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COMPLETED SOCO PROJECTS TO BE COMMISSIONED IN KNWD SOON 21st MARCH, 2024

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The Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region is set to take over and commission some 12 completed projects in the coming weeks, for use by beneficiary communities under the Gulf of Guinea Northern Regions Social Cohesive Project (SOCO). The Assembly back in November 2023, handed over sites to contractors for the construction of various projects under SOCO, following successful community engagements and procurement processes. SOCO, a 150 million US Dollar credit facility from the World Bank,   basically seeks to improve the regional collaboration, socio-economic and climate resilience of border-zone communities in the target northern regions of the Gulf of Guinea countries, including Ghana, that are exposed to conflict and climate risks.  Hon. Ataogye, DCE District Chief Executive (DCE), Hon. Gerard Ataogye who disclosed this in an interview with the Information Services Department, this Thursday afternoon said of the total number, 10 were already completed and ready
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GHANAIAN YOUTH ENGAGED ON IMPACT OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE 15th MAR., 2024

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  A day’s engagement forum with some selected youth in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region, on youth participation and political violence, has taken place in Paga, the district’s capital.  A Section Of Youth Reps. at The Forum   The Participants were basically executives of some registered youth groups in the district as well as other identifiable groups such as the district chapter of the Ghana Federation of the Disabled.      Addressing the forum which was held on Friday March 15, 2024, the District Director for the Social Welfare & Community Development [SW & CD] directorate, Madam Victoria Asuliwono observed that in Ghana today, there have been some pockets of violence and that, politics is often the chief factor in most instances. She thus commended the UNICEF for funding the engagement forum stressing that, “this day has been set aside to engage the youth to enable them understand and appreciate the consequences of political violence on themselves
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ALL MUST HOLD TIGHT, GHANA’S DEMOCRATIC STATUS – HON. ATAOGYE 6th March, 2024

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The District Chief Executive [DCE] for the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region Hon. Gerard Ataogye, has praised Ghana and Ghanaians for the country’s perpetual and enviable reputation as the beacon of democracy in Africa and the commendations the country continues to receive globally, for her stability in governance. Hon. Ataogye [midddle] Addressing the Parade The DCE who was addressing a parade of several hundreds of school children at Ghana’s 67 th Independence Anniversary celebrations held in the Paga township on Wednesday, 6 th March, 2024, empahsised that, “our respect for the principles of democratic governance, accountability, human rights and the rule of law, has enabled us to oversee eight uninterrupted presidential elections and peaceful transition of power in the 4 th Republic through the ballot box from one party to the other”. He therefore charged all Ghanaians to be inspired by this as the country reflects on her 32 years of democratic dispensatio
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CWSA MARKS 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH INCREASED WATER COVERAGE 23RD FEB., 2024

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The Upper East Region’s regional rural water coverage as of the end of 2023, stood at 63.96 percent of communities served and 36.04 percent of communities under-served. This revelation came to light at the 25 th Anniversary celebrations of the Community Water Sanitation Agency [CWSA] held in Chiana, a community in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region. The celebrations were themed “25 Years of Sustaining WASH Services: Transforming Rural and Small Towns Water Services Delivery Towards National Development”. The CWSA was established in 1998 following the launch of the National Community Water and Sanitation Policy [NCWSP] in 1994, charged with the mandate to facilitate the provision of safe drinking water and related sanitation services to Ghanaian Rural Communities and Small Towns. Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Stephen Yakubu in his keynote address at the ceremony noted that “access to safe water and sanitation is the most basic human right and necessit
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OVER 75,000 CEDIS DISBURSED TO PWDs IN KASSENA-NANKANA WEST 22ND FEB., 2024

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The Social Welfare and Community Development [SW&CD] District Directorate in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region this Thursday morning, disbursed a little over 75,000 Ghana Cedis to some 42 beneficiaries selected from across the district. A Section Of The Beneficiaries   The monies were drawn from the Disability Fund, a component of Ghana’s District Assemblies’ Common Fund, which has been set aside solely to address issues relating to disability and other concerns of persons living with disabilities [PWDs]. The Disability Fund began on an initial two percent [2%] proportion of the Common Fund and later got raised to three percent [3%] resulting from relentless advocacy efforts by PWDs and some like-minded civil society organisations. In her opening remarks at the brief disbursement ceremony held at the premises of the Assembly, District Director of the SW & CD, Madam Victoria Asuliwono disclosed that the beneficiaries numbered 42 in total; comprising 21
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MoGCSP & ISD TRAIN ISD OFFICERS FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION ON SWCES 15th FEBRUARY, 2024

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A day’s training workshop for the roll out of a pending nation-wide public education and sensitization campaign on the Single Window Citizens Engagement Service [SWCES], has taken place in Tamale, the Northern Regional capital, this Thursday, February 15, 2024. The training workshop was organized by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection [MoGCSP] in collaboration with the Information Services Department [ISD]. Group Picture; Participants & Trainers   Some eight Regional Information Officers and their respective metropolitan, municipal as well as district information officers, were the main participants in the training as these officers are the professionals clothed with the requisite skills and ground experience to execute the public education and sensitization campaign on the SWCES in the coming weeks. The said ISD officers were drawn from the Upper East, the Ahafo, Bono and Bono East Regions. The rest came from the Northern Region, Upper West, Savannah and North E
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5TH KASSENA-NANKANA WEST DISTRICT ASEEMBLY INAUGURATE BUT NO PM 12th FEB., 2024

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The new and reconstituted Kassena-Nankana West Assembly was successfully inaugurated on Monday 12 th February, 2024 but failed to elect a Presiding Member [PM] the same day even after two attempts. This same fate faced the Fourth Assembly; the term of the immediate-past Assembly Members until they eventually got one elected in the dying days of the previous Assembly.  The Hon. DCE Addressing The House Hon. Gerard Ataogye, the District Chief Executive [DCE] had prior to the PM nominations and elections made a passionate appeal to the House to eschew divisive tendencies as well as entrenched political stance and to rather be minded by the needs of their various communities and people, they each represent in the House. “Therefore, the various communities must hold us all responsible and you must thus live up to the task ahead to the expectation of the people who voted you into office and to also appreciate the fact that, they are truly participating in decision making process and gover
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