Development projects which are not in line with Ghana Infrastructure Plan will not be financed - NDPC warns

The Director of Research at the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Mr. Richard Tweneboah-Kodua, has indicated that arrangements are underway to ensure that major infrastructural development projects which are not in line with the Ghana Infrastructure Plan will not be financed.

This, he said, reflects a growing commitment to disciplined and coordinated national development planning and implementation hence ensures that government programmes and long-term objectives remain consistent regardless of the political party in power.

He made these assertions at the Graphic Business/Stanbic Bank Breakfast Meeting at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra yesterday.

He noted that issues such as energy, agriculture, education, health, and critical infrastructure development have remained national priorities, and successive governments have integrated them into the Medium-Term National Development Policy Framework.

Mr Tweneboah-Kodua. highlighted that these priorities and guidelines entail aspirations proportionate to Social, Economic governance and institutional development, Environmental, Infrastructure and Spatial development, as well as issues on International relations, hence all sectoral and local plans must respond to these priorities.

He noted that issues such as energy, agriculture, education, health, and critical infrastructure development have remained national priorities, and successive governments have desegregated them into the Medium-Term National Development Policy Framework.

The Director highlighted that the NDPC plays advisory, prescriptive and regulatory roles in ensuring that Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Regional Coordinating Councils, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies prepare their respective development plans in line with national priorities and guidelines.