The Member of for Sene East, Dominic Napare, has urged for a significant enhancement in local governance through increased stakeholder participation.
Delivering a statement on the floor of on Wednesday, February 18, 2025, the MP grounded his call in the principles laid out in Ghana's Local Governance Act, 2016 (Act 936), emphasizing the need for practical implementation of participatory governance at the district level.
According to him, the constitutional mandate for decentralization, as contained in the 1992 Constitution, makes decentralization mandatory and provides that this country (Ghana) put in place "a system of local government and administration which shall, as far as practicable, be decentralized." He stressed that despite the legal framework provided by the Local Governance Act, there remains a significant gap in real-world application, particularly in engaging local stakeholders.
The MP pointed out that Act 936 gives "elaborate and extensive opportunity and guidelines to Local Level Stakeholders to effectively participate and provide oversight to ensure efficient service delivery," yet this is not the case to a large extent.
