Lauding the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) for the initiative when he paid a courtesy call on the Center, Mr Amoah who was accompanied by the District Planning Officer Mr. Mahama Abu, said the project has effectively facilitated the Assembly’s planning and budgeting functions.

[contextly_sidebar id=”4TL9b1D73oyApKgcznGFp7w7iIg0f0yV”]“The support you provided has enhanced the preparation of the District’s Medium-Term Development Plan for 2018 – 2021 and also provided for the Assembly, a rare opportunity to share the draft plan with stakeholders and seek their input for its finalization,” he said.

Mr. Amoah further indicated that ‘I Am Aware’ is helping the Assembly to engage more effectively with its stakeholders on matters bothering on the development of the District due to the high quality of data they get from the project.

He appealed for CDD-Ghana’s continued assistance to the Shama District Assembly as they set out to implement key strategies to aid citizen participation, promote transparency and accountability in order to deepen good governance and ultimately improve service delivery.

In response, Mr. Awal Mohammed, Team Lead for the ‘I Am Aware’ project, pledged that ‘I Am Aware’ project, through its regional and district partners will continue to engage citizens at the local level, and arm them with the needed information and ideas to empower to demand accountability that contributes to improved social development outcomes in their districts.

The ‘I Am Aware’ project is a non-partisan citizen empowerment campaign instituted to provide free, accessible and user-friendly data on the state of public goods and public service delivery in all 216 districts across the 10 regions of Ghana.

The data covers the state of, and provision of basic education, health, water, sanitation, security, roads and agriculture in the country. The goal of the project is to increase the awareness of citizens, particularly the poor and vulnerable to empower them to engage with duty bearers to ensure that public services are delivered and improved.

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Source: CDD Ghana

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This according to them will help avoid another possible havoc from the devastating waves.

Tidal waves last Sunday 11th June, 2017, washed away 198 houses along the shores of the community and displaced the 838 residents occupying them.

The waves started at about 2:00am Saturday, but subsided on Sunday evening. Many residents were forced to vacate their homes on Sunday dawn when the waves flooded their rooms amidst sand.

Whist residents are still counting their losses, a community elder, John Kennedy, is appealing to the government to revisit an abandoned affordable housing project started for the community some 25 years ago.

He said, “When similar thing happened to us about 25 years ago, we called for resettlement.”

“Rural Housing at the time came in to build us affordable houses. But we do not know what happened, they came in later on and packed their things away….we are always calling. Whenever the tides rise, we call for this resettlement”.

“The chief and elders of Anlo Beach have already secured a new site. “What is left is the financial support for us to move to the area, so that our current place becomes a business enclave and the new site becomes where we sleep. We are appealing to the government to revisit the support they earlier had for us,” Mr. Kennedy added.

The Anlo Beach community is known for the harvesting of shrimps for ‘Shito.’

The community is accessed by either a canoe over River Prah through Shama from the western part of the community or by road from the northern part.

It has one of the cleanest beaches in the Western Region. The community also witnesses occasional hatching of Sea Turtles, as the area is suitable for the reproduction.

Despite the economic potential in the area, many of the people in the community are poor.

Clean drinking water is a challenge, despite been surrounded by the sea and River Pra.

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By: Obrempong Yaw Ampofo/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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