By Godwill Arthur-Mensah, GNA
Accra, July 15, GNA – The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), in collaboration with UNICEF, has held a validation meeting on the Results Framework for the Resetting Ghana Agenda: Creating Jobs, Ensuring Accountability and Promoting Shared Prosperity Policy Framework (2026–2029).
The meeting brought together representatives from Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), development partners, academia, and planning professionals to review and validate indicators, baselines, and targets that would guide assessment of Ghana’s development performance over the next four years.
During the opening session, Dr Audrey Smock Amoah, the NDPC Director-General, explained that once a policy framework is prepared, the next step is to develop a results framework to measure progress.
“Today’s meeting is to validate the results framework that has been developed,” she said, noting that participants had been invited because of their institutions’ role in implementation and monitoring.
Dr Amoah emphasised that the exercise provided stakeholders with an opportunity to review and validate indicators and targets that would be used to track national development performance, including core indicators that all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) must report on.
Mr Bright Atiase, NDPC Director for Monitoring and Evaluation, described the framework as “a roadmap and a scorecard” for measuring implementation of development policies, programmes, and projects.
He explained that the Commission was shifting focus from lower-level input and output indicators to outcome and impact indicators, while retaining only critical output indicators.
He cautioned institutions against retaining indicators they lacked capacity to track and urged realistic target-setting based on clearly defined baselines and data sources.
Dr Felix Addo-Yobo of UNICEF highlighted the importance of reliable, timely, and disaggregated data, warning that national averages could conceal pockets of deprivation.
He cited poverty statistics in Accra as an example, stressing that vulnerable populations risked being overlooked without adequate data disaggregation.
The Results Framework is a critical component of Ghana’s Medium-Term National Development Policy Framework (MTNDPF) for 2026–2029. It is designed to ensure accountability, track progress, and provide evidence-based assessment of national development outcomes.
By validating indicators and targets, NDPC and its partners aim to strengthen monitoring and evaluation systems and ensure that Ghana’s development agenda delivers shared prosperity.
GNA
Edited by Kenneth Odeng Adade
Reporter: Godwill Arthur-Mensah
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