BONO RCC ORGANIZES TRAINING ON MONITORING AND EVALUATION FOR STAFF OF MMDAs

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On Thursday, 26th September 2024, the Bono Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) as part of the Ghana Secondary Cities Support Program (GSCSP) through the Annual Capacity Support Plan (ACSP), organized a training workshop for some selected staff of Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the region as well as some staff of the RCC.

The training workshop was on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Planning Guidelines.

Planning Officers, Budget Analysts and Works Engineers from the MMDAs and RCC participated in the workshop which occurred at the Conference Room of the RCC in Sunyani.

Mr. Joseph Mensah, the Regional Development Planning Officer, who opened the workshop on behalf of the Regional Minister and Chief Director, encouraged the participants to take the training seriously and take down notes so as to help build capacity of Staff during M&E activities.

He also encouraged staff to ask questions for clarity on issues that they do not understand.

The facilitator for the training workshop was Mr. Isaac Eweh, a Principal Development Planning Analyst at National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).

Mr. Eweh took participants through the following sessions: Fundamentals of M&E, Setting Up an M&E System, Concept of Indicator Construction and Measurement, Working Group on Indicators, Overview of Draft Planning Guidelines (2026-2029), Participatory Evaluation, among others.

A questions and answers session followed the presentation which allowed clarity to be brought on issues bothering the participants.

Mr. Andrews Mensah, the Chief Director of Bono RCC, gave the closing remarks at the end of the training and thanked the facilitator, Mr. Eweh, for his dedication and commitment in travelling from Accra to Sunyani for the workshop and also thanked the facilitator for his in-depth presentation.

He also urged staff to take what has been taught in practice in their work schedule. He further cautioned staff to be careful and not get involved in partisan politics especially at their workplace as we enter an election period.