Navrongo-Bolgatanga, 19 October, 2021 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Laity in Wulugu community of Ghana’s Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese have received skills in the management and monitoring of hospitals and schools in a training spearheaded by the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocesan Development Organization (NABOCADO) .
According to a Monday, October 18 report, the workshop that was organized by NABOCADO’s Good Governance, Justice and Peace project in collaboration with the Hungary Helps Program sought to foster quality service delivery and the people’s participation in the management of eleven health facilities and twenty schools in the Ghanaian Diocese.
“The project with funding from the Hungary Helps Program was aimed at empowering the committees with the knowledge and skills to act as citizens monitoring groups and a linkage between the facilities and their respective communities for effective collaboration and improved service delivery,” the Director of the Good Governance, Justice and Peace project, Joseph Bangu, has been quoted as saying on the sidelines of the training that took place at the St. Patrick Health Centre, Wulugu, October 16.
The main function of community representatives, Mr. Bangu adds, “will be to periodically come and track the reimbursement of NHIS (National Health Insurance Scheme) claims, number of beds, safe deliveries, state of the structure among other essential services so that at the end of it we collectively sit down and see how the facility is performing.”
Participants in the one-day workshop were major stakeholders in the community, including the chief, women leader, youth leader, assembly member and a member of staff serving in the health/education institution. The community representatives have been divided into committees.
