Downward accountability of NGOs in community project planning in Ghana

Justice Nyigmah Bawole and Zechariah Langnel

Development in Practice, 2016, vol. 26, issue 7, 920-932

Abstract: This article examines the downward accountability of NGOs in community project planning in Ghana. It is based on primary data collected through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with NGO officials, local government officials and representatives, chiefs, women leaders, and other community members. The findings reveal that although community members were engaged in project planning processes in many respects, these engagements were limited to endorsing pre-prepared plans, decisions, and mundane aspects of the project. The engagements were largely tokenistic, rhetorical, and to garnish legitimacy, and lacked the key elements of empowerment which promoted downward accountability.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2016.1210094

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