{"id":224797,"date":"2026-02-23T13:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-sustainable-development-must-start-at-local-level-ndpc\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:08:33","slug":"ghana-sustainable-development-must-start-at-local-level-ndpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-sustainable-development-must-start-at-local-level-ndpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Sustainable Development Must Start At Local Level &#8211; NDPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Dr Nii Moi Thompson, has emphasised that sustainable national transformation must begin at the local level. Without thriving local economies, he argued, there is little meaningful progress to combine at the national scale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Addressing stakeholders at a regional consultative meeting in Ho on Wednesday, as part of the commission&#8217;s nationwide drive to build a united long-term development plan, Dr Thompson stressed that national&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200439.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Dr Nii Moi Thompson, has emphasised that sustainable national transformation must begin at the local level. Without thriving local economies, he argued, there is little meaningful progress to combine at the national scale. Addressing stakeholders at a regional consultative meeting in Ho on Wednesday, as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,5989,4508,4509,6431,7823,42031,257,254,7138,6059],"class_list":["post-224797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-development","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-level","tag-local","tag-ndpc","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start","tag-sustainable"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}