Wenchi Municipal District is one of the twelve districts in Bono Region , Ghana . Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Wenchi District , until the western part of the district was split off to create Tain District on 12 November 2003 (effectively 17 February 2004); thus the remaining part has been retained as Wenchi District . It was later elevated to municipal district assembly status and has been renamed as Wenchi Municipal District on 29 February 2008. The municipality is located in the northeast part of Bono Region and has Wenchi as its capital town.
19-538: Wenchi is a town and the capital of Wenchi Municipal of the Bono Region in the middle-belt of Ghana . Wenchi is located at 7.73333 [latitude in decimal degrees], -2.1 [longitude in decimal degrees] at an average elevation/altitude of 304 meters. Wenchi is approximately 30 km north of Techiman and about 50 km east of the Ivory Coast border. Wenchi has a population of 39,187 people in 2013. Wenchi
38-516: A facility. For instance, JHS pupils from Akete and Nyinamponaase walked a distance of 7 km everyday to attend JHS in Wenchi and Tromeso respectively in 2009. In 2010, the municipality had two well established senior high schools: Wenchi Senior High School and Koase Senior High School. The municipality recognized the need to improve access to secondary education and started another senior high school at Nchiraa in 2010. In 2010, basic school enrollment in
57-438: A total of two hundred and ninety-eight health professionals manning these health facilities in 2010. As of 2010 there were: The Methodist hospital was the highest employer, employing about 183 professionals. In 2010, staffing level of the population to doctor ratio stood at 1:11,330, which was an improvement compared to the 2007 ratio of 1:16,176. In 2010, the municipality also had a population to nurse ratio of 1:1545. Even though
76-499: Is Wenchiman. The team Unity Sporting Club , a sports academy, is located in Wenchi. Young Apostle football club is a team that promoted to the Ghana Premier in 2024,is located at Wenchi. Wenchi is the home town of Professional footballers including Asamoah Gyan, Baffoe Gyan and Felix Afena-Gyan. Wenchi Methodist Senior High School Wenchi is the hometown and birthplace of former Ghanaian prime minister Kofi Abrefa Busia , who
95-702: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ghana School Feeding Programme The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) started in 2005 as a pilot project to provide food to children at school. It is run by the GSFP Secretariat in partnership with international agencies including the World Bank , the World Food Programme , the Partnership for Child Development , and UNICEF , as well as national organizations such as
114-586: Is connected by road to Techiman and Sunyani and its airport, Sunyani Airport . Wenchi is not serviced by a railway station on the Ghana Railway Corporation , but it has been proposed that a line be extended to Wenchi. It has less vehicular traffic as few people own cars and motors. Wenchi celebrates the annual Apoo , a yam festival in April/May. The climax of the Apoo is the durbar of
133-552: Is located in the eastern part of Bono Region of Bonoland of Bono people . It is bounded to the south by Sunyani Municipality and to the north by Kintampo South District . It also shares a common boundary with Tain District to the west and Techiman Municipal District to the west. The municipality lies within latitudes 7° 30′ South and 7° 15′ North and longitudes 2o 17’ West and 1° 55′ East. The municipality covers 1,296.6 square kilometres (500.6 sq mi). Wenchi Municipal
152-476: Is on improved public health, and, many improvements have been made in nutrition and in maternal and child care. Many of the endemic diseases, such as malaria, pneumonia, and diseases of the gastroenteritis group, has been eliminated. In 2010, there were eight (8) health facilities providing health care to inhabitants of the Municipality. Out of the eight, five were public or government health facilities while
171-507: Is one of the largest of the 12 districts in the Bono Region. Wenchi town, the municipal capital, is 56 km from Sunyani and 29 km from Techiman . Its closeness to Techiman, a major national market, poses several benefits for agricultural production. The majority of the people in the municipality derive their livelihoods mainly from the environment thus the land for farming, animal husbandry and settlements. A good human resource base of
190-488: Is that increasing numbers of females are being given access to education. Factors contributing to this included the introduction of the capitation grant, the School Feeding Programme and other such social interventions. Enrolment in schools has been increasing since 2010. This could be an indication of improving human resource development for the district. The main emphasis of district development plan
209-1076: The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) and the Dutch embassy. The short-term goal of the GSFP is to contribute to an increase in school enrollment, reduce short-term hunger and malnutrition of kindergarten and primary school pupils. In addition, it is to boost domestic food production. For the long term goal, it seeks to improve food security and reduce poverty. The programme targets all public primary schools and kindergartens in Ghana. It has been able to feed about 1.69 million children, representing about 37.4% of National coverage. The programme has provided employment for 34,350 caterers and cooks especially women to enable them to take care of their families. Some of
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#1732776442932228-694: The challenges of the program include but not limited a lack of transparency and accountability. Other challenges include farmers being unwilling to sell their produce on credit due to the government’s delay in the release of funds. Also, the farmers are sometimes far within the reach of the caterers. Another challenge is with finance since the GH¢1 per child is inadequate. Community involvement, staff capacity building, access to potable water, inadequate infrastructure in some beneficiary schools (kitchens, storerooms, dining halls), and monitoring and evaluation are also of great challenge. This Ghana -related article
247-580: The king ( Omanhene ) through Wenchi. In August, the annual yam festival takes place in Wenchi and it marks the end of the first rainy season and harvesting of the yam in the towns of Wenchi and Techiman. In 2019, the Omanhemaa (Queen) of Wenchi was Nana Ntoa Sramangyadua III. The Paramount Chief of Wenchi is Osagyefo Ampem Anye Amoampong Tabrako III who has rule the town since 2019 The inhabitants of Wenchi are sports fanatics; many residents follow several Wenchi-based sports teams. Current second division team
266-508: The municipality had recorded some significant increases in the number of health professionals in the past two years since 2008, the numbers in 2010, were still not enough considering that the hospitals in the municipality serve as a referral point for health facilities in the Tain District . 07°34′38″N 01°55′45″W / 7.57722°N 1.92917°W / 7.57722; -1.92917 This Bono Region location article
285-408: The municipality was appreciable considering that over 90% of children of school going age were actually in school. The total enrolment during the 2009/2010 academic year stood at 25,751 of which 51.9% are males while 48.1% are females. Gender Parity Index (GPI) in education had improved tremendously over the years. The GPI which was 0.89 in 2007 increased to 0.92 in 2008 and 0.93 in 2009. The implication
304-505: The municipality. Children from communities that do not have primary schools do not walk more than 3 km to access a facility. The number of junior high schools (JHS) however does not equal the number of primary schools in the municipality. In 2010, there were forty public junior high schools and ten private junior high schools. This partly contributed to a high drop-out rate at the JHS level as pupils had to commute over longer distances to access
323-496: The other three were privately owned. These health facilities occasionally referred cases to the Sunyani Regional Hospital. In 2010, the problem with health facilities in the Municipality was that only two hospitals in the municipality were privately owned and this made the cost of health delivery very high. There was also the problem of spatial disparity in the distribution or location of facilities. There were
342-560: The people in Wenchi Municipal depends greatly on their level of education. Education is the most treasured legacy of the district's residents and also the only means through which development can be propelled. Generally, physical accessibility to basic schools is commendable. This is especially so at the primary level where virtually every community has a Kindergarten (KG) and a primary school. In 2009, there were seventy public primary schools and twenty-two private primary schools in
361-444: Was born a prince of and is buried there. There is a street named after him, Busia Street. His sister Ama Bame Busia , a former member of council of state, is his only living sibling. Professor George Baffour Gyan is the current MP and minister of planning at the presidency. 07°34′38″N 01°55′45″W / 7.57722°N 1.92917°W / 7.57722; -1.92917 Wenchi Municipal District The municipality
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