{"id":2470,"date":"2018-10-01T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2018-09-29T11:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T10:10:48","slug":"profiling-our-stakeholders-keta-municipal-planning-officer-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/10\/01\/profiling-our-stakeholders-keta-municipal-planning-officer-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiling our stakeholders: Keta Municipal Planning Officer in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Prosper Adiku and Gertrude Owusu<\/em><\/p>\n

During the monitoring and evaluation of the DECCMA Ghana project, it came to light that the Planning Officer for the Keta Municipal Assembly has been making efforts to incorporate some of the learnings from the DECCMA project engagements. This feature article highlights his involvement in the DECCMA project and how useful the learnings from the project have been to him as a Municipal Planning Officer of the Keta Municipal Assembly.<\/p>\n

The DECCMA project through the Ghana research team has engaged with stakeholders at the national and district levels. Notable among these stakeholders has been the engagement with the Municipal Planning Officer for one of the Ghana project districts, Mr John Ntibrey.<\/p>\n

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John Ntibrey, Municipal Planning Officer, Keta Municipality<\/p><\/div>\n

Mr Ntibrey has twelve years of experience as a Senior Development Planning Officer and has been working in the Keta Municipal Assembly for the past three years. <\/strong>His involvement with the DECCMA project started in late 2016, having participated in a stakeholder engagement workshop at Sogakope where interim project findings were presented. Subsequently, he took part in the National Expert Advisory Group (NEAG) meeting in 2017 as well as the district stakeholders validation workshop in January 2018. He also participated in the DECCMA-led field visit to the Keta Municipality during an FAO workshop in December 2017.<\/a><\/p>\n

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These engagements have influenced Mr Ntibrey personally and contributed to his personal capacity and work. According to him, the \u2018engagement was great and it has enlightened my understanding into the delta management and it attendant challenges\u2019<\/em>. He indicated that the key impact areas resulting from the DECCMA engagements include; improvement in planning skills (through the incorporation of vulnerability issues), understanding of migration in the delta, an improved understanding of the impact of climate change on social and economic life, and adaptation issues. As a development planner, the engagements have further enhanced his understanding of the conditions that promote migration and its outcomes as well as the governance mechanisms that promote or hinder migration of men and women in deltas.<\/p>\n

On the overall impact of the project as a result of the various engagements, Mr Ntibrey noted \u2018\u2018\u2026the project in general has enlightened a planner on how the lives within the Volta delta have been affected in terms of their vulnerability, migration issues and the adaptability. It\u2019s been amazing how the various work packages have dealt with the various expertise. It has also built our desire to take the life of the people living in the various deltas seriously\u2019\u2019. <\/em><\/p>\n

Mr Ntibrey also made some recommendations for future engagement of policy-makers and practitioners in research projects. These included deeper involvement of stakeholders in the collection and analysis of project data and visits to other project partner countries to promote the sharing of first-hand knowledge and information on delta management. He further called for the extension of the DECCMA project in Ghana to ensure wider dissemination of the research.<\/p>\n

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