Good progress has been made since the Construction & Property Research Centre, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK commenced its exploratory research into leveraging rising urban land/property values to finance urban infrastructure development in Ghana in August, 2015. The research is being implemented in collaboration with Ghana’s Local Government Service. The aim […]
A two day capacity building workshop took place in Kumasi within the context of promoting good professional rapport among the Directors and Unit heads at the Secretariat, Regional Coordinating Directors and Metropolitan, Municipal and District Co-ordinating Directors (MMDCDs). In other words, the workshop was to share knowledge, experiences and best practices among others. In his […]
The Local Government Service Secretariat as part of its tradition undertook an introspective retreat between 25th and 28th of February. The retreat started in earnest on the 26th. In his opening remarks the Head of Service (HoS), Dr. Callistus Mahama noted that such introspective retreat was very important to us as an organisation because without […]
The Local Government Service is mandated to ensure Administrative Decentralization which is one of the major pillars in the decentralization agenda. The objective of the administrative decentralization is ‘’to improve the administrative and human resources capacity of the entire membership of the Service and other Local Government stakeholders to ensure effective service delivery. In line […]
A local government expert says all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) must have functional offices for Independent Governance Institutions (IGIs) in their jurisdiction, in order to ensure good governance, transparency and accountability. Professor Kwamena Ahwoi, a lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), said as far as practicable, MMDAs must […]
Your Excellency the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Hon. Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Hon. Ministers from Health and Education Development Partners, Distinguished Guest, Directors and staff of MoGCSP, The Media, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Local Government Service, I wish to pledge our unflinching support for the Development […]
The Minister of State in charge of Public Private Partnership (PPP), Honorable Rashid Pelpuo, has urged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to seek advice from the Public Investment Division (PID) of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) before entering into such agreements. The Minister explained that this was to ensure that the citizenry benefited from […]
The Local Government Service Secretariat (LGSS) has organized a familiarization tour for the National Service Personnel who served at the Secretariat during the 2014/2015 service period. The tour which was part of the farewell package for the personnel took them to a number of Regional Co-ordinating Councils (RCCs), Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in […]