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MODREN TECHNOLOGY CAN IMPROVE LOCAL GOVERNANCE (UNDP Dakar Meeting-Nov-2011) THE CASE OF ASUTIFI AND BIRIMNORTH DISTRICTS OF GHANA (By Bishop Akolgo-ISODEC)

WHY THE INTERVENTION? • Lack of transparent, accountable, equitable and responsive • Local governments near citizens and effectiveness has direct bearing on quality of life • Need capacity in both demand and supply side for transparency , accountability, responsibility and responsiveness • Mining revenues not used to improve citizens quality of life • Natural resource host districts do not engage in long-term planning including visioning • Mining largely enclave to both nat and local economies • Decentralisation does not deal with economic dev, only political decentralisation

WHAT INTERVENTION?

• Introduce and promote norms of participation, transparency, equity, rights and sustainable development as culture and practice • Forum for CSOs, local private sector, traditional authority, mining companies and local authority to meet for accountability • Joint planning and accountability instead of parallel systems by mining companies • Geographic information system and economic and revenue modelling tools • Most important is community conversations and accountability sessions

ISODEC STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SUB-NATIONAL LEVEL STAKEHOLDERS Schools and clinics Towns

roads

landuse

1.Planning Georeferenced database

minerals

Participatory budgeting

Participatory planning

water

2.M&E Tools and approaches

Medium-term planning

markets

5.ISODEC Facilitation Training Research Analysis Lobbying

Soiltype

Institute of Local Government Studies

Chiefs royalty

donors

4.Budgeting Mining model Revenue model

savings

Government transfers Running costs Alternative assets

Own Revenue

Dev projects Mine costs

Mining CSR

Radio/tv services Assembly template

Long-term visioning

Quarterly forums TARRAT

Extractives engagement Group

Local economy

Mining royalty investments

Chiefs revenues

Company template

Objective criteria for allocation

Household income/distribution

Non-mining economy

3.Modeling Economic clusters Inputservices output model Industry production Agric production

imports

Mining purchases Economic diversity Mining jobs exports

Simplified Circular Flow View of The Economy Cedi Consumption Spending (Yi) Goods & Services Households

Businesses

Businesses

Labor cedi Wages & Salaries

Households buy the output of business: final demand or Yi

Households sell labor & other inputs to business as inputs to production

Source:Taken from a Power Point presentation prepared by Pam Perlich at the University of Utah. http://www.business.utah.edu/~bebrpsp/IO/IO.ppt

Businesses purchase from other businesses to produce their own goods / services. This is intermediate demand or xij (output of industry i sold to industry j)

COMMUNITY AND DIVERSE ECONOMIES

BOTH COMMUNITY AND MARKET

TOTAL CAPITALIST PRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

SPONSORS • THOSE WHO MADE THIS POSSIBLE 1. OSIWA-DAKAR, Revenue Watch-New York 2. OXFAM-NOVIB –NETHERLANDS 3. HIVOS/ATTI-NAIROBI OFFICE 4. Ghana Institute of Local Government Studies 5. Asutifi District Assembly-Brong Ahafo region 6. Birim-North District Assembly-Eastern region