The Vice President says economic gains are real but must now translate into jobs, services and visible change for households.
Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has asked government institutions to work more closely together so that policies move faster from paper to the people they are meant to help.
She was speaking in Accra on Tuesday at a colloquium organised by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Ghanaian Times reported.
The main message: coordination
Professor Opoku-Agyemang said many government programmes were moving in the right direction, but that their progress often depended on decisions taken elsewhere in the system. She called for tighter cooperation among ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), local assemblies and the party's own structures.
Her emphasis was on three things: the quality of programmes, the speed at which they are delivered, and consistency over time. Those, she argued, are what citizens judge a government by — particularly young people and women looking for work and opportunity.
Economy: progress, but not the destination
The Vice President said the government had restored a measure of economic stability since taking office. She pointed to lower inflation, a stronger cedi, expanded economic activity and an improved debt position.
Those numbers matter beyond the spreadsheets, she said, because they give businesses room to plan, encourage investment and make it easier for households to budget. For Ghanaians abroad sending money home, a steadier cedi and slower price increases also change the value of every remittance.
Still, she was careful not to declare victory. She said Ghana had not arrived at its destination and that living conditions for many people still needed to improve.
Programmes she cited
On infrastructure, she referred to the Big Push initiative, the government's major capital projects programme.
On health, she named the Free Primary Healthcare Initiative and Mahama Cares as part of the effort to widen access to care.
She also pointed to the launch of the Social Protection Act and its regulations, and to regulations backing the Affirmative Action Act, which is aimed at closing gender gaps in public and economic life. Education, employment and enterprise programmes were also being pursued to open doors for young people and women, she said.
Communicate, but do not relax
Professor Opoku-Agyemang said government has a duty to explain its work clearly — what a policy is for and what it has achieved — so citizens can follow it.
But she warned that talking about progress should not slide into complacency. Communication, in her view, should also expose the gaps that need fixing.
She noted that the NDC's People's Manifesto was built from consultations with citizens, and said that habit of listening must not end with an election.
The party's December 2024 win under President John Dramani Mahama, she said, came with high expectations shaped by the hardship Ghanaians had lived through and the promises made on the campaign trail. Delivering on those promises, she added, must remain the focus.
