The Al-Saqya Foundation, an Arab based charity foundation that provides infrastructure development to Islamic institutions in Africa has been honoured through the presentation of a citation by the Hassaniya Islamic School in the Ellembelle District for their immense contribution towards the infrastructural development of the School. The Director of the Foundation, Sheikh Mohammed indicated that…
Ahead of the Kundum celebrations, the Esiama Community has marked a day dubbed “White Friday” which was geared towards cleaning the vicinities to pave way for the actual celebration which begins from the eve of Friday. The cleanup exercise saw the town folks and participants clad in white with various cleaning tools during the exercise….
As part of measures to engage citizens in the decentralization process for effective governance, USCOND in partnership with Hen Mpoano is implementing a programme called Western Region Coastal Foundation in which they periodically engage communities and the District Assemblies in their operational areas for dialogue on community needs. The Team Leader for UCSOND under the…
The Second Ordinary Meeting of the Second Session of the 8th General Assembly has held its maiden meeting since the confirmation of the District Chief Executive. The meeting which was held for two days was to enable the honourable Assembly Members to deliberate on the fee-fixing and budget estimates for the 2018 fiscal year. Addressing…
The District Chief Executive for the Ellembelle District Assembly, Hon. Kwasi Bonzoh has embarked upon community visitation to interact with community members in some selected Communities in the District. The visit which is the maiden one for the DCE and the District Co-ordinating Director aims to engage and interact with the citizens as well as…
As part of measures to improve Assembly-citizen relations, the Ellembelle District Assembly has begun a radio sensitization programme dubbed “Assembly Hour”. The sensitization programme is to inform the citizens of Ellembelle about the programmes and activities of the Assembly as well as stiffen the relationship between the Assembly and its citizenry. The Human Resource Manager…
Stakeholder engagement for the 2018 fee-fixing has ended in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region. The consultation meetings which lasted for about two weeks engaged companies, shop owners, landlords, market women and the citizens in general in the deliberations. Presenting the 2018 fee-fixing to participants, the District Budget Analyst, Mr. Bright Ohene Appiah indicated…
The Social Welfare and Community Development Office of the Ellembelle District Assembly has registered about Three Hundred and Ninety Seven (397) Persons with Disability under its verification and validation programme. The PWDs comprise the blind, deaf and dumb, physically challenged and autism with various needs such as wheelchair, white cane, funds to start business, school…
The Ellembelle District Assembly at a special meeting held on Wednesday, 12th July, 2017 at the NASS Assembly Hall, Nkroful confirmed the President’s Nominee (Kwasi Bonzoh) for the position of District Chief Executive. Out of the 52 Assembly members, 42 voted YES and 10 NO. Present at the special meeting were the Hon. Western Regional…
The Ministry of Finance and the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) in collaboration with the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) have organized a two day dissemination workshop on the 2014 GHEITI Mining & Oil/Gas Report to stakeholders as well as community members in the Ellembelle District. The workshop organized through the Ellembelle District Assembly was…