Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development

Part I. Conceptual and Historical Perspectives of Decentralization and Local Governance.- Chapter 1. From Deconcentration to Devolution: Tracking the Historical Trajectory of Democratic Decentralization in Ghana.- Chapter 2. Historical Perspectives of Local Governance and Community Development in Ghana.- Chapter 3. Decoding the Paradox of Decentralization with Centralized Characteristics in Democratic Ghana.- Chapter 4. Legitimizing Local Governance and Development Reforms in Ghana.- Part II. Institutional Choice, Representation, Poverty Reduction and Local Development.- Chapter 5. Towards the Election of MMDCEs: A Case for Local Government Reforms in Ghana.- Chapter 6. Women and Social Development: Opportunities for Gender Mainstreaming in Local Governance in Ghana.- Chapter 7. Sub-district Structures and Local Governance in Ghana: Role of Unit Committees in Promoting Popular Participation.- Chapter 8. Sub-National Structures, Poverty Reduction and Rural Development under Ghana's Local Governance System.- Part III. Local Governance, Resource Capacity and Service Delivery.- Chapter 9. Domestic Revenue Mobilization: Institutional Challenges in Ghana's Decentralization System.- Chapter 10. Financial and Human Resource Capacities of Sub-National Governance Structures in Ghana.- Chapter 11. Decentralization and Resource Capacity for Sustainable Sanitation Service Delivery in Ghana.- Chapter 12. Health Sector Decentralisation and Delivery of Responsive Healthcare in Ghana.- Chapter 13. Fiscal Decentralization with Autonomy for Service Delivery and Poverty Reduction in Ghana.- Part IV. Non- State Actors, Local Governance and Sustainable Development.- Chapter 14. Changing Role of Traditional Authorities in Local Governance and Development in Ghana.- Chapter 15. Non-Governmental Organizations as Partners for Sustainable Local Development: Ghana's Experiences.- Chapter 16. Strengthening Citizens' Participation in Local Economic Development for Sustainability in Ghana.-

Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei is a development geographer with expertise in decentralisation and local governance, poverty and livelihood studies and gender equality dynamics in Africa. He holds a PhD in Geography and Rural Development. He is currently an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Rural Development of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana, and formerly a Senior Fellow of the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana. He was the 2018 African Scholar to the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, as Senior Researcher. He serves as the coordinator for the sustainable transformation of rural Africa Programme (STRAP-Research and Policy Initiative) under the Centre for Interdisciplinary Development Research in Africa, Ghana, and associate editor of the Journal of Science and Technology (JUST).

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi is an expert in historical and political studies. He holds a PhD in History and is currently an Associate Professor and former Head of Department of History and Political Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Samuel Adu-Gyamfi is the Senior Editor for Cogent Arts and Humanities Journal with over fifty publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is also a fellow of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Development Research in Africa and a member of Historical Society of Ghana. His research interests and expertise include history of health policies, decentralisation, local governance and history of Ghana.