Ensuring and sustaining Macroeconomic Stability
•    Inadequate storage facilities 
•    Low-income levels
•    Inadequate financial resources for training youth
•    Unequal access of females to factors of production and sharing of economic profits

Infrastructure and human settlement development 

•    Lack of recreational facilities.
•    Inadequate skills training centers
•    Inadequate educational infrastructure
•    Inadequate accommodation  for Teachers
•    Inadequate health facilities/institutions
•    Poor drainage
•    Limited road linkages/networks
•    inadequate electricity supply 
•    Inadequate office accommodation 

Accelerated Agriculture Modernization and natural resource management

•    Unfavourable weather conditions e.g. erratic rainfall
•    Unfavourable land tenure system
•    Inadequate marketing facilities/avenues
•    Low agricultural productivity
•    Inadequate extension services to farmers and fishermen
•    Lack of technical support for Agricultural Development:
•    Lack of technical support for small-scale industrialization
•    Prevalence of primitive production technologies

Human development, employment and productivity

  High illiteracy rates
  Trained youth lack entrepreneurial skills
  Educated youth lack sufficient experience
  High dropout rates especially among female pupils
  Falling standard of education
  Inadequate Teachers
  Low motivation for teachers and other educational workers
  Doctor / Paramedical staff –patience ratio Unfavourable
 Inadequate qualified personnel

Enhanced competitiveness of Ghana’s private sector

•    Inadequate access to credit facilities
•    Inadequate supply of potable water
•    Low level of employment
•    Poor road conditions
•    Inadequate  accommodation facilities 

Transparent and Accountable Governance

•    Inadequate  coordination between the Core Assembly Staff and Decentralized Departments
•    Low capacity base of MA staff/ Lack of training programmes for DA  staff
•    Poor enforcement of Assembly by-laws 
•    Low motivation for Assembly staff
•    Weak revenue mobilization by Municipality
•    Inadequate  investment policies
•    Some non-functional sub-Municipal structures 
•    Inadequate funding for HIV/AIDS activities
•    Weak capacity to provide for emergency 
•    Inadequate resources for effective dissemination of information
•    Discrimination against people with disabilities
•    Lack of enforcement of MA byelaws
•    Inadequate office and staff accomodation
•    Inadequate logistical support
•    Low level of community Participation in decision making

Reducing Poverty and Income Inequalities

•    High  population growth
•    High incidence of rural- urban migration
•    High population density in urban centres
•    Low income levels
•    Low nutritional levels (especially in pregnant women and children)

 Health Including HIV/AIDS

Doctor / Paramedical staff –patience ratio Unfavourable
Presence of quack doctors/ health practitioners
Prevalence of communicable diseases like: 
-     River blindness
-     Cholera, 
-     Malaria, 
-     Diarrhea.
-     HIV/AIDS

Low nutritional levels (especially in pregnant women and children)

Water and Environmental Sanitation 

Low environmental sanitation 
Pollution of surface and underground water
Inadequate potable supply water
Inadequate toilet facilities
haphazard locations of refuse sites
Inadequate refuse containers

Post Offices

Saltpond, Ekrawfo, Essakyir, Anomabo and Mankessim have post offices. However, Rural Postal Agencies have all been discontinued due to poor patronage of their services.
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Banking

A vibrant banking system and services serve as a sound and enabling environment for fruitful investment and wide range of business transaction in an economy in terms of savings and credit mobilization. There are presently six (6) banks that operate in the municipality namely; Ghana Commercial Bank, Mfantsiman Community Bank, Nyankomase Ahenkro Rural Bank, Kakum Rural Bank and Ekumfiman Rural Bank, Mfantseman Community Bank  provide banking service in the Municipality. However, most of the communities are remote from the banks as most of these banks operate in communities along Cape Coast - Accra highway.    

Skills and Entreprenual Development for the Youth

The Municipality made some appreciable efforts in the following areas:

Skill training in bee keeping
Batik tie and dye manufacturing
Pottery
Cassava processing and oil extraction
Grass cutter and snail rearing

Skills were developed both on individual and group basis with emphasis on the groups.

The Municipality is also embarking on youth employment and job creation programme. Jobs would be created in the following areas:

Auxiliary nursing 
Community protection
Sanitation and waste management
Aqua culture
Live stock production 
Crop production
Non-agric Trades and Vocations
Tools fabrication 

Special Programmes for the Vulnerable and Excluded:

In order to mitigate the plight of the vulnerable and the excluded certain programmes were put in place. Among them are:
Provision of user-friendly facilities such as toilets
Employable skill training 
Financial support for the vulnerable and people with disabilities (PWDs)
Scholarship scheme for the vulnerable and excluded
Material support in the form of wheel chairs, reading aids, teaching aids etc.

Furthermore, Development Partners and Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), in their efforts to implement their benevolent mandates have initiated the following programmes towards poverty reduction in Mfantseman:

- Organization of skills development and support in mushroom production, bee keeping, snail farming, book keeping etc for women’s group. 
-Complimenting Municipality Assembly’s support in provision of schools, furniture, feeder roads rehabilitation, and building of KVIP and provision of Potable water for needy communities.
-   Supporting  farmer groups and fishers with credit facilities to improve production and income levels.
 - Linking products of farmers/fishers to marketing centers.
 - Providing modern conservation technological advice to farmers/fishermen.

Good Governance and Civic Responsibility 

To ensure the participation of the people at the grassroots decentralized structures have been put in place from the Municipal Assembly level through the Town/Area/Urban Council level to the unit committees. In addition to that, Mfantseman Municipality has its fair share of Decentralized Departments. 

The Departments are:
Ghana Education Service – 
Municipality Agricultural Development Unit (DADU) – 
Municipality Health Management Team (DHMT) – 
Information Services Department –

Department of Social Welfare –

Department of Community Development –

Town and Country Planning Department – 
Public Works department – 
Statistical Service – 
Births and Death Registry – 
Controller and Accountant Generals Department – 
Fire Service Department – 

Sub-Municipality Administrations and Unit Committees:

 Sub-Municipal Administration

Sub-Municipality    Capital  Staff at Post   No.Councilors   No.Unit comm.

Saltpond              Saltpond          nil        
Otuam                  Otuam           nil        
Mankessim           Mankessim      nil        
Anomabo              Anomabo        nil        
Ekrawfo                 Ekrawfo          nil        
Yamoransa           Yamoransa      nil        
Nsanfo                 Nsanfo            nil        
Eyisam                 Eyisam            nil        
Narkwa                 Narkwa            nil        
Abandze/Kormantse     Abandze   nil        
Immuna/Srafa       Immuna           nil        
Ebiram                  Ebiram            nil        
Essarkyir               Essarkyir          nil        
Abeadze/Dominase   Dominase     nil        
Asaafa                  Asaafa             nil       

Sub-Committees

The sub-committees in place are: Education, Social Services, Agriculture, Finance & Administration, Works, Economic Development, Women in Development and Disaster.

Constituencies: There are two constituencies (Mfantseman West and Mfantseman East).

 Assembly members and Electoral Areas:

Assembly members perform the legislative, deliberative and executive functions of the Municipality. The current Assembly members are 48 elected and 21 appointed for the Mfantseman Municipality

Development Partners / Non-Governmental Organizations 
Working in Mfantseman:

International Labour Organization (Netherlands) – Small-scale processing Industries at Akobima
Star of Hope (Sweden and USAID) – Projects at Akombima/Abuakwa
Technoserve - Project at Abor-Baifikrom
ADRA-projects at Twa, Asaman, Asaafa, Amisano
HABITAT- projects at Anomabo
DANIDA-projects at Immuna
World Food Programme- projects at Mankessim
Association of Rural Environmental Development/Trees for Future Ghana
CEDECOM
CBRDP
PLAN GHANA
The Hunger Project
Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana
Plan Foster Parents International
American Ambassadors Self-help Fund – Baifikrom, Abuakwa, Srafa
Japan Overseas International Cooperation – Ekumfi 
Baobab -Biriwa
World Vision Ghana

Health/Development Issues

Inadequate Health infrastructure.    

Potentials

Timber
Raw materials
Sand, Stones
Communal Spirit
DACF, MP’s
Artisans
T/Authorities
Large Population
DHD
    
Opportunity

Donor Gov. Polices on Health.    
CONSTRAINTS
-  Poor Road network
-  Long Distance to access Health facility.
    
Challenges

- Inadequate Health personnel.
- Untimely release of funds.
    
Development Issues
Inadequate Health Personnel    

Potential

-  M/A Scholarship
-  Availability of health facilities.
-  High Population.
    
Opportunities

-  Nursing Training College.
-  Gov’t Scholarship programme.
    
Constraints

-  Inadequate Accommodation.
-  Inadequate Training
-  Low commitment
    
Challenges
Unwilling to accept postings.    

Development Issues
Inccidence of HIV/AIDS    

Potentials

NGO,CBO’s DACF, DAC, DRIMT
Health facilities
Local FM Stations
    
Opportunities

Ghana Aid Commission
Donors
NGO’s
    
Constraints

Apathy
Ignorance
Inadequate Education
People Behaviour
Attitude
    
Challenges

Inadequate Funding
Untimely release of Funds.
    
Development Issues

Low Patronage of DHIS
    
Potentials

-  Secretariat
-  Population
-  Collecting Agents
-  Adequate Staff
-  Local FM
-  Community Educ.
-   Health facilities
- Designated Chemical Shops 

   
Opportunities

-   Donors
-   Government support
-   NGO
    
Constraints

-  Lack of Transport
-  Attitude of people
-  Apathy
-  Inadequate Logistical Support.
-   Ignorance
    
Challenges

-  Politics
-  Change in Gov’t.

Key Development Issues to be  Addressed

Ensuring and sustaining  Macroeconomic Stability

•    Inadequate storage facilities 
•    Low-income levels
•    Inadequate financial resources for training youth
•    Unequal access of females to factors of production and sharing of economic profits

Infrastructure and human settlement development 

•    Lack of recreational facilities.
•    Inadequate skills training centers
•    Inadequate educational infrastructure
•    Inadequate accommodation  for Teachers
•    Inadequate health facilities/institutions
•    Poor drainage
•    Limited road linkages/networks
•    inadequate electricity supply 
•    Inadequate office accommodation for the Municipal Assembly

Accelerated Agriculture Modernization and natural resource management

•    Unfavourable weather conditions e.g. erratic rainfall
•    Unfavourable land tenure system
•    Inadequate marketing facilities/avenues
•    Low agricultural productivity
•    Inadequate extension services to farmers and fishermen
•    Lack of technical support for Agricultural Development:
•    Lack of technical support for small-scale industrialization
•    Prevalence of primitive production technologies

Human development, employment and productivity

-    High illiteracy rates
-    Trained youth lack entrepreneurial skills
-    Educated youth lack sufficient experience
-    High dropout rates especially among female pupils
-    Falling standard of education
-    Inadequate Teachers
-    Low motivation for teachers and other educational workers
-    Doctor / Paramedical staff –patience ratio Unfavourable
-   Inadequate qualified personnel

Enhanced competitiveness of Ghana’s private sector

•    Inadequate access to credit facilities
•    Inadequate supply of potable water
•    Low level of employment
•    Poor road conditions
•    Inadequate  accommodation facilities 

Transparent and Accountable Governance

•    Inadequate  coordination between the Core Assembly Staff and Decentralized Departments
•    Low capacity base of MA staff/ Lack of training programmes for DA staff
•    Poor enforcement of Assembly by-laws 
•    Low motivation for Assembly staff
•    Weak revenue mobilization by Municipality
•    Inadequate  investment policies
•    Some non-functional sub-Municipal structures 
•    Inadequate funding for HIV/AIDS activities
•    Weak capacity to provide for emergency 
•    Inadequate resources for effective dissemination of information
•    Discrimination against people with disabilities
•    Lack of enforcement of MA byelaws
•    Inadequate office and staff accomodation
•    Inadequate logistical support
•    Low level of community Participation in decision making

Reducing Poverty and Income Inequalities

•    High  population growth
•    High incidence of rural- urban migration
•    High population density in urban centres
•    Low income levels
•    Low nutritional levels (especially in pregnant women and children)

a. Health Including HIV/AIDS

-   Doctor / Paramedical staff –patience ratio Unfavourable
-    Presence of quack doctors/ health practitioners
-    Prevalence of communicable diseases like: 
-    River blindness
-    Cholera, 
-    Malaria, 
-    Diarrhea.
-    HIV/AIDS
-    Low nutritional levels (especially in pregnant women and children)

b. Water and environmental sanitation 

-   Low environmental sanitation 
-    Pollution of surface and underground water
-    Inadequate potable supply water
-    Inadequate toilet facilities
-    haphazard locations of refuse sites-

-    Inadequate refuse containers