TY - JOUR
T1 - Are two heads better than one? Challenges and prospects of chiefs and local government collaborative community development in Ghana
AU - Boateng, Kwabena
AU - Bawole, Justice Nyigmah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Community Development Society.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In Africa, a dual political system is what characterizes the political landscape. Chiefs and officials of the central government collaborate to bring about development. Despite the transformation of the powers and functions of chiefs, they have constantly availed themselves to partner developmental agencies. The paper examined projects chiefs and local government authorities have initiated and the challenges that beset collaboration between the two agents of development. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were employed to select 29 participants for this study conducted in the New Juaben in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Projects of collaboration included borehole and palace construction, provision of educational and health infrastructure, and footbridges. The collaboration between the stakeholders is fraught with challenges such as chieftaincy disputes, absentee chiefs, and land litigation. The paper recommends the formalization of the rotational system for selecting chiefs and noninterference by politicians in chieftaincy matters, to promote better collaboration.
AB - In Africa, a dual political system is what characterizes the political landscape. Chiefs and officials of the central government collaborate to bring about development. Despite the transformation of the powers and functions of chiefs, they have constantly availed themselves to partner developmental agencies. The paper examined projects chiefs and local government authorities have initiated and the challenges that beset collaboration between the two agents of development. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were employed to select 29 participants for this study conducted in the New Juaben in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Projects of collaboration included borehole and palace construction, provision of educational and health infrastructure, and footbridges. The collaboration between the stakeholders is fraught with challenges such as chieftaincy disputes, absentee chiefs, and land litigation. The paper recommends the formalization of the rotational system for selecting chiefs and noninterference by politicians in chieftaincy matters, to promote better collaboration.
KW - Collaboration
KW - chiefs
KW - community development
KW - local government authorities
KW - mixed government
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106233768&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15575330.2021.1923043
DO - 10.1080/15575330.2021.1923043
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85106233768
SN - 1557-5330
VL - 52
SP - 554
EP - 572
JO - Community Development
JF - Community Development
IS - 5
ER -