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Draft District Medium Term Development Plan Programmes and Activities for 2014-2017 DRAFT DISTRICT MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES FOR 2014-2017 PLAN WAS DRAWN WITH GUIDELINES FROM THE NATIONL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AUTHORITY IN LINE WITH THE THEMATIC AREAS SET OUT IN THE GHANA SHARED GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENDA(GSGDA II) WA WEST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2014 - 2017 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS BASIC EDUCATION CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION BECE CHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF GHANA CHAG CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICE CRS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE CHRAJ COMMUNITY BASED ORGANISATION CBO COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING OFFICER CPO COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING SERVICE CHPS COMMUNITY WATER AND SANITATION AGENCY CWSA COMMUNITY-BASED RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT CBRDP DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS DP DISTRICT ASSEMBLY COMMON FUND DACF DISTRICT ASSEMBLY DA DISTRICT HEALTH MANAGEMENT TEAM DHMT DISTRICT MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN DMTDP DISTRICT PLANNING AND COORDINATION UNIT DPCU DISTRICT WATER AND SANITATION TEAM DWST DISTRICT-WIDE ASSISTANCE PROJECT DWAP ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES ECOWAS Wa West District Medium Term Dev’t Plan 2014-2017 Page 1 EUROPEAN UNION EU GHANA EDUCATION SERVICE GES GHANA HEALTH SERVICE GHS GHANA SHARED GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENDA GSGDA GOVERNMENT OF GHANA GOG HEAVILY INDEBTED POOR COUNTRY HIPC INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ICT INTERNAL GENERATED FUND IGF JAPAN INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION AGENCY JICA LIQUIFIED PETROLLEUM GAS LPG LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LED MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT POLICY FRAMEWORK MTDPF MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT MP MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MDG MINISTRY OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE MOFA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN MOWAC MONITORING AND EVALUATION M&E MULTI-SECTORAL HIV AND AIDS PROJECT MSHAP NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR CIVIC EDUCATION NCCE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING COMMISSION NDPC NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME NHIS NATIONAL YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME NYEP Wa West District Medium Term Dev’t Plan 2014-2017 Page 2 NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION NGO OPEN DEFECATION FREE ODF OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT OPD PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION PTA POTENTIALS, OPPORTUNITIES, CONSTRAINS, CHALLENGES POCC REGIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL RCC REGIONAL PLANNING COORDINATING UNIT RPCU RURAL ACTION AID PROGRAMME RAAP SAVANNA ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT AGENCY SADA SCHOOL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE SMC SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES STDS SMALL TOWN WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM PROJECT STWSSP SOCIAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL INSURANCE TRUST SSNIT STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT SEA UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S EMERGENCY FUND UNICEF VOLUNTARY COUNSELLING AND TESTING VCT WA WEST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY WWDA WATER AND SANITATION WATSAN WECHIAU COMMUNITY HIPPO SANCTUARY WCHS Wa West District Medium Term Dev’t Plan 2014-2017 Page 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.0 GENERAL BACKGROUND TO THE PREPARATION OF THE DISTRICT MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN The preparation of this Medium-Term Development Plan (DMTDP, 2014-2017), is in fulfillment of the constitutional mandate, which requires every district to develop a Medium Term Development Plan. The District Planning Coordinating Unit (DPCU) adopted a participatory approach in preparing the 2014 - 2017 Medium Term Development Plan. The following steps were adopted: 1. To engender participation, a Plan Preparation Team was formed comprising all the departments of the Assembly. Through the instrumentality of the RCC, a facilitator was engaged to give technical support to the planning team. 2. Both secondary and primary data were collected to facilitate the preparation of the DMTDP. The outcome of the data collected is the review report of the 2010-2013 DMTDP and the updating of spatial maps of facilities in the district. 3. The data collected were analyzed to form the bases for the projections. Objectives and strategies were determined through a two day stakeholder meeting. During the review, technical support was given by the RPCU. 4. Community needs assessment was carried out for all communities with the assistance of elected assembly members. This enabled the Assembly to identify and categorize the issues/gaps from each area council. These area council issues were further integrated into the district key development issues. 5. To enhance participation, two public hearings were conducted in all the five area councils in the district. This was to validate the plan and give the citizenry the opportunity to make inputs into the plan. A total of 372 people participated in the public hearings of which 136 were female and 236 were male. The analysis underscored the need for more involvement of women in decision making. Find attached the list of attendance as APPENDIX 1. Motivation The major motivations came from the zeal of the plan preparation team to serve the communities even though faced with major challenges such as inadequate funds. The planning team was also motivated by the constant technical support from the RPCU. The availability of the needed leadership (both administrative and political) was also timely and helped a lot. Wa West District Medium Term Dev’t Plan 2014-2017 Page 4 Support Without support, the planning process would have been in jeopardy. Technical and financial support in the area of capacity and data collection was provided by the District Assembly. The technical support was through the faciltatoship of Eric Bannye of SNV. The District Assembly also provided financial and leadership support. Challenges The plan preparation was not without challenges. A major constraint has been the weak database of the District Assembly and inadequate funding. Technical capacities in Planning in the district is also low. This has made the few staff with planning skills to be overburden with work which has serious implication for the output of the process. This constraint was mitigated by the introduction of the concept of mentorship. In many respects, this medium-term development plan seeks to address the challenges and set-backs of the immediate past plan (2010-2013 DMTDP). The 2014-2017 DMTDP is anchored on the following themes: 1. Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability 2. Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector 3. Accelerated Agricultural Modernisation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management 4. Oil and Gas Development 5. Infrastructure and Human Settlements 6. Human Development, Productivity and Employment 7. Transparent and Accountable Governance The district goal is “To improve the quality of life of the people through the provision of basic infrastructure and socio-economic services”. Enhanced competiveness in Ghana’s private sector thematic focuses on increase tourist visit to the Wechiau Hippo Sanctuary. With the Accelerated agricultural modernisation and natural resource management thematic area, emphasis is on increasing major crops and animal production, reduction in the rate of bush fires and strengthening disaster prevention. Wa West District Medium Term Dev’t Plan 2014-2017 Page 5 Under the Infrastructure, energy and human settlements development thematic area, the main focus of the plan is to extend electricity to many communities, increase access to ICT, improve the road network, and develop planning schemes among others. With the Human development, employment and productivity thematic area, the focus is reducing maternal mortality, infant mortality and HIV AIDS rates, increase NHIS coverage, improve teacher- pupil ratio, gross enrolment rate and school infrastructure situation. Water and Sanitation is also emphasized. Women participation in decision making, security, local economic development and internal generated fund took centre stage in the Transparent and Accountable Governance thematic area. 2.0 SCOPE AND DIRECTION OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES AND PROJECTS FOR 2014-2017 This document is divided into six chapters. Chapter one deals with the review of the previous plan and the analysis of the situation as pertained in 2013. The review shows that there were marginal increases in many of the achievements as compared to the targets. Prominent among the factors that worked against the district development targets include the drought in 2010, the floods in 2011 and 2013 for the agricultural sector. In the education sector, enrolment figures at the basic level are still low, and teacher-pupil ratio has not also seen any improvement. Health indicators such as NHIS coverage, HIV/AIDS prevalence rate, maternal mortality etc show marginal improvement. Sanitation situation in the district is also not encouraging. However, water coverage has shown marked improvement. The situational analysis unearthed development problems from water and sanitation, health, agriculture, education, performance of the local governance system, tourism among others. Chapter two presented the prioritized issue. These problems are then subjected to the analysis of Potentials, Opportunities, Constraints and Challenges in respect of the MTDPF (2014-2017). The outcome of this chapter is that there are enough opportunities and potentials in the district to solving the development problems identified in chapter one. Wa West District Medium Term Dev’t Plan 2014-2017 Page 6 Chapter three highlights the district goal, objectives and strategies to tackle the development problems in the district. For effective objective setting, projections are made. It is assumed among others that: • The population growth rate will not exceed 1.7% per annum; • Migration rate will also remain unchanged. In chapter four, the Programme of Action analysis reveals that the total cost of financing the Medium Term Development Plan (2014 – 2017) stands
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