{"id":3789,"date":"2019-07-16T10:38:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","slug":"ghana-275-constituencies-get-1m-each-under-ipep-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/16\/ghana-275-constituencies-get-1m-each-under-ipep-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"GHANA: 275 Constituencies Get $1m Each Under IPEP For 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BY TIMES REPORTER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ministry of Finance has\nreleased GH\u023b1, 664 million, about $320 million for the implementation of the $1\nmillion per constituency pledge under the Infrastructure for Poverty\nEradication Programme (IPEP) for 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commencement\ncertificate, granted to the three development authorities in the country covers\n$275 million dollars for the 275 constituencies nationwide and $45 million for\noutstanding commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IPEP, popularly known\nas One-Million-Dollars-Per-Constituency, is a flagship government initiative to\naddress critical infrastructure deficit identified by local actors at the\nconstituency level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the run up to the 2016\nelection, the New Patriotic Party, promised to eradicate poverty and minimize\ninequality among socio-economic groups within geographical areas through direct\nprovision of basic infrastructure at the constituency level, especially in\nrural and deprived communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To attain this, IPEP was crafted to be the main vehicle to\ndirect capital expenditure towards constituency-level specific infrastructure\nand economic development priorities. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanaiantimes.com.gh\/%EF%BB%BF275-constituencies-get-1m-each\/\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY TIMES REPORTER Ministry of Finance has released GH\u023b1, 664 million, about $320 million for the implementation of the $1 million per constituency pledge under the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}