CDD OFFICIALS BRIEF STAKEHOLDERS IN TANO SOUTH DISTRICT ASSEMBLY ON THE “I AM AWARE” PROJECT

The Ghana Centre for Development ( CDD- Ghana ) a non- profit and non- partisan research and policy think tank in a 4-year  project dubbed “I AM AWARE” which seeks to improve public service provision to enhance accountability and responsiveness in the provision of public goods and services has briefed stakeholders in the Tano South District of the Brong Ahafo Region of the project.

                                  

Participants at the stakeholders briefing

In an opening remarks at the briefing  session, the Tano South District coordinating Director Mrs. Agatha Ahia who stood in  for the District Chief Executive Hon. Bukari Zakari Anaba  said there was the need to meet all stakeholders to aid in the framing the project as setting needed data for documentation.

                                 

The District Coordinating Director- Mrs. Agatha Ahia, giving her opening remarks

She said the four year project from CDD seeks to improve the provision of public goods and services and called on all to contribute their quota for a successful briefing session.

A resource mobilization and Public Affairs   manager of the CDD Nana Hagan in a presentation said CDD together with UNICEF introduced the District League Table and over a year the concept has grown among MMDAs.

Nana Hagan thanked the Tano South District Assembly for their efforts and encouraged the staff to work harder to maintain the number one position and said he was impressed with the efforts of the assembly and various PTAs in Improving Education in the District.

However,  Nana Hagan said all MMDAs scored zero in  ODF ( Open Defecation Free ) and urged the Tano South District Assembly to try and receive an ODF certificate by scoring a good number.

                                

Nana Hagan of CDD briefing participants on the project

Nana Hagan said as part of the project called “ I AM AWARE” seven ( 7 ) sectors namely Education, Health, Road, Water and Sanitation, Security and Agriculture, a comprehensive data is required to help grant easy access  to all members of  the society and recommended health for their up-to date data and stressed that CDD wants to improve data of the other sectors to feed their data centre in Accra to help the nation.

Nana Hagan said a website www.amawaregh.org  has been created to help people access data of 40 districts, 5 in the Brong Ahafo Region out of the total districts and Tano South District Assembly being number one to be included. He said these data would also help donors to access data even before visiting the district and once this duty is attained areas in the District would have data to help in proper programming and in addition the citizen would also be enlightened on the level.

Nana Hagan ended his presentation by soliciting for support from all departments and said a full blown exercise will begin in 3 months’ time.

The District coordinating Director in her closing remarks assured the CDD members of the willingness of the staff of the assembly to support the project and mentioned that an advocacy campaign which has already started by the assembly has yielded 84 result.