Wassa Amenfi East Municipal Assembly Holds Town Hall Meeting

Posted on 27th March, 2019

Wassa Amenfi East Municipal has held its first Town Hall Meeting for this year, 2019 to bring decision making to the doorsteps of the people on development projects and programmes and also solicit the views of the stakeholders on issues that would help to improve the socio-economic welfare of the people.

The Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. Helena Appiah in her address to the participants said the vision of the Assembly was to become a progressive Municipality that would efficiently serve the people through strategic partnership with businesses and stakeholders.

She added that the Assembly exist to ensure effective and efficient delivery of public services in collaboration with stakeholders and Town Hall Meetings offers the platform to make the public understand local government Public Financial Management issues in order to promote transparency and accountability in the management of public resources for development.

The Municipal Chief Executive noted that as part of the decentralization processes, it was also necessary to engage the public on the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development policies and programmes.

She said the Assembly has over the years implemented a number of projects and programmes for the wellbeing of the people in the areas of health, education, sanitation and security among others.

The presentation to the people was focused on the performance of the Assembly in the implementation of the 2018 annual action plan with comparative financial performance analysis from the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years.

Source: ISD