Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 2021-2025

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 2021-2025 Contents LIST OF ACRONYMS iv

FOREWORD vi

PREFACE vii

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY viii

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background 1 1.1 .1 Brief Proile of Ketu South Municipal Assembly 2 1.1.2. Overall Objecive 2 1.1.3. Speciic Objecives 3 1.1.4. Guiding Principles 3 1.2 Why we need to Act 5

CHAPTER TWO HOW WE DID IT AND WHAT DID THE PEOPLE SAY? 7 2.1. Methodology 7 2.1.1. Desk Review 7 2.1.2. Stakeholders Consultaion 7 2.1.3. Key Informant Interview 7 2.1.4. Draing of Plan 7 2.1.5. Stakeholder Validaion 7 2.1.6. Launch of Plan 7 2.2. What did the People Say? 8 2.2.1. Pillar One - Local Economy 8 2.2.2. Pillar Two – Infrastructure 11 2.2.3. Pillar Three – People 12 2.2.4. Pillar Four – Governance 13

ii CHAPTER THREE WHAT SHOULD BE DONE 15 3.1. Desired Future State 15 3.2. How should it be done? 15

CHAPTER FOUR MOBILISING RESOURCES FOR THE PLAN 21 4.1. Introducion 21 4.2. Financing Strategy 21 4.2.1. Consolidaing the exising revenue sources 22 4.2.2. Atracing and maintaining Private Sector investments 23 4.2.3. Atract and sustain development partner investments in the municipality 23 4.2.4. Philanthropic Financing 24 4.2.5. Diaspora Financing 24

CHAPTER FIVE HOW DO WE KNOW WE HAVE SUCCEEDED 26 5.1. Monitoring and Evaluaion 26 5.2. Disseminaion and Communicaion 31

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LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Map of Ketu South Municipality 2 Figure 2: Recovery Pillars 4

LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Proposed intervenions and acions 16 Table 2: M&E Matrix for the Recovery Plan 30

Photo Credit: ketusouth.gov.gh

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan iii ACRONYMS

AGI Associaion of Ghana Industries BAC Business Advisory Centre BECE Basic Educaion Ceriicate Examinaion CSOs Civil Society Organisaions DACF District Assembly Common Fund DPs Development Partners DSWCD Department of Social Welfare and Community Development DUR Department of urban Roads EHSU Environmental Health and Sanitaion Unit FBOs Farmer Based Organisaions GES Ghana Educaion Service GHS Ghana Health Service GIZ German Technical Cooperaion GNPC Ghana Investment Promoion Centre GoG Government of Ghana GRA Ghana Revenue Authority GSS Ghana Staisical Service IGF Internally Generated Funds ISD Informaion Services Department KSMA Ketu South Municipal Assembly LED Local Economic Development LVD Lands Valuaion Division MAG Modernising Agriculture in Ghana MCD Municipal Coordinaing Director MCE Municipal Chief Execuive MDA Municipal Department of Agriculture MFD Municipal Finance Department MLGRD Ministry of Local government and Rural Development MMDAs Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies MOC Ministry of Communicaion MoF Ministry of Finance MOFARI Ministry of Foreign Afairs and Regional Integraion MOIt Ministry of Interior MPCF Member of Parliament Common Fund MPCU Municipal Planning Coordinaing Unit MTDP Medium-Term Development Plan MWD Municipal Works Department NADMO Naional Disaster Management Organisaion

iv Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan NBSSI Naional Board for Small Scale Industries NCA Naional Communicaion Authority NCCE Naional Commission for Civic Educaion NDPC Naional Development Planning Commission NGOs Non-Governmental Organisaions NITA Naional Informaion Technology Authority OHLGS Oice of the Head of Local Government Service PPD Physical Planning Department PPEs Personal Protecive Equipment PPP Public-Private Partnership PWDs People with Disabiliies REP Rural Enterprise Programme RFG Responsiveness Factor Grant SMSEs Small and Medium-Size Enterprises SSNIT Social Security and Naional Insurance Trust TA Tradiional Authoriies VRCC Volta Regional Coordinaing Council (VRCC),

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan v Foreword

Across the world, there are signs that countries are working to reduce the spread and impacts of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Some have started the process of recovery in various forms so when the process to prepare a COVID-19 Recovery Plan was started in the Ketu South Municipal Assembly (KSMA), I knew we were heading in the right direcion. It could not have come at a beter ime since the preparaion of the development plan and budget for the 2021 year are on-going.

The COVID-19 pandemic, has adversely afected socio-economic aciviies in the municipality with the closure of the land borders, in paricular severely impacing commercial aciviies. The Assembly seeks to miigate the adverse impacts of the pandemic on households, businesses and essenial social services, as well as quickly recover. We also would want to leverage on the lessons and opportuniies presented by the pandemic to transform the local economy and make it more inclusive, diversiied and resilient.

I am aware of the consultaive processes that this document has gone through and I believe that it has beneited from the rich input from a wide range of stakeholders across the Municipality. The task ahead of us is for all stakeholders to work together to translate proposals in this document into acions that will improve health and well- being, boost the local economy and improve local governance.

My appreciaion goes to all stakeholders who provided informaion for the preparaion of this document and to the Departments who assisted in coordinaing this process. We are also very grateful to Naional Development Planning Commission (NDPC) and United Naions Development Programme (UNDP) for the technical and inancial support and we look forward to your partnership as we implement the recovery plan.

Elliot Edem Agbenorwu Municipal Chief Execuive

vi Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan Preface

Ghana, like many countries around the globe, has experienced adverse economic and social ramiicaions from the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses, educaion, health, transportaion systems and tradiional fesivals, among others have been severely afected by protocols put in place to curb the spread of the virus. This notwithstanding, the pandemic also provides an opportunity to chart a new pathway to Ghana's vision of becoming a Democraic, Inclusive, Self- Reliant Developed Country by 2057. This vision is anchored on the objecive of the Ghana Beyond Aid Charter which seeks to build a wealthy, inclusive, sustainable, empowered and resilient Ghana (a W.I.S.E.R Ghana).

The Ghana Covid-19 Alleviaion and Revitalizaion of Enterprises Support (Ghana CARES) programme is government's transformaive and sustainable response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a GH¢100billion comprehensive programme to miigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, return the country to a sustained path of robust growth. Building stronger insituions to deliver eicient services, providing the necessary infrastructure to support business, improving access to long term inance, building skills to deepen the quality and impact of services, and maintaining inancial sustainability are the prime focus areas of the Ghana CARES programme.

Metropolitan, Municipal and Districts Assemblies (MMDAs) have an important role to play in the implementaion of the Ghana CARES programme by ensuring that the acions are inclusive, climate smart and consistent with the local aspiraions and capabiliies. They also must lead the process in mobilising support for the programme, atract investments, as well as build strong and resilient local economies. It is against this background that the Naional Development Planning Commission (NDPC) in collaboraion with the United Naions Development Programme (UNDP) supported ive MMDAs to prepare COVID-19 Recovery plans.

NDPC will coninue to support MMDAs in developing, implemening, and monitoring development plans that are consistent with the Ghana CARES programme.

UNDP, working with the enire United Naions in Ghana, is commited to supporing eforts to Recover Beter Together and coninue to ofer innovaive soluions that chart a more sustainable, more inclusive future for all.

On behalf of our organisaions, we want to congratulate Ketu South Municipal Assembly, Sefwi- Wiawso Municipal Assembly, Kassena Nankana West District Assembly, Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, and the Sagnarigu Municipal Assembly for developing these recovery plans. It is our hope that lessons from these plans will help speed up the COVID-19 recovery process and accelerate progress towards the SDGs and ulimately a WISER Ghana.

Mensah-Abrampa, PhD Angela Lusigi Director-General Resident Representaive Naional Development Planning Commission United Naions Development Programme

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan vii Execuive Summary

The impact of the recent outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) has been seen in all countries the world over and Ghana was not let out. From March 2020, the efects of COVID-19 have been felt on the economic, social and cultural lives of and service delivery for the people. At all levels, prevenive and curaive measures have been put in place by public and private sector actors to prevent the further spread of the disease and cure the afected persons. These ranged from severe to moderately restricive measures and protocols such as the closing of all borders and lock down of some hotspots of the country to the washing of hands, among others. As the restricions and protocols were yielding some respectable results, some of these restricions were eased gradually leaning towards resumpion of full aciviies. Meanwhile, the land border remained closed.

As a result of these, the Ketu South Municipal Assembly (KSMA) sufered a reducion in revenue, review of planned programmes and aciviies in the Medium Term Development Plan (2018-2021), job losses to people, crushing of businesses and loss of livelihoods to all manner of persons (including persons with disability). New aciviies in the health, water, sanitaion and security sectors were allocated about 36% of District Assembly Common Fund-Responsiveness Factor Grant (DACF-RFG) funds and 74% of Internally Generated Fund (IGF) that were to iniially fund other non-COVID-19 aciviies. On the other hand, programmes including trainings, community/consultaive engagements meeings were slowed down hence impacing their implementaion considering that these consitute 33% of the total 2020 Annual Acion Plan (AAP). There is therefore the need for the Ketu South Municipal Assembly to undertake programme of aciviies to build back all sectors from the impact of COVID-19, enhance Local Economic Development (LED) and build a resilient economy against local and external shocks.

The need to take acion became eminent hence the preparaion of this document. With the foregoing, aciviies were designed to provide Relief, Miigaion, Recovery, Transformaion and, Resilience. This recovery plan is based on the recovery framework developed by the Naional Development Planning Commission (NDPC) that ideniied four inter-connected pillars underpinning the recovery: Local Economy, People, Infrastructure, and Governance. This plan is hinged on the guiding principles of inclusiveness, community and phased approach, and sustainability. The overall objecives are to assist Ketu South Municipal Assembly recover from the pandemic, bounce back beter, transform the Municipality and become more resilient to future pandemics. It was prepared in a paricipatory approach, uilising primary and secondary data, complemented by the solicited views of the people.

viii Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan The consultaion with stakeholders revealed a number of issues which have been grouped under the four main pillars of Local Economy, People, Infrastructure and Governance. Observaions indicate that since the Municipality depended heavily on cross border trade and commercial aciviies, all pillars, especially, the economy and people were afected. Mainly, reducion in household and corporate income in the face of increased cost of living and expenditure, increase in residenial crime, illegal entry and teenage pregnancy, cross border relaions as seen in the increase of unapproved routes from 23 to 120 as at the beginning of September 2020.

In all, a total of thirty-one intervenions have been outline in this document at an expected cost of Twenty-Five Million, Fourty-One Thousand, Two Hundred and Fourty-Six Ghana Cedis and Sixty Pesewas (GH¢25,041,246.60). This would be sourced from tradiional and non-tradiional revenue sources that are available to the Municipality with the help of the Assembly's Integrated Financing Framework.

Monitoring and evaluaion will be carried out using a set of indicators to track the achievements during implementaion and inform the next course of acion thereby driving the KSMA towards the ulimate goal to recover from the pandemic, bounce back beter, transform the Municipality and become more resilient to future pandemics. An esimated amount of One Million, One Hundred and Ninety-Two Thousand, Four Hundred and Fourty Ghana Cedis (GH¢1,192,440) will be required for the overall monitoring and evaluaion of the recovery plan.

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan ix Introducion

Chapter

1 Chapter One: Introducion 1.1 Background chop-bars were also opened and though borders remained closed to human The recent outbreak of coronavirus traic, special arrangements were made (COVID-19) impacted countries to transport Ghanaians “trapped” abroad throughout the world, including Ghana. by chartered lights to return home The outbreak in Ghana prompted the subject to mandatory quaranine, tesing Government to introduce a number of and contact tracing (where applicable) prevenive measures as well as idenify measures put in place. As at September infected individuals and treat them. The 1, 2020, the Kotoka Internaional Airport prevenive measures included closure of has been opened to internaional lights schools and places of worship; ban on with strict protocols for tesing and other social gatherings; social and physical arrangements to curb the spread of the distancing; avoidance of handshaking; disease. and vigorous hand-washing with soaps under running water campaigns, among These measures have had profound others. To further boost the eforts at efects on the economy of the Ketu curbing the spread of the disease, the South Municipal Assembly (KSMA) in all President of the Republic directed all the development dimensions i.e. socially, naional borders to be closed to human economically, environmentally, and traic (but opened to goods and spaially. During this period, both services). A fourteen-day mandatory naional and local intervenions that quaranine and tesing of all new arrivals aimed at reducing the impact of the through the Kotoka Internaional Airport pandemic were carried out. At the and a three-week parial lockdown in the naional and sector levels, outlined greater Accra and Kumasi area intervenions included the Ghana (ideniied hotspot areas for the spread COVID-19 Recovery Package (Obatanpa of the disease), were some of the package), relief packages for Small and measures introduced. Medium-Size Enterprises (SMSEs) and businesses such as moratorium on loan Over ime, some of these restricions repayments and “sot loans” by banks, were gradually eased. For instance, Unemployment Insurance Schemes etc. schools were parially opened for Locally, public and private sector actors inal/exit year students from basic to implemented aciviies such as teriary levels to return to school to renovaion of the Municipal Hospital complete their terminal year; there was holding room for isolaion of paients also parial opening of places of worship; with posiive cases; extension of water pubs, drinking spots, restaurants and supply; supply of containers and allied

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 1 hand washing faciliies to markets, lorry There is therefore the need for the Ketu parks and some public places in the South Municipal Assembly to undertake Municipality; distribuion of face masks a cogent and coherent programme of to the public; and Personal Protecive aciviies to build back all sectors from Equipment (PPEs) to health the impact of COVID-19, enhance Local professionals and frontline workers. Economic Development (LED) and build Again, accommodaion and feeding were a resilient economy against local and provided to the infected populaion while external shocks. aggressive contact tracing of people who had come into contact with afected persons were conducted. These aciviies increased the goods and services budget of the Assembly to the detriment of capital expenditure.

1.1.1. Brief Proile of Ketu South Municipal Assembly

The Ketu South Municipal Assembly Guinea in the south, Keta Municipal and established by LI 2155, 2012 is one of the Akatsi South District in the west, and eighteen (18) Administraive Municipal/ Ketu North Municipal in the north. The District Assemblies in the Volta Region populaion of the Municipality is of Ghana. The Municipality covers currently esimated at 202,614 with the approximately a total land area of growth rate of 2.4 percent; 49.2 percent 279.64km2 and shares boundaries with of which are males and 50.8 percent the Republic of Togo in the east, Gulf of females. There are over 400

Figure 1: Map of Ketu South Municipality

2 Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan communiies clustered into ive (5) Zonal number of private schools. It also has 33 Councils namely Alao Urban, Some- private and public health faciliies. Wego, Some-Fugo, Alao-Wego and Klikor in the Municipality. Figure 1 above 1.1.2 Overall Objecive is the poliical map of the Municipality. The overall objecive of the recovery plan The economy of the Municipality is is to assist Ketu South Municipal mainly driven by the crat and related Assembly recover from the pandemic, trades (31.0%), services and sales bounce back beter, transform the (28.2%) and skilled agriculture, forestry Municipality and become more resilient and ishery (17.3%) sectors. These to future pandemics. account for over 76.5% of the employed populaion. There are deiciencies in 1.1.3 Speciic Objecives socio-economic infrastructure which The speciic objecives of the recovery hamper local economic development. plan are as follows: The major development challenges in the Municipality include low agricultural I. Facilitate the review and re- producivity, weak local resource prioriisaion of the Medium-Term mobilizaion for local economic Development Plan (MTDP) of Ketu South development, weak capacity to control Municipal Assembly in response to the human setlement development, COVID-19; inadequate infrastructure to meet equitable access to quality educaion and ii. Accelerate post-COVID-19 recovery healthcare at all levels, and sanitaion in the Ketu South Municipal Assembly management. and enhance its resilience against local and external shocks; Ketu South Municipal Assembly is one iii. Boost local economic development such districts heavily impacted by the by leveraging on ideniied catalyic COVID-19 pandemic. It is a border district development anchors (e.g. educaion, which shares border with the capital city tourism, agribusiness, etc.) that provide of Republic of Togo, Lome. This makes a unique compeiive advantage. KSMA unique from all the other border districts of Ghana i.e. these border 1.1.4 Guiding Principles districts share borders with towns which are distant from their capital ciies of the The recovery plan was developed in line neighboring countries. KSMA has high with the recovery framework developed populaion growth and this is largely by NDPC. The framework based on atributed to inlux of immigrants mainly assessment of global and local from countries such as Togo, Benin, condiions, ideniied four interconnected Nigeria and Niger, who engage in pillars for underpinning the recovery. commercial aciviies in the Municipality. These are the Local Economy, People, There are 179 private schools and 83 Infrastructure, and Governance (see public schools in the district, making it Figure 2) one of the districts with the highest

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 3 Figure 2: Recovery Pillars

Local Economy Business, Tourism, Agric Industry, Financial Services etc

Governance People Security, Employment, Educaion, Insituional Health, Social Protecion, Strengthening, Migraion, Water, Food, Tradiional Systems RECOVERY Sanitaion, Disaster Relief, etc Religion & Culture etc

Infrastructure Transport, ICT, Educaion & Health Infrastructure etc

Source: NDPC, 2020

The recovery plan is guided by the vulnerable groups such as the aged and principles of inclusiveness, community persons with disabiliies. It is therefore and phased approach, and sustainability. important to consider the excluded or marginalised. This ensures that there is Community Approach – For any fullness in the acions and resilience of insituion to recover, it will require the the individuals. paricipaion and collaboraion of all its stakeholders (people, businesses, etc.). Phased Approach – Acions for Thus, all proposals and acions should recovery can be short-, medium-, and have the involvement of all stakeholders long-term. Thus, it is important to with clearly outlined responsibiliies prioriise and systemaically phase out the implementaion of the recovery plan. Inclusiveness – At all levels there are This provides an opportunity to idenify varied impacts sufered by various and implement improved changes. stakeholders within the jurisdicion. It emphasizes the need for broad Sustainability – Acions implemented consultaion and engagement of should be owned by the stakeholders, communiies, including the most have a lasing impact and should

4 Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan conform to sound environmental, social, cultural and economic values without compromising beneits for future generaions.

1.2 Why we need to Act The need for a recovery plan for Ketu South Municipal Assembly cannot be over emphasized. Having established that the pandemic has caused enormous disrupions to socio-economic aciviies and well-being, it is imperaive to rethink how to get the Municipality back on its feet and build back beter and faster. There is also the need to take advantage of the current situaion to posiion the district beter against future shocks. For instance, it had become very obvious, that the measures put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19, had resulted in a reducion in revenue, job losses, crushing of businesses and loss of livelihoods.

A recovery plan based on such criical guiding principles as community approach, inclusiveness, sustainability and phased approach is very necessary to help revive and recover the local economy. The recovery process also presents opportunity for the municipality to innovate and make the local economy more robust, inclusive and resilient.

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 5 How We Did It & What People Said

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2 Chapter Two: How We Did It And What People Said 2.1 Methodology 2.1.3 Key Informant Interview The recovery plan was prepared in a This was done to compliment the paricipatory approach, uilising data and stakeholder consultaion. The interview eliciing the views of the people to inform was with the Coordinaing Director, it. The details of the approach and the Finance Oicer and the Planning Oicer. views of the people are presented in this The interview sought to assess the efect chapter. The plan was done through of COVID-19, the acions insituted by the various stages. They included: desk assembly and the level of preparedness review, stakeholder consultaion, key towards recovering and transforming the informant interviews, draing of the plan, Assembly post-COVID-19. validaion of the plan, and launching of the plan. 2.1.4 Draing of Plan This involved the planning oicer of the 2.1.1. Desk Review municipality and technical staf of NDPC This involved the review of literature on meeing to analyse the data gathered COVID-19, including surveys conducted from the desk review, stakeholder globally and in country like the Business, consultaion, and key informant Household and Jobs, and Local Economy interviews. The analysis informed the Trackers. The review also involved draing of the recovery plan for the analysing exising recovery plans KSMA. developed by countries and companies in response to the pandemic. 2.1.5 Stakeholder Validaion This involved the submission of the drat 2.1.2. Stakeholders Consultaion recovery plan to the people at the This involved the congregaion of Assembly and the Municipal Planning stakeholders including private sector, Coordinaing Unit (MPCU) members for government, tradiional authoriies and their review and inputs for inalisaion. vulnerable groups, to review and share Stakeholders were grouped under the their views on the impact of COVID-19. pillars of people, local economy, The forum also provided an opportunity infrastructure and governance to for stakeholders to propose the desired extensively review the proposals in the state and acions to be achieved. plan to ensure it was consistent with their Stakeholders were clustered around the aspiraions for the district post-COVID-19. four inter-connected pillars, namely; Local Economy, Infrastructure, People 2.1.6 Launch of Plan and Governance. This involved oicially presening the plan to the public to allow for transparency, ownership and also for all

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 7 to be able to keep track and support its favour the CFA Franc thus increasing implementaion. the cost of business for Ghanaian traders. Perhaps measures to stabilize the currency and its value 2.2 What did the People would go a long way to aid traders Say? spend less on operaion cost. The consultaion with stakeholders 2.2.1 Pillar One - Local Economy revealed a number of issues that can The restricions on cross-border be classiied into in two broad trade impacted adversely on a wide groups. The irst group are issues range of business including those of that fall under the control of the market women, chop bars, Assembly to a large extent while the restaurants, farmers, ishermen, second group fall largely within the ishmongers, hairdressers, domain and control of the central dressmakers, garages and motor government. The irst group of issues riders. The inability to obtain goods have been grouped under the four from Lome, the capital city of Togo, main pillars of Local Economy, which is closer and where prices are People, Infrastructure and relaively lower, led to many traders Governance and discussed in the running out of stock of many paragraphs that follow. However, the household and food items. Some second group of issues raised by the traders had to shut their shops as stakeholders that require more they were unable to replenish their central government intervenion stock. Traders witnessed a reducion include the issues of border in sales of their wares. reopening and the decreasing value of the Ghana Cedi against the CFA The closure of the border and Franc. Stakeholders menioned that lockdown of Accra and Greater the reopening of the border by both Kumasi and anicipaion of a naional Togo and Ghana through bilateral lockdown led to price hikes. Besides, negoiaions was very necessary many of these would-be buyers had since it will provide the opportunity already sufered loss of or reducion to most people to trade thus recover in income. Traders who used to sell personal, family and corporate on credit could not aford to do so incomes and proits. According to a anymore because many were paricipant, the quickest form of relief running into bad debts. will be to reopen the land borders to restore trading aciviies. Secondly, the exchange rate between the Ghana Cedi and CFA Franc has tended to

8 Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan a. Hospitality Operators whom the industry throve. Most of the hotels and beach resorts had to be shut Operators of chop bars, restaurant and down as part of the pandemic measures hoteliers also felt the impact of the thus resuling in job losses, they COVID-19 disease. They indicated that inimated. they could not pay for the stores or spaces they occupied since landlords b. Agric Sector Workers could not reduce their rents in the pandemic era, a ime when business was Majority of farm yields were let unsold; slow. Indeed, others witnessed rent vegetables (letuce in paricular) were increase causing evicion of defaulters lost on the farms due to restricted who could not aford. movements of persons and vehicles. This reduced income and proit levels The pandemic also halted tourism in the that could pay for producion cost. municipality resuling from increasing Fishermen who hitherto went to maintenance cost and payment of neighbouring countries to ish could not salaries to workers at a ime when do so anymore due to presence of corporate incomes were reducing. marine police enforcing border closure Tourism sector players menioned that even at sea. the closing of the border reduced movement of guests and tourists on

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 9 c. Garment and Fashion unless very necessary as well as restricted movements of persons. This Arisans, including hairdressers, barbers, meant less vehicles on the roads to tailors, and Kente weavers noted that necessitate the need for maintenance. business aciviies had reduced. Mechanics asserted that accessing spare- According to them, ban on social parts for the few vehicles that required gatherings and enforcement of maintenance was equally diicult due to physical/social distancing protocols saw the parial restricions of movement. a reducion in the patronage of their services. Though measures were put in Also, some motorists incurred extra cost place to ensure observance of these of buying nose masks for passengers to protocols, patronage of their services sill keep their business running. According to reduced mainly due to the contact- the Organiser of the Denu Safe Riders oriented nature of their business. Access Associaion, about thirteen (13) branches to raw materials from neighbouring collapsed due to inability of members to countries, especially for Kente weavers sustain their businesses. This caused and tailors, was also impacted negaively. some to venture into other trade. There The posiive aspect for some of the was also increased use of motor for dressmakers was increased demand for robberies in the Municipality. sown face/nose masks from old cloths. Transport operators and administrators This gave them some respite. That were heavily hit by the COVID-19 notwithstanding, other tailoring and pandemic too. According to them, hairdressing shops collapsed as a result passenger intake reduced drasically as a of the impact of COVID-19 measure to ensure physical distancing in d. Transport vehicles whereas fares had remained same, without upward adjustments to Furthermore, the incomes of garage make up the diference in incomes. operators reduced also because vehicles Besides, the transport sector responsible were not plying the roads due to for movement of goods and people campaigns for people to stay at home across the border was severely impacted

10 Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan due to the border closure. b Water Providers

Compounding their plight, transport There was an increase in expenditure operators noted that vehicle insurances, on the water systems in the parking and highway tolls, among municipality to help deliver the others, were not reduced to relect the government's free water policy. Also, drop in income due to the low passenger the services of water tankers were volumes. . This afected loan repayment to the inancial insituions supporing engaged to supply water to unserved the transport operators. Beyond that, the communiies. labour force around transport operaion i.e. head porters, staion oicers, c. Online Learning hawkers etc. were reduced. Thus, Online learning replaced the personal and family incomes of these tradiional classroom teaching and workers were equally afected. learning in most cases, but a sizeable 2.2.2 Pillar Two Infrastructure proporion of children in rural communiies within the KSMA were The three (3) major road arteries out of disadvantaged due to the poor the Municipality to Accra, Ho, Keta are network quality. Interference by Togo not in very good condiion thus networks worsened the case. hampering the smooth transportaion of good and passengers in and out of the 2.2.3 Pillar Three - People municipality. The poor nature of the roads and the challenges they pose to The condiions of workers in the vehicles have contributed to the upsurge public sector was considerably beter in patronage of services provided by compared to their colleagues in the motor riders (okada). private sector, even though stakeholders reported increased a Arisans dependency on public sector workers at the onset of the restricions. Price The efect of the pandemic on arisans increases and non-availability of including carpenters, masons, plumbers, goods placed a strain on workers painters, draughtsmen, and landscapers cannot be disregarded. Building and making them to spend more on the related projects that were ongoing same and someimes lesser quanity before the COVID-19 outbreak either goods came to a stop or slowed down because of fear of exposure to the disease. Price a. Educaion: workers and hikes of building and related materials students/pupils due to border closure was one of the contribuing factors. Teachers, educaion workers and those whose sustenance depended on the operaion of the educaion faciliies such as food vendors also

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 11 felt the impact of the pandemic. aciviies or trade to generate income to Parents complained of increased support themselves and their household expenditure with the dependants. There was also pessimism that when schools are reopened some of children being out of school. The the teachers are unlikely to return to the COVID-19 outbreak generally caused classrooms. an increase in family expenditure arising from expenses on care-givers to children at home. Closure of schools c. Health has been so long that it was feared According to informants in the area, children might take their minds of paients were uncomfortable going to school. There has also been an increase the hospital, for fear of geing infected in pregnancy among school going by the virus. Prevenive measures were children. For instance, during the Basic put in place at health faciliies and health Educaion Ceriicate Examinaion workers coninued to provide criical (BECE) many of the girls were pregnant. health services. Some students also resorted to doing business to support the increased family expenditure. The boys, on the other d. Religion and worship hand, were said to be joining bad Increased cases of disregard for COVID- companies. There were also concerns 19 prevenive protocols and regulaions about pracicing the social distancing were recorded, according to religious protocols when schools re-open leaders. Society experienced some level because of the large class sizes. of decline in morals such as disobedience of children to their parents, b. Private Schools joining of bad companies, non- paricipaion in religious programmes as The efect on private schools was dire, a result of restricions on religious according to players in the sector. gatherings, among others. Churches Corporate income of private schools play a very vital role in molding reduced drasically – school fees that behaviour of children hence the are used to pay teachers were not restricions on gatherings by religious forthcoming because of school closure organisaions contributed to the moral resuling in a reducion or stoppage of deterioraion noted above, it was salaries to teachers. Some afected reported. teachers have since moved into other

e. Vunerable Groups

Vulnerable groups including youth, aged and persons with disabiliies (PWDs) felt that the needed atenion was not given to them when the restricions were imposed. Businesses of PWDs were the afected especially in communiies along

12 Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan the border. Disseminaion of informaion the area of feeding and tesing of on the pandemic did not take into suspected criminals and convicted consideraion their peculiar needs, and prisoners alike. relief items did not also get to most of them paricularly the aged and disabled, b. Assembly revenue, meeings they menioned. The efect of COVID-19 and funcions on the businesses of the elderly coupled Reducion in revenue mobilizaion of the with reducion in support from religious Municipal Assembly because of COVID- and benevolent bodies relected 19 afected service delivery to massively on street children. Some communiies. General Assembly and street children were reported to be commitee meeings were reduced, while engaging in vices such as thievery many Civil Society Organisaions (CSOs) because of the loss of support to them. which supported development aciviies Some poor and rural community of the municipality scaled down on their dwellers complained that relief items did aciviies. Many public and private not get to them. organisaions adopted working arrangements that reduced the number f. Media of staf physically present on their Media houses used more airime for premises. This afected the delivery of public educaion on the COVID-19 some services as both staf and the educaion and prevenion protocols free general public adjusted to the new of charge. Media houses sufered working arrangements. signiicant drop in adverts, which was their main source of income, leading to a c. Culture reducion in proit margins. To aid online Restricion on public gatherings teaching and learning, some radio brought the organisaion of fesivals staions held classes for basic, junior and to a standsill. The end of these senior high school students with some limited support from government. fesivals which hitherto aided the Tradiional authoriies, clans and families to raise funds for various 2.2.4 Pillar Four Governance developmental aciviies heavily a. Security impacted funds for development A major impact of the pandemic was the aciviies of the chiefs, queen security threat posed by illegal mothers, family and clan heads. migraion. As at the end of July, 2020, the number of unapproved routes along the southern secion of the Ghana-Togo border increased from 23 to 120. There was also an upsurge in crime, unlawful entry, stealing, and deilement cases. This led to congesion in prison cells in the municipality and increased expenditure of the security agencies in

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 13 What Should be Done

Chapter

3 Chapter Three: What Should Be Done 3.1. Desired Future State

With the foregoing, aciviies were designed to address the issues ideniied and build back the economy and other sectors of the Municipality. These acions fall into ive areas as explained below:

 Relief: Acions to provide essenial, appropriate and imely assistance to those afected based on iniial rapid assessment of needs.

 Miigaion: Acion for reducing the severity and seriousness of a situaion.

 Recovery: Acions for or possibility of regaining something lost or taken away

 Transformaive: Acions that inspire or cause a shit and lasing change in a situaion.

 Resilience: acions that ensures that the Municipal Assembly is beter posiioned to withstand future shocks.

3.2. How it should it be done? Economy Pillar:

The aciviies envisaged for implementaion in the next ive years to miigate, give relief, recover, be resilient and transform Ketu South Municipal Assembly is presented in the table below.

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 15 Table 1 : Proposed intervenions and acions

Pillar I: Local Economy OBJECTIVE: Support local business, boost economic aciviies and build a resilient and inclusive local economy

Proposed Time frame Funding Implementaion Type Intervenions / Arrangement (Relief, Acions Short Medium Cost Source (Responsibility) Miigaion, Recovery, 2021 (2022- (GHc) Transformaive, 2025) Resilience)

Provide a platform 15,000.00 DACF, BAC, NBSSI, REP, Recovery to facilitate access ✓ DP, Banks, MoF, KSMA of local businesses Redcross (including private Society schools) to rural inance.

Train business 5,000.00 DACF, KSMA, CSOs, GES Transformaive owners on the ✓ ✓ DP uilisaion of e-platforms (commodity exchange, markeing mobile apps etc.)

Promote private 30,000.00 IGF, MDA, BAC Transformaive sector investment ✓ in local businesses CSOs, and agricultural Private establishments. Investment

Provide farm-based 500,000.00 DACF, BAC, KSMA, MP Recovery and agro p ✓ ✓ Donors rocessing start-up kits for trained youth and graduate apprenices.

Organise 30,000.00 IGF KSMA Relief consultaive meeings with rate ✓ ✓ payers on 2022- 2025 fee-ixing resoluion.

Promote the 30,000.00 PPP, DP KSMA, UNDPs Transformaive establishment of ✓ heavy and light industries and their associated value chains to help diversify the economy

16 Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan Pillar II: Infrastructure OBJECTIVE: Develop criical infrastructure to improve access to and efeciveness of social-economic services

Facilitate the 15,000.00 IGF, KSMA, NCA, MOC Resilient development of ✓ DP modern ICT infrastructure to promote digiizaion of the local economy.

Introduce modern 951,806.60 DACF, KSMA Recovery equipment and ✓ ✓ DP, MOH, upgrade faciliies UNDP at the Municipal Hospital.

Extension of 100,000.00 GoG KSMA, GWCL, MWH Recovery Sogakope-Togo ✓ pipe borne water to communiies in the Municipality

Construct four 800,000.00 MPCF, KSMA, Recovery addiional CHPS ✓ ✓ DACF, Oice of the MP, DPs compounds within UNDP, deprived DP, communiies to improve access to healthcare.

Rehabilitate and 225,000.00 DP, DUR DUR, MWD, KSMA Miigaion maintain Denu, Alao, Wudoaba, ✓ ✓ Klikor and Agbozume town roads.

Opening of road 100,000.00 DACF MWD, DUR, MOIt, Miigaion along the border to ✓ MOD, MOFARI create a clear line of sight for users and security agencies

Construct ultra- 20,000,000.00 PPP KSMA, MOF Transformaive modern shopping ✓ (PPP Secretariat), centre at Denu with GIPC, VRCC, AGI, clinic, daycare, Oice of the MP guest house, car park, warehouse and adequate walkway.

Construct lorry 200,000.00 PPP, GRA KSMA, TAs, Assembly Miigaion parking staion Member / Unit Commitee, with ancillary ✓ MWD, Private Sector faciliies at Segbe Juncion

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 17 Pillar III: People OBJECTIVE: Improve health and well-being, training, skills development and support for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups

Facilitate enrollment 20,000.00 GoG SSNIT, KSMA, GRA, Trade Transformaive of informal sector ✓ ✓ (SSNIT) Associaions, ISD, workers on to the Assembly Members / ier 3 pension Unit Commitees, BAC/ scheme and update NBSSI business register to formalize the local economy.

Support PWDs, and 130,000.00 DACF KSMA, DSWCD, NADMO Recovery other vulnerable ✓ groups to acquire skills

Facilitate the 20,000.00 Donor GES, Relief, organizaion of ✓ (Sponsor- Ghana Think Foundaion, Recovery annual ICT camps ship from Talent Hunt Foundaion for Primary, JHS Private and SHS. sector)

Construct modern 100,000.00 MOC KSMA, MOC Resilience community ✓ ✓ informaion centre

Improve access to 50,000.00 GoG FBOs, GES, GHS, DSWCD Miigaion counselling services and child welfare ✓ ✓ protecion / promoion at schools, work places and communiies.

Promote prevenive 5,000.00 DACF GHS, NCCE, ISD, DSWCD, Resilience health care within ✓ ✓ Media, KSMA communiies

Reinforce adherence 20,000.00 DACF, GHS, NCCE, ISD, Miigaion, to COVID-19 p ✓ IGF, GOG NADMO, GPS, GIS Resilience rotocols and create awareness on early warning systems.

Establish 100,000.00 DP GHS, UNICEF, KSMA Recovery adolescent health ✓ corners at all health faciliies in the Municipality.

Create awareness on the importance of 3,500.00 GOG, DP Central Admin, TA, self-employment Recovery Assembly members, and acquisiion of ✓ Religious bodies, BAC, technical/vocaional MPCU skills training.

18 Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan Proposed Time frame Funding Implementaion Type Intervenions / Arrangement (Relief, Acions Short Medium Cost Source (Responsibility) Miigaion, Recovery, 2021 (2022- (GHc) Transformaive, 2025) Resilience)

Collaborate with 3,500.00 GOG, GRATIS Foundaion, Recovery GRATIS Foundaion, ✓ DP NBSSI, AME Zion Voc. NBSSI and AME Train. Centre (Klikor) Zion Vocaional Training Centre to train master arisans and 'trade masters' in modern appreniceship pracices and technologies.

Strengthen the 70,000.00 DACF- KSMA, NCA, MLGRD, Transformaive Municipal ✓ RFG, GSS, NDPC, GIZ, GoG, DP Assembly's MIS Private oice and Staisics Sector Department to improve access to data to support evidence-based decision-making.

Pillar IV: Governance

Sensiizaion of 5,000.00 IGF KSMA, NCCE, ISD, Recovery ciizens on ✓ ✓ Assembly Members / COVID-19 bye-laws Unit Commitees

Complete Street 85,000.00 IGF, GIZ PPD, MWD, LVD Transformaive Naming and Property Addressing ✓ ✓ for the enire Municipality

Establish 100,000.00 GoG, IGF, KSMA, GIZ, NITA, Transformaive e-platforms, ✓ GIZ IT Oice, MFD e-billing, e-payments, e-registraion etc. to operaionalize the Assembly processes.

Partner with radio 10,000.00 Media, KSMA, Media Houses, Recovery staions and other ✓ Private GES private eniies to Sector coninue radio learning iniiaive

Prepare local plan 130,000.00 DACF PPD, KSMA, Land Owners, Resilience for the municipality ✓ ✓ TAs, Lands Commission

Develop a monitory 1,192,440.00 DACF, KSMA, PPD NCCE, ISD, Recovery IGF, DPs and evaluaion ✓ ✓ Assembly Members / Unit (M&E) system for Commitees, Media Houses the recovery plan

Total 15 30 25,041,246.60

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 19 Mobilising Resources For The Plan

Chapter

4 Chapter Four: Mobilising Resources For The Plan

 consolidate exising revenue sources; 4.1. Introducion  This chapter focusses on strategies for atract and sustain private sector geing the needed inancial resources to investments;  implement programmes, projects and mobilize and sustain development aciviies highlighted in the previous partner Investments;  chapter with the aim of maximizing enhance philanthropic inancing; and  revenue from all available and improve diaspora cooperaion for emerging/unexploited sources in the development inancing. Ketu South Municipality. The Municipal Resource Mobilisaion Strategy is The Assembly currently has a Revenue inspired by the Integrated Naional Improvement Acion Plan (RIAP) which Financing Framework. seeks to increase revenue from all sources to support the implementaion The uilizaion, reporing and audiing of of programmes and projects. The RIAP funds will be done with already exising operates within the following legal systems in the Municipal Assembly in environment: conformity to public inancial management and accountability laws of I. Public Financial Management the country. The Ghana Integrated Act, 2016 (Act 921); Financial Management Informaion ii. Public Financial Management System (GIFMIS), internal and external Regulaions, 2019 (L.I. 2378); audiing systems will be applied to the iii. The Financial Administraion uilizaion, accouning and reporing of Act, 2003 (Act 654); the funds mobilised. iv. The Budget Statement and Economic Policy; v. Digital Financial Policy; 4.2. Financing Strategy vi. Local Governance Act, 2016 The inancing strategy is a criical aspect (Act 936) secion 122 – 174 of the Integrated District Financing which outlines the Framework (IDFF) which sets out how “Financial maters of District funds and investments required to Assemblies”; achieve the MMDAs development vii. Assembly Bye-laws and fee objecives will be mobilized and aligned. ixing resoluions. The inancing strategy for the Ketu South Municipal Assembly (KSMA) The objecives of the current RIAP provides the needed soluions to focuses on IGF inancing and does not essenial quesions on what kind of address the trade-ofs between policies transformaion KSMA envisages. This and regulaions, private sector inancing strategy, therefore, seeks to:

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 21 investment, the protecion of businesses 4.2.1. Consolidaing the exising and Development Partner inancing revenue sources amongst others. Addiionally, the RIAP In consolidaing exising revenue does not: strategies, the Municipality will seek to improve eiciency and expand its I. contain an implementaion plan revenue collecion bracket within the matrix; exising legal provision. This will be ii. show the diagnosics of inancing done through registraion of properies sources; and businesses, undertake a review of iii. demonstrate evidence of inventory the tax rates in relaion to the that properly ideniies taxpayers transformaive direcion in view to within the district; maximize the trade-ofs, and strengthen iv. consider the trade-of analysis in revenue capaciies. Speciically, KSMA revenue sources; will seek to: v. contain strategies for mobilizing a. Improve tax collecion mechanisms resources and investments from through: Private Sector, Development Partners  and other innovaive inancing building capacity of tax collectors sources. to maximize tax revenue;  establishing an electronic and geo- In the medium-term, KSMA intends to reference inventory that properly explore speciic strategies that ideniies potenial taxpayers simultaneously expand revenue and (businesses, individuals, spur private sector investment in the properies among others) within municipality. The key to any inancing the Municipality; strategy at the local assembly level is to  promoing an electronic system of ensure close collaboraion between all revenue collecion; spheres of government - local and  providing incenives to central - as well as between local encourage the prompt payment of government, the private sector, civil fees, royalies, and tax society, development partners, the administraion in the assembly; diaspora amongst others. It is evident  enforcing puniive measures for that inancial resources at the assembly tax non-compliance. level are always likely to be constricted making it imperaive that these scarce b. Enhance communicaion, advocacy resources are uilized in the most and disseminaion strategies through: eicient manner to promote inclusive  SDGs aligned strategies that addresses Training of tax/fee collectors in the real needs of the local community. communicaion and presentaion The following are the key components of skills to address beckoning the inancing strategy: quesions from taxpayers  Coninuing public educaion on tax responsibiliies to encourage

22 Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan the general populace to perform capital for the SDGs, in this case, at the their tax obligaions in partnership sub-naional level. with CSOs and other stakeholders. c. Private-Public-Partnership There are also opportuniies for KSMA to (PPP) is also another inancing own, operate, acquire or dispose of mechanism adopted by KSMA. In discreionary assets such as landed uilizing the opportuniies presented by property and real estates. The assembly PPPs, KSMA will make use of Special can thus make use of available space to Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) to inance the augment current revenues. district's development aspiraions through the: 4.2.2 Atracing and maintaining  Iniiaion of programs which are Private Sector investments suited for PPP execuion. For instance, a. The Municipality will prepare the development of market squares, and package projects to suit the criteria farming partnerships among others. for private sector investors.This process  Creaion of community businesses will involve: emergency funds.  developing a portfolio of bankable projects; 4.2.3 Atract and sustain  partnering with other assemblies development partner investments in with similar needs to improve the the Municipality viability of projects; Globally, There are a number of  building capaciies to design, internaional development agencies, deliver and evaluate bankable both bilateral and mulilateral, that are projects. acively supporing reforms and development programmes within b. In seeking to atract the private various sectors with a view to develop sector, eforts will also focus on the necessary human resource base that establishing SDG Investor Maps as an will efecively and eiciently deliver input to the SDGs investment fair, which public services. Whiles a number of will provide investment opportuniies them are geared towards addressing that will be linked to private sector public policy and regulatory constraints, investors. An SDG Investor Map is a there are others with a focus geared piece of market intelligence to help towards atracing private sector private investors (funds, inanciers and inancing for criical areas of corporaions) idenify investment development including infrastructure. ppportuniies and business models that Some of these include Emerging Africa advance the SDGs. The Maps provide the Infrastructure Facility, GuarantCo, USAID insight and tools needed by the private Development Credit Authority, sector to increase their investments Community-Led Infrastructure Finance towards the SDGs. They make a Facility and the Slum Upgrading Facility. signiicant contribuion to illing the There are also others which focus on inancing gap by mobilizing private assising local governments in

Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan 23 developing city development strategies 4.2.5 Diaspora Financing and city-wide upgrading programmes Tradiionally, diaspora resources have (e.g. Ciies Alliance and UN-Habitat). been viewed as on-going inancing capital at the micro level to be uilized The Assembly understands the peculiar mainly for purposes of consumpion. In interest of such development partners recent years, while recogniion of the and intends to prepare tailor made role of the diaspora in development has proposals to atract their investments. grown, coupled with the fact that Thus, KSMA will build the knowledge members of the diaspora are seen as base of staf to enable them develop important development stakeholders, tailored made programmes to secure they are sill not viewed as signiicant funding from these sources. social investors by local authoriies.

4.2.4 Philanthrophic Financing This situaion presents a unique missed opportunity for local authoriies to A number of philanthropic organizaions harness and scale up diaspora are emerging in many parts of the world investments for socio-economic growth which were tradiionally considered as especially given the scale and purely “aid recipient” countries. Within magnitude of current inancing gaps. the philanthropic landscape, many organizaions are now focusing on The KSMA will consider seing up a working directly with speciic local diaspora fund which will provide an authoriies and avoiding the tradiional opportunity for members of the modes of working through CSOs. There communiies living in the diaspora to is also 'community philanthropy' which contribute to the fund. In addiion, the seeks to gain the support of community KSMA will consider seing up and members to leverage community facilitaing investment opportuniies for resources for purposes of improving the the diaspora. quality of life. Philanthropies provide funding through tradiional calls for proposals. Apart from these calls, a number of these organizaions uilize challenge grants and grants for speciic intervenions.

KSMA will build capacity in the requisite approaches to atract philanthropic funding. To this end KSMA will build capaciies in proposal wriing aimed at dealing with speciic challenges within the Municipality.

24 Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan How Do We Know We Have Succeeded

Chapter

5 Chapter Five: How Do We KnowWe Have Succeeded 5.1 Monitoring & Evaluaion For the irst year for implementaion of this Plan, 2021, concentraion will be on monitoring rather than evaluaion. Midterm and post evaluaions will be done in the medium term i.e. 2022-2025. An esimated amount of GH¢1,192,440 will be required for the monitoring and evaluaion of the recovery plan. The framework below provides details of how the implementaion of the recovery plan will be tracked.

26 Ketu South Municipal Assembly COVID-19 Recovery Plan K etu South Mun Table 2: How Do We Know We Have Succeeded

(OBJECTIVE: Support local business, boost economic aciviies and build a resilient and inclusive local economy) icipal As Pillar: Local Economy

Indicators Indicator Deiniion Indicator Baseline Targets Disaggregaion Monitoring Responsi- sembl Type 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Frequency bility y C Proporion of The indicator measures the proporion of Outcome 10% 20% 25% 30% 32% 32% Sex of owners Annually BAC O

VID- businesses who businesses who accessed credit faciliies Age accessed credit through the BAC expressed as a percentage Business type 19 R faciliies through of the total number of trained business ec the BAC owners by BAC o v ery Plan Number of business o Count of trained business owners using any Output 2% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% Sex of owner Biannually BAC wners using available type of e-platforms for markeing. e.g. Social Business type e-platforms media sites, markeing apps etc. Type of e-platform

Number of investment Count of total trade and investment Output 2 4 7 8 11 13 Sex Annually, BAC, MDA, promoion aciviies promoions carried out by the Assembly Sector Quarterly MPCU held

Proporion of trained Proporion of trained youth and graduate Outcome 10% 20% 30% 30% 40% 50% Sex of owner Annually, BAC youth and graduate apprenices with established businesses Business type Quarterly apprenices with expressed as a percentage of total trained Type of e-platform established businesses youth.

1 2 Number of consultaive Count of consultaive meeings conducted Output 29 57 57 57 57 57 Sex Annually, BAC, MDA, meeings conducted with stakeholders Sector Quarterly GHS, GES, Central Admin., MPCU

27 1

2 4 by GHS, 3 by BAC, 22 by MDA 4 by GHS, 4 by BAC, 49 by MDA; this jump is hinged on expected increase in staf 28

Pillar: Infrastructure (OBJECTIVE: Develop criical infrastructure to improve access to and efeciveness of social-economic services)

Indicators Indicator Deiniion Indicator Baseline Targets Disaggregaion Monitoring Responsi- Type 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Frequency bility

Value of faciliies Total amount of faciliies and logisics Input 1 1 1.5 1.5 2 2 Funding source Annually, GHS, MFD Improved or replaced provided to the Municipal Hospital and Locaion Quarterly Assembly Oices expressed in 100,000 Type

Number of CHPS Count of CHPS compounds constructed. Output 20 23 25 27 29 31 Funding source Annually, GHS, MWD compounds constructed Locaion Quarterly Type

Length of roads The indicator measures the length of roads Output 25km 30 km 35km 40km 45km 50km Type (feeder, Annually, MWD, DUR improved reshaped or surfaced urban) Funding Quarterly source

(OBJECTIVE: Improve health and well-being, training, skills development and support for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups K Pillar: People etu South Mun Percentage change in This indicator measures the change in Outcome 1% 3% 6% 9% 12% 15% Sex Monthly, SSNIT informal sector workers number of registered informal sector workers Age Quarterly, registered with SSNIT on the SSNIT Tier 3 Scheme expressed as a Educaion level Annually percentage of total number of informal sector Locaion icipal As workers on the SSNIT Tier 3 Scheme in the preceding year sembl Number of PWDs Count of PWDs trained Output 0 80 100 150 200 250 Disability type Annually, DSWCD, y C trained Sex, Age, Quarterly BAC

O Locaion (rural, VID- urban) 19 R ec o v ery Plan K etu South Mun

Indicators Indicator Deiniion Indicator Baseline Targets Disaggregaion Monitoring Responsi- Type 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Frequency bility icipal As Number of students Count of students trained Output 105 200 400 600 1000 2000 Sex, Age Annually, GES trained in e-Learning Educaion level Quarterly

sembl tools Locaion

y C Number of peer Count of peer counsellors trained Output 112 150 150 150 150 160 Sex, Age Annually, GHS,

O counsellors trained Facility Quarterly GES VID- Number of paricipants Count of paricipants trained in healthy Output 3535 4242 4949 5656 6363 7070 Topic, Sex Annually, DSWCD, 19 R trained eaing, sigma and other relevant issues Locaion (Rural / Quarterly GHS, GES, ec urban) MDA, NCCE o v ery Plan Number of health Count of health staf re-oriented on Output 18 21 24 27 30 33 Bi-monthly Annually, GHS staf re-trained prevenive health objecive of CHPS system Quarterly

3 Proporion of ODF Percentage of communiies declared open Outcome 2.7% 3.8% 3.8% 4.3% 4.7% 5.2% Locaion (rural / Annually, EHSU communiies defecaion free (ODF) of total communiies urban) Quarterly in the Municipality.

4 COVID-19 prevalence Percentage of people in the populaion Outcome 0.03% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% Sex, Monthly, GHS rate living with COVID-19 Age Quarterly, Locaion Annually

Number of adolescent Count of adolescent reproducive health Output 30 34 38 42 46 50 Facility type Annually, GHS reproducive health corners established Quarterly corners established

Proporion of Assembly This indicator measures the total amount of Outcome 25% 29.5 30.5 40 45 50 Funding source Annually, BAC expenditure on BAC Assembly expenditure on BAC aciviies Quarterly MFD expressed as a percentage of total Assembly expenditure

Number of Public- Count of PPP MOUs signed by the Assembly Output 1 0 1 2 3 4 Sector, Value of Annually, MFD, Private-Partnership and other investors investment Quarterly Records MOUs signed Type of PPP

29 3

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Pillar: Infrastructure (OBJECTIVE: Develop criical infrastructure to improve access to and efeciveness of social-economic services)

Indicators Indicator Deiniion Indicator Baseline Targets Disaggregaion Monitoring Responsi- Type 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Frequency bility

Number of bye-law Count of bye-law sensiizaion sessions Output 2 4 4 6 6 6 Locaion Annually, EHSU, sensiizaion sessions held Category of Quarterly NCCE held paricipants

Percentage change in Percentage change in property rate collected Outcome 4% 177% 10% 15% 20% 25% Annually, MFD property rate collected Quarterly

Proporion of payments Proporion of oicial income and expenditure Outcome 0% 3% 5% 10% 15% 20% Payment type Annually, MFD done electronically payments done by Assembly or rate payers (income, Quarterly electronically expressed as a percentage of expenditure) total income & expenditure E-payment platform used

Number of Departments Number of Departments delivering Outcome 3 6 7 9 11 13 Department Annually MIS Oice, delivering government government services using ICT Service type MPCU services using ICT Sotware used

K Users etu South Mun

Number of radio Count of radio staions doing radio learning Output 1 3 3 3 3 3 Radio staion Weekly, Media staions doing radio with GES curriculum Topic Monthly, houses, learning Quarterly, Local icipal As Annually Government Inspector sembl Proporion of Proporion of communiies with layouts Outcome 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% Locaion (Zonal Annually, PPD communiies with expressed as percentage of total number of Council, Rural/ Quarterly y C layouts communiies in the Municipality Urban) O

VID- Funding source 19 R Proporion of The indicator measures the proporion of Outcome 55% 60% 70% 80% 90% 95% Locaion Annually, MFD, ec businesses with o registered businesses in the Assembly with Gender of Quarterly Revenue v ery Plan updated informaion in all needed data in the Assembly's business ownership Oice business register register expressed as a percentage of total registered businesses 5.2 Disseminaion and Communicaion This secion describes the processes that will be followed to document achievement of recommended acions and also indicate arrangements for sharing lessons learnt and best pracices. Communicaion and disseminaion will be done during the planning, implementaion and monitoring phases with key stakeholders such as Volta Regional Coordinaing Council (VRCC), NDPC, MLGRD, DACF Administrator, OHLGS, NGOs, CBOs, CSOs, FBOs, media houses, DPs, MPCU, Assembly and Unit Commitee members, Tradiional authoriies. This is to achieve the under-listed objecives; a. Informing stakeholders of progress made b. Ensure transparency and accountability in programme iniiaion and implementaion c. Moivate stakeholders to acively involve themselves in development issues d. Improve implementaion of development intervenions e. Promote understanding and commitment among stakeholders f. Promote organizaional learning and sharing of lessons

The channels of disseminaion and communicaion are detailed below;

Means of Language(s) When/Period Responsibility Communicaion to be Used

Mobile Phones English/Ewe Invitaions, Consultaions, Records, MPCU Advocacy, Informaion Disseminaion

Memos & Leters (both hard English Invitaion, Consultaion, Records, MPCU and sot copies) Reporing, Informaion Disseminaion

Brieing Meeing English/Ewe Media and Community MCE, MCD, Directors, Engagements MPCU Assembly members, Unit Commitee members

Publicaions in sot and hard copies English Reporing, Informaion Assembly members, (Quarterly and Annual Reports, banners, Sharing Unit Commitee members, assembly website) MPCU, Records

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