{"id":1092712,"date":"2022-05-19T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T12:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/19\/ghana-hosts-west-africa-conference-on-natural-resource-management-in-august\/"},"modified":"2022-05-19T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T12:22:43","slug":"ghana-hosts-west-africa-conference-on-natural-resource-management-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/19\/ghana-hosts-west-africa-conference-on-natural-resource-management-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana hosts West Africa Conference on natural resource management in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Accra, May 19, GNA &#8211; The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) in collaboration with Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) will organise a high-level West Africa policy conference on inequalities and natural resource management in Accra.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The four-day conference, slated for August 16-20, 2022, will address the role of natural resources management in reducing the widening economic and social inequalities in the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) region.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The Conference will draw participants from five ECOWAS countries- Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Senegal.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Addressing a pre-conference meeting with stakeholders in Accra, Dr Kodjo Esseim Mensah-Abrampa, the Director General, NDPC, said inequalities and natural resources were key assets to the development of Africa.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The ability, he stated, to exploit and utilise those resources to improve on the citizens well-being were critical to the growth of the continent.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">&#8220;There are issues of inequalities as to who is benefiting from these resources.These are assets and when not managed well might be a liability. Failure to manage these processes might affect Africa&#8217;s quest to development,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He said the Commission was pushing for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 10.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The Director General said the best way to manage the resources was to protect it and ensure equitable distribution for the benefit of all.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Charles Bugre, a Development Consultant, said the Conference would determine the impact of natural resource governance from the Government policies to reduce inequalities in the sector.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Among others, he said, the Conference would touch on lessons from community and women\u2019s struggles in the natural resource governance area and strategies to strengthen government leadership in the sector.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Ms Atieno Ndomo, the Conference Manager, said the goal of the event was to highlight policy pathways for the attainment of the SDG 10 through better natural resource management.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The outcome of the Conference, she said, was to prepare a technical paper, highlighting policy options for equitable development through transformed natural resource management.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accra, May 19, GNA &#8211; The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) in collaboration with Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) will organise a high-level West Africa policy conference on inequalities and natural resource management in Accra. 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