NDPC begins review of planning guidelines to strengthen regional and district development coordination

The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has begun a comprehensive review of the Guidelines for the Operationalisation of the Regional Planning Coordinating Units (RPCUs) and District Planning Coordinating Units (DPCUs) as part of efforts to strengthen Ghana's decentralised planning system and improve coordination, accountability and development planning at the regional and district levels.

Representing the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Ms Laetitia Erny, Head of Component, Data Management for Local Governance PAIReD, reaffirmed the organisation's commitment to supporting the review as part of its longstanding partnership with the NDPC to strengthen Ghana's decentralised planning framework.

Opening the meeting, the Director-General of the NDPC, Dr Audrey Smock Amoah, said the review was necessary because the existing guidelines, jointly developed by the NDPC and the then Ministry of Local Government in 2004, had served the country's planning system for more than two decades.