President receives roadmap on Beyond Aid in Ghana program

General News of Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Source: ghananewsagency.org

2019-02-20

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday received a strategic document and a charter outlining the roadmap for achieving her goal of Ghana's self-reliance and vision of a country beyond the country. 39; aid.

The paper, which was developed by a 13-member committee of "Beyond Aid" from Ghana and was appointed by the president last June, is expected to become the instrument for mobilizing development. from Ghana.

The document should be tabled in Parliament for deliberation and should become a national policy document that would guide the actions of the government, as well as those of different stakeholders in the country.

At a brief key-giving ceremony at Jubilee House in Accra, President Akufo-Addo said the document, which he had read, presented clear guidelines on how things should be done in Ghana "in a collective sense".

He added that Ghana's program of action beyond aid consisted essentially of a mobilization strategy aimed at sensitizing Ghanaians that "no one will come from nowhere to develop Ghana for them other than the people." Ghanaians themselves ".

President Akufo-Addo said that "the document will also serve as a guide for applying the slogan" [Ghana Beyond Aid] to make it meaningful in the lives of the thirty million Ghanaians in Ghana and those outside Ghana. "

He noted that the new awareness on the continent over the last four decades had made it clear that Africa could only meet its development challenges when it freed itself from aid dependency.

Africa should use its own resources and rely more on appropriate local policies to unlock the continent's economic potential.

"Progress would be made when we take responsibility for our own actions and we would be successful in doing so," he said.

The President stated that he hoped that Parliament would have access to the document as soon as possible, in order to enable the Assembly to deliberate on this document and approve the strategy giving it a national character, which would guide all interventions aimed at empowering the country. -dependent.

He stated that it was important that Parliament, which was the main chamber of deliberation of our country, be informed of it and also consider it as a document that will guide the overall activities of the institutions of our State; Executive, Legislative, Judicial, at all levels, social and public institutions.

The president has always said that after 60 years of independence, Ghana could not count on outside help to plan its annual budgets.

Thus, "for reasons of dignity and pride, as a country, as a people," said the president, "we should be able to finance our own activities, and we will have control of ourselves." .

"It's important for our self-esteem," he repeated.

Prime Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo, who chairs the Charter Committee, told the President that the strategic document reflected the collective contributions of 30 institutions.

He said that the preparation of the manuscript had taken a lot of space and hoped that this document would give direction to the vision of a Ghana beyond the aid.

Committee members from various areas of the governance structure also include Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta; Minister of Employment and Labor Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Minister of Planning, Professor Gyan Baffour, and Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, MP Hajia Alima Mahama.

The rest comes from the Congress of Trade Unions, the Private Enterprise Foundation, the National Association of Teachers of Ghana and the Ghana Industries Association.