Total water for the year under review was 337,441.55m3 as against an annual target of 610,040. The regional picture however changes, depending on the base district of the ethnic groups. The most common economic trees are the sheanut, dawadawa, boabab and acacia. Upper East Region in Ghana Subdivision The population development in Upper East as well as related information and services (Wikipedia, Google, images). The private informal sector predominates both the national and regional economy. Altogether they provide employment to about 6,000 small-scale farmers. The region plays host to many festivals throughout the year, most of which are either to bring a good planting season or celebrate the harvest. These are the improvement of health and welfare services for people with physical disabilities (rehabilitation, counselling), improved health and welfare of the aged (housing for old people, medical needs, and recreational programmes). There are more than 8 languages and major dialects, including Gurune (frafra), Nankani, kassem, Taleni, Nadam, Kusal, Buili and Bisah. Drinking water is considered safe or potable if it is obtained from pipe-borne supply in or outside the house or is supplied by tanker or is from manual or mechanized boreholes. The two materials account for over 95 per cent of materials used in each of the districts. But in a region where, traditionally, males are almost always the heads of household, this could be a welcome change. Only 2 towns, Garu and Pusiga have grown from rural to urban localities since 1984. The Kassena (6.5%) of the Grusi, Busanga (5.9%) of the Mande-Busanga and Bimoba (2.8%) of the Gurma are the other significant ethnic subgroups. The region has three Midwifery Schools and one State Registered Nursing School. During the Homowo celebration in late August and early September, priestesses perform this ritual dance in shrines throughout greater Accra. Slightly more females (1.7%) than males (1.4%) are reported as separated. Agriculture is the number one industry with proportions ranging from 51.6 per cent in the Bolgatanga, to 85.3 per cent in the Bawku West, District. It is one of the four districts created in the region in 2012, and its administrative capital is Fumbisi. Poverty alleviation programmes and broad public health and income generation programmes and the provision of basic community services need to be implemented to the benefit of the disadvantaged in society, particularly the vulnerable and excluded groups. Household sizes are generally large in each of the districts. The presence of the minority ethnic groups in the region has socio-culture implications that have a bearing on ethnic instability in the region, especially in Bawku West and Bawku East. The amount of rainfall recorded annually varies between 750mm and 1050mm. Since access to flush toilet is largely influenced by the provision of piped water into the housing facility, it is not surprising that 5.2 per cent of households that have the facility are in Bolgatanga. In most cases, accessibility is determined more by competition as well as individual students and/or parental choice than by the proximity of the institutions. In all the districts, the proportion born in the locality of enumeration (I.e. Ethnic Groups in Ghana NO CoVax Ghana-Net.com Ghana-Net.com REAL NEWS Covid-19 & Your RIGHTS Home Page Forts and Castles Fort Batenstein, Butre Castle St Georg, Elmina > Cape Coast Castle Fort Augustaborg, Teshie > Fort Ussher Accra Kumasi Fort 1 Chronology of Slave Trade Ghana Radio Stations The distance to the nearest doctor therefore depends on how far the patient is away from the health facility. Many households are able to construct their own inexpensive but adequately roomed dwelling places, which is why overcrowding does not as yet appear to be a major problem in a relatively less developed region as the Upper East. EN. Significantly, charcoal use in the region is relatively low, from 2 per cent in Bongo to 20.3 per cent in Bolgatanga. The region has about 18 per cent of the cattle and 9 per cent of the small ruminants in the country. Sandema in Builsa is famous as the site where Builsa warriors captured and killed the slave mauranders, Samori and Babatu, to mark the end of the slave trade in the northern part of Ghana. 3. The male-female differential in educational attainment, which is negligible at the lower levels, increasingly widens at each successive level of educational attainment. Below is a list of Ghana demographics, showing the list of ethnic groups in Ghana and population percentage. Information on specified community services, such as hospitals and other health facilities, telephone connections, postal services and schools, was collected during the 2000 Census. The Volta Region - Ho. In terms of bathing space, 82.8 per cent of households in the region use space provided for the purpose within the house, while 15.5 per cent use the open space around the house/compound and 1.3 per cent use either a public bath house or a bathroom in another house. The fact that these regions are patriarchal and old age and male pre-eminence are greatly respected may probably encourage males to overstate their ages and females understate their ages. Four in five (80.3%) communities in the region have access to a clinic or maternity home within 15 kilometres of the locality, with Bongo having the highest of 98.7 per cent and Bawku East the lowest (70.7%). This area has vast lands and suitable soil, which if properly exploited, would give high yield of rice. Poultry is mostly local birds and domesticated guinea fowls. The proportion of eligible males who are never married ranges from 25.5 per cent in Bongo to as highas 36.0 per cent in Bolgatanga. The Upper East Region is divided into 15 districts, each headed by a district chief executive. The inadequate number of SSSs may hamper progression from JSS to SSS. However, the mamprusi is the group that supposedly legitimately owns the land and thus, from the village of Bende, politically manages and controls the territory. The Ewe ethnic group is located in the Brong Ahafo, Bono East, Ashanti, Western North, Western, Central, Western, Eastern and Ahafo. The use of such dumpsites varies from about 3.0 per cent in the Bawku West, to about 20.0 per cent in the Builsa, District. Nearly a third (29.7%) of localities are 25 kilometres or more from a hospital. The proportion is higher than the regional average (79.5%) in Builsa, Kassena-Nankana and Bongo. Ghana is an African nation located on the continent's western edge, and it spans an area of roughly 92,497 square miles. The working children in the district are all in the informal sector (73.0% private informal and 27.0% other); there are no working children in the formal sector. These two regions account for only about a fourth (22.7%) of migrants from outside the region. Private communications centres have sprung up, especially in Bolgatanga, Navrongo and Bawku. The economically employed population age of 15 years and above is 71.8 percent, People live in dispersed settlements and do subsistence farming in and around their houses. The Northern Region districts and their capitals in Ghana. The three main aquifer zones identified are: the weathered, fractured zone and bedrock-weathered zone interface (zones intruded by quartz veins and pegmatites) aquifers. For the region as a whole, 77.8 per cent of usual household heads are males and this proportion ranges from 88.7 per cent in Bawku East to 64.3 per cent in Bongo. This calls for expansion of the water supply system to meet the entire population. Economically active population (aged 15 years and older). In a region where people seem to be very concerned about privacy during bathing (82.8% have use of a space provided within the house), privacy for toilet facilities seems not to be an important issue, even though this has more serious implications. Millet stock or corn stock is used by 18 per cent of households in the region, and charcoal is used by 11.6 percent. The regions economy is based on agriculture, primarily cattle and cereals like millet, groundnuts, sorghum and rice. The proportion of males aged 0-19 years (56.3%) is higher than that for females (49.0%). On the whole, migrants from all the other regions in Ghana are also concentrated in the same three districts of Bolgatanga, Bawku East and Kassena-Nankana. . A high proportion of the households in each district, ranging from 81.6 per cent in the Bolgatanga, to 93.4 per cent in the Bawku West, District, live in dwellings owned by a relative. The practice of preserving groves as forest cover, should be demystified and revived. There is also effective traditional leadership and vibrant Youth Development Associations to facilitate efficient and effective mobilization of local resources. The fact that a little above three in four adults are not literate is unfortunate and must be a challenge to reduce the level. The old age category ranges from 13.4 per cent in Bolgatanga to 21.4 per cent in Bawku West. Less than a tenth of the population of the region (8.5%) are widowed, consisting of 3 per cent males and 13 per cent females. In all, minority ethnic groups which are not from the southern sector of the country comprise about 10 per cent of the population of the region (10.3%). The regions population of 920,089 is not evenly distributed among the six districts. Communities with no light whatsoever range from 1 per cent in Builsa to 3.5 per cent in Bongo. For the elderly population (70 years and older), the pattern of more males than females is repeated. Every locality in the region reports the availability of a traditional health facility within the community. About one in three households use well water for drinking and 15.2 per cent depend on natural water sources such as the spring, river, stream or rainwater. The Dagbanli and Mampelle languages of Northern Region for instance, are mutually intelligible with the Frafra and Waali languages of the Upper East Region of Ghana. The proportion of households occupying three or four rooms is highest (45.2%) in Builsa and Bongo (44.1%) and lowest (20.4%) in Bawku East. For instance, at the national level, there is a sharp drop of 13.1 percentage points from age 15-19 (104.2%) to age 20-24 (91.1%). Significantly, these remain the three major activities for both sexes in the region. The region show that only 21.2 per cent of the population (15 years and older) are literate in either English only (12.9%), both English and Ghanaian language (6.6%) or Ghanaian language only (1.7%). The two adjacent regions show similar deviations from the national picture. Bawku East. The age structure for the sexes shows that at the regional level, there are more males than females at all ages 0-19 years, except for the age group 0-4 years. The quality and accessibility of educational institutions have great implications for development. Other groups include Chekosis, Bimobas and Vaglas. If fertility remained unchanged for the earlier 30 years or more, completed family size would be equal to total fertility rate. This is explained in terms of the work of the Order of the White Fathers who arrived in Navrongo in 1906 and began proselytizing the northern territories. This is an indication of a considerable proportion of single person or single parent households. Distances from locality to nearest facilities. The proportion males (58.5%) and females (64.5%) currently married are also higher than the national average of 48.1 per cent males and 51.6 per cent females. Upper East Region has a total population of 1,301,221 in the 2021 Population and Housing Census. These three factories are not operational and have been earmarked for divestiture. In each district, there are slightly more females than males in this sector. However, the two adjacent districts in the Northern region, which are located to the South of Bawku East and Bawku West, are mostly Mamprusi. However, Abubakari (2015) in their study in Northern region, a similar About one in five (20.8%) attained middle/JSS, and about one in eight (12.5%) attained secondary/senior secondary. About one in eight (12.3%) had jobs but did not work. For the majority of households in the region (68.4%) the facility available is either a public dumpsite (13.2%) or elsewhere at their convenience (55.2%), which could be a stream or open gutter or on someones undeveloped plot of land, all of which have serious environmental and health consequences (Ghana Statistical Service, March 2002). These are Government, NGOs, particularly religious organizations, large industrial establishments and private individuals. Completed family size however is not an indicator of current fertility because the births to these women occurred in the past at varying times in a period extending about 25 years. Nowadays, however, it is performed by men dressed as women. The Ashanti Tribe This is by far the largest tribe in Ghana numbering about seven million in total and nearly half the population of the entire country. The situation with toilet facilities is different. This rock formation is considered to be of shallow water continental origin, derived from the Birimian granitic complexes and has been subjected to low-grade metamorphism. Thus, this should be an incentive to potential investors. Naturalized Ghanaian citizen constitute 5.3 percent. In relation to industry, there are more children in the private household industry than is recorded for the adult population. The land is relatively flat with a few hills to the East and southeast. The proportion of females reported as separated is slightly higher than that of males in each district, except Bongo. 70% of Labour force are engaged in Agriculture with the technology being manual (hoe and cutlass). The sex distribution of the regions population favours females. Comparison of demographic indicators at the national and regional levels. Some of the dominant dialects include Nankani, Bisah, Kusal, Ndam, Kassem, and Gurune. Bawku East has the highest proportion of very large households (40.7%), followed by Bawku West (28.6%); Builsa has the lowest proportion (7.8%) of very large households. This situation should prompt the Regional Population Council and the District Population Advisory Committees to put in place population management policies aimed at educating the population, through advocacy programmes, on the need of a smaller family size, on a sustainable basis. The implications of the female excess for sexual and reproductive behaviours should also be a matter of great concern even after taking into account the mitigating effects of the practice of polygamy. On the basis of this definition, the population is primarily rural (79.0%). Public sector employees make up between 2.5 per cent in Bawku West and 7.0 per cent in Bolgatanga. It varies from 0.3 per cent in Bolgatanga to 2.6 per cent in Builsa. In the country as a whole, 74.4 per cent of economically active persons are self-employed without employees with an additional 5 per cent with employees. While the start-up for primary school is age 6, a few pupils start at age 5. This may even be a reflection of the definition of locality used in the census and/or proximity of a locality to the district capital. Most of these livestock are kept on an unimproved scavenging regime, although some supplementary feeding is done especially during the dry season. In 1984, 82.3 per cent of the population aged 6 years or older had never attended school and this proportion dropped to 69.4 per cent in 2000. Programmes, projects and activities that are either population influencing or population responsive include improving and expanding the health of mothers and children (programmes on breast-feeding, ante-natal care, post-natal care, growth monitoring, child survival, safe motherhood), reduction in the incidence of teenage pregnancy and reduction in incidence of child bearing among women older than 35 years. The country has a population of 32 million as of 2022, which features various tribes and peoples from various backgrounds and cultures. Bolgatanga Technical University The regions Small Towns and Rural water coverage is currently 65.64% as at December 2019. Below is a list of ethnic groups in Ghana and where they migrated from. Only 6.3 per cent of households use public facilities and most households that use these facilities are concentrated in Bolgatanga (9.2%) and Bawku East (8.6%). 5. At the World Economic Forum today, Administrator Samantha Power announced USAID will launch the Enterprises for Development, Growth, and Empowerment (EDGE) Fund, an innovative new fund designed to unlock and unleash outsized private sector impacts on global development challenges. Such an employment structure poses a challenge for the effective mobilization of tax revenue as well as mobilization of capital for expansion and job creation. It ranges between 4.8 per cent in Kassena-Nankana and 7.2 per cent in Bongo. In fact, together with Upper West, they are the two regions with a less than 20 per cent urban population. The population is primarily rural (84.3%) and scattered in dispersed settlements. They include the Akan, Ewe, Mole-Dagbane, Guan, and Ga-Adangbe. All the above emphasise the importance of intensifying the process of extension of social infrastructural facilities within the region instead of the current over concentration of services in only a few district capitals. On the other hand, cement/concrete for outer wall construction is highest in Bolgatanga (14.6%) and lowest in Bongo (1.6%) and Bawku West (1.6%). There are two commercial quarries in the region namely, the Upper Quarry Limited located at Pwalugu on the Bolgatanga-Tamale road and the Granites and Marbles Company Limited located in Tongo. The lowest proportion is in Bawku East (19.1%). The rank order of the five occupations is same for males and females. The region falls low in most of the indicators that measure socio-economic development, such as level of education, literacy and accessibility to social services. The most pressing population and development problems requiring policy formulation and interventions are human reproduction/natural increase issues, young age structure and high dependency burden, high level of illiteracy, especially among the adult population, nonavailability and/or poor access to social infrastructural facilities and services, including electricity and health services, uneven distribution and poor quality educational infrastructure. The fact that females are increasingly assuming roles as heads of households does not mean that their role in decision making may also have increased, because the patriarchal system still marginalizes females in diverse ways. At the district level, the localities with telephone facilities within 10 kilometres range between 4.2 per cent in Builsa and 57 per cent in Bongo. Bolgatanga has the largest proportion of households using electricity (19.5%), followed by Bawku East (15.2%). Several policy issues are involved. The proportions in Builsa (63.5%) and Bawku West (63.8%) are about the same. The Chief of Kafaba in the East Gonja municipality in the Savannah Region, Kafabawura Seidu Yahaya, has been arrested by the Regional Police Command in connection with the lynching of a 90-year-old woman who was accused of being a witch. There is a large prospect in the region for investors wishing to go into brick and tile production because of the availability of large deposits of clay of various types. Except in a few towns, majority of the inhabitants live in rural areas with subsistence farms around their houses. The proportion of males (93.3%) and that of females (92.2%) never married is about the same. The kerosene lamp is the main source of lighting for at least three out of every four households. The conventional dependent age groups (0-14 years and 65 years and older) range from 46.4 per cent in the Bolgatanga, to 53.6 per cent in the Bawku West, District. The main administrative structure at the regional level is the Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC), headed by the Regional Minister. There is evidence of over concentration of essential services in Bolgatanga, Navrongo and Bawku, which are all district capitals. Ghanaian citizen by birth, childhood or parenthood constitute 92.5 percent of the population of the Upper East region. The population below 15 years (0-14 years) varies from 40.5 per cent in the Kassena-Nankana, to 46.4 per cent in the Bawku West, District. The population aged 65 years and above forms the smallest segment and is a reflection of the young age structure of the population of the districts. Gold was mined during the colonial administration around Nangodi, about 24 kms from Bolgatanga on the Bolgatanga- Bawku road. Pupils of 20.5 per cent of localities, however, have to travel 5 kilometres or more to attend the nearest primary school. DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS Culture of the region is projected through the medium of arts, music and dance. This is made up of 66.6 per cent of males and 82.8 per cent of females. Other relatives are the second largest group of household members other than heads of households in the region and in each district; another significant group is grandchildren. The Vagala with 1.1 per cent of the regions population has concentration above the regional value in only Bawku West (4.7%) and Bawku East (2.1%). This proportion varies from 3.3 per cent in Bawku East to 10.1 per cent in Bongo. Taking into consideration the lack of adequate personnel manning all the health facilities, however, emergency cases may result in fatalities due to lack of prompt and adequate attention. The following is a list of the region's districts and what you should know about each of them. Solid and liquid waster disposal Festivals Ghana - Easy Track Ghana Go back Festivals of Ghana This is a large, but incomplete, list of festivals, holidays and celebrations held in Ghana during the year. Programmes on the empowerment of women to improve upon the role and status of women, through adult literacy programmes, girl-child education and income generating activities for women, should be promoted to enable females to participate fully in the development process. The three major occupations in the districts are Agriculture and related workers, Sales workers, and Production and Transport Equipment workers. For the region, also, the labour force aged 15-34 years shrank slightly from 56.4 per cent of the total labour force in 1984 to 55.7 per cent in 2000, while those aged 35-64 increased marginally. The N10 originates from Yemoransa in the Central Region and connects through Kumasi in the Ashanti Region and terminates at Paga in the Upper East Region. The age structure for the sexes shows that, in the Region, there are more females 540,149 (51.6%) than males 506,405 (48.4%) in 2010; this is similar to the national proportion of 51.2 percent females. The Upper West Region districts, tribes, languages, cultural activities. About the same proportion of localities (25.1%) have the nearest post office being 30 kilometres or more away. At the district level, the ratio varies from a doctor to 9,343 people in Kassena-Nankana to 77,885 in Bongo. Kassena-Nankana has the highest proportion (29.6%) of localities with a JSS, followed by Bolgatanga (27%), while Bawku West (5.9%) has the least proportion of localities with a JSS. In the region as a whole, many people must be relying on traditional medical practitioners to meet a substantial portion of their primary health care needs. Only 23.5 per cent of the regions population, 15 years and older are literate. All the measures of fertility examined indicate a high but declining fertility. 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