaria Efforts made to control GHS DA malaria

National District- Immunization programme 10,858.68.00 GHS DA Immunization wide organized Programme

Organize 1 No. District- Pest and insecticides 2,000.00 GHS DEHO Spraying of pest wide spraying organized and insecticide breeding areas

Objective: Support Sports Development

Support sports District- Youth talents enhanced 5,000.00 GES development in wide schools

Total 735,0000

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TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE

Objective: To promote democratic, transparent and accountable local governance

Activities Location Output Time Frame Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Estimated Source of Lead Collaborating Cost Funds

Objective : To improve upon Disaster management and emergency preparedness

Strengthen the District- Level of vulnerability to 20,000.00 DACF DA NADMO, Fire capacity of wide risk associated with natural Service NADMO to disaster reduced Manage Disaster

Support the District- NADMO’s capacity to 8,000.00 DACF DA operational Plan wide prevent and mitigate the for NADMO effects of Disasters enhanced

Provision for Unforeseen circumstances 50,000.00 DACF DA contingencies and emergency issues addressed

Objective : To encourage public-private participation in socio-economic development by 2015

Organize District- Stakeholder forum on 1,500.00 DACF DA. Stakeholders sensitization wide development held programmes for the communities

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Objective : To improve the economic and social well-being of vulnerable and excluded in society

Support for District- Database on PWDs 48,000.00 DACF Social DPCU programmes of wide Welfare People with Dept. Disabilities (PWDs)

Promote the District- 1,000.00 DACF Social NGOs, Rights of the wide Welfare Development vulnerable and Partners the Excluded

Promote Child District- Citizens educated against 2,000.00 DACF Social Vulnerability Welfare wide PWDs discrimination Welfare related Groups

Construction of District- Accesses for the disabled 10,000.00 DACF Social PWD access for the wide Welfare disabled

Identify five (5) District- Five girls identified and 650.00 DACF GCC/CD DPCU school drop outs wide enrolled into vocation (girls) and enrol schools of their choice them into vocation of their choice

Objective: To improve the performance of the D/A and Sub-District Structures by 2015

Preparation of Kpetoe DMTDP Plan 2014-2017 30,000.00 DACF DPCU DA DMTDP 2014- finalized 2017

Preparation of Kpetoe 2015 Composite Budget 9,000.00 DACF DPCU DA

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2015 Composite prepared and Implemented Budget

Support the Kpetoe & Administrative activities 5,400.00 DACF DPCU Area Councils Operations of Ziope improved Sub District Structures (Agotime & Ziope Area Councils

Provision for Kpetoe Utility bills promptly paid 80,000.00 DACF DA DA Cost related to Utility usage by DA Central Administration

Organise 4No- Kpetoe Statutory meeting 15,000 DACF DA DA General requirements met Assembly Meetings

Quarterly M&E Kpetoe District Development 35,000.00 DACF Central DPCU Activities carefully Monitored Administrati on

Hold statutory Kpetoe Sub Committees and other 20,000.00 DACF Central DPCU meetings statutory meetings Administrati organized on

Procurement of Kpetoe Office equipments 25,000.00 DACF Central DPCU Office procurement Administrati Equipment on

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Operation and Kpetoe Functional capacity of 60,000.00 DACF Central DPCU Maintenance of machines and equipment Administrati Offices and enhanced on Office Equipment

Operation and District- Fuctionality of physical 60,000.00 DACF PWD DPCU Maintenance of wide properties enhanced Physical Properties belonging to the Assembly

Support for Kpetoe Service delivery improved 20,000.00 DACF DPCU DPCU Capacity Building of Staff

Prepare District Kpetoe A 4-Year M&E Plan 20,000.00 DACF DPCU DA M&E Plan 2014- prepared 2017

Fencing of Kpetoe Security at the Residency 40,000.00 DACF PWD DPCU DCE’s improved Residency and Landscaping

Completion Semi Kpetoe To enchanced staff 100,000.00 DACF PWD DPCU Detached accommodation Bungalow

Construction of a Kpetoe Safety and security of staff 15,000.00 DACF PWD DPCU garage at the and visitors cars premise of DA

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Administration Block

Procurement of a DCE Improved security at the 27,920.79 DACF PWD DPCU Generator Bungalow residency

Utilisation of District- Ensure development in the 120,000.00 DACF PWD DPCU MPs Funds for Wide district Community Development Programmes

Construction of Kpetoe Office accommodation for 198,298.70 DACF PWD DPCU District Police the Police Station

Construction of Kpetoe Justice delivery 198,937.00 DACF PWD DPCU District Magistrate Court

Construction of Ziope Office accommodation for 140,000.00 DDF PWD DPCU Ziope Police the Police Station

Monitor and District- Projects monitored and 10,000.00 DACF DA DPCU evaluate projects wide evaluated

Provision for District- Administrative services 66,560.00 DACF DA running and wide enhanced Administrative Expenses

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Total Cost for the Annual Plan

The total amount budgeted for the annual plan for 2013 is GH₵ 2,576,952.00. The cost has been broken down under economic, social, administration and environment.

Table 22: Estimated Total Cost for Annual plan – 2015

Thematic Area Amount (GH₵)

Ensuring And Sustainable Macroeconomic Stability 110,250.00

Enhancing Competiveness In Ghana’s Private Sector 568,109.00

Accelerated Agricultural Modernization And Sustainable Resource 14,0000.00 Management

Oil and Gas Development 12,000.00

Infrastructure, Energy and Human Settlement 562,000.00

Human Development, Productivity and Employment 735,000.00

Transparent And Accountable Governance 722,110.00

Total 2,576,952.00

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Based on the programme of action, annual plan of actions were formulated. This constitutes basically those projects or activities which will be implemented in the 2015. They form the basis upon which subsequent activities in the plan will be carried out.

5.3 DISTRICT ANNUAL ACTION PLAN (2016) ENSURING AND SUSTAINING MACROECONOMIC STABILITY

Goal: To increase internally generated revenue and to ensure prudent expenditure management

Activities Location Output Annual Budget Implementing Agencies

1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH Estimated Sources of Lead Collaboratin Cost Funds g

GSGDA Objective: Improve Fiscal Resource Mobilization

Update data on all District-wide Data on all 4,900.00 DACF District DPCU ratable properties ratable Finance Office and persons properties and persons compiled

Undertake 6 No. tax Kpetoe Education 3,300.00 IGF District ISD/NCCE education undertaken Finance Office Abenyinase

Apegame

Akpokope

Ziope

Agbagodo

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Recruit Revenue Kpetoe 5 revenue 5,500.00 IGF DA officials officers employed

Provide logistics for District-wide Capacity for 3,600.00 DPCU revenue collection revenue collection improved

Undertake Street Kpetoe & Revenue 50,000.00 DACF Street Naming Chiefs and Naming and Ziope collection Committee Elders Property Addressing improved

Objective 2: To improve Public Expenditure Management

Organize annual DA Public made 1,250.00 DACF District General forum to account to aware of Administra Assembly General Assembly accounts tion and public

Undertake DA DMTDP review 1,000.00 DACF DPCU Development performance review undertaken Planning Sub- of the DMTDP Committee

Total 57,250.00

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