Policy Dialogue Workshop: An interview with Abdulai Abdul Gafaru, Ghana

An interview with Abdulai Abdul Gafaru, Internal Auditor, Ho Municipal Assembly,  
Ghana http://ho.ghanadistricts.gov.gh/
Ho Municipal is one of the twenty five (25) Municipalities and Districts in the Volta 
Region of Ghana. The Municipality is also the administrative capital of the People of 
the Volta Region. The Municipality lies between latitudes 6 ᵒ 207N and 6 ᵒ55; N and 
longitude 0 ᵒ 127 E and 0 ᵒ 53 E. The Municipality shares boundaries with the Republic 
of Togo to the east, to the west with Ho West District, to the north with Hohoe Municipality 
and to the south with Agotime–Ziope. Abdulai talks about the opportunities that exist for 
Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to use evidence in their 
development planning, the role MMDAs play to ensure good development  projects
 within the municipality, the opportunities that exist for MMDAs to use evidence in 
their development process and why he will recommend the course of evidence-informed
 policy making course to all MMDAs.
The VakaYiko Consortium www.inasp.info/en/work/vakayiko/, a three year project working 
in Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe to build the capacity of policy makers to access, 
evaluate and use evidence in policy-making. Gafaru talks about the roles Metropolitan, 
Municipal and District Assemblies play to ensure good development projects within the 
municipality, Opportunities for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) 
to use evidence and whether or not he will recommend the course on Evidence-informed
 policy making (EIPM) to MMDAs.

This interview was filmed during the policy dialogue workshop held in Ho, Volta Region of 
Ghana on 3rd November 2015. Editing by Joseph -- joetigo@gmail.com