Summary of Key Development Problems emanating from Situational Analysis: -

Private Sector Competitiveness Micro/District Economy

1. Unfavorable weather conditions e.g. erratic rainfall
2. Unfavorable land tenure system
3. Inadequate access to credit facilities
4. Inadequate marketing facilities/avenues
5. Inadequate storage facilities
6. Low agricultural productivity
7. Limited road linkages/networks
8. Inadequate extension services to farmers
9. Inadequate technical support for Agricultural Development

Production and Gainful Employment

• Low productivity
• Low and fluctuating prices
• High post harvest losses
• High cost of farm inputs
• Inaccessibility to credit facilities -  
• Inimical land tenure system
• Small land holdings
• Over reliance on rain fed agriculture

Human Resource Development

1. Dilapidated classroom blocks
2. Inadequate classrooms
3. inadequate school furniture
4. Falling standard of education
5. High drop out rate particularly among females
6. Inadequate of staff accommodation
7. Inadequate teachers
8. High incidence of diseases e.g. Malaria, Bilharzias, Cholera
9. Inadequate accommodation for medical staff
10. Absence of ambulance facility for the district
11. Shortage of medical staff
12. Inadequate hospital equipment
13. Poor sanitary conditions
14. Insufficient refuse disposal sites
15. Improper sitting of refuse disposal sites
16. Insufficient toilet facilities

Health Care

• Inadequate health personnel in the district.
• High attrition rate of health Personnel
• Inadequate/dilapidated health Facilities.
• Inadequate logistics and health Equipment
• Lack of Laboratory service for effective diagnosis of diseases.
• Lack of residential accommodation for medical staff.
• Inadequate refuse disposal site.
• Poor Doctor -patient ratio
• Presence of quack doctors/ health practitioners
• Reliance on traditional medicine and local beliefs
• Prevalence of communicable diseases like: -Cholera, Malaria, Diarrhea.
• Low nutritional levels (especially in pregnant women and children)
• Low environmental sanitation

Population Management

1. High population growth rate in urban areas & low growth rate in rural areas
2. Unbalanced urban-rural migration
3. Increase in out migration from district

Programmes for the Vulnerable and Excluded

• Discrimination against people with disabilities
• Unequal access of females to factors of production and sharing of economic profits

Good Governance and Civic Responsibility

1. Inadequate of coordination between the Core Assembly Staff and Decentralized Departments
2. Low capacity base of DA staff/ Inadequate training programmes for DA staff
3. Poor enforcement of Assembly by-laws
4. Low motivation for Assembly staff
5. Weak revenue mobilization by District Assembly
6. Inability to provide adequate and basic municipal services
7. Non function of the lower sub structures.