TABLE OF CONTENTS PART A: INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 3 ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICT ................................................................................................... 3 LOCATION .................................................................................................................................. 3 POPULATION STRUCTURE ......................................................................................................... 3 DISTRICT ECONOMY .................................................................................................................. 4 REPUBLIC OF GHANA VISION ........................................................................................................................................ 6 KEY ISSUES & CHALLENGES ....................................................................................................... 6 SUMMARY OF KEY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2018 ............................................................................. 7 FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE ....................................................................................................... 9 COMPOSITE BUDGET REVENUE PERFORMANCE ......................................................................................................... 9 EXPENDITURE PERFORMANCE ................................................................................................ 11 PART B: STRATEGIC OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................... 13 MTNDPF POLICY OBJECTIVES .................................................................................................. 13 GOAL ........................................................................................................................................ 15 FOR 2019-2022 CORE FUNCTIONS .................................................................................................................... 15 POLICY OUTCOME INDICATORS AND TARGETS....................................................................... 16 REVENUE MOBILIZATION STRATEGIES FOR KEY REVENUE SOURCES IN 2019 ........................ 17 OUTLOOK FOR 2019 ................................................................................................................ 18 PROGRAMME BASED BUDGET ESTIMATES REVENUE PROJECTIONS .......................................................................................................... 18 EXPENDITURE PROJECTION ..................................................................................................... 18 PART C: BUDGET PROGRAMME SUMMARY .................................................................................. 19 PROGRAMME 1: MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ...................................................... 19 PROGRAMME 2: INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT ...................................... 30 FOR 2019 PROGRAMME 3: SOCIAL SERVICES DELIVERY.......................................................................... 35 PROGRAMME 4: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ......................................................................... 46 PROGRAMME 5: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SANITATION MANAGEMENT ................................. 54 BOSOME FREHO DISTRICT ASSEMBLY Bosome Freho District Assembly | Composite Budget 1 Bosome Freho District Assembly | Composite Budget 2 PART A: INTRODUCTION From Table1.1 above, it is clear that 28% of the population is concentrated in the ten (10) largest communities whiles the remaining seventy-five communities constitutes 72% of the population. This ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICT implies that, there is going to be increasing pressure on existing facilities in the communities. Thus, The Bosome Freho District is one (1) of the administrative districts in the Ashanti Region. It was there is the need to plan adequately to cater for the increasing population. carved out of Amansie East District now Bekwai Municipal Assembly. The district has about eighty- five (85) communities, which have been delineated into twenty-one (21) Electoral Areas and one (1) Age-Sex Structure constituency. The sex structure of the district indicates 49.2% for males and 51.8% for females, which does not differ very much, from what pertains in 2000. The 2000 Population and Housing Census indicted that LOCATION there were 48.3% males and 51.7% females. By implication, policies must be in place to increase It is located in the south-eastern part of the Ashanti Region of Ghana between Latitude 6° 00’N and women participation in development. 6° 26 N and Longitudes 1° 00 W and 1˚30 W. The District is estimated to have a land area of about 630 sq. km. The District shares boundaries with the Bekwai Municipal to the West, Bosomtwi District TABLE 1.2: AGE AND SEX COMPOSITION Age Group Male Female Total and Ejisu-Juaben Municipal to the North, Adansi South and Akyimansa Districts to the South and 0-14 8,688 8,116 16,782 Asante-Akim South to the Northeast. Major settlements in the District are Asiwa, Anyanso, Freso, 15-64 14,549 15,277 29,826 Abosamso, Nsuaem, Tebeso I & II, Anyinase and Nsuta. 65+ 6,516 7,251 13,767 TOTAL 29,753 30,644 60,397 POPULATION STRUCTURE Source: DPCU Construct 2018 The 2010 Population and Housing Census put the district population at 60,397 with an annual growth DISTRICT ECONOMY rate of 2%. About 2.9% of the population is estimated to have some form of physical disability. AGRICULTURE Based on 2010 census the projected population for 2019 is 70,877, this represent 1.3% of the total The Bosome Freho District is mainly rural and major economic activity in the District is agriculture. population of Ashanti Region. Farming is the main stay of the people and major cash crops under production are cocoa, citrus and TABLE 1.1: POPULATION OF TOP TEN COMMUNITIES oil palm. Food crops generally produced on subsistence base are maize, yam, cassava and plantain. NO. TOWN 2010 (CENSUS REPORT) 1 Anyanso 2,575.74 Cabbage production is recently gaining popularity as a non-traditional cash crop, which promote 2 Dompa 1,926.01 vegetable farming mostly along the slopes of the Bosomtwi ranges. 3 Duase 1,443.29 ROADS 5 Ankaase 1,255.56 4 Ampento 939.84 Road transportation is the dominant network in the district. It plays an important role by facilitating 6 Freso 2,439.21 the transportation of agriculture produce and people to and from the district. Transportation service 7 Abosamso 1,383.56 is not well developed. Besides major roads like Bomfa-Achiase-Asiwa, Abosamso-Freso-Tebeso and 8 Korchikrom 2,019.87 9 Asiwa 1,517.65 Abosamso-Nsuaem which are plied by commercial vehicles, all other routes are not plied by 10 Nyamebekyere 1,428.66 commercial vehicles and limits easy movement of people and goods to and from other parts of the TOTAL 16,929.39 District. Source: Population and Housing Census Reports, 2010 Bosome Freho District Assembly | Composite Budget 3 Bosome Freho District Assembly | Composite Budget 4 EDUCATION water, the district is not benefiting from it. The boreholes in the communities are managed by well- The Bosome Freho District has a total number of 199 schools both privately and publicly owned as trained WATSAN Committees mainly through Pay-As-You-Fetch scheme. depicted by the table below: In terms of solid waste, there are collection points in all the communities who do not have permanent NO. LEVEL NO. OF FACILITIES engineered final disposal site. The Assembly has secured three permanent final disposal site for the PUBLIC PRIVATE TOTAL district. 1 K. G. 60 15 75 2 Primary 60 15 75 The Assembly on the other hand has also taken a decision to engage interested individuals under 3 Junior High School 41 1 42 the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement to construct public toilets within the district. 4 Senior High School 1 - 1 5 Vocational 2 - 1 ELECTRICITY COVERAGE 6 ICT 4 4 Almost all the larger communities in the district are connected to the national grid. This source of 7 Library - - - power is also used by the small and medium industries such as welders, manufactures and small- Total 168 31 199 scale businesses in the district. However, communities like Kwakumensahkrom, Efumyaw, Source: GES Bosome Freho, 2017/2018 Simidadiaso, Besease, Ahwiaso, and Tweappiase are not connected to the national grid and as such The Table above shows a high access rate (i.e. 97%) to education in the District. There is also a low the Assembly is putting in place measures to connect these communities and others within the 2018- competition emanating from the private sector in terms of provision of education. 2021 Medium Term Plan. TEACHER-STUDENT RATIO VISION Teacher – Pupil Ratio - 1:24 To be an excellent facilitator of sustainable local level development. Teacher –Students Ratio - 1:21 KEY ISSUES & CHALLENGES Key issues/challenges of Bosome Freho District under the thematic areas of the President’s The ratios show that Teachers are available in the District but more is required. Coordinated Programme on Economic and Social Development Policies (CP 2017-202I) among HEALTH other things include the following: The level of service delivery in the District is very low apparently due to the rural nature of the area. The absence of viable market for farm produce from the farming communities. There is no Hospital in the District, and Health care delivery is in the hands of 2 health centres and 16 small clinics/CHPS compounds. Currently, there is no doctor in the District but there are 2 medical Manufacturing is