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 West Gonja Municipal Assembly held LEAP Re-assessment Meeting with stakeholders The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) management has  held its re-assessment engagement programe with Stakeholders  as part of reassessing beneficiaries of the programme on Wednesday, 16th September, 2022 in Damongo in the Savannah Region.  The program is seeking to identify and determine the poverty status and eligibility of households' beneficiaries on its activities (LEAP and non-LEAP) that aim at ; reducing the incidence of inclusion and exclusion errors due to the dynamic nature of poverty. It also considers the time factor and improvement of efficiencies and allocation of budget to the most vulnerable households. The  programme is also  designed for principle re-assessment every four years. Since 2013, the LEAP programme had undergone a number of reforms and innovations including the transition from manual to electronic payments, all aimed at building efficien...

 World Vision held EU - LEAN Savannah Landscape Project Media encounter in the Savannah Region  The Landscapes and Environmental Agility Across the Nation (LEAN) is a four-year project funded by the European Union that aims to conserve biodiversity, build climate resilience, and reduce emissions from land-use changes in the savannah, high forest, and transition zones of Ghana while helping local farmers to improve their livelihoods. Mr Joseph Edwin Yelkabing the project officer for the European Union (EU) - LEAN project, indicated that the purpose of the media encounter was to provide update of the project implementation as it was launched on June 19, 2020 and implemented in the West Gonja municipality and Kassena-Nankana West district Savannah Landscape by World Vision Ghana  He said this on 15th September 2021 at the unity center in Damongo, Savannah region, whilst leading the team to facilitate a day's workshop. The project which addresses three (3) structural barriers...

 Do not use me as your campaign message - Former Damongo MP to constituent aspirants The former Hon. Member of Parliament for the Damongo constituency, Adam Mutawakilu (Galus) has expressed his disappointment of some NDC constituency  aspirants who are going round campaigning, fabricating lies that such characters supported Galus with some motorbikes during the 2020 elections. Adam Mutawakilu said this on Damongo based community radio station PADFM 95.1mhz on Tuesday, September 7, 2021.   The former ranking member of mines and energy noted that the claims by such characters have gotten to a point that he can't remain quite and the manner in which the news is circulating in the constituency needs to be cleared once and for all. "I have heard several false claims and reports levelled against me. I really didn't want to comment but the manner in which such false claims is growing, I can't just keep quiet because if I'm quite, it will indicate that what they are saying...