Today was our day with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA). We met with Honourable Dr Alfred Vanderpuije, Mayor of Accra, and key stakeholders from the AMA. We had a formal welcome to the team and the project followed by presentations from Mrs Lydia Sackey (Metro Director of Budget), Mr Samuel Aryee (Metro Director of Finance), Mrs Gina Mensah (Head of MIS Division), Mr Alex Sarfua (Land Valuation Board). After a whistle-stop tour of these areas of the AMA, we had a working session with 10+ stakeholders from the AMA, discussing what "success will look like" for our project. This in turn moved quickly to a "biggest inhibitors in our role and results" discussion. Much of this was chronic to any large and complicated organization - not enough internal communication, not enough money and many critical projects competing for this money.
This week is information gathering and stakeholder meetings. We start tomorrow to dig in to what has been done, tried, considered and rejected so far.
We have been challenged by the Honorable Mayor to come up with an
itemized set of recommendations to implement improvements to revenue
collection and technology to put in place to aid this goal - we will be busy!
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