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Women and Social Development: Opportunities for Gender Mainstreaming in Local Governance in Ghana

In: Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development

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  • Magdalene Awinyeliya Kannae

    (Member of National Peace Council Board
    Gender and Social Development Centre at the Institute of Local Government Studies)

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The 1992 Republican Constitution of Ghana recognized the centrality of women’s roles in production and reproduction as agents and beneficiaries of social development and change. The constitution also recognized the disparities women suffer in accessing basic services and opportunities. To address these disparities, Ghana’s 1992 Constitution makes decentralization and local government a preferred method of democratic development. Successive governments continued to comply with the constitutional provision by embarking on decentralization and local governance reforms aimed at promoting equitable, efficient and sustainable local level development while allowing for effective participation of all in democracy. Decentralization and local governance reforms have been implemented well over 30 years which began in 1988. This paper explores the opportunities that social development aspect of decentralization and local governance reforms provide for gender mainstreaming.

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  • Magdalene Awinyeliya Kannae, 2022. "Women and Social Development: Opportunities for Gender Mainstreaming in Local Governance in Ghana," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei & Samuel Adu-Gyamfi (ed.), Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development, pages 99-119, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-031-12378-8_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-12378-8_6
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