District Development Priorities were selected taking into consideration the Districts limited financial and human resources as well as the Plan implementation period (2006 – 2009).  The selection was also guided by the following criterion:

• Widespread effects, especially on the vulnerable
• Significant multiplier effect on the Local Economy
• Significant linkage effect on meeting Basic Needs and Rights of the People all of which we believe are strongly and closely linked to the pillars of the GPRS

District Development Priorities under Private Sector Competitiveness 

• Improving upon the Road network
• Improving access to credit facilities
• Improvising Income levels
• Employment generation
• Embracing reforms to Land acquisition and property rights for Agriculture
• Modernizing Agriculture
• Promoting Tourism
• Promoting Trade and Industry  

Priorities for Human Resource Development 

• Improving upon Internally Generated Revenue
• Improving access to Health and Education
• Improving upon sanitation and quality of the Environment 
• Improving access to potable water Improvising Income Levels
• Improving Electricity and tele-communication coverage (ICT)
• Training and Skills Development
•  Accelerating Sports Development
• Population Management
• Institutional Strengthening, Linkages and Co-ordination. 

Good Governance and Civic Responsibility  

• Improving existing Institutional, Legislative and Policy Environment
• Strengthening the democratization process
• Ensuring Gender-based equity
• Strengthening the integration of Traditional Authority into formal Institutional structures for governance
• Ensuring Public safety and Security
• Promoting Civic Responsibility  

 INTRODUCTION
   
The Development Priorities for the planned period (2010 – 2013) are a reflection of the development aspirations of the people emanating from community and municipal dialogues, findings from the spatial indicators of poverty based on the poverty profile and maps are classified under the seven thematic areas of the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda as follows:

Theme 1:    Human Development, Productivity and Employment

 Education

 -    Organize SPAM for schools with 0% score at BECE

-    Conduct Mock Exams for JHS 3 students in all schools
-    Strengthen PTAs/SMCs through regular meetings at the school level
-    Organize STME annually in the Municipality
-    Sponsor 60 teacher trainees annually
-    Organize best teacher award annually
-    Provide incentive package for teachers
-    Construct 12 No. KG Blocks
-    Establish computer resource centre
-    Rehabilitation of 6 No. School Block
-    Construction of 12 No. 6 Unit Schools Blocks
-    Construction of 4 No. Teachers Quarters
-    Technical and Vocational Schools
-    Provision of furniture to Schools
-    Provide sports and culture facilities
-    Organize in-service training for teachers
-    Promote Girl Child Education

Health

-    Provide essential equipments for the health sector e.g. computers and accessories, motor bikes
-    Intensity disease surveillance and response on
    *    TB control programmes
    *    Malaria control programmes
    *    HIV/AIDS control programmes
    *    Polio eradication and other diseases
-    Construct 7 No. CHPS compound
-    Promote continues public awareness on family planning on local radio (FM) and distribution of family planning products
-    Up grade existing CHPS to health centres
-    Increase supervise delivery in the Municipality
-    Construct 2 No. Clinics and Nurses Quarters 
-    Organize quarterly review meeting between the MAMT, MA and beneficiary communities on the implementation of Health Projects and Programmes

           

HIV/AIDS

-    Organize 4 number workshops for Municipal officers, youth leaders, community leaders on HIV/AIDS and STDs prevention and control
-    Organize quarterly workshops for Zones, CBOs and other stakeholders on main streaming their activities into the local level
-    Support and advocate for improved access to resources (Micro Credit, Nutrition etc.) for PLWHAS
-    Organize skill training and income generating activities for 30 PLWHAS
-    Organize quarterly panel discussions on HIV/AIDS and STDs at the local FM station
-    Establish 20 HIV/AIDS materials point at libraries, market and public places 
-    Scale up care and support including ART services for PLWHAS
-    Involve NGOs, CBOs and Public Sector in the provision of care and support for PLWHAs

Vulnerable and the Excluded

-    Identify, register and monitor the operations of early childhood development centres
-    Organize training for 60 untrained KG and Nursery attendants and proprietors
-    Organized education programmes on the right of children
-    Facilitate the formation child panels
-    Provide employable skills to delinquencies and street children
-    Support poor families with credit facilities income generating activities   
-    Provide vocational skills for unskilled people with disabilities (PLWDs)
-    Monitor the activities of NGOs, CBO on handling vulnerable groups
-    Equip MSW Department with furniture and other logistics

       Employment

-    Recruit, train and employ 479 youth for sanitation and waste management
-    Train and support 500 youth in grasscutter, snail rearing and vegetable farming
-    Recruit, train and employ 200 unemployed youth to teach in the basic schools
-    Recruit and train 30 unemployed youth for community policing
-    Recruit and train 150 unemployed youth into information and communication Technology (ICT)
-    Recruit and employ 300 unemployed youth in Dressmaking, Hairdressing and Mobile Phone repairs

Accelerated Agriculture Modernization and Sustainable
Natural Resources Management

Agriculture

-    Organize 10 fora for 1500 farmers, and 10 agro input dealers in safe use of agro chemicals annual is carry out 100 demos on row planning for optimum yields for 5000 farmers
-    Carry 3 demos on improved rice production for 30 farmers
-    Carryout 5 blocks of maize production fields for 50 farmers by April annually
-    Train 200 farmers in the multiplication of improved cassava planting materials
-    Conduct 10 demos, for 200 farmers on production of plantain suckers
-    Carryout 30 demonstrations on improved practices to increase yield of maize and cowpea
-    Train 5 FBOs on group dynamics and credit management
-    Train 250 producers, processors and marketing in post hancest handling of perishables
-    Train 10 cateries on fortification of staples during processing and link to School Feeding Programme
-    Train 100 fishermen/fishmongers in improved culture fisheries and technologies
-    Set up 5 demonstrations on improved ………….. for sheep and goats in 5 communities
-    Train farmers in 28 communities on use of 12 control new castle dressers in local poultry
-    Organize training for 100 farmers in pig production and management
-    Train 10 livestock workers to act as community service agents
-    Organize 2 workshops for 30 farmers on improved cockerel production
-    Educate 10,000 people on various and HIN 2 influenza
-    Develop and run 50 technologies for extension delivery through radio
-    Train 300 farmers on improved plantain cultivation
-    Carryout 15 demos on fertilizer use and soil improvement practices for 300 farmers
-    Organize 5 workshops on livestock management and record keeping for 200 farmers
-    Vaccination 5000 sheep, goats, pig, dogs and cattle against schedule diseases
-    Organize 10 workshops on marketing of exportable agricultural commodities for 500 producers annually 
-    Establish one agric extension information centre
-    Conduct 120 demos and field days for 3000 farmers to enhance adoption of technologies
-    Train 20 management/field staff in ICT skill for effectives extension delivery
-    Carryout 480 supervisor visit by 4 DDOs
-    Organize weekly monitoring visits by DDA
-    Organize Farmers Day Celebration by December annually
-    Acquire protective clothing and field equipment for staff
-    Procure photocopier, scanner and generator for office use
-    Rehabilitate 5 staff quarters
-    Organize 50 fora on behavioural changes in collaboration with MOH as a way to control HIV/AIDS
-    Cocoa man spraying programme
-    Youth in Agriculture
-    Support farmers with input and loan facilities
-    Resurfacing of roads in food producing areas

            Environment (Natural)

-    Enforce relevant environmental bye-laws to protect the environment at all levels
-    Encourage re-aforestation of degraded forest and off reserved areas
-    Encourage the cultivation of wood log for charcoal burning

    Infrastructure, Energy and Human Settlement Development

      Roads and Transport

                -    Rehabilitate selected Roads
                -    Construction of new Roads
                -    Grading and Resurfacing of Roads
                -    Tarring of Roads
                -    Construction of Footbridges
                -    Construction of Culverts

            Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
   
                -    Establish ICT centre in Axim, Bamiankor and Kutukrom
-    Encourage the Private Sector to establish ICT Centres in the Municipality

                Energy

-    Connect 25 communities / settlements to the National Electricity Grid
-    Extend Electricity to newly developed communities
-    Encourage investors to open LPG and accessories sales point
-    Provide street lights in needy communities

                Water

-    Construct 20 boreholes in needy communities
-    Construct 2 small town water systems in the Municipality
-    Construct 20 hand dug wells with pumps in needy communities
-    Rehabilitate/redevelop broken – down water facilities
-    Organize training programmes for WATSAN committees on Zonal Council basis
-    Organize annual routine maintenance training programme for area mechanics
-    Carryout monthly monitoring activities in all beneficiary communities 

            Environment (Built)

-    Construct drainage facilities in areas prone to flood and erosion
-    Provide vehicle for development control unit

        Sanitation

                -    Regular Maintenance of refuse truck
-    Rehabilitate dilapidated public KVIPs
-    Construct 6 No. Incinerators to needy schools and medical facilities
-    Procure 40 sanitation equipment (including refuse containers) and tools
-    Procure cesspool emptier
-    Clear all unapproved refuse disposal sites
-    Encourage new developers to build latrines in their houses
-    Organize annual capacity building on improved environmental health practices for environmental health staff
-    Organize quarterly clean up exercises
-    Encourage landlords to regularly desilt bathhouse darning
-    Construction of toilet facilities in selected communities
-    Provision of Office wquipment, Furniture and Computer and accessories for the Municipal Environmental Health Officer
    Enhancing Competitiveness in Ghana’s Private Sector

            Trade Industry and Commerce

                -    Construction of Lorry Parks  
                -    Construction of Market for selected towns
-    Organize small Scale Business management programme for 500 youth
-    Provide Micro Credit facilities to SSEs through MASLOG fund and other financial institution
-    Train 500 youth in Batik Tie and Die and Soap marking

                Tourism
           
-    Organize stakeholder’s forum on the tourism potential of the Municipality
-    Prepare Tourism Development Plan

        Transparent and Accountable Governance

-    Completion of Municipal Assembly Hall Complex for Municipal Administration and other Decentralized Department
-    Reactivate Municipal Sub-Structures (Zonal Councils)
-    Construction of Nsein Zonal Council offices
-    Equip Sub-Structures with logistics furniture and staff
-    Organize quarterly meetings with Heads of Departments and Agencies
-    Organize quarterly review for a on development projects at all Zonal Council levels
-    Completion of Community centre at Axim
-    Organize refresher training programme for revenue collectors
-    Develop and regularly update a data base on ratable items of the Assembly
-    Provide rain coast, wellington boots and motor bikes for revenue collectors
-    Institute incentives schemes and reward systems for collectors
-    Organize workshop in project management for Staff, Assemblymembers, Zonal Councils and Unit Committees
-    Organize half yearly fora / interface in the Municipality on the Nzema East Municipal Assembly Medium Term Development Plan and other Development programmes / projects
-    Strengthen the M & E System of the Assembly
-    Procure an additional vehicle for the Assembly to enhance monitoring
-    Organize regular capacity building programmes for Assembly Staff
-    Support Decentralized Department with logistics
-    Construct 20 No. Community Sheds