CDD AND STAKEHOLDERS DISCUSS 2017 DISTRICT LEAGUE TABLE 14 - 11 - 2017


The Centre for Democratic Development [CDD] Ghana, has held a one-day stakeholders’ meeting in the Upper East Regional capital Bolgatanga, as a precursor to the launch of the 2017 District League Table [DLT]. 
 
The stakeholders included district coordinating directors, planning officers, environmental health and sanitation officers from the 13 Municipal and District Assemblies in the region as well as some officers from the Ghana Police Service. Senior Officers of the UNICEF Tamale Field Office and some selected regional Heads of Department also partook in the meeting.

The DLT is an initiative of CDD-Ghana and UNICEF Ghana in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development [MLGRD]. It is a ranking tool for measuring the level of development in each of the 216 districts in Ghana. It ranks the districts in terms of their delivery across six key public service indicators including health, education, security, water, sanitation and governance. The rankings are done annually based on information and data provided from the district themselves. 

A Research Officer with CDD-Ghana, Madam Mildred Edinam Adraku in her presentation disclosed that the DLT aims to strengthen social accountability in the development efforts of the country throughout all its districts. She said it supports government to better understand and monitor development in the country, while creating the platform for citizens to access information and knowledge on their rights to development in their respective districts. She appealed to Management and staff of the Assemblies to have an open-mind about the DLT empasising that though some Assemblies may rank very low on the table, “the DLT does not aim to name and shame any district”.

Touching on the DLT methodology, Madam Adraku disclosed that the selection of the indicators was very interactive as it involved series of discussions with relevant district and national stakeholders and collaborations with vital national entities including Ministries, Departments and Agencies of state and some development partners such as the UNICEF. These discussions took place in all the 10 regions of Ghana and usually had institutions like the Ghana Education Service, the Ghana Health Service, Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Water Company Limited and the Ghana Statistical Service among others contributing to the outcomes.

Acting Upper East Regional Coordinating Director, Alhaji Mahamudu A. Azonko who chaired the meeting and also represented the Regional Minister, also echoed the point that the DLT was not meant to chastise any Assembly but rather, it serves to show gaps and proffer solutions as well as present an apt platform for the learning of best practices. 

Alhaji Azonkor noted that, the real implementation of government policies and programmes happens at the district level and that makes the Assemblies very important players in the scheme of things. He advised the Assembly Management teams not to impose projects on the communities but should rather be guided by the felt-needs of their people.

The Head of Policy Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring and Evaluation Division at the Local Government Service [LGS], Mr. Gregory Adda in his remarks revealed that in his office’s bid to improve institutional and staff capacity, competition and enhance performance amongst staff, the LGS had developed and was implementing an assessment system called the Local Government Service Performance Contract Management System. He said the LGS therefore sees the DLT as an objective assessment that has the potential to engender healthy competition among the MMDAs to stimulate performance and further deepen decentralisation. 

Bongo District Acting Coordinating Director Alhaji Fawei Issifu Mohammed, during open forum admitted that results from the DLT over the years have been very helpful to the work of the Assemblies because they serve as guides in development planning and also, tell the areas that require peculiar attention in the allocation of resources. 

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