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COMMUNITY NEEDS
Child Protection
Child neglect, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, verbal and physical abuse, discrimination, bullying, adolescent sexual and reproductive health issues, unsafe places and child labor are the predominate child protection issues identified in the Municipality. This situation is caused by complex and interwoven issues including; Poor parent-child relationships, socioeconomic stress from financial issues and unemployment.
Also, cultural practices and lack of support from family friends, neighbors or the community amongst others. The Department of Social Development in a bid to curb child protection issues within the Municipality have been sensitizing members on the importance of child protection. Also, child maintenance, general family welfare and child custody and access services amongst others are rendered to residents. For the plan period, child protection programs will be promoted by the Department and other stakeholders. Programs will run concurrently with monitoring to ensure that child protection issues are well embraced within the Municipality.
Social Protection
Social protection policies and programs are designed to reduce poverty and vulnerability by diminishing people’s exposure to risk and enhancing their capacity to manage economic and social risk such as unemployment, exclusion, sickness disability and old age. The Municipality houses some of the most affluent neighborhoods in Accra, this makes it easy to overlook in terms of gender inequality, poverty and vulnerability. However, there are numerous vulnerable groups in need of social protection interventions such as women, children, people living with HIV/AIDS, adolescent, elderly, the physically challenged etc..
A total of 6,890 vulnerable and marginalized persons have been identified in the Municipality as at 2020. There exists incidence of poverty too in the Municipality as indicated in Table 1.8 below. The Assembly as the Planning Authority of the Municipality supports in the promotions of the following; LEAP, School Feeding, Capitation Grants, NHIS, and Free SHS programmes etc. as social protection interventions. The Assembly will mainstream social protection in the planning and implementation of development activities and collaborate with local and International Agencies and Non-Governmental Organization to ensure the protection of vulnerable groups.
Table 1.8 Poverty prevalence in AWMA 2021
Table 1.8 above indicates the distribution of poverty (in percentage) amongst the localities within AWMA. There are 19,321 poor persons out of a total of 98,199 projected population, thus 19.7% of the total population of AWMA is considered poor based on lower and upper poverty lines.17.0% of the total population fall under the upper poverty line while 2.6% fall under the lower line and therefore are living in extreme poverty. Okponglo recorded the highest rate of poverty, 51.6% of the population is poor. On the other hand, the lowest rate of poverty was recorded in Legon thus, 9.0% from the survey.
Child neglect, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, verbal and physical abuse, discrimination, bullying, adolescent sexual and reproductive health issues, unsafe places and child labor are the predominate child protection issues identified in the Municipality. This situation is caused by complex and interwoven issues including; Poor parent-child relationships, socioeconomic stress from financial issues and unemployment.
Also, cultural practices and lack of support from family friends, neighbors or the community amongst others. The Department of Social Development in a bid to curb child protection issues within the Municipality have been sensitizing members on the importance of child protection. Also, child maintenance, general family welfare and child custody and access services amongst others are rendered to residents. For the plan period, child protection programs will be promoted by the Department and other stakeholders. Programs will run concurrently with monitoring to ensure that child protection issues are well embraced within the Municipality.
Social Protection
Social protection policies and programs are designed to reduce poverty and vulnerability by diminishing people’s exposure to risk and enhancing their capacity to manage economic and social risk such as unemployment, exclusion, sickness disability and old age. The Municipality houses some of the most affluent neighborhoods in Accra, this makes it easy to overlook in terms of gender inequality, poverty and vulnerability. However, there are numerous vulnerable groups in need of social protection interventions such as women, children, people living with HIV/AIDS, adolescent, elderly, the physically challenged etc..
A total of 6,890 vulnerable and marginalized persons have been identified in the Municipality as at 2020. There exists incidence of poverty too in the Municipality as indicated in Table 1.8 below. The Assembly as the Planning Authority of the Municipality supports in the promotions of the following; LEAP, School Feeding, Capitation Grants, NHIS, and Free SHS programmes etc. as social protection interventions. The Assembly will mainstream social protection in the planning and implementation of development activities and collaborate with local and International Agencies and Non-Governmental Organization to ensure the protection of vulnerable groups.
Table 1.8 Poverty prevalence in AWMA 2021
Table 1.8 above indicates the distribution of poverty (in percentage) amongst the localities within AWMA. There are 19,321 poor persons out of a total of 98,199 projected population, thus 19.7% of the total population of AWMA is considered poor based on lower and upper poverty lines.17.0% of the total population fall under the upper poverty line while 2.6% fall under the lower line and therefore are living in extreme poverty. Okponglo recorded the highest rate of poverty, 51.6% of the population is poor. On the other hand, the lowest rate of poverty was recorded in Legon thus, 9.0% from the survey.
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