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Article: Canadian NGOs and grass roots leadership/ democracy in Ghana.(Nongovernmental organizations)
- Article from:
- Journal of Pan African Studies
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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Presented at the Ghana Golden Jubilee Symposium, Kwantlin University College, Vancouver, BC.
Introduction:
Grass roots leadership and democracy in Gold Coast's independence struggles provide an important key to understanding the success and failures of Canadian and other foreign NGOs in post-independence Ghana. Those NGOs that tap into Ghanaian grass roots leadership and democracy are able to facilitate development in civil society. Those that do not tap into this vital resource contribute to growth without development.
NGOs emerge to fill the gaps in civil society left by the disconnect between the State/Government and the grass roots. Many ...