TITLE:
Assessing Drivers of Infrastructure Delivery at the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana
AUTHORS:
Joe Kingsley Hackman, Joshua Ayarkwa, Dickson Osei-Asibey, Theophilus Adjei-Kumi, Alex Acheampong, Godslove Ampratwum
KEYWORDS:
Drivers, Infrastructure, Delivery, Decentralisation, MMDAs
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.6,
June
10,
2021
ABSTRACT: This paper aimed at assessing drivers of
infrastructure delivery at the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs)
in Ghana. The study followed the quantitative research approach. One hundred
and twenty-one professionals (121) from thirty-six (36) MMDAs in the Greater
Accra and Ashanti Regions of Ghana participated in a questionnaire survey. Mean
Scores and One Sample t-test were used for the analysis of the data. The
findings suggest that 10 factors listed as “effective managerial skills and
proper supervision”, “political commitment of central government”, “effective
communication”, “attention to developing appropriate local authority
procurement system”, “proper cost budgeting”, “checking corruption”, “adequate
resources for development”, “adequate technical capacity”, “elimination of
political control in staff recruitment”, and “adequate funding for
infrastructure delivery” are the significant drivers of infrastructure delivery
at the MMDAs. This study therefore recommends the establishment of
efficient legal and institutional frameworks by the government to support and
enhance the required capacities of the MMDAs for effective infrastructure
delivery. The findings would help to address the infrastructural needs of local
communities by presenting solutions to the challenges associated with
infrastructure delivery which plague the MMDAs. Knowledge gained from this
study could be applied to other similar developing countries pursuing
decentralization as means to ensuring infrastructure delivery at the local
government level.