Contents PART A: INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 4 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DISTRICT ....................................................................................... 4 2. POPULATION STRUCTURE .......................................................................................................... 4 3. DISTRICT ECONOMY .................................................................................................................... 5 a. AGRICULTURE…………………………………………………………………………………..5 b. MARKET CENTRE…..…………....……………………………………………………………..6 REPUBLIC OF GHANA c. ROAD NETWORK….....……………………………………………………………………..…..6 d. EDUCATION………...........………………………………………………………………..……..6 e. HEALTH..…………………………………………………………..……………………………..7 f. SANITATION…………………………………………..……...……………………………….....7 4. VISION OF THE DISTRICT ASSEMBLY .................................................................................... 8 COMPOSITE BUDGET 5. MISSION STATEMENT OF THE DISTRICT ASSEMBLY ....................................................... 8 PART B: STRATEGIC OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................... 9 3. CORE FUNCTIONS ........................................................................................................................ 10 4. BROAD OBJECTIVES IN LINE WITH THE NMTDF (2018-2021) ........................................ 11 FOR 2019-2022 5. POLICY OUTCOME INDICATORS AND TARGETS .............................................................. 13 6. SUMMARY OF KEY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2018 ...................................................................... 15 7. REVENUE MOBILIZATION STRATEGIES FOR KEY REVENUE SOURCES IN 2019 .... 18 8. EXPENDITURE TRENDS FOR THE MEDIUM-TERM ........................................................... 20 PROGRAMME BASED BUDGET ESTIMATES PART C: BUDGET PROGRAMME SUMMARY .................................................................. 21 PROGRAMME 1: MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ..................................................... 21 1. Budget Programme Objectives ....................................................................................................... 21 SUB-PROGRAMME 1.1 General Administration........................................................................... 24 FOR 2019 SUB-PROGRAMME 1.2 Finance and Revenue Mobilization ........................................................ 26 SUB-PROGRAMME 1.3 Planning, Budgeting and Coordination ................................................... 29 SUB-PROGRAMME 1.5 Human Resource Management ...................................................................... 32 PROGRAMME 2: INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT .................................. 35 ELLEMBELLE DISTRICT ASSEMBLY SUB-PROGRAMME 2.1 Physical and Spatial Planning ........................................................................ 37 SUB-PROGRAMME 2.2 Infrastructure Development ........................................................................... 39 1. Budget Sub-Programme Objective ................................................................................................. 39 PROGRAMME 3: SOCIAL SERVICES DELIVERY ............................................................................ 43 SUB-PROGRAMME 3:1 Education and Youth Development ............................................................... 44 SUB-PROGRAMME 3.2: Health Delivery ............................................................................................. 48 SUB-PROGRAMME 3.3: Social Welfare and Community Development ............................................. 52 PROGRAMME 4: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................... 55 Ellembelle District Assembly 2 SUB-PROGRAMME 4.1 Trade, Tourism and Industrial development .................................................. 58 PART A: INTRODUCTION SUB-PROGRAMME 4.2: Agricultural Development ............................................................................ 61 PROGRAMME 5: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SANITATION MANAGEMENT .............................. 65 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DISTRICT SUB-PROGRAMME 5.1 Disaster prevention and Management............................................................ 66 The Ellembelle District Assembly is one of the 23 administrative MMDAs (Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies) in the Western Region of Ghana. The Ellembelle District Assembly was carved out of the then Nzema East District, now Nzema East Municipal in December 2007 by Legislative Instrument (LI) 1918 and officially inaugurated in February, 2008. The Ellembelle District is located at the southern part of the Western Region of Ghana between longitudes 2o 05’’ W and 2o 35’’W, and latitude 4o 40’’N and 5o 20’’N covering a total land size of 995.8 Square Kilometres (GSS, 2010 PHC). It is a coastal district sharing boundaries with Jomoro Municipal to the West, Wassa Amenfi West Municipal to the North, Nzema East Municipal to the South – East, Tarkwa – Nsuaem Municipal to the East and a 70 km stretch of sandy beaches along the Atlantic Ocean to the south. The district capital is Nkroful, which is the birth place of the first President (Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah) of the Republic of Ghana. There are 54 Assembly Members comprising 36 elected members and 16 government appointees, the DCE and a Member of Parliament who constitute the General Assembly - the highest decision-making body of The District Assembly The district has one constituency called the ‘Ellembelle Constituency’ with a total of 7 Area Councils, namely Nkroful Area Council, Esiama Area Council, Kikam Area Council, Asasetre Area Council, Awiebo Area Council, Atuabo Area Council and Aiyinase Area Council. 2. POPULATION STRUCTURE The population of the Ellembelle District, according to the 2010 Population and Housing Census, is 87,501 (105,178 projected figure for 2018 with a district growth rate of 2.3%) constituting 3.7 percent of the entire population of the Western Region. Out of this figure, the female population is 45,184 representing 51.6 percent while the remaining 42,317 (48.4 percent) are males, translating into a sex ratio of 93.7. The population of 87,501 may suggest that there is not much pressure on the land, given population density of about 88 persons per km2. The population of the district depicts a broad base population pyramid which tapers off with a small number of elderly persons. The age dependency ratio for the district is 82.2, the age dependency ratio for males is lower (40.5) than that of females (42.3). Ellembelle District Assembly 3 Ellembelle District Assembly 4 The district has a household population of 85,338 with a total number of 18,682 households. The average household size in the district is 4.6 persons per household. Children constitute the largest proportion of b. MARKET CENTRE the household composition accounting for 40.9 percent. Spouses form about 9.2 percent. The major market centres in the district are located at Aiyinase and Asasetre. While Asasetre has one market day in a week, the Aiyinase market has two market days within the week, namely Tuesdays 3. DISTRICT ECONOMY and Fridays. In addition to these two major market centres, the district has four (4) satellite markets at Esiama, a. AGRICULTURE Asomase, Eikwe and Aluku. However, these satellite markets do not have enough stalls and stores Agriculture (including fishing and forestry) remains the major occupation in the district engaging to meet their current trade volumes. Items sold at the various markets include variety of foodstuffs, 35.2 percent of the population (2010 Population and Housing Census). Large portions of the total household items, and clothes, among others. land area of the district have forest vegetation cover (in the northern part) while the southern portion is mainly the coastline. Consequently, majority of the people in the northern belt of the district are mainly engaged in tree crop farming such as cocoa, coffee, rubber, oil palm, in addition to cassava c. ROAD NETWORK and plantain while large proportion of the people along the coastal belt engage in fishing and coconut The district has 154km of trunk roads of which 63.9km representing 41.5 percent is tarred. This farming as the main sources of livelihood. The relief and drainage system of the district also favours tarred road forms part of the Trans-African Highway, which traverse through the district. The rest of the development of fish farming and cultivation of rice, sugar cane and dry season vegetables. the trunk roads are either graveled or earth surfaced. Apart from these trunk roads the district has 253km of feeder roads. Out of this, only 150km is motorable all year round. About 70 percent of the The district ranked second as far as marine fishing in the country is concerned. Out of 90 landing feeder roads are located in the southern part of the district. The remaining 30 percent, which are beaches in the region, 31 could be found in the district. The major marine fishing season is between found in the northern part of the district are very deplorable and mostly become unmotorable during July and September with the minor season occurring in November-January. The common types of the rainy season. Some communities in the district can only be reached through Prestea in the Prestea fish landed include sardinella and tunas (see Ghanadistricts.com, 2013). Despite this potential, Huni-Valley