Amongst the 44 respondents (District Directors of Health Services), about 34% are from Ashanti

region, 9% from Greater Accra, 23% and 34% are from Upper East and Western region respectively.

Experience Freq
1-2years 11
2-5years 4
Over5year
s 23
Most of the District Directors of Health Services have been with DDHS for over 5 years (52%). 25% of
them have been with DDHS for at most 2 years and 9% between 2 to 5 years.

ROLE YES NO
Coordinator
s 13 31
Team
Leader 23 21
Reviewer 6 38
Approver 5 39
Compiler 12 32
None 2 42

Chart Title
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Coordinators Team Leader Reviewer Approver Compiler None

YES NO

Note: A District Directors of Health Services can perform more than one role in the annual budgeting
process in his or her district/municipal/metro.

Amongst the 44 Directors, 13 are coordinators, 23 budget team leaders, 6 reviewers, 5 approvers, 12
compilers and 2 do not perform any role in the annual budgeting process in the
district/municipal/metro. Thus, most of the District Directors of Health Services are one way or the
other involved in the annual budgeting process in the district (about 95%).

Budgeting Process
 AREAS YES NO
Employee Compensation 31 13
Goods and Services 42 2
Capital Expenditure 13 31

YES

Employee Compensation Goods and Services Capital Expenditure

Note: A budget can cover more than one area.

Most of the budget covers Employee compensation and Goods/Services or a combination of the
two. Goods/Services and Employee compensation have very high proportion of “Yes” answers: 95%
and 70% respectively. Capital expenditure on the other hand recorded the least “Yes”, which is
about 30%, with corresponding 31 “No” responses (70%).

Interventions

Row Labels Frequency

No Entry 2
Above 50% but below 70% 10
Above 70% 6
Below 50% 1
Missing Data 25
Grand Total 44
 Interventions Some Interventions

30 25
25 20
20 15
15 10

10 5

5 0
Frequency
0
No Entry Above 50% but below 70%
No Entry All Interventions Above 70% Below 50%
Missing Data Some Interventions Missing Data

For 0.59 of the times, the budget covers for all needs if it arises, 7% of the times to, the budget
intervenes for some and not all the goods and services. For “some interventions”, the budget most
of the times covers between 50% and 70% which is about 23%. And 0.14 of the times it covers above
70% of the goods and services.

Training Frequency (%)

No Entry 1 (2%)
No 3 (7%)
Yes 40 (91%)
Total 44(100%)
A total of 40 District Directors that participated in this study receive training on budget guidelines
before the budget of their district is prepared. Which represents about 91% of the total respondents
(44). 7% on the other hand did not receive any kind of training of any sort. 91% of the district
directors provide training to their staff before the budget of their district is prepared and the
remaining 9% do not.
TABLES

Region Freq
Ashanti 15
GreaterAccr
a 4
Upper East 10
Western 15