The Minister of Communications Haruna Iddrisu has announced that a donor conference has been scheduled for September this year specifically for the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA). SADA is a government policy initiative aimed at addressing the development gap that exists between Northern and Southern Ghana. Haruna Iddrisu, who is also the Member of Parliament for Tamale South, on Joy News analysis programme, Newsfile, on Saturday, noted during the conference, the country “will have an idea what the donor commitment is”. He emphasized that the government “remains determining to close a development deficit in terms of the gap in-between the north and the south”. A nine-member Board of Directors of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) was December last year inaugurated by President Mills at the Castle, Osu in Accra. The board was tasked to accelerate the socio-economic development of the Savannah belt through strategic investment in resource development. It envisions a “Forested North” by 2030 where agricultural production is modernised and oriented towards a larger market.