AMA launches programme to tackle challenges in the city

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has launched a document that provides a road map and action plan to help the city anticipate, mitigate and respond to challenges such as flooding and other disasters, illegal settlements, vehicular traffic and rapid urbanisation.

The AMA developed and launched the document in collaboration with the 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) Network which it joined in 2014.

The network is made up of selected cities around the world and initiated by the Rockefeller Foundation to help cities become more resilient to their social, economic and physical challenges.

Guidelines

The document also contains a strategy on upgrading the commercial transport system and market structures and the improvement of waste management and the lives of citizens working and living in the informal sector.

The strategy will be implemented through the resilient team of the AMA and also serve as guideline to other metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) across the country.

The document further outlines development programmes that will help achieve the goals contained in a medium-term national development policy framework (MTDP) (2018-2021) of the MMDAs which is aimed at reducing poverty and improving the social well-being of the people.