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What are the impacts of devolution on agricultural civil servants and services in Ghana?
| Content Provider | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) |
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| Author | Resnick, Danielle |
| Organization | IFPRI - Ghana Strategy Support Program |
| Organization | IFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division |
| Organization | IFPRI - Feed the Future |
| Spatial Coverage | Ghana [GH] |
| Description | In 2009, Ghana passed Local Government Instrument 1961 (LI 1961) to devolve a set of functions from the central government to the country’s 216 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDA). Agriculture, along with public works and social welfare, was among the first sectors to be devolved. This transfer was formally institutionalized in 2012. In addition, LI 1961 stipulated that the staff of the MMDA departments were to be transferred from the national civil service to a newly created Local Government Services (LGS). A composite budget system also was introduced, which integrated the budgets of all departments of the MMDAs into the overall budget for the MMDA. |
| Sponsorship | United States Agency for International Development |
| Related Links | https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/07812c8c-3e05-4e02-9dc3-afa9d7370470 |
| File Format | |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| Publisher Date | 2018-03-22 |
| Publisher Place | Washington, DC |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Policies, Institutions, and Markets Local Government Agricultural Policies Services Capacity Development Agriculture Agricultural Planning Civil Service Decentralization Devolution |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Plant Science |
