PARTY

ECONOMY

EDUCATION

HEALTH

NPP

�   Private sector development through the removal of barriers to private sector growth, provision of loans to small and medium enterprises, and promotion of a culture of entrepreneurship

�   Expansion of the Rural Enterprise Development Programme

�   Infrastructure improvements to facilitate trade, agriculture and tourism

�   The establishment of 10 employment centers to connect job seekers with jobs and the set-up of a National Job Summit

�   The continued implementation of the ECOWAS Trade Liberation Scheme

�   The removal of import duties and the provision of export incentives for the forestry industry

�   Mounting marketing schemes to promote domestic tourism

�   Support for mechanized farming

�   The establishment of a monitoring system for marine fisheries to minimize post-harvest losses

�   The introduction of a special programme to minimize desertification

�   The creation of the Ghana Technology Park, to enhance information technology

�   Accelerated deregulation of the Petroleum sector

�   Restructuring and repositioning of the National Airline

�   The establishment of a sub-urban railway system in the Greater Accra Region

�   Enhance access to education and promote technical and vocational training

�   The implementation of incentive schemes for teachers

�   The upgrading of one Senior High School in each District to the level of a model school

�   The rehabilitation of the Tamale Regional Hospital

�   The provision of housing for staff in hospitals that run 24 hours

�   Building more hospitals

�   Extending access to clean water

�   The establishment of a Mortgage Finance Institution to facilitate the ownership of homes

�   Additional funding for the Women Development Fund to make women more independent and less vulnerable

NDC

�   Improving revenue collection and responsible spending

�   Increased investment in science and technology, including information technology

�   The stabilization of prices of goods and services

�   Transparency and accountability in the use of donor resources

�   Increase in foreign investment

�   Moving from agrarian to industrial economy, without disadvantaging the peasant farmer

�   Increasing agricultural productivity for both domestic consumption and industry

�   Developing new niche products targeted at the ECOWAS sub-region

�   Pursuing bilateral trade initiatives to boost South-South cooperation

�   Implement ECOWAS protocols for trade

�   The establishment of a National Research and Development Fund to be accessed by innovators

�   Granting tax concessions to certain companies

�   The establishment of Science and Technology Parks to promote scientific excellence

�   Organizing trade fairs to exhibit locally developed products

�   Promoting non-traditional agricultural exports, like the at the sheanut and the dawadawa tree

�   Provision of irrigation facilities

�   Improving the management of the fisheries industry, by replenishing stock and exploring different marketing avenues

�   Improvement of infrastructure to facilitate agriculture, industry and trade

�   Decentralization of the COCOBOD scholarship award scheme

�   The implementation of a FAST (Food, Agri-business, Shelter and Technology) action plan, to ensure Ghanaians can feed themselves and produce enough for export

�   The implementation of the National Land Policy, first introduced in 1999, to manage the country�s land resources

�   The expansion of title registration to including farming communities, not only residential and commercial areas

�   Under the Forestry Plantation Project, assisting investors to go into industrial-scale tree farming in depleted forest reserves

�   The completion of the Aboadze Thermal plant and the Bui Hydro-Electric Project, to bring them to full capacity, and the promotion of renewable energy

�   The construction of additional petroleum pipelines

�   The distribution of mining royalties to mining communities

�   The integration of the informal sector into the mainstream economy

�   Further strengthening of government agencies

�   The creation of large commercial farms and plantations to employ thousands of workers

�   The provision of free basic education, including free tuition, textbooks and uniforms

�   Enacting legislation that will make it illegal for parents to not send their children to school

�   The outdooring of a FCUBE programme that will set out a target year by which every Ghanaian must be literate

�   Special tertiary education scholarships for needy students and incentives for students studying science and technology

�   The creation of a Teachers� Council to oversee teacher training institutions

�   Increased funding for Vocational and Technical Education

�   Pursuing a programme for non-formal education

�   The possible implementation of a proposal to withdraw professionals put of the Ghana Universal Salary Structure to solve the brain drain problem

�   The extension of the student loan scheme to include tertiary education

�   Establishing a modern regional hospital for each region

�   More training programmes to localize medical treatment for which Ghanaians often have to go abroad

�   The revision of the National Health Insurance Scheme

�   Providing more support to traditional medical practitioners to ensure they play a supportive role in healthcare delivery

�   The revival of the Environmental Sanitation policy, with a view to have central government provide more money for sanitation

CPP

�   The active promotion of national and regional integration policies to augment and complement Ghana�s resource endowment

�   Increase in the percentage of national income distributed to the District Assemblies

�   The development of small irrigation sources for farming

�   Coordinate water resources at the national level

�   The introduction of land planning policies that ensure efficient delivery of housing

�   Increase power production facilities like the Bui project

�   The electrification of all rural areas

�   Exploring environmentally friendly energy sources

�   Supporting the formation of small-scale agricultural organization and mechanizing farming

�   Ensuring businesses can access capital cheaply

�   Establishing research and development as the backbone to national development

�   The creation of a science and technology village

�   Protection of the environment and support for responsible and beneficial mining

�   Support for public transit systems across the country

�   Supporting uninterrupted education to the tertiary level

�   Providing one meal a day to all students

�   Supporting the use of local languages as a medium of instruction

�   The introduction of French in addition to English as compulsory languages

�   Supporting ICT training in all secondary schools

�   Supporting the Polytechnics to play a greater role in manpower capacity building

�   Ensuring communities have access to potable water

�   Ensuring proper sanitation in villages, towns and cities

�   Retaining healthcare personnel in Ghana

�   Free care for the elderly and poor

�   Promoting quality healthcare access nationwide

�   Promoting research and development efforts in orthodox and traditional medicine

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