Headlines

13 Aug, 2024 -- Training for newly recruited Revenue Collectors

8 Aug, 2024 -- Joint Secretariat for 2024 Oguaa Fetu Festival

31 July, 2024 -- Gateway Eye Care organizes eye screening

22 June, 2024 -- Mayor leads delegation to 2024 ICLEI World Congress in Brazil

18 June, 2024 -- Sensitization program on GIFMIS and Payroll Management

20 May, 2024 -- CCMA receives Savannah State University in Georgia, USA.

26 April, 2024 -- Mayor addresses Tybee Island City Council

6 March, 2024 -- CCMA Celebrates 67th Independence Day

13 Feb, 2024 -- CCMA Inaugurates New General Assembly

11 Dec, 2023 -- 2nd Edition of CCMA Annual Week Celebrations

30 Nov, 2023 -- Waste Management Department evacuates sites

14 Nov, 2023 -- CCMA holds its General Assembly Meeting

26 Oct, 2023 -- CCMA hosts Climate Change Seminar

9 Oct, 2023 -- CCMA hosts Central Regional Budget Hearing

28 Sept, 2023 -- Community Mobilization & Sensitization

11 Sept, 2023 -- Working visit by new CRCC Chief Director

21 Aug, 2023 -- Department of Social Welfare Sensitization

16 Aug, 2023 -- New VC of CCTU pays courtesy visit

16 Aug, 2023 -- Medeama SC calls on Mayor of Cape Coast

1 Aug, 2023 -- Cape Coast officially joins ICLEI-Local Governments.

20 July, 2023 -- Community Mobilisation & Awareness Creation

14 July, 2023 -- Patching of Potholes within the Metropolis

13 July, 2023 -- Handing over Atta-Mills Presidential Library

9 June, 2023 -- Green Ghana Day 2023 observed in Cape Coast

3 June, 2023 -- CCMA organizes Metro-wide Clean-up Exercise

2 June, 2023 -- Day 2 of Soap-Making Training Workshop

1 June, 2023 -- 2-Day Soap-Making Training launched

1 June, 2023 -- Cape Coast joins CitiesWithNature!

15 May, 2023 -- Gravelling begins on inner-city roads

9 May, 2023 -- Disbursement of PWDs Common Fund Support

3 May, 2023 -- CCMA holds 1st General Assembly Meeting 2023

29 April, 2023 -- First Session of YouStart candidates graduate

25 April, 2023 -- YouStart Programme for Cape Coast District launched

28 Mar, 2023 -- Kamala Harris visits the historic city of Cape Coast

6 Mar, 2023 -- Cape Coast marks Ghana's 66th Independence

16 Feb, 2023 -- RTI Unit embarks on departmental sensitization

14 Feb, 2023 -- Mayor commissions toilet facility at Anakyin

1 Feb, 2023 -- Sod-cutting for rehabilitation of Philip Quarcoe Schools

22 Jan, 2023 -- Mayor donates to Vipers FC and Ebusua Dwarfs FC

14 Dec, 2022 -- Mayor Ernest Arthur speaks at UN Conference in Canada

11 Nov, 2022 -- CCMA holds 9th General Assembly Meeting

4 Nov, 2022 -- Update: Abura Chieftaincy Dispute

19 July, 2022 -- CCMA Heads of Departments/Units Meeting

14 June, 2022 -- CCMA supports Persons-With-Disabilities (PWDs)

10 June, 2022 -- Cape Coast Metropolis observes Green Ghana Day

7 June, 2022 -- CCMA meets leadership of Transport Unions

31 March, 2022 -- CCMA receives Public Utilities Regulatory Commission

30 March, 2022 -- Hon. Nana Kweku Awuku re-elected as Presiding Member

11 March, 2022 -- Mayor commissions modern classrooms block

6 March, 2022 -- Cape Coast marks Ghana's 65th Independence Day

17 February, 2022 -- Cape Coast readies for 65th Independence Day

15 February, 2022 -- Mayor hands over Kakumdo CHPS Compound

14 February, 2022 -- Sharing Love the Right Way - A Valentine's Day Seminar

7 Dec, 2021 -- Management and Staff of CCMA hold 2021 Durbar

17 Oct, 2021 -- CCMA Members approve MCE-nominee Ernest Arthur

6 October, 2021 -- For a second time, CCMA Members deny MCE-nominee

27 Sept, 2021 -- CCMA Members deny Metro Chief Executive-nominee

14 May, 2021 -- Sensitization for School Feeding and Food Vendors

21 April, 2021 -- CCMA holds 8th General Assembly Meeting

25 Aug, 2020 -- HR Department organizes seminar on Report Writing

18 April, 2020 -- CCTU donates to CCMA

Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly

Social Welfare & Community Development

The Department of Social Welfare was established in 1946 by the Local Ordinance Order No. 66 with a mandate for both Social Welfare and Housing. In 1950, the Department’s mandate was limited to Social Welfare services to take the lead role in Prevention, Protection and Promotion of Policy guidelines, Regulation, Standards and Programmes for effective and efficient delivery of its Welfare Services.

The Department of Community Development is a decentralized Department under the Sector Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. It was established in 1948 through an Administrative Regulation 28 (1942) which has further been strengthened by the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana and the Local Governance Act, 2016 (Act 936).

The Department of Social Welfare and Community Development (DSWCD) is established at the MMDAs as per Second Schedule of the Local Governance Act, 2016 (Act 936).The guiding principles for functioning of the Social Welfare and Community Development has been formulated as follows:

Vision

To take the lead in integrating the disadvantaged, vulnerable and excluded in mainstream of development.

Mission

The Department works in partnership with people in their communities to improve their well-being through promoting development with equity for the disadvantaged, vulnerable and the excluded.