READ: "...A planner’s role is not to impose a vision or goals but to help society diagnose their development problems and establish their own goals or vision for the plan..."
WE SAY: We agree, strongly!
READ: "...A planner’s role is not to impose a vision or goals but to help society diagnose their development problems and establish their own goals or vision for the plan..."
WE SAY: We agree, strongly!
Mahmoud 8 years ago
Could you remember that P/NDC with the endorsement of former EC boss used fake indelible ink for elections in 1992 and 1996, which was part of the rigging mechanism for stealing verdicts until the proper indelible ink was sec ... read full comment
Could you remember that P/NDC with the endorsement of former EC boss used fake indelible ink for elections in 1992 and 1996, which was part of the rigging mechanism for stealing verdicts until the proper indelible ink was secured for the country in 2000 by Creg Murray?
Contrary to what the discredited former EC Chairman said, this is another example of how elections are rigged far away from polling stations, and Ghanaians should wake up. NDC is again preparing to rig the elections through the old bloated voters' register, and Asiedu Nketia and his party is fighting to keep the loophole intact, despite the fact that the Supreme Court recommended it and all the political parties support it except, of course, the NDC party.
mother's child 8 years ago
iT IS ARTICLES LIKE THIS WHICH MAKE WORTHWHILE PLODDING THROUGH TE HUBRIS USUALLY UNLOADED UNTO THIS WEBSITE. THE CHALLENGE IS HOW TO RETURN THE POWERS OF COMMUNITIES TAKING AWAY DURING COLONIALISM. WE STILL HAVE NOT DECOLONI ... read full comment
iT IS ARTICLES LIKE THIS WHICH MAKE WORTHWHILE PLODDING THROUGH TE HUBRIS USUALLY UNLOADED UNTO THIS WEBSITE. THE CHALLENGE IS HOW TO RETURN THE POWERS OF COMMUNITIES TAKING AWAY DURING COLONIALISM. WE STILL HAVE NOT DECOLONIZED. RATHER WE HAVE MADE THE COLONIAL SITUATION STRONGER AND NOT STRENGTHENED THE PEOPLE.i PRAY THE WRITER TO RESPOND TO THIS SITUATION. EVERYTHING HAS BEEN IMPOSED
Charles Agbenu 8 years ago
Generally good position. But the plans must start with the true and necessary fundamentals based on scientificism and not emotions.
1. Let us get the real NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION VORRECT THIS TIME AROUND.
2. Relocate t ... read full comment
Generally good position. But the plans must start with the true and necessary fundamentals based on scientificism and not emotions.
1. Let us get the real NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION VORRECT THIS TIME AROUND.
2. Relocate the capital from Accra... too much
congestion, unplanned development, too much interference from envious traditional authorities, prioritise development economic factors not emotional factors.
3. Accept that there is damaging tribalism in our systems and debate annd remove the unnecessary suspicions amongs tribes.
Inusah Buipe 8 years ago
This plan will definitely be jettisoned if a different political party is in power other than the NDC . This document should have attracted the participation of every Ghanaian and all stakeholders particularly the political p ... read full comment
This plan will definitely be jettisoned if a different political party is in power other than the NDC . This document should have attracted the participation of every Ghanaian and all stakeholders particularly the political parties. We should note that no single group of individuals in this instance , has the monopoly of ideas that will solve our problems.
There ought to have been a public invitation to submit inputs to this all important document . We should not underestimate the views of the common man on the street who bares the brunt of the daily challenges and as such would have been reflecting on finding solutions.
The next stage that would make this document acceptable, is to acknowledge the contributions that various individuals and parties would make to the plan if it is finally accepted with or without some fine tuning.This acknowledgement should be inked in the final plan for future references Which would make every contributor to feel binding by it.
However as we all know, this document is the sole product of NDC which they submitted to the IMF before hurriedly organizing the Senchi conference to endorse what they had single handedly authored.
Kwamebeba 8 years ago
A plan is needed to reach a goal. Ghana and Africa has a goal which is to have a better life for everybody, in other words, every citizen obtaining his or her needs. These needs often referred to as food, clothing and shelt ... read full comment
A plan is needed to reach a goal. Ghana and Africa has a goal which is to have a better life for everybody, in other words, every citizen obtaining his or her needs. These needs often referred to as food, clothing and shelter(with all ramifications). All our politicians accept these facts and that is why their telling the citizens that they must be given the power is based on their insistence that they are the right people or party which can let the people obtain their basic needs.
The problem with these politicians or political parties is that, they cannot or refuse to tell us HOW they are going to make it possible for us to reach our goals. To me, the HOW is the real plan. This so called 40-year plan does not tell us the HOW. To be frank, it is not possible for any political party to tell us the HOW if they do not have any definite and stated ideology that is to be followed. All I am certain of is that, the 2 dominant political parties that are rotating the power in Ghana, NDC amd NPP do not have any ideology to make any plan possible to be achieved. They only speculate with some amorphous borrowed ideologies. This is not peculiar to Ghana but most African countries.
Kwame Nkrumah was able to initiate and complete development plans because he and his party had a stated ideology by which the goals set could be reached. Let all the polical parties therefore tell the nation how they will be able to execute the plan. If substance A is needed for the plan, how are they going to make substance A available.
HAZOR 8 years ago
HGow did NDPC form?Is it all political parties involve or are they made up of civil engineers or they are made up of NDC members.If NDPC formation were not involve political parties then it should be rejected.Just yesterday ... read full comment
HGow did NDPC form?Is it all political parties involve or are they made up of civil engineers or they are made up of NDC members.If NDPC formation were not involve political parties then it should be rejected.Just yesterday Mahama government is said to be borrowing GHC25 billion to paid debt and interests and this huge borrowing nothing going into development or solve problem.Ghana is been rape unprecented level by president Mahama and his NDC criminals.
Nii Moi Thompson (NDPC) 8 years ago
Thank your prof. for this insightful piece (I've kept the previous one you wrote as well). Both the vision and the goals were long given to us in the Directive Principles of State Policy of the 1992 constitution. We have mere ... read full comment
Thank your prof. for this insightful piece (I've kept the previous one you wrote as well). Both the vision and the goals were long given to us in the Directive Principles of State Policy of the 1992 constitution. We have merely pulled them together to facilitate discussions. We have not imposed them. We reckon that by the end of the consultations, appropriate modifications and elaborations would have been made. Some have already proposed sub-goals. The targets and indicators will all be determined by Ghanaians, at home and abroad.
We've already received similarly useful feedback (from Ghanaians abroad and at home) through the online form on our website - www.ndpc.gov.gh
I should also note that the 40 years is actually a succession 10 4-year plans to be implemented by various political parties. The current 4-year plan ends in 2017. (Over the same period, there will be 10 national elections, with the 10th one in 2056).
A new medium term plan must start in 2018. The key difference is that unlike the previous ones since the 4th Republic began, this one would be situated in a strategic context - a long-term plan.
The kind of ambitious infrastructure development we need to cater for our social and economic needs leading to our 100th anniversary will require a long term planning horizon.
4-year standalone plans jus won't work.
Once again thank you.
Inusah Buipe 8 years ago
Thanks for the explanation Dr Nii Moi Thompson . But I will recommend you encourage the govt to settle all dents both locally and internationally . I don't see you can be establishing a business with debts from the onset. It ... read full comment
Thanks for the explanation Dr Nii Moi Thompson . But I will recommend you encourage the govt to settle all dents both locally and internationally . I don't see you can be establishing a business with debts from the onset. It will give us a clear picture of our position.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Dr. Thompson,
You appear to be the first official in the Government of Ghana to directly address an issue raised on this forum that is not a personal matter.
We at GhanaHero.com strongly commend you for your response.
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Dr. Thompson,
You appear to be the first official in the Government of Ghana to directly address an issue raised on this forum that is not a personal matter.
We at GhanaHero.com strongly commend you for your response.
And if what you say is actually the case, sir, then there has been some mis-communication. For ourselves, we read about the 10-year sub-plans about 2 weeks ago, on this or similar forum, long after the 40-Year plan had been in the news, and after the high profile meetings with the Chief Justice, and others.
As many people have said, the fact that the effort is unrelated to proposed revision(s) to the Constitution, makes so-called "binding" of the plan on future government problematic. Today, most people will agree that not too many officials follow the Constitution or laws of Ghana, if they can get away with it.
The Constitution(s) must be revised using the product of the work already accomplished in 2010-2011. We believe that, that is the foundation needed for the on-going initiative by your Commission.
Our last essay on Ghanaweb spoke about how Alaska enshrined certain development goals in their Constitution, and Alaska has never looked back!
SEE:
Feature Article of Friday, 14 August 2015
Columnist: Prof. Lungu He Who Opens 'Can of Worms' Before Time Kills Tree of Light! (3.0)"
(Source: www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/He-Who-Opens-Can-of-Worms-Before-Time-Kills-Tree-of-Light-3-0-375098.
BOTTOMLINE: Until the Constitution(s) is/are revised, even the 10-year incremental Development Plans may be mighty hard to accomplish. In that case, our best hope is probably ensuring that every government, through the incentive of the electoral process, reports to the people every 2 years (post-election) what they have accomplished with respect to the Development Plan to be adopted. (In other words, how we accomplish accountability is more important than the number of years it takes us to get to 10 years, 40 years, etc.).
In that sense, the Planner planning with the people probably may not propose "40-Year", "10-Year", etc., and as a result allow some administrations to more easily fly under the raider, UNLESS must politicians report twice to the people during the cycle in which they have the reign of power.
ITEM: If the people could consider and adopt that type of approach, 2057 would arrive with "Future Ghana" in better shape, long after today's politicians are gone.
Again, kudos to you for responding to the article by Prof. Seth Appiah-Opoku!
Greetings!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
To say....
"...more easily fly under the radar...
To say....
"...more easily fly under the radar...
Seth Appiah-Opoku 8 years ago
Dr. Thompson, thanks for the clarification. You've a difficult task at hand and my articles are only intended to help get us there. As you rightly pointed out, the "vision and goals have long been given to us in the Directive ... read full comment
Dr. Thompson, thanks for the clarification. You've a difficult task at hand and my articles are only intended to help get us there. As you rightly pointed out, the "vision and goals have long been given to us in the Directive Principles of State Policy of the 1992 constitution". I can understand why you're relying on these principles but you'll agree with me that those principles are already 23 years old and some are so broad that they are meaningless to most Ghanaians today. It's not by accident that Constitutions are often amended to reflect changing circumstances. Your team has a great opportunity to study the past and current development problems in Ghana (e.g. Dumsor, high vehicle accident rate, healthcare access, trade deficit, poor sanitation, poor urban planning, urban sprawl and flooding) and fashion out a vision or goals for the 40 year plan! These are practical issues that can generate interest and greater public participation than say a goal of "contribution to world peace and security"! I'll tackle the legal basis for the 40-year development plan in my next article because you need a Planning Act instead of a "Petroleum Revenue Act" which only mentioned a long term development plan in passing.
READ: "...A planner’s role is not to impose a vision or goals but to help society diagnose their development problems and establish their own goals or vision for the plan..."
WE SAY: We agree, strongly!
Could you remember that P/NDC with the endorsement of former EC boss used fake indelible ink for elections in 1992 and 1996, which was part of the rigging mechanism for stealing verdicts until the proper indelible ink was sec ...
read full comment
iT IS ARTICLES LIKE THIS WHICH MAKE WORTHWHILE PLODDING THROUGH TE HUBRIS USUALLY UNLOADED UNTO THIS WEBSITE. THE CHALLENGE IS HOW TO RETURN THE POWERS OF COMMUNITIES TAKING AWAY DURING COLONIALISM. WE STILL HAVE NOT DECOLONI ...
read full comment
Generally good position. But the plans must start with the true and necessary fundamentals based on scientificism and not emotions.
1. Let us get the real NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION VORRECT THIS TIME AROUND.
2. Relocate t ...
read full comment
This plan will definitely be jettisoned if a different political party is in power other than the NDC . This document should have attracted the participation of every Ghanaian and all stakeholders particularly the political p ...
read full comment
A plan is needed to reach a goal. Ghana and Africa has a goal which is to have a better life for everybody, in other words, every citizen obtaining his or her needs. These needs often referred to as food, clothing and shelt ...
read full comment
HGow did NDPC form?Is it all political parties involve or are they made up of civil engineers or they are made up of NDC members.If NDPC formation were not involve political parties then it should be rejected.Just yesterday ...
read full comment
Thank your prof. for this insightful piece (I've kept the previous one you wrote as well). Both the vision and the goals were long given to us in the Directive Principles of State Policy of the 1992 constitution. We have mere ...
read full comment
Thanks for the explanation Dr Nii Moi Thompson . But I will recommend you encourage the govt to settle all dents both locally and internationally . I don't see you can be establishing a business with debts from the onset. It ...
read full comment
Dr. Thompson,
You appear to be the first official in the Government of Ghana to directly address an issue raised on this forum that is not a personal matter.
We at GhanaHero.com strongly commend you for your response.
...
read full comment
To say....
"...more easily fly under the radar...
Dr. Thompson, thanks for the clarification. You've a difficult task at hand and my articles are only intended to help get us there. As you rightly pointed out, the "vision and goals have long been given to us in the Directive ...
read full comment