As part of efforts to renew commitment for decentralization and community engagement, the Assembly held a successful General Assembly Meeting at the assembly hall in Nadowli. This event brought together the assembly members, heads of departments and chiefs. The Hon District Chief Executive Kathrine T Lankono was present with her Coordinating Director Safia Abudlai who […]
The various districts in the Upper West Region have fulfilled one of their mandates of preparing a composite budget for the fiscal year. In attendance were their DCE, DCD, Chiefs and staff of the various assemblies in the Upper West Region. The budget officers in the various districts presented the 2024 fiscal year budget performance […]
The Regional Coordinating Council is mandated to bring development to the doorstep of the people in the region through the various district Assemblies in the Upper West Region. The Upper West region is blessed with the appointment of a new Regional minister in the person of Hon. Stephen Yakubu by the President of the Republic […]
The Department of Social Welfare and Community Development has the mandate to improve the livelihood of the people in the district. As part of their mandate, the department trains its staff on group dynamics, the history of VSLA, basic principles of Village Saving and Loan Association (VSLA), record keeping, and numeracy. The exercise was to […]
GIZ Ghana is excited to kick off collaboration with partner districts of the Participation, Accountability, and Integrity for a Resilient Democracy (PAIReD) program. Through individual planning sessions with each of the 60 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) across all 16 regions of the country, the Technical person said, the program is currently running in […]
The district assembly is mandated by the Local Government Act 2016 (Act 936) to have a sub-structure in their various area council in all MMDAs in Ghana. The assembly is mandated by Law to have newly elected Assembly members and unit committees in the various area councils inaugurated every four years cycle into office as […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ended his one-day duty tour of the Upper West Region with the commissioning of a €20.2 million 15 megawatt (MW) solar power project at Kaleo in the Nadowli-Kaleo District as the second phase. Funded by the German Development Bank (KFW), the project is a collaboration between the government of Ghana […]
The Social Welfare and Community Development Department is mandated to protect children and the vulnerable in society in the Nadowli-Kaleo District. The department has trained Child Protection Committee executives in twenty (20) communities on child protection, rights, and responsibilities of children to also go to the community to train others. These committees were formed in […]