The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is developing Community Business and Development Plans for the 24 Town Councils in the Metropolis as part of poverty reduction strategies of KMA.
This would involve capacity building for pro-poor urban development and management, under the Urban Poverty Reduction Project (UPRP)
Other components of the scheme include social investment support, urban small-scale enterprise development and project management and coordination.
Mr. Samuel Sarpong, the Metropolitan Chief Executive, told a meeting of the assembly that this was being implemented through the Social
Investment Fund (SIF) with funding from the African Development Bank.
He said the UPRP was aimed at reducing by 50 per cent the number of urban poor living on less than one dollar a day.
Mr. Sarpong said 14 draft plans had been completed at GH¢12,752.80 and the assembly supported the process with GH¢7,173.06.
He said that projects to be implemented under the plans included provisions of washrooms, mechanized boreholes and drains.
Mr. Sarpong said that the project that would be jointly funded by SIF and KMA was estimated at GH¢1,290,400.00.