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What
Works in Local Governance: Lessons,
Policies and Tools from DISCAP
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Purpose of this Site:
Welcome
to discap.org! This site is a resource
centre for local governance. It offers lessons, policies
and tools generated in Northern Ghana by the District Capacity Building
Project.
The
purpose of this site is to share what worked in DISCAP--and to
support practitioners, policy-makers and scholars in the ongoing search
for what could work elsewhere in Africa and the developing world.
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| REPORTS
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WORKING DOCUMENTS |
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Our Project has produced a
wide range of reports and working papers that may interest you.
The site offers downloadable documents on the following themes:
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The
District Capacity Building Project
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Best Practices
Conference
Decentralized Management in the Context of GPRS and MDBS
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The District
Capacity Building Project worked during the period 2000
through 2007 to strengthen the planning and management capacities of 34
district and three regional government institutions in northern Ghana,
as well
as six national ministries and agencies. The project was sponsored by
the
Canadian International Development Agency and Ghana’s Ministry of Local
Government, Rural Development and Environment. DISCAP generated, from
the
ground up, a wide range of innovative policies, tools and lessons in
decentralization policy and budget support, town water supply, gender
and
local-government planning, strategic leadership and management
training, budgeting and financal management, engagement of communities
and government officials, decentralized
poverty monitoring, and connectivity among local-government
institutions.
DISCAP was a high-performing development
intervention. Implementation was led by national and regional
government
officials with the technical advice of Canadian firm E.T. Jackson and
Associates Ltd. and its Ghanaian partner, Gariba Development
Associates. The
work of the project was honoured by Ministers and Governments of both
Ghana and
Canada. In 2004, the project was recognized with the Export Development
Canada
Award for Gender Equality Achievement. As the project concluded, Alhaja
the
Honourable Alima Mahama, Ghana’s Minister of Women’s and Children’s
Affairs,
declared “DISCAP has taught us much and we will carry on its work in
the years
ahead.” In 2007, CIDA’s Head of Aid in Ghana, Archie Book, called the
project a success
and looked forward to tracking the long-term results of the project in
Ghana’s
north and in the rest of the country.
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Can the
centralizing features of poverty reduction strategy papers and
multi-donor budget support be reconciled with a deepening of the
decentralized governance system? This
challenging question was the focus of a Best Practice Conference
organized by Ghana's Institute of Local Government Studies and
sponsored by DISCAP, on May 8-9, 2007, in Accra. Click here
to access the conference agenda and presentations.
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Mission |
The District Capacity Building Project, or DISCAP, is a tool for change
in the way local governance is conducted in northern Ghana.
Working with three regional administrations and 34 district assemblies,
DISCAP aimed to strengthen local government planning and management in
all development sectors, and placed special emphasis on promoting the
sustainable management of water and sanitation systems.
(See DISCAP's
Results Chain and Project
Coverage)
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Links on Decentralization
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Seven
Years of Achievement
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Click to
see our list of Decentralization and Capacity Development
links
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Click here for DISCAP's Project
Competion Report
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| DISCAP
Sponsors and Leadership |
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