The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) in collaboration with Global Partnerships for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) has developed a roadmap with the need to collate data to fill data gaps, strengthen the data ecosystem and improve data usage at all levels of development. As a result, the GSS organised a training workshop for district officers on administrative data collection in order to strengthen administrative data systems, enhance local level policy and programme formulation, decision making and for the purpose of tracking progress over time.
The training commenced on Friday, 31st March, 2023 at exactly 9:30am at the District Works Department Conference Room.
There were two coordinators from GSS, Mr. Orlando Ackumey and Mr. Jacob Bentil. The District Coordinating Director, Mr. John A. Nunya welcomed participants and entreated them to be involved and make sure to learn all they need to as data is important to development and their individual inputs will help ensure and accelerate development of the district and its people, and the country at large.
ACTIVITES
The following were the contents of the training:
- Role of data in MTDP and APR preparation.
- SDG budgeting in Ghana.
- Administrative Data Compilation in MMDAs (Discussion on Data template, Data validation and Uploading Data).
- Coordination of Administrative Data Compilation (Pre-Data Stage, Data collection stage and Post Data Collection stage)
- Data Quality Checks
