By Mildred Siabi-Mensah, GNA
Takoradi, May 13, GNA – Mrs. Adelaide Denkyi, former Assistant Finance Officer at Ghana Water Limited in Kumasi, has stressed the need for institutional support to staff, decent jobs, inclusion, accountability, and long-term development.
Speaking about financial stewardship, employability, and community responsibility, she noted that financial management was changing.
“It is no longer just about balancing ledgers, controlling expenditure, or preparing audit reports but people centred approach.”
Advancing on the need for serious financial governance, she said, “when institutions treat community projects with the same seriousness as formal financial systems, they build trust. And when trust is built, development becomes more sustainable.”
She recalled a community outreach programme in Hwibaa, the immediate concern was access to water adding, “But beneath that was a broader lesson about financial governance.”
The project, she narrated came out of a successful proposal effort supported by the Ghana Water Limited Ladies Association and fully funded by the Ghana Water revealing the need for detailed planning, transparent funding, and accountability.
Financial governance according to her, must not be overlooked, as it mattered in all spheres of human life.
She explained that access to water improved health, and affected productivity, family stability, education, and economic participation, adding that, financial planning though technical, shaped everyday life in very real ways.
Mrs. Denkyi said financial literacy was not just about managing money but about confidence, independence, and the ability to make stable decisions, especially after disruption.
“This perspective is important, particularly for people who are trying to re-enter economic life and need both opportunity and structure.”
Financial governance, according to her, was not just about budgets but about preparing people for the realities of a changing economy.
She noted that rethinking financial management was not just technical work—”it is a human-centred effort that connected policy, practice, and lived experience.”
GNA
Edited by Justina Hilda Paaga/Linda Asante Agyei
Reporter: Mildred Siabi-Mensah
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