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  The regional launch of a women’s voter mobilization project under the Political Accountability Activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development [USAID], has taken place in Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region. Regional stakeholders and volunteers were also given orientation on the project, which will see several activities happen in all the 15 districts of the Upper East Region. Group Photo of Stakeholders The Centre for Social Mobilisation & Sustainable Development [CENSODEV], a Navrongo-based not-for-profit organization, is the implementer of the project and its authorities had to work through the International Republican Institute [IRI] to source the required funding from the USAID for the execution of the project. Giving an overview of the project at the launch, Executive Director of CENSODEV, Mr. Braimah Sanjage revealed that the project is intended to whip up interest of citizens especially, women, tribal mi...

A District Inter-Party Dialogue Committee [IPDC] under the auspices of the National Commission for Civic Education [NCCE], has been reconstituted and inaugurated this Thursday noon in Paga, capital of the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region. The committee actually, already exists in the district but became dormant after the last general elections in 2020. The C'ttee Members ina Group Photo The IPDC has a membership of 40 with the number comprising political party representations, representatives of religious bodies, the security, some public service institutions and the media as well as representation from the Persons with Disabilities among others. Kassena-Nankana West District Director for the NCCE, Mr. Robert Dampare in his welcome and introductory remarks at the inauguration ceremony, stated that the Committee has very important and clearly spelt-out duties to execute; through the electioneering campaigns, to the elections and after to help ensure a free, f...

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 a...

  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 o...

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...

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...

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; comprisin...