CDD Engages Stakeholders

From Alfred Adams

The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), whose mandate is to ensure transparency, accountability and probity in the democratic governance in our District, Municipal and Metropolitan assemblies and the citizenry, last week organised a day’s programme to engage stakeholders and the Member of Parliament for the Aowin District.

The engagement was to discuss some key sectors in the development of the district, such as education, health, employment agriculture, road and infrastructure and the way forward.

All identifiable stakeholders such as teachers, traders, driver unions, unit committee members, and assembly members amongst others, were asked to air their views and point out challenges confronting them in their communities on the selected sectors.

The sectors included roads and infrastructure, education, health, agriculture and unemployment. The Senior Programmes Officer for CCD-Ghana, Nana Kwabena Aborampah Mensah, said the forum engagement for the MP and his constituents was aimed at bridging the communication gap among stakeholders, and also engender discussions around development challenges in the districts, with the aim to designing appropriate intervention mechanisms to deal with the challenges.

Issues discussed would be collated and shared to members of Parliament, Assemblies and other stakeholders to serve as guide towards efforts in seeing development in the districts.

Nana Aborampah Mensah said CDD-Ghana was a non-governmental, non-profit governance and democracy think-tank dedicated to the promotion of good governance, democracy and economic openness in Ghana and Africa.

Established almost two decades ago, CDD-Ghana has special interest in human rights, economic development, equal justice, voice for citizens, elections credibility and the protection of the public purse among others.

He said the programme was supported by the French Embassy, in collaboration with the MPs of all the selected constituencies in the region.

Delivering a speech at the ceremony, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Aowin, Mr. Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, said the development of any community, district, region and as well the country depended largely on the positive impact and roles its citizens play to enable socio economic development.

He said that was the main reason why CDD-Ghana took it upon itself to educate citizens for the roles, and also do checks on district assemblies to ensure transparency and accountability in our governance system.

Mr Adu-Gyamfi said it was incumbent on stakeholders of our communities, such as unit committee members, assembly members, nananom and religious leaders to prioritise the needs and challenges facing our communities, and present them to be infused into the assemblies’ medium-term development plans, and appropriate budgets made on them, so that they could be tackled as and when funds were available.

On his part, the Member of Parliament for Aowin, Matthias Kwame Ntow, said the major challenges facing the district could only be tackled one after the other, when all the stakeholders collaborate with the district assemblies.

From Alfred Adams The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), whose mandate is to ensure transparency, accountability and probity in the democratic governance in our District, Municipal and Metropolitan assemblies and the citizenry, last week organised a day’s programme to engage stakeholders and the Member of Parliament for the Aowin District. The engagement was to […] Read Full Story