Policies / Policies from 2016
Policies with publication year 2016.
Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC)
An account of the property development sector. This is to serve as a call to investors to invest in Ghana's property development sector.
Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development,Fisheries Commission
The Directive of the Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development directs owners, operators and masters of industrial trawlers to comply with the closed seasons as declared by the Ministry and the Fisheries Commission based on the Fisheries Management Plan 2015-2019. The closed season shall be for all industrial trawlers for the periods specified. Penalties for violations are prescribed.
Ministry of Lands
The 20-year development master plan pushes to: drive cooperation, coordination, coherence and synergy in forestry-related issues at all levels; promote good governance through accountability and transparency; modernize forest enterprises as a means of job creation for the rural and urban poor; promote timber plantation development; ensure biodiversity conservation and ecotourism development; and pursue sustainable financing of forestry sector activities.
Ministry of Food and Agriculture
The development policy and strategy for the livestock sector follow from the 2004-2015 Livestock Development Policies and Strategies. It seeks to address the implementation challenges faced by the previous policy as a means to facilitate rapid growth and development of the sector.
Ministry of Environment, Science Technology and Innovation
The strategy has four distinct components: addressing the underlying causes of loss of biodiversity, improving the biodiversity status, enhancing accruable benefits, and enhancing strategy implementation. Across the four components, the strategy has 20 different action plans.
Ministry of Land and Natural Resources
The Act works towards revising and deepening the laws on land use and spatial planning. It establishes the Land Use and Spatial Planning Authority with the objective of ensuring judicious use of lands, providing for a sustainable development of land, and driving the planning decentralisation system of Ghana to the district assemblies, for efficient delivery of services.
Ministry of Environment, Science Technology and Innovation
The regulations apply to existing and proposed dams determined by the Water Resources Commission to have a safety risk. The dam safety unit, established by these regulations will see to reviewing and approving of safety procedures and guidelines, inspection and classification of dams, and creation of public awareness, among others.
Local Government and Rural Development
The nine hundred and thirty sixth Act of the Parliament of Ghana sets out to establish an efficient Local Government Service; provide for the establishment and administration of the District Assemblies Common Fund; to provide for a National Development Planning System; to define and regulate planning procedures of District Assemblies; to co-ordinate, facilitate, monitor and supervise internal audit activities within District Assemblies and for related matters.
Ghana Forestry Commission
This represents the updated national "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Strategy" - REDD+ Strategy (conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stock). The revision is premised on completion of the previous strategy and experiences garnered over the years. The strategy contains clear policy directions and measures to tackle the drivers of emissions.
Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
An Act to regulate the financial management of the public sector within a macroeconomic and fiscal framework; to define responsibilities of stakeholders, to provide for accounting and audit of public funds and to provide for related matters.
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