The Ghana Urban Forum has been convened over the years to provide an avenue for stakeholders to share knowledge and experiences to help address issues concerning planning, management and living in our cities and towns.
This has become increasingly important due to the emergence of more complex issues such as demographic and climate changes as well as the onset and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The GUF has since its inception in 2009, been used by the Ministry of Local Government to additionally, solicit stakeholder inputs into policy and programme documents, which include:
a. The National Urban Policy and Action Plan (2012),
b. The Ghana Urbanisation Review Report: Ghana Rising (2015);
c. The Habitat III Report (2016); and
d. Ghana’s inputs into Africa’s position on the New Urban Agenda.
His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo & Dr Mahamudu Bawumia have recently sent 145 million Dollars to 35 Municipalities through the Ghana secondary cities Program to build up urban resilience.
Kwabre East Municipal for instance is receiving about GHC76million to build Roads, Markets, provide Street Lights etc.
Slowly but steadily we shall rise.
