The office of the District Assembly is located off of Jirapa - Wa road. It has a 36-unit blocks where the secretariat of the District Assembly and other Decentralized Departments are housed. The giant departments such as Health, Agriculture and Education have separate blocks for their offices.
The District has a good spread of Health Infrastructure that facilitates access to quality health care. The Health needs of the people are served in a district Hospital and twelve (12) Health Centers. There are also one hundred and twenty outreach points scattered in communities across the district where health workers visit periodically to provide assorted health services to the people.
Although the doctor-population ratio is not good enough, the few doctors, nurses and paramedical staff provide dedicated service at the health facilities. With respect to education infrastructure, the district can boost of being one of the best in the Region. There are over ten (10) public and private Day Care centers, sixty- eight (68) primary schools, forty-three (43) Junior Secondary schools and four Senior Secondary schools.
A vocational school has been opened to cater for the large number of boys and girls who are not able to enter other tertiary institutions. The District Assembly has played a leading role by investing over sixty per cent (60%) of its share of the District Assemblies Common Fund in the construction and rehabilitation of educational infrastructure as well as supplying of furniture to schools at all levels.
Its efforts were complemented by Non-governmental organizations and Donor agencies such as the European Union, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), Catholic Relief Service among others. Discussions are currently on going to provide financial assistance to needy but brilliant students from the district in tertiary institutions of the country. Motivation for staff at all levels is being considered. The priority status accorded the Education sector is the recognition of the fact that it is key to any developmental effort.
The district has a good network of Feeder roads that can be improved upon to promote active internal and external trade. The national Electricity Grid has been extended to the District. Jirapa, the district capital and Tizza a market center have been connected while efforts are underway to connect Han, Hamile, Kami, Ullo, and Lambussie among others in the near future.
Telephone facilities have been installed in the major towns such as Jirapa, Hamile, Han and Lambussie to ease communication within and outside the district. Potable water is abundant in the district capital and rehabilitation works on mechanized water systems are underway in Hamile and Lambussie. Boreholes serve other small communities. There are over two hundred and sixty boreholes scattered in the communities across the district.
The District has three major markets located in Hamile, Jirapa and Tizza. Other markets are located in Piina, Kami, Ullo, Han, Suke, Naawie and Gbare. The Hamile market was rehabilitated under the Agricultural Sector Investment Project (ASIP). The Village Infrastructure Project (VIP) undertook the completion of the rehabilitation of the Jirapa market project, which could not be completed under the ASIP.
The infrastructure of the other markets would be up-graded systematically to provide adequate stores and stalls as well as providing congenial environment for all market users to operate. Market days throughout the district fall on every six days. The District has a Rural Bank, which is located in the District capital, Jirapa, and it serves the banking needs of the District as well as the neighboring Nadowli District through an agency located there.
Roads
The district can boast of a very good road network comprising of 466.3 km of engineered stretch of road and 78.6 km of new roads to be constructed to open up the road network in the district. Basically almost all the roads in the district are classified as feeder roads except the Jirapa-Duori, Jirapa-Nadowli and Jirapa-Hamile highways.
Energy
This district has a low coverage of electricity as only a few towns and communities are hooked to the national grid. These include Jirapa town, Hamile, Lambussie, Tizza, Han and Ullo. No single community in the Western belt of the district within the Duori, Tuggo and Yagha communities have electricity. The district largely depends on fuel wood and charcoal for domestic use. This has the tendency of depleting and degrading the environment.
Communication
The district cannot boast of a reliable telephone services. Though Ghana Telecom telephone services are in Jirapa, Hamile and Han they are not functioning efficiently due to their obsolete nature. The situation is likely to improve as other network services such as Areeba, ONEtoch and Tigo are constructing their service network facilities in the district.
The office of the District Assembly is located off of Jirapa - Wa road. It has a 36-unit blocks where the secretariat of the District Assembly and other Decentralized Departments are housed. The giant departments such as Health, Agriculture and Education have separate blocks for their offices.
The District has a good spread of Health Infrastructure that facilitates access to quality health care. The Health needs of the people are served in a district Hospital and twelve (12) Health Centers. There are also one hundred and twenty outreach points scattered in communities across the district where health workers visit periodically to provide assorted health services to the people.
Although the doctor-population ratio is not good enough, the few doctors, nurses and paramedical staff provide dedicated service at the health facilities. With respect to education infrastructure, the district can boost of being one of the best in the Region. There are over ten (10) public and private Day Care centers, sixty- eight (68) primary schools, forty-three (43) Junior Secondary schools and four Senior Secondary schools.
A vocational school has been opened to cater for the large number of boys and girls who are not able to enter other tertiary institutions. The District Assembly has played a leading role by investing over sixty per cent (60%) of its share of the District Assemblies Common Fund in the construction and rehabilitation of educational infrastructure as well as supplying of furniture to schools at all levels.
Its efforts were complemented by Non-governmental organizations and Donor agencies such as the European Union, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), Catholic Relief Service among others. Discussions are currently on going to provide financial assistance to needy but brilliant students from the district in tertiary institutions of the country. Motivation for staff at all levels is being considered. The priority status accorded the Education sector is the recognition of the fact that it is key to any developmental effort.
The district has a good network of Feeder roads that can be improved upon to promote active internal and external trade. The national Electricity Grid has been extended to the District. Jirapa, the district capital and Tizza a market center have been connected while efforts are underway to connect Han, Hamile, Kami, Ullo, and Lambussie among others in the near future.
Telephone facilities have been installed in the major towns such as Jirapa, Hamile, Han and Lambussie to ease communication within and outside the district. Potable water is abundant in the district capital and rehabilitation works on mechanized water systems are underway in Hamile and Lambussie. Boreholes serve other small communities. There are over two hundred and sixty boreholes scattered in the communities across the district.
The District has three major markets located in Hamile, Jirapa and Tizza. Other markets are located in Piina, Kami, Ullo, Han, Suke, Naawie and Gbare. The Hamile market was rehabilitated under the Agricultural Sector Investment Project (ASIP). The Village Infrastructure Project (VIP) undertook the completion of the rehabilitation of the Jirapa market project, which could not be completed under the ASIP.
The infrastructure of the other markets would be up-graded systematically to provide adequate stores and stalls as well as providing congenial environment for all market users to operate. Market days throughout the district fall on every six days. The District has a Rural Bank, which is located in the District capital, Jirapa, and it serves the banking needs of the District as well as the neighboring Nadowli District through an agency located there.
Energy
Procurement of electricity poles and completion of street lighting and wiring at a total cost of ¢343,758,548. .27.
There are two main financial institutions in the district namely the Sonzele Rural Bank Ltd. with an agency in Lambussie and the St. Joseph’s Credit Union also situated in Jirapa with a branch in Hamile. These two financial institutions play a very important economic role by granting credit facilities to its customers, small-scale business operators and farmers, which has impacted positively in the lives of the people in the district.As part of its social responsibility, the Sonzele Bank grants financial support to some needy but brilliant students.
Roads
The district can boast of a very good road network comprising of 466.3 km of engineered stretch of road and 78.6 km of new roads to be constructed to open up the road network in the district. Basically almost all the roads in the district are classified as feeder roads except the Jirapa-Duori, Jirapa-Nadowli and Jirapa-Hamile highways.
This district has a low coverage of electricity as only a few towns and communities are hooked to the national grid. These include Jirapa town, Hamile, Lambussie, Tizza, Han and Ullo. No single community in the Western belt of the district within the Duori, Tuggo and Yagha communities have electricity. The district largely depends on fuel wood and charcoal for domestic use. This has the tendency of depleting and degrading the environment.
Communication
The district cannot boast of a reliable telephone services. Though Ghana Telecom telephone services are in Jirapa, Hamile and Han they are not functioning efficiently due to their obsolete nature. The situation is likely to improve as other network services such as Areeba, ONEtoch and Tigo are constructing their service network facilities in the district.
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