About us

SSYY is a development consortium with experienced and practical oriented professionals in the field of Civil Engineering, Spatial & Development Planning, Architecture, Quantity Surveying and Valuation (crops and structures). We are based in Tarkwa with our Head Office in Accra.

We are specialist in the ff:

• Mine Resettlement Schemes
• Advocacy Planning & Community Relations
• Spatial & Development Planning
• Real Estate Development & Management
• Property Valuation

In line with The Ghana Mineral Commission Guidelines, we also undertake the following for Mining Companies:

• Community Needs Assessment Programme (CNAP);
• Community Project Impact Assessment Programme (CPIAP) for existing programme;
• Sustainable Development Programme (SDP);
• Livelihood Restoration Programme for displaced farmers and
• Vulnerable Group Assistance Programme (VGAP) for Project Affected Persons (PAP)

All these come as a result of an increase in the footprint of a mine.

ABOUT THE MANAGING CONSULTANT - Dr. Steve S Yirenkyi
Dr. S. S. Yirenkyi is an accomplished Planner and a Community Relations Practitioner with International Repute. He is the President and a Fellow of the Ghana Institute of Planners (GIP) and a Member of The South African Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (SAIMM). He is also an Executive Member of the West African Block of the African Planners Alliance.

Dr. Yirenkyi has contributed immensely to the Mining Industry of Ghana in the area of MINE RESETTLEMENT SCHEMES, spatial planning, development planning, community relations and community investment projects. Below are some of the programs and projects undertaken:

• As the District Planning Officer of the then Wassa West District Assembly, I supervised the Adieye and the Teberebie resettlement projects of the then Ghana Australia Gold (now Anglogold Ashanti) and the Teberebie Mine respectively. The result is the New Teberebie Adieye villages ;
• As the chief consultant, I led a team of professionals to undertake the resettlement of Damang, Suromani and Kyekyewere for the then Abosso Goldfields Limited (now Gold Fields Ghana, Damang Mine);

• Dr. Yirenkyi was employed by Gold Fields Ghana in 1996 as a Resettlement Planner and as an employee; he joined a team of Canadian consultants as the Chief Planner and Project Coordinator to undertake the Atuabo resettlement scheme, the biggest involuntary resettlement project in West Africa. Within a period of one year, a whole township comprising six hundred and eighty residential houses and other public buildings was completed.
• In 2000, after the successful construction of New Atuabo township and the resettlement/relocation of the over twenty thousand (20,000) affected landlords, Dr. Yirenkyi was promoted and appointed as the Manager of the newly created Community Affairs and Public Relations Department of GFG (the first of its kind in the mining industry of  Ghana);
• As the Community Affairs Manager, he developed so many procedures and policies leading to the development of the Community Relations model for GFG which is still in use;
• During this same period above, he represented the Ghana Chamber of Mines in many seminars and conferences; 
• In 2009, as The Community Affairs & Public Relations Manager of Gold Fields, he undertook the partial resettlement for over one hundred and fifty (150) persons affected by the Akoon Power Line Project (APLP) Twenty (20) houses were constructed in the process;
• In the same year above, he established a huge agri- business project for GFG, a legacy he left with GFG when he brought his services to an end in 2010 and
• In 2010, I was contracted by Adamus Resources Limited (ARL) as the Resettlement Manager for the Salman Resettlement Project. His contribution quickly moved the project to the construction stage. The project is very close to completion. A new Salman town is the making becoming the only pre planned town in the Ellembele District.