The Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) and UNICEF, in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD), will tomorrow launch the 2016 District League Table (DLT) report, a social accountability tool for promoting dialogue, transparency and responsiveness between the citizenry and government.
The third edition since 2014, the 2016 DLT report will follow the release of rankings of progress in each of Ghana’s 216 districts towards delivering well-being for citizens.
Being a simple ranking tool of the level of development in each of Ghana’s Districts, the annual publications of the DLT is to demonstrate progress or lack of it every year and further help build trust and support from the citizenry in local decision making.
It covers indicators from six key sectors-education, health, security, sanitation, water and governance.
This is based on performance in relation to level of success in dealing with open defecation, Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), regular water coverage based via the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), the ratio of Police to the citizenry, and functional Organizational Assessment Tool (FOAT).
Its objective is to increase social accountability in Ghana that will lead to improving well-being of the country’s population by opening up the space dialogue between the state and the population.
Also, it is to increase transparency of information and support government’s ability to target development as well as raise citizen’s awareness of national development issues.
The DLT will help highlight gaps in development across the country where more support is required and also to call stakeholders to address their deprived status.
Speaking at a press briefing yesterday ahead of the launch, Mr Mohammed Awal, a Research Officer with CDD and a team member of DLT, stated that the two previous reports have key issues such as decentralization and data inequality within regions identified.
He emphasised that district level of development is the responsibility of the all Ghanaians, adding that it will lead to improving the well-being of the country’s population by opening up the space for dialogue between the state and the population.
Citizens, he said, could also use the DLT to know how their districts were faring in the national domain.
The theme for the third DLT report is “The Role of Central Government in deepening decentralization”.
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