Challenges to decentralisation in Ghana: where do citizens seek assistance?

Fridy, Kevin S.; Myers, William M.

doi:10.1080/14662043.2018.1514217

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“…Hypothesis 2 (Public benefits) uses access to electricity as the dependent variable. Although previous research reveals a great many things these communities desire by way of general development (Fridy and Myers, 2019; Myers and Fridy, 2017), electricity is very close to the top of this list. Electricity also proves to be a very good measure of an area’s general level of economic development (Elvidge et al, 2007).…”

Section: Methods: Formulating a Hypothesis Test In An Opportune Casementioning

confidence: 95%

Personal, Public and Political Impacts of a New District: Survey Data from Before and After the Creation of Ghana’s Nabdam District

Fridy

Anderson

Yen³

2020

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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In June 2012 the government of Ghana added 42 new districts to the country’s system of local governance. This paper measures the impact of one new district in terms of private wealth accumulation, access to public services and political engagement. Data analysed comes from a panel survey of residents of the new district capital and two similarly sized villages, one in the new district and one just outside. Proponents of government fragmentation promise personal, public and political gains when government is brought closer to the people. Evidence weighed here suggests that these gains are largely realized by residents.

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Section: Methods: Formulating a Hypothesis Test In An Opportune Casementioning

confidence: 95%

Personal, Public and Political Impacts of a New District: Survey Data from Before and After the Creation of Ghana’s Nabdam District

Fridy

Anderson

Yen³

2020

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…The Local Governance Act, Act 936 Section 5(1) states that a District Assembly shall consist of the following members: a) District Chief Executive (DCE); The subsection 3 of Article 55 of the 1992 Constitution grant power to the President of the country to appoint all DCEs, with the prior approval of not less than two-thirds majority of members of the Assembly present and voting at the meeting b) one person from each electoral area within the district elected by universal adult suffrage in accordance with regulations made for the purpose by the Electoral Commission c) presiding member who shall be elected by the Assembly from among its members d) members or members of parliament of the constituencies that fall within the area of authority of the District Assembly (the MPs serve as ex-officio members of the Assembly and have no voting rights) e) other members that shall not exceed thirty percent of the total membership of the District Assembly appointed by the President in consultation with the traditional authorities and other interest groups in the district [15][16][17].…”

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The District Assembly Common Fund and Fiscal Decentralisation: What is the Impact on Local Development in Ghana?

Belley

2020

ARJASS

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Local governments have been created as agents of local development in which the people in the local areas are given greater opportunities to influence policies and programs that directly affect their well-being and thereby reducing their poverty levels. But the implementation of the policies and programmes is bedeviled with many problems. Key among them is the issue of financing the local development projects in order to reduce rural poverty. The government of Ghana attempted to reduce this problem when it introduced a development fund in1994 known as the – District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) to encourage local governance and deepen Government’s commitment to decentralization in general and fiscal devolution in particular. The study therefore, seeks to assess the impact of District Assembly Common Fund on Local Government Development in the Adaklu District Assembly in the Volta Region of Ghana. The study mainly adopted qualitative methods of research to obtain information on the experiences of the poor people in the Adaklu communities selected as study areas. Interview guides were used to obtain information from the people in the communities, staff of the Assembly and some heads of the decentralized departments. A major finding of the study is that the assembly did not involve the rural people in the poverty reduction programmes in the district.

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“…Previous governments have proposed and implemented several policy ideas towards alleviating rural poverty with varied results whiles economic inequality continues to rise (Cooke, Hague, & McKay, 2016). As Fridy and Myers (2019) indicate, these "poverty alleviating" initiatives have over the years been initiated, executed, and managed by central governments through regional and district level bureaucrats and government officials, the ensuing results has been a mixture of slow and sometimes unsustainable economic growth and slow progress (Cooke et al, 2016 considered a necessity may depend on society"s definition of needs which may vary from one society to another, also past experiences may also play a role the determining need. Boyle (1990) in and attempt to define poverty submits that its incidence is both an absolute and a relative occurrence and as such must not be defined based on one factor or the other (i.e., in absolute or relative terms).…”

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Indigenous Community Development Practices as a Substratum in Designing Poverty Alleviation Policies for Ghana: Lessons from South Korea’s Saemaul Movement

Ofosu-Anim¹,

Back²

2020

JAR

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Saemaul Movement was a community-based rural poverty alleviation policy of South Korea in the 1970s which contributed to ending poverty in rural communities. Its success can be attributed to how Koreans made use of indigenous community practices in policy design. The objective of the research was to evaluate the adaptation of Saemaul in Ghana, focusing on similarities in economic conditions and indigenous practices. The research utilised literature, interviews, and observations as the basis of methodology. The research findings revealed that the rural economic conditions in South Korea before Saemaul Movement was introduced was very similar to Ghana’s current rural economic indicators, which presents a reliable basis for comparative analysis on adaptation of Saemaul Movement in Ghana. Interviewees made a case for replicability of SM in Ghana. The results point to the existence of many similar indigenous rural community development practices which are prevalent in both case countries, and a possibility of developing poverty alleviation policies in Ghana based on existing indigenous practices as evidenced in the South Korean Saemaul Movement case. The researchers conclude that for poverty alleviation policies to work in Ghana, efforts in policy design must be based on utilising existing indigenous practices of rural communities.

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Challenges to decentralisation in Ghana: where do citizens seek assistance?

Cited by 19 publications

References 22 publications

Personal, Public and Political Impacts of a New District: Survey Data from Before and After the Creation of Ghana’s Nabdam District

Personal, Public and Political Impacts of a New District: Survey Data from Before and After the Creation of Ghana’s Nabdam District

The District Assembly Common Fund and Fiscal Decentralisation: What is the Impact on Local Development in Ghana?

Indigenous Community Development Practices as a Substratum in Designing Poverty Alleviation Policies for Ghana: Lessons from South Korea’s Saemaul Movement

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