Poverty Atlas Helping Governments and Policy Makers with Urban Planning in Ghana

Poverty Atlas Helping Governments and Policy Makers with Urban Planning in Ghana
Lack of accurate information is a major challenge for local governments when making urban planning decisions. To address this challenge CHF worked with the munipcal government in Sekondi Takoradi, Ghana to develop a poverty atlas to assist policy makers and planners to better manage resources and channel them where they are needed most.
The Sekondi Takoradi Poverty Atlas is proving to be a powerful communication tool with maps that summarize poverty data and present it in a visual format that can be easily understood by a wide audience. The atlas identifies the areas with the greatest number of poor people and the highest poverty rates, so that government policies and programs are able to make more effective use of scarce resources for the poor.
Read the complete atlas here.