Community Governance Essay

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GROUP PRESENTATION (LGAO) COURSE: Community Governance and Leadership (LGAO 515) GROUP NAME: GROUP 1 GROUP MEMBERS 1. SEIDU ABDUL AZIZ 2. AELRED T. TUKPEH 3. ABDULAI SOALE 4. MUNKAILA FAUZIA 5. AMINU MOHAMMED BABA 6. JOHN ADONGO 7. SAMUEL ADJINBARUK QUESTION Some members of the Tishigu Community of the Tamale Central Constituency have recently embarked on a series of demonstrations demanding a complete change in the leadership of the community due to non-performance of their duties and responsibilities resulting in lack of cohesion and bond among community members. In a formal written letter to the chiefs and elders of the community, they cited the following as some of the reasons they are making those demands: a. Spate of robberies in the community b. Increased youth violence c. Lack of recreational facilities for children and young people d. Several land disputes As a member of the Tishigu Community, you are required to put in place a robust governance system to ameliorate the situation and give hope to the community members. INTRODUCTION We are of the opinion that exercising power and decision-making for a group of people is called governance. Governance happens everywhere – from urban centres to rural communities – and the well-being of a community depends on the choices made by people to grant this authority and leaders derive legitimacy from the authority granted. Because of the diversity of organizational structures around the world, people such as land lords, heads of associations, cooperatives, NGOs, religious leaders, political parties and of course, governments are all actors who have been granted the power to govern. Contemporary usage of the term “governance” has revealed a lot of inadequacies because it has been seen in most cases in the past to be void of tenets such as accountability, effectiveness and efficiency, participatory,
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