Sentences with phrase «national development planning commission»

Dr Nduom said reducing the size of government meant certain public services, such as the National Development Planning Commission and the Ghana Statistical Service, should be made more effective in providing policy advice and information.

The party in a bid to investigate the cause of the party's historic defeat formed a 13 - member committee chaired by a Former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, Kwesi Botchwey.

The National Development Planning Commission was to start a broad consultations and collaboration from all stakeholders in the development of the Plan and as a matter of fact, it quickly moved into action.

Let me quote the President when he announced the creation of the Ministry: «All of us within the political space are now agreeing that we have to take the issue of planning and development of our economy seriously, and that is why a lot of support has been given to the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), which has come out with a 40 - year programme for national development, set out in broad terms and targets».

The mandate of NDPC in generating a long - term national development plan for the country was embedded in Article 85, 86 and 87 of the 1992 Constitution, which is the National Development Planning Commission Act, 1994 (Act 479) and the National Development Planning (System) Act, 1994 (Act 480).

Ghana's 40 - year development programme may be in jeopardy if the new government does not do due diligence to the processes of marrying the two entities — government and the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC)-- to ensure Ghana's vision of haven a long term development planning is on course.

President Akufo - Addo in his wisdom has created a ministry [Ministry of Planning] to ensure that the agenda of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government stays within the broad framework of the 40 - year development plan introduced by the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).

He was appointed by the late President John Evans Atta Mills administration, as chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).

The former chairman of the National Development Planning Commission and the Senior Advisor to the President died after he suffered an asthma...

An elections review committee chaired by Former Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission Dr Kwesi Botchwey is leading a team to collate reasons for the first round defeat of the party.

Dr. Grace Bediako, a former Government Statistician and former member of the National Development Planning Commission;

Dr. Issahaku is an International Development Economist with several years of experience in economic policy management and development, having worked with reputable international and local institutions including the World Bank as a Senior Public Sector Specialist; the African Development Bank as a Principal Governance Expert; the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa as a Development Management Officer; the Canadian International Development Agency as a Socio - Economic Advisor and Project Coordinator; and the National Development Planning Commission, Ghana as a Senior Planning Analyst.

It is imperative to strengthen the Public Accounts and Finance committees of Parliament to play their oversight responsibilities more effectively; and also to develop a mechanism for effective synergy and coordination between the Monitoring Units of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) and the Office of the President.

He was the senior advisor to the President, John Mahama, and the chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).

The other members are Prof. Henrietta Mensa - Bonsu, Executive Director, Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy; Prof. Kwesi Botchwey, Chairman, National Development Planning Commission; Most Reverend Prof. Emmanuel Asante, Chairman, National Peace Council; Dr Lawrence Kannae, Vice Chairman, Public Services Commission; Mr Richard Quayson, acting Commissioner, CHRAJ, and Mr Samuel Asare Akuamoah, acting Chairman, NCCE.

Members of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) led by their Chairman, Professor Kwesi Botchwey, have collectively resigned.

The committee, which was formed by the NDC's Functional Executive Committee (NEC), and approved by its Council of Elders, is being chaired by a Former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, Kwesi Botchwey

Not exact matches

Xu Lin, head of the planning department at the National Development and Reform Commission, told reporters in Beijing yesterday that recently published approvals for projects only represent part of what's in the pipeline.

Osinbajo is also chairing the Border Communities Development Agency, the National Planning Commission and the National Space Research and Development Agency.

The Bloomberg administration and the city's Economic Development Corporation plan to commission a national study to examine how living wage laws have worked in other cities.

The National Development and Reform Commission, China's macroeconomic planning agency, has said it intends to start a nationwide market in November.

Jiang, the energy researcher at the National Development and Reform Commission, says that China is also developing plans to launch carbon tax pilots.

Prof. Dawkins is leading the Australian efforts in the development of a National Plan for Rare Disease, in concert with this policy position he is also coordinating the Australian partnership in a European Commission Framework Program 7 applications, RD - CONNECT and concerted action project RARE - BestPractice and a Chief Investigator on the NHMRC Australian European coordination grants.

These are precisely the factors that have been diagnosed and addressed by the South Africa's National Planning Commission in its National Development Plan.

Curator: Justine Topfer Selected Artists: Clare Rojas, Jefferson Pinder, Rebar, Reko Rennie and Monica Canilao Key partners: The Australian Embassy (Washington DC), the Corcoran Gallery, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the DC Commission Office of Planning, Arch Development Corporation, ArtPlace America and many more...

Coal Plans Shift According to Chemistry World, a publication of Britain's Royal Society of Chemistry, China's National Development and Reform Commission has ordered a stop to all but two projects being planned to generate liquid fuels from coal.

At this RFF seminar, experts from the China National Renewable Energy Centre, US Department of Energy, National Development and Reform Commission (China), and Georgetown University discussed China's long - term renewable energy development options as well as the potential for increasing renewable energy in China and overcoming the policy, regulatory, market, and institutional barriers to achieving a long - term strategic plan for energy tranDevelopment and Reform Commission (China), and Georgetown University discussed China's long - term renewable energy development options as well as the potential for increasing renewable energy in China and overcoming the policy, regulatory, market, and institutional barriers to achieving a long - term strategic plan for energy trandevelopment options as well as the potential for increasing renewable energy in China and overcoming the policy, regulatory, market, and institutional barriers to achieving a long - term strategic plan for energy transformation.

Last August, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Deputy Director Xie Zhenhua announced that China would launch a pilot carbon trading program in selected regions and / or sectors - basically the same message now discussed for the Five - Year Plan.

So said, Li Junfeng, an influential Chinese climate policy adviser linked to China's state planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission [emphasis added].

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China plans to ask companies to replace electricity generated from their own coal - fired plants with renewable energy, the National Development and Reform Commission said last month.

Su Wei, director - general of the climate change office within the National Development and Reform Commission, China's main economic planning agency, has signaled a change in tone, saying, «China will not continue growing emissions without limit or insist that all nations must have the same per - capita emissions.

The conference was organized by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Hudson River Estuary Program, Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York State Department of State Office of Planning and Development, Scenic Hudson, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission and Cornell University.

Excerpt follows: ----------- Reuters, 5 May 2009 — China is set to smash its target for a roll - out of solar power by 2020 more than fivefold and possibly even tenfold, a researcher with the National Development and Reform Commission, the economic planning ministry, said on Tuesday.

The report, commissioned by the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), says that conversion of peatlands accounts for 50 percent of Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions but only one percent of GDP.

These agencies include the Agency for International Development, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Government Printing Office, National Capital Planning Commission, Office of Government Ethics, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the U.S. AbilityOne Commission.

Peter Leon «partner and Africa co-chair of law firm Herbert Smith Freehills comments that «The election of Ramaphosa may signal a recommitment by the ANC to the NDP (National Development Plan) which Ramaphosa had a large part in drafting «as deputy chair of the National Planning Commission.»