The GPRS serves as the comprehensive government document highlighting policies, strategies, programmes, projects, interventions, and plans towards growth and poverty reduction in Ghana for 3 years. It seeks to facilitate stimulated growth of the economy, wealth creation for Ghanaians, and development of an inclusive society through sound economic management for accelerated growth, sustainable livelihoods, human development and the provision of basic services, support of the vulnerable and excluded, good governance and increased capacity of the public sector, and active participation of the private sector as the main driver of growth.

The act amends the Fisheries Act of 2002 in relation to more effective management and prevention of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The Directive of the Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development directs owners, operators and masters of industrial trawlers to comply with the closed seasons as declared by the Ministry and the Fisheries Commission based on the Fisheries Management Plan 2015-2019. The closed season shall be for all industrial trawlers for the periods specified. Penalties for violations are prescribed.

This strategic plan provides the framework for promoting and working towards the achievement of client-focused, safe, and quality clinical care. It includes strategies drawn up to improve general healthcare quality along the lines of healthcare resources provision, improved personnel development, and effective efforts towards quality assurance.

The vision of the Government of Ghana regarding the water sector is for “all people living in Ghana have access to adequate, safe, affordable and reliable water service, practice safe sanitation and hygiene and that water resources are sustainably managed”. The IWRM plan is to serve as a framework (institutional, legal) for the implementation of the policy goals and objectives contained in the National Water Policy.

The act provides for protection against forms of unfair competition. The act details and addresses infringements relating to causing confusion with respect to another person’s enterprise or its activities, damaging another person’s goodwill or reputation, misleading the general public, discrediting another person’s enterprise, and unfair competition in respect of secret information, national and international obligations.

The Decree harmonises all scattered laws related to conveyancing of modifications to enhance simplicity in transactions related to land (buying, selling, leasing), with the ultimate aim of facilitating cheap, modern, reliable, and speedy processes.

The Act provides for the registration of locality marks and the felling of trees for export. It clearly states that a person shall not cut or fell a growing tree for export in log form or for conversion in a mill unless that person has first registered a property mark at the office of the Executive Director, Forests Division of the Forestry Commission, endorsed for the locality in which that person proposes to cut or fell.

To further drive the health sector towards the attainment of the MDGs, the Medium-Term Development Plan identifies key priorities of the government with regards to accelerating program implementation towards attaining equitable universal health coverage. Its objectives include improved effectiveness and efficiency of the health system, pro-poor sustainable financing towards bridging healthcare and nutritional services gap, improved health services (including unhindered access) for maternal, neonatal, children, and adolescents, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and improvement of institutional care for mental health issues.

The Act provides for the establishment and specification of functions of the Energy Commission. The commission has a broad objective of regulating and managing energy resource utilisation in Ghana. Among others, its other specific functions include policy recommendation, indigenous energy resources development, advisory services to the minister in charge, the sole charge of licensing for energy transmission and distribution, and establishment of standards of performance for the energy sector.

This policy aims to attain a drastic shift in the paradigm of health service provision in Ghanaian communities. It intends to deliver community-level services by engaging community members to recognize their role as primary producers of health. Along with the national strategic plan, the operational policy is to provide guidance and direction for implementing the CHPS.

This Act provides rules for shipping and related matters such as survey, registration, licensing and marking of ships, mortgages on ships, maritime liens and claims, ship records, prevention from collisions and maritime security, construction and importation of ships, carriage of dangerous goods, liability and divisions of liability and protection of the marine environment.

The Act addresses health issues relating to: the protection of public health in Ghana, environmental sanitation, provisions on diseases of a communicable nature, food vending and food-borne diseases. The act also contains prohibitions to noxious or offensive practices that may cause damage to the lands, crops, cattle, or goods of the public or water pollution.

The objective of the National Environmental Policy is sustainable development, aimed at ensuring citizens’ quality of life and their living and working environments, equal access to land and other natural resources, more efficient use of social, cultural and natural resources, public participation and environmental governance. Among others, it also tackles sustainable use of the land in an agricultural economy in an environmentally sustainable and socially equitable manner.

The strategy has four distinct components: addressing the underlying causes of loss of biodiversity, improving the biodiversity status, enhancing accruable benefits, and enhancing strategy implementation. Across the four components, the strategy has 20 different action plans.

The plan sets out the operationalization of the water sector policy objectives contained in the National Water Policy and the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda (GSGDA 2010-2013). It has a vision of sustainable water and basic sanitation for all by 2025″.”””

The National Gender Policy is themed: “Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment into Ghana‘s Development Efforts”. The five commitments upon which the goals of the policy is premised include facilitating women empowerment and livelihoods, equitable rights and access to justice, women leadership and inclusion in accountable governance, economic opportunities, and gender roles and relations.

The plan seeks to achieve the goals of raising productivity levels by tackling the key challenges mitigating against this goal through provision of effective support services in: irrigation, mechanization, fertilizer and agrochemicals, storage and rural infrastructure such as roads, energy, markets and institutions.

The Act establishes the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, defining its functions and powers. The act also makes provisions guiding the administration of the Authority and rules related to pilotage and matters of navigation of ships. It stipulates that the Authority shall plan, build, develop, manage, maintain, operate and control ports, provide port facilities and regulate the use of a port and of the port facilities.

The Act provides for the development of land, towns and other areas. It sets out the powers of the Minister and places the authority for town and country planning on the Minister, instead of the Town and Country Planning Board. The Act gives the Minister powers to appoint a planning committee for a declared planning area and establish a scheme for that area in accordance with provisions of this Act. The Minister is also given the freedom to delegate any of his/her functions for the smooth running of operations.