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I am a business reporter with Daily Guide and Business Guide newspapers published by the Western Group of Companies. I was a general reporter when I joined Daily Guide in 2006, but along the line I realized the need to specialize. So I found business reporting as the best area to specialize and I have been on the desk for about four years now. Since I started reporting on business related issues my interest has being in the areas of telecommunications, the extractive industry (ie. oil, gas and mining), and the Small and Medium scale Enterprise (SME) sector. I have a page dedicated to SMEs in the weekly Business Guide newspaper were I write features on the SME sector in Ghana. In view of this I was adjudged the best SME reporter for 2009 during the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) awards in 2010. This has further motivated me to pursue development driven stories which will help change policies and enhance the livelihoods of Ghanaians. I am a member of the Ghana Journalists Association and an executive member of the Network of Communication Reporters (NCR) in Ghana.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Urban Project Completes 2015


Sylvanus Adzornu
By Esther Awuah
The expected completion of the Ghana Urban Management Pilot Programme in 2017 has been rescheduled for 2015.

In an interview with BUSINESS GUIDE, Sylvanus Adzornu, Principal Planner at the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development said “the project was supposed to end in five years’ time but we hope to finish everything in the next three years and replicate it in other cities.”

The €40.5 million pilot project, which is being financed by the Government of Ghana and the Agence Francaise de Development (Afd), will seek to promote and upgrade metropolitan cities like Kumasi, Sekondi-Takoradi, Tamale and a municipality in Ho to a befitting status.

Mr. Adzornu noted that the project intends to help the selected cities to plan properly and provide the needed infrastructure for them to have financial autonomy so they could use the revenues to re-invest into the cities.

“The project’s investments are pre-identified by the cities and relate to community upgrading, markets, lorry parks, abattoirs, municipal landfills, drains, etc.”
He noted that aside these, the most important aspect of the project was the master plan for each city which would aid in future planning purposes.

Mr. Adzornu revealed that that feasibility studies for a similar intervention at Accra had commenced, adding that it was also being sponsored by Afd.
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