The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) is expected to complete work on a draft policy framework on street naming, property and addresses by the end of June this year to pave way for the commencement of the exercise countrywide.
Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh, the sector minister, announced this when he addressed the opening session at a day's validation workshop in Accra for stakeholders to make inputs into the draft policy and manual.
The draft manual outlines key elements of the exercise, including policy on street-addressing, overview of the system, detailed implementation activities, institutional arrangements for implementation at the national, regional and district levels as well as technical details.
Mr Chireh said the policy when implemented, would help address the inadequate identification system that had affected revenue mobilisation and activities of agencies responsible for public utilities.
" It is common knowledge that in urban areas like Accra, Kumasi, Sekondi-Takoradi, Tamale and other major towns in Ghana, many streets have no names, and buildings are numbered anyhow. There is no estimate of how much this is costing the nation but it could run into millions of Ghana cedis per year".
He said the absence of a national policy framework to guide the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) on the naming of streets and numbering of buildings resulted in the adoption of different approaches which had not been in conformity with accepted international practices.
Mr Chireh explained that the policy was aimed at providing a common understanding of concepts and processes involved in street-naming and building numbering.
Additionally, the policy further provides a guide as to how to carry out street-addressing in a settlement, community, city and district.
Mr Chireh said " the manual presents a good basis to proceed, however, there is the need for a broad based consensus on this policy framework".
He advised all stakeholders to co-ordinate and collaborate for the effective implementation of the policy.
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