REPUBLIC OF GHANA COMPOSITE BUDGET FOR 2020-2023 PROGRAMME BASED BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR 2020 SEKYERE EAST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY 2020 Composite Budget - Sekyere East District Assembly 2020 Composite Budget - Sekyere East District Assembly 1 2 Table of Contents 5. POLICY OUTCOME INDICATORS AND TARGETS .......................................... 26 PART A: INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................. 5 Revenue Mobilization Strategies for Key Revenue Sources in 2019 ......................... 29 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DISTRICT ................................................................ 5 PART C: BUDGET PROGRAMME SUMMARY ............................................. 30 1.1 Structure of the Assembly ................................................................................... 5 PROGRAMME 1: MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ................................... 30 1.2 Location and Size ............................................................................................... 5 SUB -PROGRAMME 1.1 General Administration ............................................... 32 Figure 1.0: Sekyere East............................................................................................. 6 SUB -PROGRAMME 1.2 Finance and Revenue Mobilization ............................. 35 2. POPULATION STRUCTURE ................................................................................ 6 SUB -PROGRAMME 1.3 Planning, Budgeting and Coordination ....................... 38 3. DISTRICT ECONOMY .......................................................................................... 7 SUB -PROGRAMME 1.4 Legislative Oversights ....................................................... 42 a. AGRICULTURE ................................................................................................. 7 SUB -PROGRAMME 1.5 Human Resource Management ........................................ 44 b. INDUSTRIAL SECTOR ..................................................................................... 7 PROGRAMME 2: INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT ................. 46 c. SERVICES SECTOR ......................................................................................... 8 SUB -PROGRAMME 2.1 Physical and Spatial Planning ........................................... 47 i. MARKET CENTRE ............................................................................................ 8 SUB -PROGRAMME 2.2 Public Works, Rural Housing and Water Management ..... 50 ii. FINANCIAL SERVICES ..................................................................................... 8 PROGRAMME 3: SOCIAL SERVICES DELIVERY ...................................................... 54 iii. EDUCATION ...................................................................................................... 9 SUB -PROGRAMME 3.1: Education, Youth and Sports and Library Services .......... 55 iv. HEALTH .......................................................................................................... 10 SUB -PROGRAMME 3.2: Health Delivery................................................................. 60 v. WATER AND SANITATION ............................................................................ 12 SUB -PROGRAMME 3.3: Social Welfare and Community Development .................. 65 vi. ENERGY .......................................................................................................... 12 SUB -PROGRAMME 3.4: Environmental Health and Sanitation Services ................ 68 d. ROAD NETWORK ........................................................................................... 13 SUB -PROGRAMME 3.5: Births and Deaths Registration Services .......................... 71 4. VISION OF THE SEKYERE EAST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY ............................... 13 PROGRAMME 4: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ......................................................... 73 5. MISSION STATEMENT OF THE SEKYERE EAST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY ..... 14 SUB -PROGRAMME 4.1 Trade, Tourism and Industrial development ...................... 75 6. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE SEKYERE EAST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY IN SUB -PROGRAMME 4.2: Agricultural Development ................................................. 78 2018 ........................................................................................................................... 17 PROGRAMME 5: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SANITATION MANAGEMENT ............... 81 a. REVENUE PERFORMANCE ........................................................................... 17 SUB -PROGRAMME 5.1 Disaster prevention and Management .............................. 82 b. EXPENDITURE PERFORMANCE ................................................................... 18 PART B: STRATEGIC OVERVIEW .............................................................................. 19 1. GSGDA II POLICY OBJECTIVES ...................................................................... 19 2. GOAL .................................................................................................................. 19 3. CORE FUNCTIONS ............................................................................................ 19 4. MMDA’s ADOPTED POLICY OBJECTIVES AND LINKAGE WITH THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ................................................................. 22 2020 Composite Budget - Sekyere East District Assembly 2020 Composite Budget - Sekyere East District Assembly 3 4 PART A: STRATEGIC OVERVIEW 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DISTRICT The Sekyere East District Assembly (SEDA) was established by Legislative Instrument LI (1990) in 2007 in pursuance of governments decentralization programme. The legal framework has empowered SEDA with legislative responsibilities to promulgate byelaws to give legal backing to its decisions. Section 122 of the Local Government Act 2016, Act 936 envisages the implementation of the composite budget system under which the budgets of the department of the District Assembly are integrated into the budget of the District Assembly. The Composite Budget of the Sekyere East District Assembly for the 2020 Fiscal Year has been prepared in line with the objectives of the National Development Policy Framework and the Budget Guidelines provided by the Ministry of Finance. 1.1 Structure of the Assembly The District is divided into four urban / Area councils with a total of Forty Three (43) communities and 38 electoral areas. The Assembly has 38 Figure 1.0: Map of Sekyere East District Assembly members made up of 26 elected and 12 appointed members. The General Assembly at its sitting has forty members, made up of 2. POPULATION STRUCTURE twenty-six elected and twelve appointed members, one Member of The 2010 Population and Housing Census put the population of Sekyere East Parliament and the District Chief Executive. District at sixty two thousand, one hundred and seventy two (62,172) persons representing 1.3 percent of the Ashanti Region population of 4,780,280. With an 1.2 Location and Size The district is located in the North-Eastern part of the region, and lies average inter-censual growth rate, the Ghana Statistical Service estimates that the between latitudes 6º45” – 6º55” North and Longitude 1º15” – 1º 25” West. population of Sekyere East will reach 81,152 by 2020, made up of 42,632 females The District shares boundaries with other Districts like Sekyere-Kumawu as against 38,520 males. More than half of the population (54.1%) reside in the to the North-East, Sekyere South to the West-West, Asante-Akim Central urban areas compared to (45.9%) the rural areas. The Sekyere East District has Municipal to the South-East and Juaben Municipal Assembly to the South- 40.6% of its population within the ages of day one (1) and fourteen (14). This shows West. It covers an estimated area of about 730.5sq/km with forty (43) that the District has more youthful population. The ages of 15 and 64 also accounts settlements of varying sizes. Fig 1.0 shows the map of Sekyere East. for 53.7% which is the active population. This gives the District the pool of labour to support developmental activities. 2020 Composite Budget - Sekyere East District Assembly 2020 Composite Budget - Sekyere East District Assembly 5 6 3. DISTRICT ECONOMY The local economy exemplifies the national macro economy. Even though it is c. SERVICES SECTOR agriculture dominated, it is increasingly becoming service and commerce based. The service sector ranks second to agriculture in terms of the number of people it a. AGRICULTURE employs. The sector includes education, health, banking, hospitality, tourism, trade, Agriculture dominates the local economy by the great number of the people it ICT, etc. employs, with about 48.9 percent of the people engaged fulltime. There are two i. MARKET CENTRE main types of agricultural practices in the District, namely, crop farming (food and The District has two major markets at Asokore and Effiduase with almost all the cash crops farming) and animal husbandry. The proportion of households other communities having smaller market centres/ food outlets. Two New engaged in agriculture and into crop farming is 90.9 percent, while 35.0 percent market centres have been established in Ahotokrom a suburb of Effiduase is in livestock rearing. Some of produce include cereals such as Maize and resulting in an increase in the number of market centres. Almost all the 38 tubers such as Cassava, Cocoyam and Yams. The area is also conducive for communities within the district have access to food oulets except Bimma and livestock production