Deputy Western Regional Minister, Hon. Eugenia Gifty Kusi (in middle) in a photograph with VOICE Ghana Tea.
A non-governmental organisation for persons with disabilities headquartered in Ho, VOICE Ghana, has introduced a US$100,000 job on source profits administration and its positive aspects for persons with disabilities.
The project is funded by the Africa Centre for Energy Coverage (ACEP), an business, doing work to affect energy sector insurance policies in Africa.
The target of the just one-and-a-half-year challenge is to ensure existing insurance policies on useful resource income allocations from the extractive sector is reviewed, to also advantage persons with disabilities.
The beneficiary areas are: Western, Ashanti, Eastern, Central and Volta. Four (4) districts will be purposely selected in every single of these locations, based mostly on the place some extractive industries or activities are currently being carried out, as the applying districts.
The challenge will also sensitize folks with disabilities, primarily from the utilizing districts, on useful resource revenues management in the region, these as revenues from the mining and extractive industries which include the oil and gasoline sector.
They will also be empowered to commence demanding added benefits from these revenues to deal with their requires, apart the mandated 3% Disability Grant from the District Assembly Typical Fund.
In interaction with the Voice Ghana team, the Deputy Western Regional Minister, Hon. Eugenia Gifty Kusi, lauded the plan for review of present policies on useful resource earnings allocations from the extractive sector as component of the undertaking, to also reward people with disabilities.
In a relevant advancement, Hon. Eric Kwakye Darfour, the Eastern Regional Minister, expressed his complete support for the job and recommended VOICE Ghana to take into account undertaking baseline study as component of the project, to establish the demands of folks with disabilities, so as to develop future proposals in supporting their livelihoods.
The Central Regional President of Ghana Federation of Incapacity Organisations, Nana George Frimpong, expressed her whole aid to accomplishing objectives of the project.
“I envisaged the venture to go a long way to guidance persons with disabilities in accessing additional funding for their livelihoods, apart from the mandated 3% District Assembly Frequent Fund”, she claimed.
Other vital collaborators of the challenge consist of the Ministry of Electricity and Normal Means, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Gender, Little ones and Social Security, Petroleum Fee, Minerals Fee, Nationwide Council on Folks with Disabilities (NCPD) and Ghana Federation of Incapacity Organisations (GFD).
VOICE Ghana performs lively and leading function in incapacity plan advocacy, and inclusive governance for people with disabilities in Ghana. The organisation has a company manufacturer as the voice that speaks for the marginalized people with disabilities in society.