COMMITTEES SET UP TO OVERSEE SOCIAL PROTECTION PROGs.

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The Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs. Della Sowah has inaugurated the Regional, District and Community Social Protection Committees at Apagya in the Afigya Kwabre district of Ashanti. 

According to the Deputy Minister, the inauguration is necessary to make social protection become very efficient and effective in delivering services to those who are in need. 

Among the functions of the committees is the undertaking of community sensitization on social protection as well as assisting enumerators in household identification and data collection. Correspondent Akosua Frema Frempong’s report is read to you.


 At the inaugural ceremony, it came to light that among the 54 communities in the Afigya-Kwabre district, only six have being enrolled onto the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty, LEAP Programme. 

The communities are Amponsakrom, Abidjan, Banko, Patase, Besease and Ejuratia-Mimi. Also in the Ashanti region, only two districts benefited from the social protection programme. 

Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs. Della Sowah explained that the LEAP Programme is part of the Ghana Social Opportunities Project which provides money for extremely poor households and persons with disability in the country to reduce poverty and enhance long term human development. 

She debunked assertions from a cross-section of the public that government, by implementing this social protection programme, is helping people to be lazy saying that, it is rather helping to improve their livelihood. 

The Ashanti Regional Minister, John Alexander Ackon said social protection all over the world has become a major tool for addressing poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion, adding that it has become an efficient and effective tool in particularly developing countries in recent times. 

He said if social protection interventions are adequately designed and implemented, they would contribute to socio-economic development and also narrow the inequality gap in the country. 

Mr. Ackon noted that the successful implementation of the social protection programme hinges on the establishment and strengthening of structures at various levels of implementation to ensure effective and efficient coordination and management.

 He therefore appealed to the members of the regional, district and community committees to work together to ensure the effective implementation of the programme.

 He cautioned them against partisanship and nepotism and rather create equal opportunities for eligible beneficiaries. 

The Regional Minister said as a new project, there is bound to be teething problems. However, with commitment and determination, its objectives will be achieved.

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