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Local Government and Decentralisation in Ghana
Developments since the publication of the First Edition of this book in 2010 have compelled the revision and publication of this Second Edition.
In 2011, the Fifth Government of the Fourth Republic launched a new ‘National Decentralisation Policy Framework’ (NDPF 1) and an accompanying National Decentralisation Action Plan’ (NDAP 1). The Local Government Service was operationalised in the same year, resulting in the migration of over 30,000 civil servants from the Civil Service to the Local Government Service.
Prior to these, the Local Government Departments of District Assemblies) (Commencement) Instrument, 2009, L.1. 1961, had been enacted, allowing for the conversion of the de concentrated Departments at the district level into devolved Departments of the District Assemblies. The Local Government (Urban, Zonal and Town Councils and Unit Committees) (Establishment) Instrument, L.1. 1967, was enacted in 2010. The long-awaited Composite Budget was introduced in 2012.
With the expiry of the NDPF 1/NDAP I in 2014, a new NDPF 11/NDAP 11 was launched in 2015 for the period 2015-2019.
A new Local Government (Sub-Metropolitan District Councils of Metropolitan Assemblies (SMDCs)) (Establishment, Composition and Functions) Instrument, 2015. 11. 2223, was enacted to provide for uniform composition and functions for the SMDCs in all the six Metropolitan Assemblies.
A National Development Planning (System) Regulations, 2016, enacted to support the National Development Planning and Act, 1994, 148. A Land Use and Spatial Planning Act, 2016, Act 925, was passed to establish a Land Use and Spatial Planning Authority and to devolve the Department of Country Planning to the MMDAs.
The disparate laws on local government were consolidated into one Local Governance Act, 2016, Act 936. A new Sports Act 2016, Act 934 and a new decentralised National Youth Authority Act 939 were also enacted.
It is these reforms that the Second Edition of the book has sought to capture, in addition to some elaborations on some of the theoretical underpinnings of local government and decentralisation in Ghana. The sections of Acton Civil Society Organisations and Non-State Actors and Women in Local Governance have been improved. Some aspects of the proposals of the Constitutional Review Commission on local government and decentralisation have been used. Some textual changes have also been made.
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Supreme Court Rules, 1996 (C.I. 16) with Amendment C.I. 24
Supreme Court Rules, 1996 (C.I.16) with Amendment C.I. 24
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Criminal and Other Offences (Procedure) Act, 1960 (Act 30)
Criminal and Other Offences (Procedure) Act, 1960 (Act 30)
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Road Traffic Act 2004: With Amendments Act 761 [2008] (Act 683)
Road Traffic Act 2004 L/S with Amendments 761 (Act 683)
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Revenue Administration Act, 2016 (Act 915)
Revenue Administration Act, 2016 (Act 915)
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Local Government (Departments of District Assemblies) (Commencement) Instrument, 2009 (L.I. 1961)
Local Government (Department of District Assemblies) Commencement Instruments 2009 (L.I. 1961)
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Local Government (Urban, Zonal and Town Councils and Unit Committees) (Establishment) Instrument, 2010 (L.I. 1967)
Local Government (Urban, Zonal & Town Councils & Units Committee Establishment) Instrument (L.I. 1967)
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Supreme Court Rules, 1996 (As Amended by C.I. 24, 1999) (C.I. 16)
Supreme Court Rules 1996 (C.I. 24,98,99) (C.I. 16)
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Referendum (Creation of New Regions) Regulations, 2018 (C.I. 109)
Referendum (Creation of New Regions) (C. I. 109)
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Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development Act, 2020 (Act 1026)
Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development Act, 2020 (Act 1026)
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National Pensions Act, 2008: With Amendments (Act 766)
National Pensions Act 2008 with Amendments (Act 766)
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Appropriation Act, 2013 (Act 856)
Lenders and Borrowers Act 2008 (Act 773)
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Value Added Tax Act, 2013: With Amendments 890, 904, 948, 954, 970, 980 (Act 870)
Vat ACT 2013 with Amendments [890,904,948,954, 970, 980] ACT 870
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Natural Gas Transmission Utility (Standards of Performance) Regulations, 2008 (L.I. 1936)
Natural Gas Transmission Regulation 2008 (L.I. 1936)
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My Footprints in Ghana’s Black Gold
This memoir — part historical and part autobiographical — traces the author’s involvement with the final phase of petroleum exploration in Ghana, a journey that took over a century, beginning with the first onshore well in 1896. It has been a most interesting journey, with many twists and turns.
In the early days of the existence of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, there were various myths and half-truths about the presence or absence of commercial quantities of oil and gas in the basins of the Ghana.
- Nigeria was draining Ghana’s oil and that all that was required was for Ghana to buy powerful machines and begin to pump and drain her own
- Ghana would never find oil until the gods of Nzemaland and the Volta Region had been pacified
- The GNPC Model Production Sharing Agreement was too stringent on contractors
A major seismic interpretation of the Cape Three Points sub-basin of the Western Region, in 1992, would turn out to be the watershed of this new brave phase of exploration in Ghana.
The book was finally launched in Ghana in April 2022.
Hopefully, going to the heart of the matter should help future generations of ordinary Ghanaians, politicians and explorationists understand what it took to make Ghana a petroleum producing country, just in case the country was afflicted by the “Dutch disease.”
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