As metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies seek to improve their revenue to enable them undertake more developmental projects, every window of opportunity is welcome news.

It is for this reason that every MMDA endeavor to improve their performance in order to meet requirement to access the district development facility (DDF).

The Nsawam Municipal assembly which has just gone through the Functional Organisation Assessment Tool (FOAT) is confident of qualifying to be among beneficiaries of the DDF this year. The assembly was successful last year and looked forward to improving their percentage this year.

The evaluations will determine the performance of the assembly against predetermined agreed upon indicators.

The District Development Facility is a performance-based grant system being implemented by the Ministry of Local Government and
Rural Development which was started as part of the government’s
efforts to improve the performance of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in terms of efficiency, transparency and accountability.

It is aimed among other things to mobilize additional financial resources for MMDAs; provide incentives for performance for complying with the national legal and regulatory framework; establish a link between performance assessment and capacity building support; and ensure a harmonized system for investment funding and capacity building support to MMDAs.

These will help in efficient provision of basic community infrastructure and service delivery through judicious use of resources.

Dominic Shirimori/Ghanadistricts.com