PROFILE OF THE ARCC

Ashanti Region is one of the sixteen (16) administrative Regions in Ghana. The Region is in the middle belt of Ghana and shares boundaries with Bono, Ahafo, and Bono East to the North, Eastern to the South-East and Central to the South, Western-North Region to the South-West. It lies between longitudes 0.150W and 2.250W, and latitudes 5.500N and 7.460N. The Region occupies a total land surface area of 24,389 Km2 constituting 10.2% of the total land surface of Ghana.

Administratively, Ashanti Region is divided into Forty-Three (43) Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies and has Kumasi as its capital. The Region is politically headed by the Regional Minister who is the President’s representative of the Regional Co-ordinating Council and who also chairs the Region’s Security Council.

The Ashanti Region is one of the sixteen (16) administrative Regions in Ghana. The Region has forty-three (43) Districts of which one is a Metropolis, nineteen (19) Municipals with twenty-three (23) as Districts as shown in Table 1.1. It has Kumasi Metropolis as the Regional capital. The governance of Ashanti Region is administered at two separate but complementary levels namely, the traditional authority and political administration.

According to the Local Governance Act, 2016, Act 936, the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council is an administrative and coordinating rather than political or policy-making body. The head of the political administration, like the other regions, is a Regional Minister who heads a Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), which coordinates the activities of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), the lower block of the political administration, and implementer of developmental activities. The head of a District Assembly is the District Chief Executive.

The Region has 47 constituencies, and each constituency elects a Member of Parliament, and the Region has the largest representation (17.1%) in the current 275-member Parliament. Again, for the 28,921 Polling Stations / Electoral Areas in the country, Ashanti Region has 5,182 polling stations / Electoral Areas.

The Ashanti Region is one of the sixteen (16) administrative Regions in Ghana. The Region has forty-three (43) Districts of which one is a Metropolis, nineteen (19) Municipals with twenty-three (23) as Districts as shown in Table 1.1. It has Kumasi Metropolis as the Regional capital. The governance of Ashanti Region is administered at two separate but complementary levels namely, the traditional authority and political administration.

According to the Local Governance Act, 2016, Act 936, the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council is an administrative and coordinating rather than political or policy-making body. The head of the political administration, like the other regions, is a Regional Minister who heads a Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), which coordinates the activities of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), the lower block of the political administration, and implementer of developmental activities. The head of a District Assembly is the District Chief Executive.

The Region has 47 constituencies, and each constituency elects a Member of Parliament and the Region has the largest representation (17.1%) in the current 275-member Parliament. Again, for the 28,921 Polling Stations / Electoral Areas in the country, Ashanti Region has 5,182 polling stations / Electoral Areas. Districts in the Ashanti Region.

Vision: To develop Ashanti Region into a peaceful, progressive and developed region with high standards of living for the people and the attainment of their aspirations.

Mission: To ensure total development of the Region through the improvement of human and natural resources and effective co-ordination, monitoring and evaluation of plans, programmes and activities of the District Assemblies, Departments and Agencies and Non-Governmental Organisation.

Objective: To secure effective administration management and harmonisation of all MMDAs and Departments in the Ashanti Region to achieve development within a democratic and decentralised dispensation.

Core Values: Accountability, Client-oriented, Creativity, Diligence, Discipline, Equity, Integrity, Innovativeness, Loyalty, Commitment, Anonymity, Impartiality, Permanence, Timeliness and Transparency

Service Delivery Standards: Participation, Professionalism, Client Focus, Transparency, Efficient and Effective use of Resources and Accountability

Functions:

(1) A Regional Co-ordinating Council shall

1. monitor, co-ordinate and evaluate the performance of the District Assemblies in the region;
2. monitor the use of moneys mobilised by the District Assemblies; or allocated and released to the District Assemblies by any agency of central Government; and
3. review and co-ordinate public services generally in the region.

The Regional Co-ordinating Council is responsible for the following functions:

1. the approval of the by-laws of the District Assemblies in the region subject to their consistency with national legislation,
2. the provision of back-stopping support for the performance of any function assigned to the District Assemblies in the region in respect of which a particular District Assembly is deficient in terms of skills and workforce;
3. the resolution of any conflicts between a District Assembly in the region and any agency of the central Government, public corporation, statutory body, non-governmental organisation or individual;
4. the oversight responsibility for second-cycle educational institutions and regional hospitals in the region on behalf of the Ministries of Education and Health; and
5. the performance of any other functions assigned to it by or under an enactment.