Tag: District Assemblies

The Ranking Member of Works and Housing Committee and Member of Parliament for Techiman South, Honourable Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah has called for a nationwide audit of building permits to ...

President John Dramani Mahama has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to building a stronger and more structured partnership with traditional authorities as part of efforts to accelerate local development, improve accountability, ...

The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has described President John Dramani Mahama’s restoration of District Assembly Common Fund disbursements to at least 80 percent as one of the most ...

Ghana has taken a major step toward strengthening local governance with the introduction of a new National Decentralization Policy and Strategy (NDPS), spanning 2026 to 2050. The policy was formally ...

A new nationwide poll by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has revealed overwhelming public support for significant reforms in Ghana’s local governance system, with a clear majority of citizens ...

Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Dr. Nii Moi Thompson, has sounded the alarm over what he describes as the economic imbalance caused by the over-centralisation of public ...

The National Coordinator of the District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP), Mr. Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has raised concerns over the absence of budgetary allocation for the initiative in the latest ...

Ghana Tourism is more than an economic sector: it is a vehicle for cultural affirmation, community development, and international engagement. Over the past decade, the government has increasingly recognized this ...

Renowned policy analyst Alfred Appiah has issued a powerful critique of Ghana’s centralized policymaking structure, calling for a radical shift toward genuine decentralization.  Alfred Appiah expressed deep frustration with what ...

Manasseh Azure Awuni has asked Assemblies across Ghana to reject entrenched sanitation contract arrangements that have drained their budgets and crippled basic service delivery. In a strongly worded open letter, ...