The District Assembly Common Fund and Fiscal Decentralisation: What is the Impact on Local Developme
As urban development agents, local governments have been established in which residents in the local communities have greater opportunities to influence policies and services that directly impact their well-being and thereby reduce their levels of poverty. Yet there are also issues with the execution of policies and programmes. The problem of funding local development projects with a view to reducing rural poverty is important. When the government of Ghana launched a development fund known as the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) in 1994 to promote local governance and deepen the government's commitment to decentralisation in general and fiscal devolution in particular, the government of Ghana tried to reduce this issue. Therefore the study seeks to examine the effect of the Common Fund of the District Assembly on Local Government Growth in the Adaklu District Assembly in the Volta Region of Ghana. The study primarily followed qualitative research techniques to collect information on the experiences of the disadvantaged people chosen as study areas in the Adaklu communities. To collect information from the citizens in the neighbourhoods, employees of the Assembly and some heads of the autonomous departments, interview guides were used. One of the key results of the report is that the assembly did not include rural citizens in the district's poverty reduction programmes. Please see the link :- https://www.journalarjass.com/index.php/ARJASS/article/view/30180 [if !supportLineBreakNewLine] [endif]