Nima residents deliberate on their needs
Professional Network Association (PRONET), a health and sanitation non-governmental organisation (NGO), in collaboration with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has organised a community needs prioritisation forum for residents of Nima 441.
The forum was to enable residents discuss with the AMA, their most important needs which would then be incorporated into the AMA’s short to long-term planning process.
Participants of the forum were selected from households and various youth groups in the community.
During the forum, the residents identified water, roads, professional teachers, a health centre, refuse dump, drains and street lights as their important needs, arranged in the order of priority.
Participants called on the AMA, as matter of urgency, to address the water problem that plagues the community, and stated that the problem had affected all aspects of their lives.
Addressing the participants, a Planning Officer at the AMA, Mr Kwame Oduro, said the initiative formed part of the city authority’s ‘Electoral Area Project’, aimed at developing a framework for projects in the various communities, as part of its medium-term plan from 2010 to 2013.
He said even though the residents were right in demanding some of the projects, they had to be prepared to give land or space so that some of the projects that needed land could manifest.
Mr Oduro advised them to complement the efforts of the AMA and the assembly member for the area by contributing their quota through the appropriate means to develop the community.
The assembly member for the area, Mr Shareau Tajudeen, pledged to follow up on the needs identified at the AMA so that their implementation "will not take a much longer time”.
He expressed appreciation to Pronet and its financier, Cooperative Housing Foundation International (CHF), for their commitment to improving the livelihood of the people in the area.
The Pronet Nima Project Coordinator, Mrs Mercy Ansabah Budu, in an interview with the Daily Graphic said the forum was the crowning point of a six-month community sensitisation programme in the area, where various interventions in health, water and hygiene were implemented.
She expressed the hope that the initiatives and the forum would go a long way towards improving the sanitation and the general livelihood of the people.
The CHF Programme Director, Mr Ishmael Adams, for his part said the success story of the Nima 441 project had informed the development of a new project which would be launched in the community next year.
He said the project would seek to create sustainable employment for the youth within the value chain of the waste sector and ultimately reduce drastically the waste management problems associated with the community.
A resident, Ms Juliana Rahida Kartey, was happy that the neighbourhood had been made part of the decision-making process that would influence the lives of the people.
She urged the AMA to speed up the process, especially that on water and sanitation in order to prevent the cholera and malaria epidemics that often hit the community.
The forum was to enable residents discuss with the AMA, their most important needs which would then be incorporated into the AMA’s short to long-term planning process.
Participants of the forum were selected from households and various youth groups in the community.
During the forum, the residents identified water, roads, professional teachers, a health centre, refuse dump, drains and street lights as their important needs, arranged in the order of priority.
Participants called on the AMA, as matter of urgency, to address the water problem that plagues the community, and stated that the problem had affected all aspects of their lives.
Addressing the participants, a Planning Officer at the AMA, Mr Kwame Oduro, said the initiative formed part of the city authority’s ‘Electoral Area Project’, aimed at developing a framework for projects in the various communities, as part of its medium-term plan from 2010 to 2013.
He said even though the residents were right in demanding some of the projects, they had to be prepared to give land or space so that some of the projects that needed land could manifest.
Mr Oduro advised them to complement the efforts of the AMA and the assembly member for the area by contributing their quota through the appropriate means to develop the community.
The assembly member for the area, Mr Shareau Tajudeen, pledged to follow up on the needs identified at the AMA so that their implementation "will not take a much longer time”.
He expressed appreciation to Pronet and its financier, Cooperative Housing Foundation International (CHF), for their commitment to improving the livelihood of the people in the area.
The Pronet Nima Project Coordinator, Mrs Mercy Ansabah Budu, in an interview with the Daily Graphic said the forum was the crowning point of a six-month community sensitisation programme in the area, where various interventions in health, water and hygiene were implemented.
She expressed the hope that the initiatives and the forum would go a long way towards improving the sanitation and the general livelihood of the people.
The CHF Programme Director, Mr Ishmael Adams, for his part said the success story of the Nima 441 project had informed the development of a new project which would be launched in the community next year.
He said the project would seek to create sustainable employment for the youth within the value chain of the waste sector and ultimately reduce drastically the waste management problems associated with the community.
A resident, Ms Juliana Rahida Kartey, was happy that the neighbourhood had been made part of the decision-making process that would influence the lives of the people.
She urged the AMA to speed up the process, especially that on water and sanitation in order to prevent the cholera and malaria epidemics that often hit the community.
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