Appointee Minister of Finance, Dr John Kumah, on Thursday, May five introduced the Governing Board of the Ghana Statistical Service and charged the supporters of a deal the needed guidance and help to the Management of Service.
He comparably mentioned the Board among others: Work toward expanding the Establishment Post of the Service with the guide of utilizing ensuring talented senior authorities lead the assembling of realities; Supervise the guidance of the right Scheme of Service to manual the calling improvement of the Staff; Guide the way of behaving of all of the censuses and overviews referenced withinside the Harmonizing and Improving Statistics in West Africa Project (HISWAP) for the accompanying 3 years; Facilitate artistic creations in the National Statistical System and; Initiate the methodology for the drafting of the Legislative Instrument for the Statistical Service Act, 2019: Act 1003.
In a fast custom, the Deputy Finance Minister, in the interest of the President and the Minister, communicated the enthusiasm for the Ministry to the momentarily past Board for their magnificent control that finished withinside the way of behaving of the essential virtual evaluation in Ghana. He commented "'We have been motivated with the release of the Provisional Results inside 44 days of completing region records series. Presently we're directed with the guide of involving the most extreme contemporary records in assessing withinside the Ministry".
He moreover expressed gratitude toward the Government Statistician and his group for working indefatigably and effectively without an administering Board for the past 5 months, noticing that, "the present initiation of the Board could revive the beat of blast and improvement, and the monetary harmony with inside the Service''
The debut ritual transformed into a completed agreement with Section five (2) of the Statistical Service Act, 2019: Act 1003 which commands the President of the Republic, in meeting with the Council of State to lease supporters of serve at the overseeing leading group of GSS. The Board, he expressed, transformed into outstandingly little eleven however produced using people with proficient and different data in measurable assembling and the control of human sources. These key abilities, he commented, are needed withinside the groundbreaking timetable set out with the guide of utilizing the immediately past Board, which could enhance the notoriety of GSS withinside the overall factual eco-framework.
The Minister transformed into the view that Ghana is fast convalescing from the impact of COVID-19 in sync with quarterly and yearly GDP blast statements sent off with the guide of utilizing the Statistical Service, and expressed that as us of a, ''we'd unequivocally rouse you to safeguard to direct the group of labourers to offer exorbitant high-good realities to manual us of a's blast and improvement as referenced withinside the Coordinated Program for Economic and Social Development Policies''.
The Statistical Service has left upon the Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey (AHIES) that could rapidly offer us a record on quarterly Labor Force, Quarterly Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability Status. Information that could see the ones in inclusion making, the scholarly world and concentrates with regards to whether the use of a's projects and guidelines are affecting without a doubt at the general population. Since the specialists want to understand the end-product of the assorted specialists' guidelines, he promised specialists' manual for the Service in all approaches possible to re-gadget it to achieve its centre order of introducing high-acceptable, significant, right and all around planned realities for the reason for National Development.
The Deputy Minister reminded the Board that the use of a depends upon emphatically on Statistical Service to create right and very much coordinated records to document the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union Agenda 2063 and entrusted the Board to direct the use of an on this course to sell the strong utilization of realities and invigorate concentrates on exercises.
He guaranteed the Board that the specialists will find believed sources should work with their artworks considering the way that there might be developing call for solid records for proof essentially based choice making. He also presented that the Government through the World Bank, provided the Service with an amount of $one hundred fifty million for the way of behaving of the statistics and to orchestrate and upgrade records series structures in Ghana and 7 West African Countries. However, the Deputy Minister described that a broad amount of that money transformed into spent at the 2021 Population and Housing Census; the Board should ensure the green utilization of the last sources as various tasks are investigated to improve the Service monetarily.
The Deputy Minister finished up his remarks with the guide of utilizing guaranteeing the Board of Government's aide and readiness to offer the thought about important sources, every human and money, to permit them to accomplish their countrywide task.
Answering for the benefit of the Board, Dr Grace Bediako commented that they considered as a distinction to be alluded to as upon to serve us as Board givers and demonstrated their preparation to supply as expected of them. She thus alluded to all of the MDAs in the National Statistical System to help out them to accomplish their objectives.
Profile of Nominees
Dr Effortlessness Bediako
Dr. Bediako holds a PhD in Demography from Philadelphia University. She has had working dating with the UN Statistics Commission in different abilities till she joined Statistical Service in 2004 because of a Government Statistician. She transformed into GSS for a length of 8 years sooner than turning into an individual from NDPC as an Advisor and finished her residency because of the Ag. Official General of NDPC. In 2017, she transformed into delegated the Board Chair of GSS and has held equivalent capacity to ensure progression of Service. Dr. Bediako is an alumna of the University of Ghana.
Prof Samuel Kobina Annim
Prof Annim has been the Government Statistician considering the way that March 2019 and he has unmistakable himself thinking about the way that then. He joined the Service during a period when the glow transformed into one in concluding the Census processes. He holds a PhD in Economics from Manchester University and he spent his working presence instructing Economics at the University of Cape Coast and different tertiary establishments. In Cape Coast, he worked under different limits completing his commitment because of the Director of Research, Innovation and Consultancy. He is a graduate of the University of Cape Coast.
Ms. Ashiokai Akrong
Ms. Akrong is an Award-Winning HR Practitioner who had worked in assorted Fortune 500 Companies in the United States, United Kingdom and Africa. She is as of now the HR Director for Vodafone Ghana. She holds a MA in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota. She is in like manner an alumna of the University of Ghana
Dr. Evans Aggrey-Darko
Dr. Aggrey-Darko is as of now the Chief Director of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Ghana wherein he showed Political Science until his arrangement as Chief Director in 2018. His examination side interests are in Public Policy, Parliamentary Affairs and Political Theory.
Dr. Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie
Dr. Dzahene-Quarshie is a Professor of Modern Languages with a specialization in Swahili from the University of London and has been working with the University of Ghana considering the way that 1991. She holds a PhD in African Studies and is the Director of the Confucius Institute at Legon. She has north of 24 examination courses shockingly.
Mr. Philip Abradu-Otoo
Mr. Abradu-Otoo is as of now the Director of Research at the Bank of Ghana. He has more than 30 years' revel in working as an Economist at the Bank of Ghana and IMF. He holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick and is a former student of the University of Ghana.
Prof Robert Darko Osei
Prof Osei is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistical and Social and Economics Research and serves because the Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Ghana. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham and an MSc in Quantitative Development Economics from the University of Warwick. Robert is by and by a Board Member of Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited and a co-seat of a spic and span drive alluded to as the Digital Agricultural Innovations and Services Initiative that is being simultaneously controlled with the guide of utilizing J-PAL (Based in MIT, USA) and Center for Effective Global Action (principally based absolutely in UC Berkeley, USA).
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