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Mpohor Wassa East District unveils Medium Term Development Plan

The Mpohor Wassa East District Assembly is to invest about GHs 40, 808.762 in basic social services to accelerate the growth of the District by 2013 under its Medium Term Development Plan.

Date Created : 6/6/2011 12:00:00 AM : Story Author :

Mrs Audrey Smock Amoah, District Planning Officer, made this known on Thursday while addressing a public hearing on the 2010-2013 Medium Term Development Plan of the District Assembly, which was attended by opinion leaders, assembly members, interest groups, trade associations and security agencies at Daboase in the Western Region.

Mrs Amoah said the Plan was in line with the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda, which has been developed by the District Assembly as a means of addressing inequalities in access to basic social services and poverty reduction programmes.

She said the development plan recognised community participation as an integral part of effective development planning to ensure that the projects impacted on a large proportion of the citizenry especially the poor and the vulnerable.

Mrs Amoah said the interventions under the plan would assist in achieving the national development goals as well as meeting the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The Plan, according to her, would, therefore, address economic imbalances, re-stabilise the economy and place the District on the path of sustained accelerated growth and poverty reduction towards achieving of the MDGs and middle income status.

Mrs Amoah said the development plan would ensure and sustain macro-economic stability, competitiveness in the private sector, agriculture modernisation, infrastructure, energy and human settlement development, productivity and employment, oil and gas, transparent and accountable governance.

She noted that the package was tailored to achieve local economic development, adding that there would be a review after two years to ascertain the level of progress while a final evaluation would be carried out at the end of the four- year period.