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NETWORKING AS A COMPONENT OF URBAN MANAGEMENT. Prepared by: Nana Yaw Boachie Danquah. INTRODUCTION. Good Governance, Decentralization and Inter-governmental Relationships.
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NETWORKING AS A COMPONENT OF URBAN MANAGEMENT Prepared by: Nana Yaw Boachie Danquah
INTRODUCTION • Good Governance, Decentralization and Inter-governmental Relationships. • Complexities and difficulties involved in crafting out the basic powers and relationships between and among various levels and actors within a decentralized system of government
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS (IGR): A CONCEPTURAL ANALYSIS DEFINITION (O’ TOOLE, 1993) • The subject of intergovernmental relations cover how many and different levels of government deal with each other and what their relations roles, responsibilities and degree of influence should be.
MODELS OF INTER-GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS • The coordinate authority model • The inclusive-authority model • The overlapping authority model (regarded as most representative in IGR practice today)
OVERVIEW OF THE ROLES, FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS IN GHANA • The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development; • The Regional Coordinating Councils; • The Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies; • The Sub-districts Structures (Ref: Matrix)
THE EXISTING INTER-MINISTERIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MLGRD & OTHER MINISTRIES • The MLGRD as hub of the decentralization process in Ghana; • Examples of relations with other ministries; • Some problems in the relationship.
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNDER DECENTRALIZATION IN GHANA • Broad Relationships; • Financial Relationships; • Legal Relationships; • Administrative Relationships • Controls, etc.
CASE • The District Assemblies’ Common Fund (DACF) as an example of Inter-Governmental Relationships • The DACF; • Actors involved in the DACF.
I G R • CONCLUDING REMARKS