Decentralising for Democratic Polycentric Local Government System in Ghana: Challenges for Sustainable Development

John Gasu () and Gideon Kofi Agbley ()
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John Gasu: Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies
Gideon Kofi Agbley: Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies

A chapter in Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development, 2022, pp 281-302 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Inclusive development must necessarily involve the inputs of the grassroots so as to stimulate a sense of involvement, ownership and sustainability. The conviction that a decentralised local government system held the key to inclusive and sustainable development in Ghana became a significant contribution of the PNDC government in the 1980s. The materialisation of this came in 1988 with the enactment of the Local Government Law (1988) PNDC Law 207 that helped in reconstructing the local government system, with decentralised authority to function as agencies for tackling peculiar challenges in local communities. The foundations that were laid in 1988 did provide the necessary substructure for the constitutional dispensation in 1992. With the resumption of constitutional democratic rule, in January 1993, the local government system has been retrofitted for the purpose of realising a polycentric system. This chapter, therefore, makes it a nub issue to ascertain the workings of the democratic polycentric local government system with its challenges.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-12378-8_17

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