Summary of Key Community Needs and Aspirations

The needs and aspirations of the people of Assin Foso Municipal are summarized below:

Private Sector Development

1    Provision of market structures

2.   Job opportunities

3.   Provision of credit facilities

4.   Improvement in rural housing

5.   Road improvement for easy accessibility to the urban centres 

6.   Extension of telecommunication facilities

7.   Extension of electricity to communities

Human Resource Development

1.    Potable water supply

2.    Health facilities/personnel

3.    Provision of drains

4.    Toilet facilities

5.    Educational facilities and infrastructure

6.    Job for physically challenged

7.    Credit for rural women

8.    Training programmes for the physically challenged

Good Governance

1.    Provision and rehabilitation of office accommodation for Town and Area Councils

2.    Preparation of a Disaster Management Plan

3.    Ensuring sustainable environmental management.

4.    Ensure adequate security

Summary of Key Demands of the Private Sector/NGOs/CBOs

A summary of the key demands of the Private Sector, NGOs and CBOs

are presented below.

1.    Provision of micro Credit Scheme

2.    Rehabilitation of roads

3.    Extension of telecommunication facilities

Human Resources Development

1.    Provision of potable water

2.    Provision of health services and equipment

3.    Provision and rehabilitation of school infrastructure.

4.    Provision of training centres for the vulnerable and the excluded

5.    Establishment of a credit scheme for the physically challenged.

 Good Governance

1.    Ensuring sustainable environmental management

2.    Strengthening of security systems.

The only hospital is always under pressure since it serves the entire Assembly in addition to the neighboring. Within the plan period, the few health facilities available should be well equipped with personnel and logistics to be able to deliver-instead of putting up new ones. The educational problem in the assembly is basically deteriorated school structures. More than 68 per cent of the educational structures in the Municipality are suffering from structural weaknesses and dilapidation. The result is that most structures are death traps for pupils and teachers and this affects school attendance and hinders effective teaching and learning.  The implication is that emphasis will be put on rehabilitation and construction of new buildings to replace the dilapidated structures.

The development of the human resource is not complete if the disabled and the vulnerable in the Municipality are neglected. The categorizes the vulnerable and excluded into three (3), via: the rural poor who operate at subsistence level of agricultural production, potential productive poor such as the youth who may have motivation and energy but lack opportunities and skills, rural women engaged in agriculture, and people living with disabilities/HIV AIDS. The groups of people identified above cannot meet the basic necessities of life either because they cannot afford them or the necessities are not available or both. The Assembly should target its poverty reduction programmes especially at the vulnerable and excluded.

KEY ISSUES/CHALLENGES

A summary of the key development problems identified under each of the thematic areas arising out of the situational analysis is provided below;
• Inadequate employment opportunities
• Inadequate local plans
• Poor road network
• Inadequate social protection programmes for the poor
• Inadequate potable water supply
• Inadequate health facilities
• Dilapidated educational infrastructure
• Inadequate job opportunities for persons with disability
• Inadequate refuse containers (Communal Bins/Skip Containers) and
• Inadequate economic data
• Increase in insecurity among citizens