KEY DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

The key development issues identified after the municipal profiling are illustrated in the table below under the various sectors.

Summary of Key Development Gaps/Problems from Performance Review and Profile under GSGDA1 Thematic Area

The development gaps identified from the performance review are summarised under the Ghana Shared Growth Development Agenda I. Infrastructure and Human Settlements Development

(i) Indiscriminate parking of heavy duty trucks

(ii) Indiscriminate parking by commercial drivers

(iii) Deplorable condition of access roads

(iv) Frequent power cuts

(v) Fluctuation in electricity supply

(vi) Encroachment on lanes by uncontrolled housing extension

(vii) Indiscriminate sitting of make-shift wooden and metal kiosk and containers

(viii) Disposal of waste water on the streets and open spaces

(ix) Stagnant water

(x) Indiscriminate disposal of refuse into water bodies e.g. Aboabo River

(xi) Inadequate public water supply facilities

(xii)Irregular supply of water

(xiii) Lack of well – constructed communal refuse sites

(xiv) Poor environmental condition

(xv) Inadequate public toilet facilities

(xvi) Most of the houses lack toilet facilities

(xvii) Pressure on the public toilet facilities

(xviii) Inadequate drainage system

(xix) Inadequate speed rams

(xx) Culverts

Accelerated Agricultural Modernization and Natural Resource Management

(i) Inadequate land for agricultural activities

(ii) Poor housing

(iii) Poor farm sanitation

(iv) over crowding

(v) Poor general husbandry practices

(vi) Reluctant attitude towards vaccination of animals

Enhanced Competitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector

(i) Inability to access credit facilities

(ii) Inadequate community markets

(iii) Inappropriate location of Market facilities

Human Development, Employment and Productivity

(i) Inability to save enough to take care of children

(ii) Inadequate sustainable and productive jobs

(iii) Some of the mothers are not sustainably employed

(iv) Large population size

(v) Unproductive use of youthful resources

(vi) High unemployment rate especially among the youth

(vii) Poor academic performance in public schools

(viii) Inadequate educational facilities

(ix) Incidence of school dropouts

Transparent and Accountable Governance

(i) Unit committee members have not been inaugurated

(ii) Organizing community stakeholders for development purposes is difficult

(iii) Zonal Council Offices non-functional

(iv) Lack of motivational package for unit committee members

(v) Inadequate office logistics

(vi) Lack of permanent technical personnel

(vii) Marginalization of smaller ethnic groups in development process

(viii) Incidence of criminal activities

(ix) Incidence of criminal activities especially stealing

(x) Inadequate logistics for the police services

(xi) High female – headed households

Energy Oil and Gas development

(i) Inadequate supply of LPG

PRIORITIZATION OF DEVELOPMENT ISSU
INTRODUCTION

This chapter dilates on the Municipal development priorities adopted from the National Medium Term Development Plan Framework for the period 2014 to 2017. It also encapsulates the community perspective on current needs and aspirations which was compiled through consultation with the people in the sub-Municipal level.

NEEDS AND ASPIRATIONS OF COMMUNITIES

Community participation in assessing the needs and aspirations of the people for who this plans was intended to benefit was very essential during the plan preparation stage. The electoral areas in the Municipality were carefully taken through a participatory approach, where all stakeholders of the various communities were invited to help bring out all key development issues in their respective communities.

Needs and Aspiration of Aboabo No. 1 and 2

The table below shows the needs expressed by community members and stakeholders during the community participatory planning process.

Needs and Aspirations of Sawaba, Adukrom and Akurem

The community members and stakeholders of Sawaba, Adukrom and Akurem articulated the following needs and aspirations during the community participatory planning process.

Needs and Aspiration of Asokore Mampong, Adukrom and Sepe-Tinpom

The table below shows the needs and aspirations expressed by community members and stakeholders of Asokore Mampong, Adukrom and Sepe-Tinpom during a community participatory planning process.

Summary of Adopted Community Needs and Aspirations

The following were identified as the summary of the current community needs and aspirations from the stakeholder fora that were held in the sub-Municipal levels along the length and breadth of the Municipality.

(i) Improvement of Revenue Generation

(ii) Construction of office accommodations and bungalows for the Central Administration and other Decentralised Departments

(iii) Provision and Extension of Electricity Supply

(iv) Provision of Potable Water and Sanitation Infrastructure

(v) Provision of adequate Human Resource for the Decentralised Departments

(vi) Construction and Rehabilitation of road Infrastructure

(vii) Rehabilitation and Construction of Education Infrastructure

(viii) Enhancing the process of Food Security

(ix) Improvement of Health Delivery

(x) Creation of Employment Opportunities

(xi) Provision of ICT for Service Delivery

(xii)Catering for the Vulnerable and the Socially Disadvantaged

HARMONIZED DEVELOPMENT ISSUES WITH IDENTIFIED KEY DEVELOPMENT GAPS/ISSUES

The above profiling and community participation has provided an in depth study of the Municipality. The study considered the spatial and aspatial dimensions of the Municipality and that given a detail understanding of development issue in the Municipal.

Each community need or aspiration is scored against the key gaps/problems or issues identified under the review of performances in a scale as shown below.

2: Indicates a strong relationship

1: Indicates a weak relationship

0: Indicates no relationship

The identified community needs and aspirations are harmonized to the Ghana Shared Growth Development Agenda II to ensure that the development issues of the Municipality don’t stay in isolation but falls in the national development framework for harmony and coherence.

The scores are put together and divided by the number of harmonized identified development issues/problems and the average scores obtained. High scores indicate that the harmonized identified development problems are in tandem with MTDPF 2014-2017 issue.

PRIORITIZATION

Prioritization was done with due regards to:

(i) Impact on a large proportion of the citizens especially, the poor and vulnerable

(ii) Significant linkage effect on meeting basic human needs/rights (for example immunization of children and quality basic schooling linked to productive citizens in future, reduction of gender discrimination linked to sustainable development, etc.)

(iii) Significant multiplier effect on the local economy – attraction of enterprises, job creation, increases in incomes and growth. Special attention is also given to:

(iv) Issues relating to spatial location of investment/activities with the aim of either reducing or bridging the rural-urban disparities/gaps in accessing public goods and services or with respect to ecological zones in pursuance of growth and poverty reduction objectives

(v) Cross-cutting issues- HIV and AIDS

(vi) Gender equality, environmental concerns

(vii) Climatic change issues, population and other emerging issues.

Accordingly, the Priority Areas for the Municipal are as follows:

(i) Construction of office accommodations and bungalows for the Central Administration and other Decentralised Departments

(ii) Improvement of Revenue Generation

(iii) Provision and Extension of Electricity Supply

(iv) Provision of Potable Water and Sanitation Infrastructure

(v) Construction and Rehabilitation of road Infrastructure

(vi) Rehabilitation and Construction of Education Infrastructure

(vii) Improvement of Health Delivery

(viii) Creation of Employment Opportunities

(ix) Provision of ICT for Service Delivery

(x) Catering for the Vulnerable and the Socially Disadvantaged

(xi) Enhancing the process of Food Security

(xii)Provision of adequate Human Resource for the Decentralised Departments

APPLICATION OF POTENTIALS, OPPORTUNITIES, CONSTRAINTSAND CHALLENGES

After the identification of development issues, potentials and opportunities are necessary to aid enhance the Municipal in addressing the constraints and challenges that may arise in the cause of addressing the identified development issue and hence setting up strategies to solve the development issues.

In conducting the POCC analysis, the identified priority issues were outlined with respect to each of the Thematic Areas of the MTDPF 2014-2017. This enhanced the formulation of the appropriate strategies for implementation of the oriented plans. By so doing, due consideration was given to HIV/AIDS and other cross-cutting issues

MONITORING AND EVALUATION ARRANGEMENT

INTRODUCTION

Monitoring and Evaluation are processes that keep an eye on the progress made in the implementation of programmes, projects or activities, as well as, ensure the optimum use of resources for the realization of the project activities, and to identify any issues as early as possible, and make the necessary changes as required.

The main purpose of monitoring is to support the day-to-day management of a project, but there are additional reasons for monitoring:

(i) To continuously track progress during implementation and to ensure that each task is implemented as planned to achieve the assumed outputs

(ii) To facilitate wider stakeholder awareness and participation

(iii) To account for the use of resources against the activities

(iv) To provide basic data for more periodic evaluative processes

Evaluation is the analysis or assessment of the impact of a project and comparison of actual progress vis-a-vis prior plans, oriented toward improving plans for future implementation. It is part of a continuing management process, ideally with each following the other in a continuous cycle until successful completion of the activity. So, Monitoring and Evaluation should be carried out on regular basis at different levels.

Regular monitoring of the projects encourages the community to actively participate in the projects and create a feeling of ownership which is important for sustainability.

The systematic collection of data on specified indicators of Asokore Mampong Municipal helps the M&E team to assess the results and to compare with the objectives proposed. Hence, the M&E report enables the incorporation of lessons learnt into the decision making process.

A key element driving a successful monitoring and evaluation is Assembly’s readiness. The Assembly has to ensure availability of financial resources to provide the needed logistics, incentives, outline roles and responsibilities to improve on the capacity of the MPCU, through training to tackle barriers. This would ensure that accurate data is collected to measure the performance of all activities outlined in the MMTDP 2014-2017.

INDICATORS FOR MONITORING THE PLAN

The following indicators have been developed to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the various thematic areas of the medium term development plan.

Thematic Area 1: Ensuring and Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability Indicators:

(i) Percentage (%) increase in IGF mobilization

(ii) Percentage (%) increase in the use of IGF on capital projects

(iii) Percentage of DA expenditure within Budget

Thematic Area 2: EnhancingCompetitiveness of Ghana’s Private Sector Indicators:

(i) No. of SSEs registered and trained by the Assembly

(ii) Percentage of SMEs registered with Registrar General

(iii) Percentage (%) increase of SMEs access to favorable medium and long term credit from financial institutions

(iv) Percentage (%) increase of SMEs into savings

(v) No. of new markets constructed

(vi) No. of on-going market projects completed

Thematic Area 3: Accelerated Agriculture Modernisation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management Indicators:

(i) Percentage (%) increase in the production of:

(ii) Poultry –

(iii) Livestock -

(iv) Percentage (%) increase in non-traditional agriculture production (grasscutter, snail, mushroom)

(v) Vegetable production (spring onions, lettuce, cabbage, sweet pepper)

(vi) No. of Agricultural Commodity Markets established

(vii) Tonnage of Cereals produced (maize and rice)

Thematic Area 4: Oil and Gas Development Indicators

(i) No. of Fuel Filing stations established

(ii) No. of L.P Gas stations established

Thematic Area 5: Infrastructure and Human Settlements Indicators:

Roads

(i) Length of asphaltic Road constructed

(ii) Length of surface dressed Roads

(iii) Length earth Road

(iv) Length of gravel road

Water:

(i) Percentage % increase in access to safe drinking water

Sanitation:

(ii) Tonnage of waste collection per day

(iii) Number of public toilets.

(iv) Number of communal refuse sites

(v) Number of skip containers

(vi) Number of household with access to refuse containers

(vii) Reported cases of noise

Thematic Area 6: Human Development, Productivity and Employment Indicators

Education:

(i) Percentage reduction of schools under trees

(ii) No. of primary school in need of additional classroom

(iii) No. of JHS in need of additional classroom

(iv) No. of communities without public schools

(v) No. of Public Schools without standard infrastructure

(vi) Indicators

(vii) Number of schools benefiting from school feeding programme

(viii) Reduction in school schools running shift system

(ix) Percentage increase in Gross Enrolment Rate:

(xi) Percentage of male students with aggregate 6-25 in BECE

(xii)Percentage of female students with aggregate 6-25 in BECE

(xiii) Percentage of trained teachers in primary school

(xiv) Percentage of trained teachers in JHS Schools

(xv) Number of public school with equipped computer lab

Health:

(i) A reduction in doctor patient ratio

(ii) Reduction in nurse patient ratio

(iii) Increase in supervise delivery

(iv) Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)

(v) Reduction in maternal death

(vi) Increase in post natal care

(vii) Improvement in family planning coverage

(viii) Health insurance coverage

(ix) Reduction in under weight

(x) Reduction in stunted growth

(xi) Reported cases of HIV/AIDS

(xii)OPD attendance due to malaria

Thematic Area 7: Transparent and Accountable Governance Indicators:

(i) Percentage of women in the Assembly

(ii) Availability of vehicle(s) procured for monitoring activities

(iii) No. of Mid-year and end-year performance review of Assembly's plan organized

(iv) No. of press briefing on the implementation status of Assembly's programmes and projects organized