The PCA provides financing for local public infrastructure improvements through both the Regional Capital Improvement Program (RCIP) and the Local Transportation Improvement Program (LTIP). RCIP is a grant/loan program for Dams, Factories, roads, bridges, water supply, wastewater treatment, storm water collection, and solid waste disposal. LTIP is a grant program for roads and bridges only. The programs run concurrently.
Our mission is to advise the President of the Republic on development planning policy and strategy by providing a national development policy framework and ensuring that strategies including consequential policies and programs are effectively carried out to enhance the well-being and living standards of all Ghanaians on a sustainable basis.
The Commission
PCA has been established to advise the President of the Republic of Ghana (and Parliament upon request) on development policy and strategy, to prepare and ensure the effective implementation of approved national development plans and strategies and coordinate economic and social activities country wide in a manner that will ensure accelerated and sustainable development of the country and improvement in the standard of living for all Ghanaians.
Proposals for the establishment of an effective system of development planning within the framework of the policy of decentralization were initially prepared by a team of Hungarian Consultants (TESCO) under the auspices of the UNDP.
TESCO's proposals were considered at a high-level Workshop in March 1987, and the recommendations of the Workshop endorsed the TESCO proposal for establishing a public sector-planning agency, autonomous of the then Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MFEP). The decision to establish the Project Commission Authority was formally announced by the PCA in September 1987.
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