40-YR NAT'L. DEV'PT. TO BE BINDING-NDPC

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The National Development Planning Commission, NDPC, has arrived at five strategic goals in fashioning out the 40 year national development plan, following its nationwide consultations with all the stakeholders. 

Each goal has time-bound targets and measurable indicators of progress that will be binding on all governments, while helping the citizenry, particularly organized labour, to monitor each government’s performance in implementing the national plan. 

The Vice Chairperson of the NDPC, Dr. Mrs. Esther Offei Aboagye, disclosed this at the 2nd Quadrennial Women Congress of the Ghana Trades Union Congress in Kumasi.

 The Congress, which is on the theme: “Building Workers’ Power for Decent Work and National Development”, is being participated by the women representatives of the various affiliate unions of the GTUC as well as staff of the Gender and Social Protection Desk of the Congress. 

 The NDPC’s Vice Chairperson enumerated the five strategic goals of Ghana’s long term development plan. 

These include building an industrialized, inclusive and resilient economy, creating an equitable, healthy and disciplined society and building safe, well-planned and sustainable communities.

 It will as well help build effective, efficient and dynamic institutions while strengthening Ghana’s role in international affairs.

 Dr. Mrs. Offei Aboagye emphasized that the overall objective of the plan will also ensure a rise in household incomes and eliminate extreme poverty. 

She noted that the provision of decent work is the duty of all social partners, including the government, employers and workers.

 She therefore urged the women trade unionists to be at the fore front of the struggle for the creation of decent jobs for the people since they stand to benefit more in their lives after work. 

The Head of the Gender and Social Protection Desk of the GTUC, Madam Teresa Nadia Abugah expressed satisfaction with the improvement in women’s active participation in trade activism from the workplace up to the national level.

 She reported that in the last four years, 815 such women across the country benefited from training programmes in negotiation skills, organizing, gender and labour relations as well as basic trade unionism organized by the GTUC and its partners. 

The outgoing Secretary General of the GTUC, Kofi Asamoah, recognized and appreciated the contribution of women in trade unionism as well as their challenges.

 He however urged them to be steadfast in their struggle to ensure equity and fair treatment at the labour front.

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