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Policy Achievements

To realise the objectives, the Ministry continues to pursue a number of policies and programmes. Some of the policies are:

• Road map for decoupling the Local Government Service from the Civil Service
• Integration of line Departments and Central Government Agencies
• Rationalisation of District Assemblies for Efficiency
• Review and development of Comprehensive Decentralization Policy
• Inter-governmental Fiscal Decentralisation Framework
• District Development Funding Facility (DDF)
• Review of Legal Framework on Decentralisation
• Launch of the Local Government Service
• 4th Republican Boat Initiative
• Increase in the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF)
• Establishment of Internal Audit within the District Assemblies
• Ghana Municipal Finance and Management Initiative (GMFMI)
• Environmental Protection
• Bui Dam Research Body
• Environmental Sanitation

Programme Achievements

A number of programmes being supported by our development partners are in the form of the provision and rehabilitation of basic municipal infrastructure services, institutional strengthening and capacity building. These include:

• District-Wide Assistance Programme [DWAP]
• Northern Region Poverty Reduction Programme [NORPREP]
• Supports for Decentralisation Reforms (SfDR)
• The Community-Based Rural Development Project [CBRDP]
• District Response Initiative
• Ghana School Feeding Programme
• Afro-Asian Rural Development organisation (AARDO) Programme
• Second Urban Environmental Sanitation Project (UESP II)
• The Urban Poverty Reduction Project [UPRP]

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