Improving access to quality health care services (GHTML0006)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Action plan – Tamale, Ghana, 2025 – 2028
Inception Report: Not available
Commitment Start: Jun 2025
Commitment End: Oct 2028
Institutions involved:
- Tamale Metropolitan Assembly
- Northern Accelerated intervention for Development
- University For Development Studies
- OXFAM GHANA
- GDCA
Primary Policy Area:
Primary Sector:
OGP Value:
- Access to information
- Civic Participation
- Public Accountability
- Technology and Innovation for Transparency and Accountability
Description
Commitment ID
GHTML0006
Commitment Title
Improving access to quality health care services
Problem
The Metropolis has the following challenges in Health:
- Limited knowledge of HIV and AIDS/STIs, especially among vulnerable groups
- Gaps in physical access to health infrastructure and services especially, PWDs
- Infant and adult malnutrition
- Inadequate nutrition education
- High HIV and AIDS stigmatization and discrimination
Status quo
Key health challenges in Tamale, Ghana, include poor sanitation and waste management, inadequate healthcare, and high rates of communicable diseases like malaria, typhoid. Additionally, there are concerns about teenage pregnancy, mental health issues, and barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare, especially for adolescents. (Source: Media Foundation for West Africa)
Action
This commitment intends to build the capacities of the citizenry through education and training workshops to engage the health services authorities.
Facilitate the involvement of communities in planning and development for effective and comprehensive service delivery.
Build the capacities of the communities to demand good health.
Participate in health monitoring and evaluation.
The overall objective is to improve health delivery in the Metropolis.
How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?
Expected Outputs
- Community Health Committees Established
- Health infrastructural facilities established
- Communities knowledge built on HIV and AIDS/ STIs
- Community knowledge built on nutrition
Expected Outcomes
- Community health committees monitor health services delivery
- Health infrastructural facilities increased and patronized
- HIV and AIDS/ STIs and stigmatization reduced
- Community consume nutritious foods
What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?
The long-term goal identified is to improve access and quality health delivery in the metropolis
Primary Policy Area
Regulatory Governance, Social Accountability
Primary Sector
Health & Nutrition, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?
| Access to information | Communities having access to health care information |
| Civic Participation | The communities participate in health planning, monitoring and evaluation |
| Public Accountability | Duty bearers accontable to the communities on quality health care delivery |
| Technology and Innovation for Transparency and Accountability | Communities have access to quick and reliable health information |