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By Iddi Yire, GNA
Accra, June 17, GNA –
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the United Nations Center for
Democratic Development (CDD) -Ghana and the Ministry of Local Governance and
Rural Development (MLGRD will launch on Tuesday 18 June 2018 District League League
Table Report (DLT).
DLT ranks the
districts in terms of implementing six key indicators of the public service
such as health, education, security, water, sanitation and governance, as well as
clbadifications are carried out each year on the basis of the information provided by the
districts themselves.
Ms. Yoshimi
Nishino, Chief of Social Policy and Evidence at UNICEF Ghana, speaking at the
before the launch, the pre-media briefing says that the DLT serves as a tool to reinforce
social responsibility in Ghana's development efforts.
She noted that the
The report makes policymakers aware of how to engage citizens more
improve the delivery of services in their respective regions.
Ms. Nishino said
the DLT used indicators that measured social development especially around
service delivery and started with six indicators and six sectors, but
over the years, there had been examinations.
She explained this
by 2018, the report had been thoroughly reviewed, including the methodology, while
like the Ministry of Gender, Childhood and Social Protection, who would focus on birth registration in
the country.
Ms. Nishino said
regarding new indicators; they added the inscription to the education
sector to find out how many kids go to school outside of learning outcomes
of these children.
"Still in the corner
of water we previously had rural water coverage but now we had
urban water added to the indicators, "she said.
Mr. Mohammed Awal,
Research Analyst at CDD-Ghana, noted that there was a conscious effort to work
with the parliament at least to see to what extent the recommendations of the
This report could strengthen their capacities and shape their policies.
He said to the
national level, many were not seen as a consequence of the DLT findings, however,
Stakeholders have witnessed innovative ways at the district and action level
were taken to solve the problems.
The research badyst
stressed the need for much more change at the center, on the basis of the
generated evidence, identifying problems and reporting variations and
inequalities they had found to allow the alignment of resource allocations with
the proof.
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