- Gender and Social Integration (GSI)
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- Ghana Power Compact
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10th May, 2022
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1st July, 2020
CLARIFICATIONS RE: MiDA BACK-UP AND FIREWALL SOFTWARE LICENSES
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5th June, 2020
MINUTES - OPENING OF BIDS RE: CONSTRUCTION OF 16 UNIT 3-BED FLATS AT KANDA
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Gender and Social Integration is therefore one of the key requirements for ensuring economic growth that effectively takes account of gender and social inclusion.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#696969">In Compact II, The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) is ensuring equitable access to energy by using targeted approaches to take account of gender disparities in access to credit, land and information; affordable connection fee for vulnerable groups and women owned businesses; electrification of social infrastructure that offers high benefits to women; and promoting productive uses of energy for men and women. 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It also functions as a reference document for other sectors, Implementing Entities, Contractors, Consultants and Suppliers.<br /> <br /> <strong>Benefits:</strong><br /> The benefits of addressing gender and social inclusion in Compact II include:<br /> • Enhanced voice and agency of women and other disadvantaged groups /associations to demand for efficient and<br /> reliable electricity delivery.<br /> • Improved personal security and reduction in violence against women, girls and other deprived groups.<br /> • Safe and secure work environments, particularly in markets and economic enclaves. <br /> • Increased employment opportunities for women and disadvantaged groups in the electricity /energy sector.<br /> • Enhanced earning potential for women and men<br /> • Raised earning potential for self-employment for women from increased lighting and access to electricity leading<br /> to improved social outcomes for men and women.<br /> • Increased productivity of women’s businesses through cost effective and reliable electricity supply.<br /> • Greater recognition of women’s contributions to the energy sector.<br /> • Equal opportunities for women and men in the workplace, businesses and energy sector as a whole.<br /> • Improved career opportunities for young women and men in the energy sector<br /> • Unequal gender relations within the energy sector transformed for the benefit diverse groups of women and<br /> men.<br /> • Improved governance and representation of women in in senior management positions in the energy sector.<br /> • Full participation of women in the energy sector.<br /> • Improved workplace environment.<br /> • Efficient and effective organizations.<br /> • Stakeholder satisfaction. </span></p> <p><span style="color:#696969">Ghanaians are encouraged to support Gender and Social Inclusion Activities at MiDA because our work contributes immensely to achieving a more socially inclusive and gender equitable society where poverty reduction will be attained through economic growth in Ghana.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#696969"><strong>Working through Partnerships</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color:#696969">MiDA collaborates with stakeholders to achieve its objectives. 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recognizes that gender inequality is one of the major constraints to economic growth. Gender and Social Integration is therefore one of the key requirements for ensuring economic growth that effectively takes account of gender and social inclusion.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#696969">In Compact II, The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) is ensuring equitable access to energy by using targeted approaches to take account of gender disparities in access to credit, land and information; affordable connection fee for vulnerable groups and women owned businesses; electrification of social infrastructure that offers high benefits to women; and promoting productive uses of energy for men and women. 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It also functions as a reference document for other sectors, Implementing Entities, Contractors, Consultants and Suppliers.<br /> <br /> <strong>Benefits:</strong><br /> The benefits of addressing gender and social inclusion in Compact II include:<br /> • Enhanced voice and agency of women and other disadvantaged groups /associations to demand for efficient and<br /> reliable electricity delivery.<br /> • Improved personal security and reduction in violence against women, girls and other deprived groups.<br /> • Safe and secure work environments, particularly in markets and economic enclaves. <br /> • Increased employment opportunities for women and disadvantaged groups in the electricity /energy sector.<br /> • Enhanced earning potential for women and men<br /> • Raised earning potential for self-employment for women from increased lighting and access to electricity leading<br /> to improved social outcomes for men and women.<br /> • Increased productivity of women’s businesses through cost effective and reliable electricity supply.<br /> • Greater recognition of women’s contributions to the energy sector.<br /> • Equal opportunities for women and men in the workplace, businesses and energy sector as a whole.<br /> • Improved career opportunities for young women and men in the energy sector<br /> • Unequal gender relations within the energy sector transformed for the benefit diverse groups of women and<br /> men.<br /> • Improved governance and representation of women in in senior management positions in the energy sector.<br /> • Full participation of women in the energy sector.<br /> • Improved workplace environment.<br /> • Efficient and effective organizations.<br /> • Stakeholder satisfaction. </span></p> <p><span style="color:#696969">Ghanaians are encouraged to support Gender and Social Inclusion Activities at MiDA because our work contributes immensely to achieving a more socially inclusive and gender equitable society where poverty reduction will be attained through economic growth in Ghana.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#696969"><strong>Working through Partnerships</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color:#696969">MiDA collaborates with stakeholders to achieve its objectives. 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The Program, also referred to as Compact II, was signed between the Government of the Republic of Ghana and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), an Agency of the Government of the United States of America, on August 5, 2014. It was designed to introduce reforms into Ghana’s power sector while providing some much-needed power infrastructure assets. The goal of the Compact Program is to reduce poverty through economic growth.</p> <h6><img alt="" src="/app/webroot/fileman/Uploads/EFOT Images/Pokuase BSP/10_Energized_Substation_at_night.jpg" style="height:100%; width:100%" /><br /> <span style="color:#999999"><em>Pokuase Bulk Supply Point Substation</em></span></h6> <p>The Projects and initiatives under the Ghana Power Compact Program have addressed constraints to the supply of adequate and reliable power and the associated socio-economic and gender issues in the power sector. 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This number is expected to rise to 8 million in the next 10 years. The United States Government, provided grant funds totaling US$316 million, while the Government of Ghana provided US$30 million as counterpart funding for the Program. </p> <h6><img alt="" src="/app/webroot/fileman/Uploads/EFOT Images/Ellen M PSS/Kanda_PSS_pic.jpg" style="height:100%; width:100%" /><br /> <span style="color:#999999"><em>Ellen Moran Primary Substation</em></span></h6> <p>“I am proud of what MCC and the GoG have achieved together under this Program, including the commitment of the Ghanaian Government to continue the core drivers of the MCC-Ghana Power Compact, to effectively and efficiently bring reliable electricity into the businesses and homes of millions of Ghanaians, through improved distribution networks,” said Mr. Mahmoud Bah, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of MCC. </p> <p>The five-year Program Entered-Into-Force on September 6, 2016 and was extended for a further nine months because of delays caused by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p> <h6><img alt="" src="/app/webroot/fileman/Uploads/Documents/ACT_building_2.jpg" style="height:100%; 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width:100%" /></p> <p>Kasoa (C/R), June 1, GNA - Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia Wednesday commissioned a US$50-million Kasoa Bulk Supply Point (BSP) to supply reliable and quality electricity to more than 250,000 consumers in Kasoa and other adjoining communities..</p> <p>The 435-mega volts amperes (MVA), second largest in the country after the Pokuase BSP, would supply power to households and businesses to improve productivity and living conditions within Kasoa, Senya Breku, Bawjiase, Nyanyano, Tuba, and Tokuse, as well as complement the Winneba and Mallam power substations.</p> <p>The Kasoa BSP is one of the few Gas insulated Switchgears equipped with a Static Var Compensator and expected to benefit about 250,000 residents within the catchment area.</p> <p><img alt="" src="/app/webroot/fileman/Uploads/EFOT Images/Kasoa BSP/kbsp1-IMG_7372.jpg" style="height:100%; width:100%" /></p> <p>The facility, of which construction works began in February 2020, was executed by Messrs Siemens Energy SAS of France and supervised by SMEC International.</p> <p>Commissioning the facility at Kasoa in the Central Region, Vice President Bawumia said it was one of the many electricity infrastructures constructed as part of the Electricity Company of Ghana's Financial and Operational Turnaround Project under the Ghana Power Compact II.</p> <p>It has a US$316-million funding from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), anindependent agency of the United States Government's foreign initiative, and a US$31- millioncounterpart funding from the Government of Ghana.</p> <p><img alt="" src="/app/webroot/fileman/Uploads/EFOT Images/Kasoa BSP/veep1-IMG_7541.jpg" style="height:100%; width:100%" /></p> <p>He said the US Government, through the MCC, had invested US$863 million in vitalinfrastructures in Ghana for the duration of the two Power Compact programmes from 2012 todate, which had added a wealth of support to the country's infrastructure requirements.</p> <p>The Vice President expressed the Akufo-Addo-Government’s determination to ensure robust,sustainable and reliable power supply to households and businesses, pivotal towards thecountry's industrialisation drive.</p> <p><img alt="" src="/app/webroot/fileman/Uploads/EFOT Images/Kasoa BSP/veepPresent-IMG_7659.jpg" style="height:100%; width:100%" /></p> <p>That would also help ECG's power transmission operations and distribution network and aidin minimising technical losses.</p> <p>Dr Bawumia said the Government was undertaking several power infrastructure projects tomeet the power demand of the ever-increasing population, saying those projects should besustained even after the Power Compact Agreement.</p> <p>Professor Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu, the Board Chair of the Millennium Development Authority(MiDA), in her welcome remarks, said the facility would enhance productivity, incomes andsocial outcomes for residents in the catchment area.</p> <p><img alt="" src="/app/webroot/fileman/Uploads/EFOT Images/Kasoa BSP/prof-IMG_7426.jpg" style="height:100%; width:100%" /></p> <p>Out of the 230 key staff and employees who worked on the project, 90 per cent wereGhanaians while 16 per cent were females, she said, noting that it helped in the transfer ofessential knowledge and technology to Ghanaians.</p> <p>Parts of the support fund for the project was also used to construct access roads, walkwaysand drainage system at the project site.</p> <p>The Kasoa BSP would be managed by the Electricity Company of Ghana and the Ghana GridCompany. 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The Program, also referred to as Compact II, was signed between the Government of the Republic of Ghana and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), an Agency of the Government of the United States of America, on August 5, 2014. It was designed to introduce reforms into Ghana’s power sector while providing some much-needed power infrastructure assets. The goal of the Compact Program is to reduce poverty through economic growth.</p> <h6><img alt="" src="/app/webroot/fileman/Uploads/EFOT Images/Pokuase BSP/10_Energized_Substation_at_night.jpg" style="height:100%; width:100%" /><br /> <span style="color:#999999"><em>Pokuase Bulk Supply Point Substation</em></span></h6> <p>The Projects and initiatives under the Ghana Power Compact Program have addressed constraints to the supply of adequate and reliable power and the associated socio-economic and gender issues in the power sector. 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This number is expected to rise to 8 million in the next 10 years. The United States Government, provided grant funds totaling US$316 million, while the Government of Ghana provided US$30 million as counterpart funding for the Program. </p> <h6><img alt="" src="/app/webroot/fileman/Uploads/EFOT Images/Ellen M PSS/Kanda_PSS_pic.jpg" style="height:100%; width:100%" /><br /> <span style="color:#999999"><em>Ellen Moran Primary Substation</em></span></h6> <p>“I am proud of what MCC and the GoG have achieved together under this Program, including the commitment of the Ghanaian Government to continue the core drivers of the MCC-Ghana Power Compact, to effectively and efficiently bring reliable electricity into the businesses and homes of millions of Ghanaians, through improved distribution networks,” said Mr. Mahmoud Bah, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of MCC. </p> <p>The five-year Program Entered-Into-Force on September 6, 2016 and was extended for a further nine months because of delays caused by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p> <h6><img alt="" src="/app/webroot/fileman/Uploads/Documents/ACT_building_2.jpg" style="height:100%; 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width:100%" /></p> <p>He said the US Government, through the MCC, had invested US$863 million in vitalinfrastructures in Ghana for the duration of the two Power Compact programmes from 2012 todate, which had added a wealth of support to the country's infrastructure requirements.</p> <p>The Vice President expressed the Akufo-Addo-Government’s determination to ensure robust,sustainable and reliable power supply to households and businesses, pivotal towards thecountry's industrialisation drive.</p> <p><img alt="" src="/app/webroot/fileman/Uploads/EFOT Images/Kasoa BSP/veepPresent-IMG_7659.jpg" style="height:100%; width:100%" /></p> <p>That would also help ECG's power transmission operations and distribution network and aidin minimising technical losses.</p> <p>Dr Bawumia said the Government was undertaking several power infrastructure projects tomeet the power demand of the ever-increasing population, saying those projects should besustained even after the Power Compact Agreement.</p> <p>Professor Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu, the Board Chair of the Millennium Development Authority(MiDA), in her welcome remarks, said the facility would enhance productivity, incomes andsocial outcomes for residents in the catchment area.</p> <p><img alt="" src="/app/webroot/fileman/Uploads/EFOT Images/Kasoa BSP/prof-IMG_7426.jpg" style="height:100%; 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