MNISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT WA EAST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY FUNSI ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF 2016 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN FEBRUARY, 2017 District Location and Size The Wa East district was carved out of the former Wa District and made a district by L.I 1746 in July 2004. The district is located in the south eastern part of the Upper West region. Funsi, the district capital is about 115km away from Wa which is the regional capital. The district shares boundaries with West Mamprusi to the northwest, West Gonja to southeast, Wa Municipality to the Southwest, Nadowli to the North east and the Sissala East districts to the north. The districts’ closeness to West Mamprusi and West Gonja in the Northern region could promote inter regional trade when well linked by road. It has a landmass of about 3,196.4km², which is located between latitudes 9º 55”n and 10º 25”n and longitude 1º 10”w and 2º 5”w. The district occupies 17.3% of the total landmass of the region (18,478.4Km2). The remoteness of the district relative to other districts of the region has deprived it of the needed investment from the private sector which has led to woefully, inadequate basic social and economic infrastructure and services. Topography and Drainage The topography of the district could be described as gently undulating. Generally, the district is located about 180 meters above sea level with a few isolated hills. The relative plain topography is suitable for road construction, distribution of utility lines and general construction works. The District is poorly endowed with water bodies. This is attributed to the low underground water table. The district falls within the Guinea Savannah vegetation belt. The vegetation consists of grasses with scattered fire resistant trees such as the Shea and Baobab trees. The heterogeneous collections of these trees meet domestic requirements for firewood and charcoal, construction of houses, cattle kraals and fencing of gardens. Climatically, the District is tropical continental as experienced in the northern regions of Ghana. Throughout the year, temperatures are high with a minimum of 230C at night and a maximum of 420C during the day. This favours plant growth.The mean monthly temperature ranges between 210C and 320C. The highest monthly maximum temperature rises up to 400C before the rainy season usually in May with lowest minimum temperature falling to about 120C in December when the Harmattan winds from the Sahara dry up the vegetation. As a result of the single maximum rainfall season prevailing in the district, crop production is mostly done during the rainy season (May to September/October). The dry season is a potential for the preservation industry that could use the sunshine as a natural preservative. By implication, however, since farming is the major occupation of the people, it means that their major sources of livelihood and income are limited during the dry season apparently resulting in the migration of the youth to the south in search of greener pastures. There is thus, the need to have adequate irrigation facilities to promote and enhance agricultural activities in the dry season. With a gentle undulating topography, the district is bound with fresh granite. The main soil types in the District are sandstones,gravel, mudstone, alluviam, granite and shale that have weathered into different soil grades. The availability of these soil types have contributed to housing development which have resorted to the use of local building materials such as sand,gravel and clay. Demographic Characteristics Vision Statement A Mission Statement PROCESSES IN DEVELOPING ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT The DPCU has the sole responsibilities of monitoring and evaluating the DMTDP. The unit was guided by the draft monitoring and evaluation plan 2014-2017 and the guide lines for successfully implementing it. With special reference to the operationalization of the DPCU, roles were assigned to the specific members. The Core monitoring team comprising the Planning officer, the Budget officer and the Works Engineer were tasked to monitore all on going physical projects and report to the committee. All other members were also tasked to make available to the planning unit, the progress of development programmes and non-physical programmes in their respective departments. CHALLENGES The following are some of the challenges faced by the DPCU in its monitoring and evaluation activities; Inadequate logistics Inadequate motivation Difficulty in accessing data Poor accessibility to communities SECTION TWO PERFORMANCE OF THE VARIOUS THEMATIC AREARS OF GSDGA IN THE 2016 ACTION PLAN BACKGROUND The Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda is sequel to the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy II (GPRS II) that was formulated to sustain growth, accelerate Poverty reduction and open more development opportunities for the vulnerable and the excluded in a humane and democratic arena. The Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda are aimed among other things to sustain growth, create wealth and deepen good governance and our democratic values. It is also aimed at deepening the development of a human resource base of the country. Furthermore, it is estimated that the GPRSII would propel the District and for that matter the country into the middle income level by 2016. The major national development thematic arrears for the 2010-2013 planning period are Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability, Infrastructure and Human Settlement, Accelerated Agricultural Modernization and Sustainable National Resource Management; Enhancing Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector, Human Development, Productivity and Employment: Transparent and accountable Governance and Reducing Poverty and Income inequalities. Hihglights of our top commitments and achievements for 2016 The Assembly in collaboration with her development partners carried out a number of development programmes/projects during the year under review. The programmes spread across the Health, Education, Water and Sanitation, Agriculture, Governance, Security, Livelihood empowerment programmes among others. The Assembly’s top 10 priorities and achievements at the close of 2016, its relatedness of those commitments to the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda PhaseII as well as the president’s 2016 priority arrears are contained in the table below. 10 KEY TOP COMMITMENT ACHIEVEMENT RELATION TO RELATION TO RESULTS GSGDAII PRESIDENT PRIORITY THEMATIC AREA FOR 2016 1. Construction of Education -Construction of 4 no. 6 Human Development Investing in People. infrastructure unit classroom Block at Productivity and -Yayuongyiri Employment. -Funsi -Jonfian -Baayiri Under GETFUND Construction of 1 no. semi-detached teachers quarters at Tuorsa Construction of fence wall around KG Block at Bulenge and another KG Block at Chagu. Construction of School feeding Kitchen at Chasia. 2. Provision of Health Facilities Rehabilitation of CHPS Human Development Investing in People Compound at Goh and Productivity and Danyokura. Under Employment DDF -Complete the construction of DHMT Office Complex at Funsi . DDF Construction of 1 no. CHPS Compound at Gudayiri. DDF. 3. Construction and drilling of Drilling of 20 no. Infrastructure and Investing in People boreholes and provision and Boreholes District wide Human Settlement improvement in Sanitation. Construction of 2 no. mechanised Borehole all under CWSA/DA 4. Promotion of Peace Security, Construction of 1no. Transparent and Expanding Growth . Strong Law and Order in the District police Station at Funsi Accountable Economy for real jobs through DDF Governance -Rehabilitation of Kundugu police Station 5. Extension and regular Street lights were Infrastructure and Expanding infrastructure for maintenance of street lights in maintained and Human Settlements Growth. the District remained functional throughout the year. 6. Business Development Training in Soya beans Enhancing Strong Economy for real jobs Services Processing of Loggu Competitiveness of Sagu womens Group Ghana’s private Basic CBT in Rabbit Sector Rearing at Bulenga Youth and women Basic training in Soya beans processing for youth and women at Funsi. Business Councselling of MSEs and LBAs at Funsi, Baayiri, Kundugu, Bulenge and Loggu. Teacher trainees , Human Development, Investing in People 7. Financial Support to teacher Health trainees and Productivity and trainees, health trainees and others were given Employment. needy but brilliant students of support under DACF all categories. 4 no. motorbikes were Transparent and Expanding Growth . 8. Procurement of motorbikes for procured for Area Accountable Area Council Staff. Council staff Governance DCEs Bungalow Human Development, Expanding infrastructure for 9. Rehabilitation of DCEs rehabilitated. Productivity and Growth Bungalow. Employment. 10. Rehabilitation of Area Council Area Council office at Transparent and Expanding Growth office at Bulenga Bulenga Rehabilitated Accountable Governance HIGHLIGHTES OF SECTOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN IMPLEMENTING THE 2016 ACTION PLAN OF WA EAST DISTRICT MTDP 2014-2017 INSTITUTIONS TARGET/OBJECTIVES EXPECTED ACTUAL RESULTS CHALLENGES/ RESULTS REMARKS Health Hold quarter and annual An in-depth Review meetings were Best practices review meetings with assessment held and weaknesses were shared and our partners and of our identified were learnt collaborators performance addressed to improve health delivery in the District Health Intensify malaria To reduce Maternal death, malaria Vigorous prevention,