{"id":1252372,"date":"2022-11-17T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T08:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/17\/ama-to-leverage-on-digitization-to-improve-revenue-generation\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T08:32:58","slug":"ama-to-leverage-on-digitization-to-improve-revenue-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/17\/ama-to-leverage-on-digitization-to-improve-revenue-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"AMA to leverage on digitization to improve revenue generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"327\"  alt=\"\" title=\"ama\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1668673978_128_ama.png\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"327\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1668673978_128_ama.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"ama\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Assembly members from the Accra Metropolis have unanimously approved\u00a0its composite budget for 2023\u00a0to enable\u00a0the Assembly to undertake its projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The budget which was approved on Thursday night at\u00a0the\u00a0Fourth (4th) Ordinary Meeting of the Third (3rd) Session of the Seventh (7th) Accra Metropolitan Assembly(AMA) estimates\u00a0a\u00a0total resource envelope of\u00a0 \u00a0GHC50,596,640.20\u00a0by 31st December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The budget also proposes a 14.21 per cent increase in Internally Generating Fund from GH\u00a2 20,599,717.00 to GHC23,527,722.20 by the end of the financial year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the budget estimates 37.13 per cent of the budget would be injected into economic projects, 24.59 into social, 26.29 into administration, 7.84 per cent into the environment, and 4.14 reserved for contingency.<\/p>\n<p>The first female Mayor of Accra, Hon Elizabeth K. T Sackey, in an interview after the approval of the budget estimates said the Assembly would construct an abattoir with a slaughterhouse, cattle ranch, store, freezing area, and an office, support electoral area project of Assembly members, continue the construction of the fence wall at the Agbogbloshie market, as well as maintain selected lorry parks and markets in the metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>She said the AMA would be celebrating its 125th anniversary next year.<\/p>\n<p>She disclosed that the Assembly would leverage on digitisation to improve its revenue mobilisation adding that it would soon launch a digital platform for the payment of all its rates.<\/p>\n<p>She reiterated the Assembly\u2019s responsibility to find new and innovative ways of mobilising resources internally to fund its developmental needs whilst giving priority to government policies and programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Presiding members of the AMA, Hon Alfred Adjei before the approval called on the central administration of the AMA to make the electoral area project a priority to enable assembly members to undertake development projects in their electoral areas and assured that the needs assessment on the various project would be submitted to the administration between January and February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to urge central administration to make the electoral area project a priority\u2026 We are also going to ensure that the needs assessment on the electoral area project is submitted to the administration between January and February,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also used the opportunity to thank Assembly members for their commitment to the development of the City of Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Source: 3news.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assembly members from the Accra Metropolis have unanimously approved\u00a0its composite budget for 2023\u00a0to enable\u00a0the Assembly to undertake its projects. The budget which was approved on Thursday night at\u00a0the\u00a0Fourth (4th) Ordinary Meeting of the Third (3rd) Session of the Seventh (7th) Accra Metropolitan Assembly(AMA) estimates\u00a0a\u00a0total resource envelope of\u00a0 \u00a0GHC50,596,640.20\u00a0by 31st December 2023. The budget also proposes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1252374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2369,11357,5441,1919,4177,2023],"class_list":["post-1252372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ama","tag-digitization","tag-generation","tag-improve","tag-leverage","tag-revenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}