MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT
PLANS AND ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT 2009
Section 1(3,4), 2 to 11 of the National Development Planning
(System) Act 1994 (Act 480) requires the National Development
Planning Commission to issue from time to time, legislative
Instruments and Guidelines to regulate the Decentralized Planning
System and to guide District Assemblies (DAs) and Sector Ministries,
Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the preparation of Development
Plans. These Guidelines are always based on approved Medium Term
Development Policy Framework.
Since
its creation in 1994, NDPC has received Medium Term Development
Plans from Districts and Sectors for review and approval.
In
addition, the Districts and Sectors prepare M&E Plans to monitor the
progress of implementation of their respective Medium Term
Development Plans and demonstrate, through evidence-based
information, that interventions spelt out in the plans are having
the desired impacts in terms of positively transforming the lives of
all targeted beneficiaries.
Based
on the 2006-2009 plan period (GPRS II), Districts and Sectors
prepared Medium Term Development Plans, M&E Plans and Annual
Progress Reports.
Copies of the 2009 Annual Progress Reports are
uploaded as a way of communicating and disseminating results.
The region’s population is 1,593,823. The
corresponding 1984 population was 1,142,335. This means that the
region’s population is growing at a rate of 2.1 per cent per
annum. The region is also the second most densely populated in
the country, with a population density of 162 persons per square
kilometre.
Out-migration, which continues to be a
problem in the region, is declining gradually with immigrants
constituting about a quarter of the population in all the
districts. Between 1984- 2000, the region recorded a net
out-migration rate of 14.3 per cent compared to that of 15.4 per
cent recorded in the period 1970-1984
Roughly between 20 and 37 per cent of the
population in the districts are migrants. Twifo- Hemang-Lower
Denkyira has the highest proportion of migrants of (37%) and
Ajumako- Enyan-Essiam has the least (20%). Inter-regional
migrants are more than intra-regional migrants in three
districts, while four other districts receive more
intra-regional migrants........more<<
