Nkwanta North District Assembly
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Contents 1 PART A: STRATEGIC OVERVIEW OF THE NKWANTA NORTH DISTRICT ASSEMBLY ......................... 4 1.1 B) ESTABLISHMENT ................................................................................................................ 4 C) POPULATION .................................................................................................................................. 4 1.2 D) DISTRICT ECONOMY .......................................................................................................... 4 1.2.1 I I) AGRICULTURE ............................................................................................................. 4 1.2.2 II) ROADS ......................................................................................................................... 4 REPUBLIC OF GHANA 1.2.3 III) EDUCATION ................................................................................................................ 4 1.2.4 IV) HEALTH ...................................................................................................................... 5 1.2.5 V) ENVIRONMENT ........................................................................................................... 5 COMPOSITE BUDGET VI) TOURISM .................................................................................................................................... 5 THE ASSEMBLY BROAD OBJECTIVES ................................................................................................... 6 FOR 2018-2021 1. GOAL/MISSION ........................................................................................................................... 8 1.3 CORE FUNCTIONS OF THE ASSEMBLY .................................................................................... 8 1.4 POLICY OUTCOME, INDICATOR AND TARGETS ....................................................................... 9 PROGRAMME BASED BUDGET ESTIMATES 2. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE TRENDS FOR THE MEDIUM-TERM .............................................. 13 1.5 OUTLOOK FOR 2018 ............................................................................................................. 21 2 PART B: BUDGET PROGRAMME SUMMARY ................................................................ 34 FOR 2018 2.1 PROG RAMME 1: Management and Administration ....................................................... 35 2.2 Budget Sub-Programme Objective ...................................................................................... 35 2.3 Budget Sub-Programme Description ................................................................................... 35 NKWANTA NORTH DISTRICT ASSEMBLY 2.4 Budget Sub-Programme Results Statement ........................................................................ 36 2.5 Budget Sub-Programme Operations and Projects .............................................................. 37 2.6 SUB -PROGRAMME 1.2 Finance and Revenue Mobilization ....................................... 38 2.7 Budget Sub-Programme Description ................................................................................... 38 1. Budget Sub-Programme Results Statement ............................................................................ 38 2. Budget Sub-Programme Operations and Projects .................................................................. 39 2.8 SUB -PROGRAMME 1.3 Planning, Budgeting and Coordination ................................ 40 1. Budget Sub-Programme Objective .......................................................................................... 40 2.9 Budget Sub-Programme Description ................................................................................... 40 2.10 Budget Sub-Programme Results Statement ........................................................................ 40 2.11 Budget Sub-Programme Operations and Projects .............................................................. 42 2.12 SUB -PROGRAMME 1.4 Legislative Oversights ........................................................... 43 1. Budget Sub-Programme Objectives ......................................................................................... 43 2 2.13 Budget Sub-Programme Results Statement ........................................................................ 43 1 PART A: STRATEGIC OVERVIEW OF THE NKWANTA NORTH DISTRICT ASSEMBLY A) NAME OF THE DISTRICT 1. Budget Sub-Programme Operations and Projects .................................................................. 44 2.14 SUB -PROGRAMME 1.5: Human Resource Management ......................................... 45 The official name of the District is Nkwanta North District with the capital at Kpassa in the Volta 2.15 Budget Sub-Programme Objective ...................................................................................... 45 Region of Ghana. 2.16 Budget Sub-Programme Description ................................................................................... 45 1.1 B) ESTABLISHMENT 2.17 Budget Sub-Programme Results Statement ........................................................................ 45 Nkwanta North District Assembly was established by Legislative Instrument (LI 1846). of 2008. 2.18 Budget Sub-Programme Operations and Projects .............................................................. 46 C) POPULATION PROGRAMME 2: INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT .......................... 46 2 .1 SUB -PROGRAMME 2.1 PHYSICAL AND SPATIAL PLANNING .......................................... 47 The 2010 Population and Housing Census put the Population of the District at 64,553 of which 32,392 2 .1 SUB -PROGRAMME 2.2 WORKS DEPARTMENT .............................................................. 50 (50.2%) are Males whiles 32,159 (49.8%) are Females but about 77.2% live in rural areas. The 2.2 1.1 SUB – PROGRAMME 3. 1 EDUCATION AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ............................ 54 District has 85 Communities 2.3 1.2 SUB – PROGRAMME 3. 2 HEALTH .................................................................................. 57 1.2 D) DISTRICT ECONOMY 2.4 CONCERNS/CHALLENGES ...................................................................................................... 58 1.2.1 I I) AGRICULTURE About 84.4 percent of the active population is engaged in agriculture and related activities in the 2.5 1.3 SUB-PROGRAMME: 3.3 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ....................................................... 61 District. Yam is the major crop cultivated in commercial quantities. Other food crops cultivated in the 1.4 SUB -PROGRAMME 3.4 Social Welfare and Community Development ....................... 65 District are maize, cassava, beans and groundnuts. PROGRAMME 4: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ..................................................................................... 69 SUB-PROGRAMME 4.1: Agricultural development. ........................................................................ 69 In terms of livestock, cattle rearing dominate livestock activities in the District. The District ranks PROGRAMME 5: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SANITATION MANAGEMENT ...................... 77 highest in the Volta Region in cattle rearing. The absence of tsetse fly, short grasses and low rainfall 2.6 SUB -PROGRAMME 5.1 Disaster prevention and Management ..................................... 77 pattern provide a favourable environment for animal husbandry. ANNEXURE1. ............................................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. The Oti River which flows through the District is extremely rich in fishes such as tilapia and various EXPENDITURE BY PROGRAMME AND CLASSIFICATION ....................................................................... 80 species of mud and cat fish. Fishing and aquaculture are carried out in the Oti River and also the ANNEXURE 2. ........................................................................................................................................ 85 Kpassa and Morla rivers. These water bodies serve as good breeding grounds for tilapia, shrimps and BUDGET BY PROGRAMME BY ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATION ................................................................. 85 mud fish. These are harvested and sold to travellers along the Eastern corridor roads. ANNEXURE 3. ........................................................................................................................................ 85 SANITATION BUDGET ............................................................................................................................ 85 ANNEXURE 4. TEMPLATE FOR CAPTURING RETIREES FOR 2018 ......................................................... 86 1.2.2 II) ROADS The District has a total road length of about 175.9km out of which about 45.9km of feeder roads are engineered. The Eastern Corridor Highway runs through the district. There are other feeder roads linking various Communities in the District which have also seen a lot of reshaping, spot improvement and resurfacing. There is however not a single tarred road in the district. 1.2.3 III) EDUCATION The District has about 167 Educational Institutions in the District which are public and privately owned. From this figure, there are 60 Kindergartens, 78 Primary, 24 Junior High Schools, 2 Senior High Schools, one Technical/Vocation Institute in the District. A Community Day Senior High School is also under construction at Damanko. 3 4 1.2.4 IV) HEALTH There are two (2) Ghana Health Service managed Health Centres, two (2) Christian Health THE ASSEMBLY’S