COLLABORATION BETWEEN ASSEMBLIES AND NGOS NECESSARY (PAGE 20, FEB 23, 2010)

THE Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Mahmud Khalid, has called for effective collaboration between non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the various district assemblies if the NGOs were to make their impact felt in society.
He said many of the district assemblies lacked resources and were overburdened and as such there was the need for NGOs operating in the respective districts to liaise with them in order to achieve the desired results.
Mr Khalid said this when the Country Director of Plan Ghana, an international child centred NGO, Mr Samuel Paulos, called on him at his office in Wa.
He commended Plan Ghana for supporting the development efforts of the region over the years and appealed to the organisation to possibly expand their scope of operation to cover more people, adding “Deprived communities are not only in the villages, but also in the urban centres.”
Mr Paulos, for his part, said his outfit was committed to its interventions and programmes and therefore needed the support of all stakeholders to make their programmes as effective as possible.
He also expressed appreciation to the RCC for its support over the years, and hinted that Plan Ghana would soon commission its new community radio station at Tumu, the Sissala East District capital.