Vulnerability
Vulnerability and Excluded analysis

In the Atiwa West District Assembly, the following groups have been identified as vulnerable and excluded: deaf and dumb; Difficult Circumstances walking, seeing, hearing, speaking; intellectually challenged, mentally challenged, Amputee, Epilepsy, Hunched. Adolescent Girls (those from low income and broken homes and single mothers as well as commercial sex workers) as well as Persons Living With HIV/AIDS. The Aged, poor Women and Unemployed Youth were identified as vulnerable.

Problems related to the vulnerable and excluded in the District include: inaccurate data inadequate credit facilities to the vulnerable and the excluded, high rate of poverty among women, and low employable and entrepreneurial skills especially among them.   One major challenge confronting the District to implement interventions to address the plight of the vulnerable has been inadequate funding due to equally important competing demands from other sectors. However with the creation of the disability fund from the DACF the impact of the challenge would be reduced.

In order to reduce the vulnerability of the sections of the population described below, the following interventions will be implemented over the four years to improve the living conditions of the people:

Update data of the vulnerable people especially PWDs and the PLWHAs.

Organise employable skills for the PWDs.

Establish skills training centre for the PWDs

Provide finance to assistants to the PWDs

Support PLWHAs to access ART

Register and update records of the OVCs

Provide financial support for OVCs

Support the unemployed young female to be engaged in the National Youth

Unemployment Programme

Monitor the activities of the PWDs