Proper Planning; the Remedy to Sanitation Woes?

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• MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

  Are there Urban planners anywhere in Ghana?
  They have really failed the whole nation.
  I will advise them to pay a visit to Curitiba, in Brazil to go and learn urban planning.

  Are there Urban planners anywhere in Ghana?
  They have really failed the whole nation.
  I will advise them to pay a visit to Curitiba, in Brazil to go and learn urban planning.

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• Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago

  Decentralization under Ghana's urban and rural planning and development scheme is the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about even when it is the source of our failed policy on development. In Africa, more so in Sub-S ...
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  Decentralization under Ghana's urban and rural planning and development scheme is the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about even when it is the source of our failed policy on development. In Africa, more so in Sub-Sahara Africa, some countries have tried to recreate national capitals but the end results have been the same; cramped cities with little room for drainage and sewage systems and all the other infrastructures modern cities need to sustain growth. It is not coincidental then that land development which is at the root of effective planning and development still remains in the hands of chiefs, land brokers and children of those chieftaincy houses who tend to be more crooked than other land holders.
  
  Solving the issue of proper infrastructure can only come to Ghana when the national government is the one and only source of land delivery; nothing else will work in Ghana. Remember it is the national government which has funding sources ( yes they will borrow but it beats reliance on a community incapable of funding development) to ensure that drainage system connectivity, adequate drainage and sewage disposals, roads, utilities and property addresses are prerequisite to the sale and or development of land. Local administrators and their bunch of city planners are incapable of strict enforcement not when chiefs carry sway. Land management in Ghana cannot be transplanted from those book based knowledge we acquire in classrooms but their application based on conditions on the ground in Ghana. It requires innovative ideas and ideals.

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• Isaac Nakoja 11 years ago

  OK. thank you for the insight.

  OK. thank you for the insight.

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• Joe 11 years ago

  Mr planner that's a brilliant piecse

  Mr planner that's a brilliant piecse

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