MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOSOME FREHO DISTRICT ASSEMBLY ANNUAL PPROGRESS REPORT 2015 Compiled by: District Planning & Coordination Unit February 2016 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents Page 1.1 Introduction ..................... ...................................... ....................... 1 1.1.2 District Profile........................................................... ............................. 1 1.1.3 District Governance..................... ...................................... ........... 1 1.1.4 District Assembly and its Objectives..................... ............................. 2 1.1.5 Purpose of the 2015 Annual Progress Report (APR) ................................. 2 1.2 The key M&E Objectives for the Year............................. ....................... 3 1.3 Processes Involved and Difficulties Encountered............ ....................... 4 2.1 Status of Implementation of DMTDP................................... ....................... 5 2.2 M&E Activities Report............... ...................................... ....................... 9 2.2.1 Programme and Projects Status as at 31st December 2015....................... 9 2.3 Update of Disbursement from Funding Sources............... ....................... 19 2.3.1 The Sources of External Inflow...................................... ....................... 19 2.3.2 Comments on the Releases of Funds.............................. ....................... 22 2.3.3 Efforts to Generate More Revenue................................. ....................... 22 2.3.4 Challenges with Regard to Disbursement....................... ....................... 22 3.1 Updates on Indicators and Targets............................... ....................... 23 3.1.1 Agriculture..................................... ................................... ....................... 23 3.1.2 Education ..................................... ................................... ....................... 25 3.1.3 Health ................................................. ................................... ....................... 28 3.2 Updates on Critical Development and Poverty Issues. ....................... 36 3.2.1 The School Feeding Programme..................................... ....................... 36 3.2.2 Incentives for Business Development ......................... ....................... 38 3.2.4 The Sustainable Management of Lake Bosomtwe Project ................. 40 3.2.5 Social Welfare.......................... ......................... ....................... 41 3.2.6 Poverty Status of the District.. ........................... ......................... 42 4.1 The Way Forward..................... ............................ ........................ 43 4.2 Conclusion..................................... ............................ ........................ 44 2 List of Tables Table 1: Programmes Activities and Achievements for 2015......................... 05 Table 2a: District’s Development Fund (DDF) Projects................................. 09 Table 2b: District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) Project...................... 12 Table 2c: GETFund Projects........................................................................... 14 Table 2d: GOG and Other Projects ................................................................... 16 Table 3: Revenue Mobilisation Performance as at 31st December 2015........ 33 Table 4: District Indicators and Parameters Agriculture................................. 36 Table 5: Registered Farmers in Bosome Freho.............................................. 38 Table 6: Staffing Situation in Public Schools ................................................ 26 Table 7: District Indicators and Parameters (Education).............................. 27 Table 8: BECE Pass Rate 2010-2015............................................................. 28 Table 9: District Indicators and Parameters (Health)................................... 29 Table 10: Situation of Core Health Staff ......................................................... 30 Table 11: District Indicators and Parameters (HIV)....................................... 32 Table 12: District Indicators and Parameters (Transp. & and Account Gov.) 32 Table13: No. of Births Registered for 2015.................................................... 33 Table 14: Beneficiaries under the School Feeding Programme....................... 34 Table 15: Beneficiaries of Rural Enterprises Project....................................... 36 Table 16: Trained and Start Up Beneficiaries (2015)........................................ 37 Table 18: Update on Indicators and Targets (GYEEDA).................................. 38 Table 19: Access to Safe Water and Sanitation .............................................. 39 Table 20: Categories of Disabled Persons Registered....................................... 40 Table 21: Family Welfare Cases Handled From 2007 to 2015...................... 40 3 1.1 Introduction In compliance with statutory requirements for monitoring and evaluation, mechanisms are put in place to measure progress of planned programmes and projects undertaken by the district, the Bosome Freho District Assembly on an annual basis prepare a District Annual Progress Report. The Annual Progress Report 2015 was prepared within the context of programmes and projects, which are in line with the seven thematic areas of the Medium Term Development Plan (MTDP) as follows: Ensuring and sustaining macroeconomic stability Enhanced competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector Accelerated agricultural modernization and natural resource management Oil and Gas Infrastructure and Human settlement Development Human development, employment and productivity Transparent and accountable governance. In addition to programmes and projects initiated at the local level, the Assembly also monitor and report on direct national and development partner interventions ongoing at the local level and report on their status of implementation. Beside these, the Assemblies report on core indicators which give indication to the level of welfare of the people and therefore serve as tools of evaluation for the various poverty reduction interventions put in place by central government and development partners at the grassroots level. 1.1.2 District Profile The Bosome Freho District Assembly is among the 30 political and Administrative Districts in the Ashanti Region, established under the Legislative Instrument (L.I.). 1.1.3 District Governance The District has 4 Area Councils made up of the following (Bosome, Bosomtwe East, Sunso Freho and Nsuta). By the creation of more electoral areas, the District now has 21 electoral areas. The Assembly has 21 elected members and 9 government appointees making the sum total of 30. They constitute the District Assembly and perform legislative functions of the 4 Assembly. The District Chief Executive and the Member of Parliament for the Constituency are also ex-officio members of the Assembly Traditionally, the District is mostly ruled by ‘Adikrofo’, most of the land belong to the Kokofu Paramountcy and Dadease Traditional Council which is an oberempon stool. 1.1.4 District Assembly and its Objectives The Assembly is the highest political and administrative body in the District and therefore exercises deliberative, legislative and executive functions. It has the mission and responsibility to improve the quality of life of the people through sustainable development. To achieve this mission, the District has set itself certain objectives namely: To facilitate the effective functioning of the local government administration in the District. To ensure efficiency and effectiveness in the use of resources of the District and the decentralized departments. To monitor, co-ordinate and harmonize the implementation of development plans and activities in district. To facilitate the provision of basic social and economic infrastructure and services in the district. To facilitate community based and private sector development in the district. 1.1.5 Purpose of the 2015 Annual Progress Report (APR) The purpose of the 2015 Annual progress Report is to assess and evaluate the performance of the Assembly, review and provide information on the impacts and achievements of the district based on the objectives set –out in the Medium Term Development Plan (2014-2017) in relation to the programmes and projects targeted for the year 2015. This report therefore indicates the level of progress of development programmes and projects initiated both by the District and the Government. Also the core indicator levels were examined to access their performance. The report also accessed the medium term development plan 2014- 2017 in its first year of operation. As part of the exercise, funding sources of revenue for project implementation were also reviewed to indicate the volume that was made available during the period and timeliness. Critical poverty interventions being implemented in the District were also reviewed to see their progress. 5 1.2 The key M&E objectives for the year The report is to assess and evaluate the performance of the District Assembly, review and provide information on the impacts and achievements of the District based on the objectives for the year 2015. This was achieved by assessing and collating achievement by various departments within the District based on the objectives set by them and the implementation of major projects and programmes that the Assembly planned to undertake.