ICEG HOLDS STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT WITH ADA WEST ASSEMBLY ON CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS
A team from Institute of Climate and Environmental Governance (ICEG) led by Mr. Ebenezer K. Aidoo, today, the 17th of February 2026 held a stakeholder engagement with the Ada West Assembly on critical infrastructure needs to select five (5) top ranked critical infrastructure needs of the Ada West District to be implemented by the President, H.E John Dramani Mahama as legacy projects.
According to Mr. Aidoo, though government is already undertaking numerous projects across the country, this exercise of identifying five (5) critical infrastructure needs across all the 261 districts in Ghana was to be owned by the people directly affected by the projects and those identified projects must be infrastructure in character deemed as priority projects and those that impact on the livelihood of the people. The projects therefore must be something that the communities actually need, and they would be funded outside the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) with funding from central government that would find expression in the 2026 to 2032 budget statements, stressed Mr. Aidoo.
The stakeholder engagement therefore involved all Assembly members from the fifteen (15) Electoral Areas including Government appointees in the Ada West District, two (2) Traditional leaders, five (5) Market Association Representatives, five (5) Youth Group Representatives, five (5) Political Party Representatives, and some Assembly staffs. The stakeholders therefore identified number of critical infrastructure needs in the areas of roads, education, health, agriculture inter alia which were ranked to ascertain five (5) top most critical needs thus;
- Road networks
- Health (completion of Agenda 111 project)
- Education (completion of E-Block, expansion of Ada Senior High Technical School, Sege and Nursing Training College)
- Sea Defense Project
- Irrigation Project and additional Water Reservoir
According to Mr. Aidoo, these top-five critical projects identified by stakeholders assembled would be validated by ICEG through random community interaction and the feedback would be brought to the Management of the Ada West Assembly and the report on same would be sent to the President. The venue for the selected projects however, apart from the Sea Defense, E-Block, Ada Senior High Technical expansion and the Hospital would be left to the Management of the Ada West District Assembly to determine.
The Ada West District Chief Executive (DCE), Hon. Modjifa Tanihu J.J.F. Mills-Nkrumah in his closing remarks indicated that he was happy that all the critical projects identified at the stakeholder engagement aligned with those that members of some communities earlier called and told him about and added, that this means Assembly members and other stakeholders are indeed in touch with their people.
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Tuesday, February 17th , 2026