The National Development Planning Commission, in collaboration with UNICEF, has held a validation meeting on the draft Results Framework for the Resetting Ghana Agenda: Creating Jobs, Ensuring Accountability and Promoting Shared Prosperity Policy Framework (2026–2029).
The meeting was held on Monday, July 13, 2026, and brought together representatives from Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Development Partners, Academia, and Planning Professionals to review the indicators, baselines and targets that will guide the assessment of Ghana’s development performance over the next four years.
Framework To Serve As Roadmap And Scorecard
In her opening remarks, the Director-General of NDPC, Dr. Audrey Smock Amoah, said the validation was a critical next step after the preparation of the policy framework.
“Once a policy framework has been prepared, the next step is to develop a results framework to measure progress against it.
Today’s meeting is to validate the results framework that has been developed,” she stated.
Dr. Amoah noted that participants were invited because of their institutions’ central role in the implementation and monitoring of the national plan.
She explained that the exercise would allow stakeholders to review and validate both national indicators and a set of core indicators that all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies will be required to report on.
She added that MMDAs and MDAs could continue to monitor additional indicators specific to their mandates, as reflected in the Medium-Term Development Plans previously submitted to the Commission for certification.
The Director for Monitoring and Evaluation at NDPC, Mr. Bright Atiase, described the results framework as “a roadmap and a scorecard” for measuring the implementation of development policies, programmes, and projects across institutions.
He said the Commission was deliberately shifting the focus of the framework from lower-level input and output indicators to outcome and impact indicators, while retaining only output indicators considered critical to tracking delivery.
Mr. Atiase cautioned institutions against including indicators they lacked the capacity to measure, noting that some indicators in previous frameworks were never tracked throughout the implementation period.
He stressed the need to set targets against clearly defined baselines and reliable data sources.
“Let’s set our targets as close to realistic figures as possible,” he urged. “We must avoid targets that are either unrealistic or too easily achieved.”
Call For Disaggregated Data To Leave No One Behind
Representing UNICEF Ghana, Dr. Felix Addo-Yobo emphasized the importance of building the results framework on reliable, timely, and well-disaggregated data.
Using poverty statistics as an example, he noted that national averages could mask significant deprivation within relatively affluent areas, citing pockets of poverty in Accra.
“Planning without adequately disaggregated data could result in vulnerable populations being overlooked,” Dr. Addo-Yobo cautioned.
He reiterated UNICEF’s commitment to supporting the government to strengthen data systems that capture the realities of children, women, and other vulnerable groups at the sub-national level.
Next Steps
Officials said inputs gathered from the validation meeting will be incorporated into the final Results Framework, which will be used to monitor progress on job creation, accountability, and shared prosperity under the 2026-2029 Medium-Term National Development Policy Framework.
The NDPC indicated that the final framework will also provide guidance to MMDAs in aligning their local development plans and reporting to the Commission.
