SOUTH TONGU DISTRICT ASSEMBLY 2016 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT Prepared by: DPCU DPCU February, 2017 1 TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION……….………………………..…………4 1.1 BACKGROUND ...................................................................................................................... 4 1.1.1 Vision ................................................................................................................................. 4 1.1.2 Mission ............................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 KEY OBJECTIVES OF THE REPORT .................................................................................. 5 1.3 METHODOLOGY OF PREPARING THE REPORT ............................................................. 5 1.4 DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE REPORT ................ 5 CHAPTER TWO IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES ........... 6 2.1 IMPLEMENTATION OF 2016 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN .................................................. 6 2.2 ENSURING AND SUSTAINING MACRO-ECONOMIC STABILITY ................................ 7 2.2.1 Revenue Mobilisation ........................................................................................................ 7 2.3 ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS IN GHANA’S PRIVATE SECTOR ........................... 8 2.3.1 Business Development Services......................................................................................... 8 2.3.2 Agricultural Commodity Processing Infrastructure Development (ACPID) ..................... 8 2.3.3 Access to Rural Finance (ARF) ......................................................................................... 8 2.3.4 Institutional Development (ID) .......................................................................................... 9 2.4 ACCELERATED AGRICULTURAL MODERNIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT .................................................................................. 9 2.4.1 Agriculture Development ................................................................................................... 9 2.5 INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS DEVELOPMENT ...... 14 2.5.1 Human Settlement Planning ............................................................................................. 15 2.6 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT ............................. 16 2.6.1 Education .......................................................................................................................... 16 2.6.2 Healthcare Delivery.......................................................................................................... 21 2.6.3 Youth Employment .......................................................................................................... 33 2.6.4 Environmental Sanitation ................................................................................................. 35 2.6.5 Vulnerability and Exclusion ............................................................................................. 35 2.6.6 Disaster Management ....................................................................................................... 41 2.7 TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE ............................................... 42 2.7.1 Organization of Town Hall Meetings............................................................................... 42 2 2.8 OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT ......................................................................................... 44 CHAPTER THREE UPDATE ON CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY ISSUES 45 3.1 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE TRENDS .......................................................................... 45 3.2 POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES ..................................................................... 47 3.2.1 Ghana School Feeding Programme .................................................................................. 47 3.2.2 Worlds AIDs Day Celebration ......................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER FOUR RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION 50 4.1 RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................................................................................ 50 4.2 CONCLUSION ....................................................................................................................... 51 3 CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND South Tongu District was established in 1989 by Legislative Instrument (LI) 1466 to pave way for effective and efficient local government administration. The District is located in the southern part of the Lower Volta Basin and shares boundaries with Central and North Tongu Districts to the North; Akatsi South District to the East; Keta Municipal to the South and Ada East District of the Greater Accra region to the West. The District has 2016 projected population of 102,172 which is made up of 50.9 percent females and 49.1 percent males. The population density is about 196 persons per square kilometer. The District is largely rural (87.1%) with only 12.9 percent of the population living in urban localities. One of the core functions of the District Assembly as stipulated in Section 10 (3) of Local Government Act 1993, Act 462 is to formulate and execute development plans, programmes and strategies for the effective mobilization of the resources necessary for the overall development of the District. Government of Ghana has been committing a lot of resources to support a wide range of development interventions that are designed to improve standard of living of the people. In order to properly co-ordinate and track implementation of these development interventions, an Annual Action Plan was prepared out of the District Medium Term Development Plan to guide programmes and projects implementation in the District. In order to ensure that public resources are used prudently, monitoring and evaluation has become relevant in generating reliable and accurate information to help the District Assembly, government and other stakeholders to make sound policies and decisions. This report provides comprehensive information on progress of implementation of programmes and projects of the District Assembly and its departments. 1.1.1 Vision The South Tongu District Assembly aspires to be one of the best managed District Assemblies in Ghana. 4 1.1.2 Mission The South Tongu District Assembly aspires to improve the living conditions of its citizenry through effective and efficient mobilization and utilization of physical, financial and human resources in partnership with the private sector and other stakeholders. 1.2 KEY OBJECTIVES OF THE REPORT The main objectives of the report are to: 1. Assess the performance and progress of implementation of 2016 Annual Action Plan (AAP) and 2014-2017 District Medium Term Development Plan (DMTDP). 2. Determine the implementation status of the 2016 AAP by departments of the District Assembly and other agencies in the District. 3. Provide the needed basic and local level information to stakeholders to enable them make informed development decisions. 1.3 METHODOLOGY OF PREPARING THE REPORT Preparation of this report started with a DPCU meeting and consultation with stakeholders to explain the objectives and processes involved in the preparation of the report. Field visits and review of reports and documents was carried out to get the needed data from departments and other agencies on the implementation of programmes and projects in 2016. Also, data was collected on implementation of key social intervention programmes such as school feeding programme, lively empowerment against poverty, free educational materials distribution, capitation grants and many others. 1.4 DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE REPORT Difficulties encountered include delay in accessing reports and documents from some departments and agencies in the District. There is also limited means of transport to facilitate easy movement of staff to departments for data collection. However, through the hard work of the District Planning and Co-ordinating Unit (DPCU) the report was successfully prepared with input from departments. 5 CHAPTER TWO IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES 2.1 IMPLEMENTATION OF 2016 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN As mentioned earlier, the 2016 Annual Action Plan was prepared out of the 2014-2017 District Medium Term Development Plan. The District Assembly focused much on completion of on- going projects mainly in the area of education, health, water and sanitation. However, some new projects under education and health were also tackled by the District Assembly. Revenue mobilization, farmers’ day celebration as well as public health programmes and school supervision were carried out under the seven thematic areas of the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda II. The District Assembly undertook and supervised the implementation of about 48 physical projects as summarized in the table below. The Table shows that about 14 projects representing 29.8 percent were completed while the remaining ones are at various stages of completion. Projects being undertaken and funded under GETFund accounted for the larger number of on- going projects in the District which are mainly in the education sector. However, District Development Facility (DDF) and District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) projects received some attention in terms of their completion on time. The District Assembly departments and other agencies in the District