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Ghana’s NGOs should strengthen local government, not replace it
His interests include public and nonprofit management, local administrative capacity, digital governance and accountable service delivery in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa.
This also protects democratic accountability, ensuring that citizens are not forced to depend on a permanent, unelected organisation for public services that elected local government is responsible for providing.
Research on NGO intervention and decentralisation in northern Ghana warns that strengthening civil society organisations without sufficiently connecting them to local government structures can weaken decentralisation.
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