Dambai is the capital of the Oti Region — one of the six new regions created by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government in 2019 — and it hosts the **Oti Regional Coordinating Council (Oti RCC)**, the body that coordinates all government business across the region's districts. **Dambai Township** Dambai sits on the eastern bank of the **Volta River (the Oti arm)** in the **Krachi East Municipality**, and it is the commercial and administrative heartbeat of the Oti Region. It is a riverine town — the Volta ferries and crossing point at Dambai link the Krachi East side to the Krachi West side (Kete-Krachi), making the town a natural gateway between the northern and southern halves of the region. Its economy leans on fishing, river transport, farming (yam, cassava, maize), and increasingly on the services that grew up around the regional administration. The **Dambai College of Education** is one of its best-known institutions, and the town's market and lorry station serve as the region's main trading hub. **Oti Regional Coordinating Council** The Oti RCC is the regional arm of central government, headed by a **Regional Minister** appointed by the President, supported by a **Deputy Regional Minister**, a **Regional Coordinating Director** (the chief civil servant), and heads of the decentralized departments. Its core mandate is to monitor, coordinate and evaluate the activities of the **nine districts** of the Oti Region — Krachi East, Krachi West, Krachi Nchumuru, Nkwanta North, Nkwanta South, Biakoye, Jasikan, Kadjebi and Guan — and to see to the implementation of national policies at the regional level. The RCC's offices are located in **Dambai**, which was chosen as the regional capital precisely because of its central, riverine position. From there the Council handles regional planning, budget coordination, security (through the Regional Security Council, REGSEC), and liaison between the districts and the ministries in Accra. **A note on currency of detail** The *institutional* facts — Dambai as capital, the Oti RCC's mandate, the nine districts — are stable and reliable. The *current* Regional Minister and Regional Coordinating Director are political appointments that change with reshuffles, and I don't have a verified 2026 name for you from a confirmed source. For the sitting officeholders today, the surest route is the Oti RCC itself in Dambai or the Presidency's official communications (presidency.gov.gh) — I'd rather point you there than hand you a stale name. If you're planning a visit or a formal engagement with the RCC, Dambai is reachable by road from Kete-Krachi (via the ferry), from Nkwanta, and from Ho through Kpando–Kadjebi. Want me to go deeper on any one district, the ferry crossing, or the history of how Dambai won the regional-capital contest?