The West Gonja District Assembly, in partnership with the Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) project, has presented eight motorbikes and assorted office equipment to four departments and units of the district.
The items, valued at GH¢ 70,100, are desktop and laptop computers, printers, projector screen, digital cameras, global positioning system devices, uninterrupted power supply systems as well as the motorbikes.
The RING is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project which seeks to implement activities through a collaborative approach with 17 district assemblies in the Northern Region to improve the livelihood and nutritional status of vulnerable households in targeted communities.
Mr Abdul-Rahaman Abdulai, Communications Officer of RING Project, Tamale, said in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency on Friday that the items were expected to boost the capacity of officers in the departments and units to carry out their activities in project implementation and monitoring.
They are also to help provide quality social services to the people to improve the nutrition and livelihood status of vulnerable households in the area, he said.
The beneficiary departments included District Agriculture Department, Internal Audit Unit, Department of Community Development and Social Welfare and the District Health Management Team.
Mr Kassim Ali Bakari, the West Gonja District Chief Executive, is quoted as saying that the assembly and its partners would continue to strengthen the capacities of the various decentralised departments under it.
He said the assembly would offer logistics and training to ensure that they prioritised and integrated nutrition and livelihood related activities in the implementation and monitoring of project activities in the district.
He expressed his profound gratitude to USAID for their continued support to projects and activities aimed at improving the nutrition and livelihood status of vulnerable households in Northern Ghana.
According to Mr Bakari the donation was apt and had come at an opportune time to help improve agriculture and health delivery services to inaccessible communities in the district.
He said the RING project had enhanced the capacity of some staff of the assembly in the areas of procurement, public financial management, information and communications technology and monitoring and evaluation.
Source: GNA
