SEND Foundation Holds
Monitoring Training Workshop on MDGs
Bongo (UE), Dec 9, GNA- A two-day sensitization
and monitoring training workshop on the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) for civil
society and public sector workers has been held
in Bongo in the Upper West Region.
It was sponsored by the Social Enterprise
Development (SEND) Foundation of West Africa, a
non-governmental organization working for the
promotion of human rights and development, and
attended by 25 participants from the Bongo
District.
The project officer of SEND in charge of the
MDGs, Mrs. Yvonne Wiredu-Akpabli, said the
purpose of the workshop was to sensitize members
in the district about the MDGs and also to help
form a District monitoring team to monitor and
ensure that the MDGs were achievable by year
2015 as stated in the policy document.
She said it was against this background that
SEND Foundation formed a partnership with
strategic partners such as the Ministry of Food
and Agriculture (MOFA), Ghana Education Service
(GES), the District Health Management Team (DHMT),
Federation of Disabled Associations, the
District Assemblies, Civil Organizations and
other public sectors.
A Field Officer of SEND, Mr. Hor Sidua, said the
project would be piloted in three zones in the
country, with the Northern, Upper East and Upper
West Regions in one zone, Brong Ahafo, Ashanti
and Eastern in the second group with the Greater
Accra, Western, Central and Volta Regions making
up the third zone.
He said the monitoring would be done in two
levels, the input and the output.
The input, he said, would focus on the
monitoring of Government budgetary allocations
in the Metropolitan, Municipal, and the District
Assemblies whiles the output team would monitor
the changes that occurred at the various sectors
of the Ministries as a result of Government
interventions.
Mr. Sidua explained that there would also be
information validation, which would be carried
out at the District sub-offices level and with
all stakeholders.
He noted that the information obtained from the
districts would be presented to the Government
for the necessary action to be taken.
The Bongo District Chief Executive, Mr. Francis
Asampana, commended SEND for its laudable ideas
and urged the participants to take the workshop
serious, saying it would help put government
officials on their toes in the discharge of
their duties.
He pledged the assembly's support for SEND and
all other development partners in the district.
Participants were taken through topics such as
the Backgrounds of MDGs, the Ghana MDGs
Campaign, and the MDGs Monitoring Framework.
GNA
