The Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE) is set to launch a new Infrastructure Report Card aimed at providing an objective assessment of the state of Ghana’s critical infrastructure.

The report, which will be unveiled on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, is expected to offer a comprehensive review of key infrastructure sectors and provide insights into the progress and challenges recorded over the past nine years.

Speaking on JoyNews' The Pulse on Thursday, July 9, a member of the GhIE Public Accountability Committee, Ing. Dr Charles Kwarteng Asafo-Adjei, said the report card comes at a crucial time, particularly as Ghana continues to experience the effects of climate change and increasing pressure on public infrastructure.

The 2016 report assessed three major areas — roads and bridges, electric power and telecommunications infrastructure.

However, Ing. Dr Asafo-Adjei said the upcoming report will provide a broader assessment, covering developments up to 2025 and offering a clearer picture of Ghana’s infrastructure situation nearly a decade after the first review.

“This report card that we are issuing will be limited up to 2025. It is important that we look at the history, and it will give us a critical view of the way our infrastructure has been for the past nine years,” he said.

He stressed that the exercise is intended to provide an independent and evidence-based evaluation of Ghana’s infrastructure rather than serve as a political assessment.

The GhIE believes the report will help policymakers, industry players and the public better understand infrastructure gaps and guide future investments in critical sectors.

The launch comes at a time when concerns over infrastructure resilience have increased, particularly due to climate-related events such as flooding and the growing demand for reliable public systems.

Ing. Dr Asafo-Adjei explained that the concept of an infrastructure report card is similar to a school report card, where performance is assessed across different subjects.

According to Ing. Dr Asafo-Adjei, the idea of infrastructure report cards originated in the United States, where Congress in 1988 mandated an assessment of critical infrastructure across the country.

He explained that after a decade, the responsibility was taken over by the American Society of Civil Engineers to ensure the process remained independent and free from political interference.

“Every four years, they give the American people an assessment of their infrastructure,” he noted.

He added that the model has since been adopted by other countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada and South Africa, with Ghana undertaking its first similar exercise in 2016 through the GhIE.