The Minister for Special Development Initiatives, Hawa Koomson says her ministry has started implementing several projects under the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication programme to improve livelihoods across the country.
The Ministry, according to her, had undertaken projects in 275 constituencies with the one million cedis allocated to it.
Mrs Koomson said some of the projects include the building of warehouses, sanitation facilities, provision of safe water and the construction of dams under the government’s One District, One Dam program.
She was speaking at Bongo as part of the two-day tour of the Upper East region by President Nana Akufo-Addo.
“The Ministry has rolled out projects at the constituency level including 1000 community mechanized water systems with solar powered panels underwater for all projects.Under sanitation, 1000 institutional water closet toilet systems with solar power mechanized borehole.
Under the One Village One Dam initiative, 570 dams in the three regions of the North are undergoing construction and when completed will provide multi-purpose water facilities and promote all year round farming and under the One District One Warehouse project, we have commenced the construction of 1000 metric- tons re-fabricated warehouses”.
She said the Ministry has initiated processes to ensure that each of the 57 constituencies within the three regions of the North benefit from the One Village One Dam by end of 2018.
Mrs. Koomson indicated that the ministry has put in measures to ensure that, beneficiary constituencies and their respective assemblies construct and manage the dams for optimal use.
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By: Frederick Awuni/citinewsroom.com/Ghana
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