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BY: Emmanuel Bonney
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Three personalities in the built environment and local governance have strongly given their support to the call for the country to have a new administrative capital.
They have, therefore, called on duty bearers to take a bold decision to initiative plans for the relocation of the capital city from Accra to another part of the country.
The three are a governance expert, Dr Eric Oduro Osae; the President of the Ghana Institution of Engineers, Rev. Professor Charles Adams, and the President of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors, Dr John Amaglo.
They agree that the move is not only necessary to deal with the congestion, over-population and flooding in Accra but also open up the country for further development, economic prospects, job creation, among other things.
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The Ghana Statistical Service has embarked on face to face training of National Trainers across the country as part of processes towards the execution of the 2021 Population and Housing Census.
The National Trainers are expected to oversee the Training of Regional Trainers in the various regions as well as supervise the training of enumerators and supervisors at the District Level.
Speaking on the sidelines of the training programme at Wa, Upper West Regional Statistician, Sixtus Dery, said it has become necessary for the service to carry out the exercise amidst the COVID-19.
He said Population and Housing Census is key to an even distribution of National Resources for the benefit of the ordinary Ghanaian.
A total of 14.3 million out of 32.7 million Malaysian population have been recorded under the Malaysia Population and Housing Census (Census 2020) exercise
LISGIS Deploys Geographic Mappers across Liberia to demarcate Enumeration Areas for Upcoming National Population and Housing Census
LISGIS Deploys Geographic Mappers across Liberia to demarcate Enumeration Areas for Upcoming National Population and Housing Census
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Paynesville – Preparation for the conduct of Liberia’s first digital population and housing census continues to garner momentum with the deployment of geographic mappers across the country.
The role of the mappers, among others, is to demarcate enumeration areas through the creation of area maps for the Liberia 2021 National Population and Housing Census (NPHC)..
At a program marking the official send-off or deployment of GIS Mappers to the field on Wednesday in Paynesville, the Government led by Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor, and its partners including the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), the Embassies of Sweden and Ireland, called on the mappers to fully exercise their duties to th