Gender Ministry trains household enumerators in Akropong-Akuapem

GMK Consultancy, a firm outsourced by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) with support from the World Bank, has organised a training programme for selected LEAP enumerators from three Akuapem Districts.

They comprised of Akuapem North, Akuapem South, and Okere districts, and the focus was to train enumerators to administer questionnaires and elicit responses from community people through interview sessions to identify vulnerable groups in scaled-out communities towards LEAP re-assessment.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Mr Caesar Godson, the Head of the Statistical Unit in Akuapem North Municipal Assembly, said the five-day programme was meant to train enumerators to acquire in-depth knowledge of registering household members in scaled-out communities of impoverished people.

He explained that to make the work easier for the enumerators, the statistical office in conjunction with the District LEAP Implementational Committee (DLIC), had trained identified focal persons at the communities to ensure quality and efficient re-assessment.

Elaborating on the training regiments, he said enumerators were taught how to administer questionnaires in household communities.

Members were taken through interview strategies and various criteria to use in eliciting responses from the people.

Mr Godson also informed GNA that to ensure efficiency during the reassessment process, enumerators were also taken to a community to have a mock exercise ahead of the re-assessment proper.

Interacting with Mr Laud Akuffo and Mr Samuel Amoah Opare, enumerators from Akuapem South and North, respectively, they all emphasised on the need to re-set the system for the fact that there were several beneficiaries who had apparently been on the scheme for years and did not fall within the vulnerability bracket any longer.

They both agreed that eligible beneficiaries need to be hooked onto the scheme and others taken off.

Mr Akuffo believed that the only source of survival for most marginal in society is through accessing LEAP interventions or funds, he approved.

By Samuel Yaokumah, GNA.