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PARTICIPANTS IN THE FIRST STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP
M-PLAZA HOTEL, ACCRA. 18th September 2000

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NO.	NAME	ADDRESS
1.	Abner Bab Klu	MTEF Secretariat Ministry of Finance P. O. Box M. 4 Accra Tel: 661424
2.	Samuel Daisie	MTEF Secretariat Ministry of Finance P. O. Box M. 40 Accra Tel: 661424
3.	Mrs Marian A. Tackie	NCWD Box m 53 Accra Tel 229119
4.	Cornelius Adabla	PURMARP Secretariat Ministry of Finance P. O. Box M. 40 Accra Tel: 669289/674387
5.	Air Commodore Benjamin Cole	NDPC Flagstaff House Accra Tel:773011
6.	Laurencia Tettey	C/O NPRP P. O. Box CT633 Cantoments - Accra Tel: 764907/08 Fax 764906
7.	George Kwame Ofosu	NDPC Flagstaff House P. O. Box CT633 Cantoments-Accra
8.	Adjei-Fosu Kwaku	NDPC Flagstaff House P. O. Box CT633 Cantoments-Accra

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9.	Charles Dzradosi	NDPC Flagstaff House P. O. Box CT633 Cantoments-Accra
10.	Stephen Nkansa Buabeng	B.I.R.D Knust-Kumasi Tel 051-60406 BIRD@African.on.line.com
11.	M. Bawa Amadu	Department of Planning Knust-Kumasi Tel/Fax 051-60324 BIRD@African.on.line.com
12.	Cyril K. O. Nsiah	Office of Parliament Parliament House - Accra Tel 672781 Cell 020-2110041 Fax: 665957
13.	M. A. Qusit-Therson	Ministry of Finance P. O. Box M. 40 Accra
14.	Mawutor Ablo	National Institutional Renewal Programme (NIRP) P. O. Box 1618 Psc. Building, Accra
15.	Helen Wedgwood	DFID/Ghana Rural Livelihoods Office P. O. Box 296, Accra Helnewedgwood@dfid.rlo.com.gh Tel: 223581
16.	Nii Ashie Kotey	Faculty of Law, Univ of Ghana Legon Tel: 500304, 027-579274 Euakotey@yahoo.com
17.	Stephen Bass	IIED 3 ENGSLITON ST LONDON WCIH ODD Steve.bass@iied.org
18.	Ferdin And D. Tay	NDPC Flagstaff House P. O. Box CT633 Cantoments-Accra Tel:773011 Fax:773055

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20.	Barry Dalal-Clayton	IIED 3 Engsliton St London WCIH ODD England UK. Tel +44-207-388-2117 Fax: 2826 Email: Barry.dalal-clayton@iied.org
21.	Seth Vordzorgbe	DevCourt Limited P. O. Box CT 1418 Cantoments-Accra Email:svor@africaonline.com.gh
22.	Ben Caiquo	P. O. Box GP 4376, Accra Tel: (233-22) 410032 Fax: (233-22) 410031 Mobile (233-27) 556379 Email:dma@africaonline.com.gh
23.	Jonathan B. Alabi	Senior Planning Analyst National Development Plann. Comm. P. O. Box CT 633 Cantonments-Accra Tel: 773011 Ext. 103
24.	Philomena Johnson	NDPC Senior Planning Analyst National Development Plann. Comm. P. O. Box CT 633 Cantonments-Accra Tel: 773011 Ext. 103

Annex B. Historical Strategic Processes

The 7-Year Development Plan

I. Name of strategy process: Seven-Year Plan for National Reconstruction and Development

II. Year initiated: Approved by Parliament on 16 March 1964

III. Brief description: The Plan was the first integrated and comprehensive economic plan in Ghana’s development administration history. It was to implement a socialist policy of economic development based on a programme of ‘work and happiness’ under which the state, as the leading sector of the economy, would promote, directly and indirectly, the creation of full employment and the economic well-being of all Ghanaians. It contained: (a) a statement of the strategy for Ghana’s economic reconstruction and development, (b) the tasks of the plan, (c) the role of the non-government sector, (d) sectoral programmes for agriculture, industry and mining, infrastructure, education, manpower and employment, health, housing, (e) the Volta River Project, (f) public administration, (g) foreign trade and payments, (h) financing the plan, and, (i) plan implementation and management.

IV. Key Objectives: (a) to accelerate economic growth, (b) to start the socialist transformation of the economy, (c) remove all vestiges of colonial structure of the economy.

V. Status of preparation and implementation: Implementation was cut short by the coup d’etat in February 1966.

VI. Key stakeholders: The CPP party and government, the state sector of the economy, cooperatives, civil service, the intelligentsia, private business sector.

VIII. Main preparation process:

· The Conventions Peoples Party (CPP) prepared a Programme of Work and Happiness in 1961 that provided the overall framework and principles for the socialist approach to the development of the country.

· The Planning Commission was established in October 1961 to provide a comprehensive development plan, instead of the public investment programmes that hitherto guided development efforts.

· The Programme of Work and Happiness was adopted at the Congress of the CPP in July 1962

· The Planning Commission created various Committees from its membership, which had representatives of civil service, academia and business, to develop proposals on themes for the Plan.

· The commission collated and integrated the input from the Committees into a draft Plan.

· The Draft Plan was discussed and reviewed at a conference in April 1963 attended by top development experts from all over the world, including Albert O. Hirchman, Nicholas Kaldor, Arthur Lewis, Dudley Seers, K. N. Raj and Walter Birmingham.

· The Commission finalized the Plan in the latter part of 1963.

· The Plan was approved by Parliament on 16 March 1964.

VIII. Linkages to Ghana-Vision 2020: There are no direct linkages between the two processes, given the time difference between them. The only indirect link are that: (a) the 7-Year Plan provided an integrated approach to planning upon which future planning processes were built; (b) the 7-Year plan incorporated long-term perspectives for the first time in the planning culture of Ghana.

IX. Key document: Seven –Year Plan for National Reconstruction and Development Financial Years 1963/62 – 1969/70. Office of the Planning Commission, Accra.

X. Observations on outcomes and effectiveness: The Plan continued and expanded investments initiated under the First Development Plan and laid the basis for the country’s physical and social infrastructure, promoted state-owned enterprises in the economic sectors.

Economic Recovery Program

II. Year initiated: 1983

X. Brief description: A two-phased programme involving stabilization and rehabilitation under phase I (1983-1986) and liberalization and growth under phase II (1987-1989) Major areas of policy reform covered: pricing, trade and industrial policy, investment, taxation and subsidy, and, human resource development institutional development. A Program of Actions to Mitigate the Social Cost of Adjustment (PAMSACD) was initiated to address poverty issues arising from reform process.

IV. Key Objectives: (a) arrest the decline in production, (b) restore internal and external macroeconomic balances, (c) rehabilitate productive and social infrastructure, (d) achieve sustained economic growth, (e) improve domestic saving and investment, (f) improve the management of the economy, (g) re-orient the economy towards market determination of prices, (h) improve the social and overall well being of Ghanaians, particularly the under-privileged, deprived and vulnerable.

V. Status of preparation and implementation: Implementation of the ERP, including programmed structural reforms, has been completed.

VI. Key stakeholders: The programme was prepared solely by government teams and collaborating officials of the World Bank and the IMF. There was very little or no involvement of civil society groups in the preparation of the programme.

VII. Main preparation process: Preparation of the policy framework, including letter of development policy, by government officials, review by officials of the donor agencies, negotiations and agreement on terms and conditionality by government and donor teams.

VIII. Linkages to Ghana-Vision 2020: The ERP provided the impetus for a long-term growth approach to development that laid the basis for the development of the National Development Planning Framework that was the pre-cursor to the Ghana Vision 2020.

IX. Key documents:

X. Observations on outcomes and effectiveness: The ERP was largely effective in restoring macroeconomic balances through 1989-90; but there were major slippages from 1992. Furthermore, the major structure of the economy remained unchanged in terms of dependency on a few primary exports, low technology agriculture, low contribution of industry and high dependency on aid. Attempts to address social and poverty concerns under PAMSCAD were limited in scope and impact. The participatory nature of economic policy formulation was enhanced towards the end of the programme through increased consultation with the private sector and through the SAPRI that informed the holding of the National Economic Forum in 1997.

However, the ERP was not a strategic planning process in the real sense as it was more of a policy response to solving structural economic problems. It did not have a long-term development vision towards which the programmatic actions of macroeconomic stability, sectoral productivity and social development were geared. Indeed the emphasis was on laying the foundations for long-term growth, the parameters of which were yet to be articulated.

Annex C

SECTORAL COORDINATING GROUPS (SCGS) FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK (CDF)

SECTOR LEAD NATIONAL FOCAL

AGENCY SUPPORT

i. Mini-Consultative Groups Ministry of Finance World Bank (WB)

ii. Poverty Reduction

(including TCOP, Nutrition,

Street Children, Poverty

Monitoring NDPC UNDP

iii. Governance NIRP/Office of the

(including Justice) Speaker of Parliament UNDP

iv. Health Ministry of Health Danida/DFID/USAID

v. Roads Min. of Road & Transport EU/WB

vi. Education Min. of Education UNICEF

vii. AGSSIP/Food Security Min. of Food & Agric. FAO

viii. PURMARP Min. of Finance DFID

ix. Decentralization Min. of Local Gov't & CIDA/Germany

Rural Development

x. Energy Min. of Mines & Energy WB

xi. Private Sector & Industrial PEF/Min. of Trade and

Development Industry USAID

xii. Urban Development Min. of Local Gov't & WB/AFD/

Rural Development Germany

xiii. Water Min. of Works & CIDA/DANIDA/

Housing DFID

xiv. Natural Resources/ Min. of Lands & Forestry WB/UN/

Environment Min. of Envi. Sc. & Tech University

xv. Financial Sector Bank of Ghana/MOF IMF/USAID

Footnotes

1. World Bank, Ghana – Poverty Past, Present and Future. Report No. 14504-GH. Population and Human Resources Division, West Africa Department, Africa Region. June 29, 1995.

2. Botchie G., Ortsin G., Tay F. D., and G. Laryea-Adjei (1998), Participatory Approaches Learning Study of the Process of Formulating Renewable Natural Resources Sector Strategy in Ghana, Report prepared for INTRAC, Oxford and DFID, Under Auspices of the NDPC, Accra. March 20, 1998.