The Tamale Chapter of the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Ghana has held the first in the series of the JCI Impact Talk in Ghana.

Addressing members of JCI, the 2012 Past President of JCI Ghana and a former member of the 2014 Africa and Middle East Council (AMDEC) Sem Buamey called for a holistic community approach to solving nagging developmental challenges facing communities.

He reiterated the essence of the Active Citizens Framework designed and adopted by JCI as roadmap to finding sustainable solutions to challenges facing communities around the world.

The framework emphasizes the need to identify the root causes of problems at the community level, building partnerships across sectors, developing an effective plan to take concrete action, and evaluating impact in order to create positive change.

Mr. Buamey commended JCI Tamale Premier for embarking the Impact 100 project which has helped to significantly address issues concerning sanitation at Datoyili, a suburb of Tamale in the in the Northern Region.

The Datoyili Sanitation Project seeks to provide for the community a 20-seater aqua privy latrine to curtail the existing situation where the populace defecates in the open with its attendant health hazards.

He underscored the need for other organizations and individuals to come on board and partner JCI Tamale Premier to complete the project in record time.

Touching on the impact of JCI, JC Sem Buamey reiterated the numerous local and international opportunities and wider network that has been opened for him as a result of his membership of the noble JCI fraternity.

He also alluded to the huge capacity development breaks that JCI has offered him which has boosted his performance in business, in diplomatic circles and on his personal development.

The JCI Impact Talk was held at the sidelines of the Local Convention of JCI Tamale Premier which brought together members to take stock of projects and activities for the Year 2015 and to strategize for 2016.

The Local Convention had Mr. John Stephen Agbenyo who doubles as the Executive Vice President of JCI Ghana and Executive Director of Savana Signatures, delivering the keynote address where he touched on the role of the youth in community development.

He called for the youth to acquaint themselves with the recently launched 17 Global Goals and participate seriously in the on-going debate around it to shape it to meet the needs of the citizenry.

The Local Convention also saw the election of a New Board of Directors to steer the affairs of JCI Tamale Premier for the coming year, 2016.

A development Worker, Abdul Rashid Imoro was elected as the 2016 President, a Land Economist, Alexander Nsoh, elected as the Executive Vice President while Project Officer at Savana Signatures Frederick Nuuri-Teg, had the nod to serve as the Vice President.

The Local Convention was chaired by Mr. Simon Ayamka, the current President. In attendance were JCI Ghana National Board Members including Vice President Mr. Lord Tawiah Divine Nartey and Mr. Muhammed Alhassan Yakubu, 2015 National Projects Director.

The Local Convention was under the auspices of SGS Ghana, an ICT for Development firm which provide solutions to development challenges by using Information and Communication Technology.