Abstract
All countries strive for sustainable growth and development. However, for countries to achieve the desired growth and development, efforts are needed to plan, regulate, control and guide the development process in the right direction. This makes the need for development plans imperative in spearheading sustained growth and development. Ghana, a developing country, has adopted a 40-year development plan, with the vision of achieving “a just, free and prosperous society” by 2057. This paper uses a descriptive approach based on data from secondary sources including public documents, official statistics, national diaries and published papers. It synergizes the country’s mechanism for the implementation of its long term development plan. The findings of the paper present to concerned actors, insight into how Ghana intends to implement its long term development plan. It offers the platform to critically assess, disparage and/or recommend the plan for other developing countries around the globe.
Highlights
Sustainable development has become an issue on the global desk for quite a long period of time [1] [2] [3] [4]
The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has indicated that the long term plan will embrace a broad participatory framework and ensure political legitimacy as studies by [11] and [15] have revealed the beneficial outcomes of participation and political legitimacy in ensuring successful long term development plans
The long term plan will be composed of a four medium term development plans (MTDPs) with a time span of 10 years
Summary
Sustainable development has become an issue on the global desk for quite a long period of time [1] [2] [3] [4]. Sustainable development has since that period been widely defined as “development that meets the needs of the present without comprising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Brundtland Commission, 1987 as in [5]). Despite this aforementioned definition which happens to feature prominently in every sustainability discussions, [6] and [7] are of the view that there is still lack of comprehensive understanding about the meaning of sustainable development. [11] is of the stance that sustainable development rests heavily on the implementation of viable national development plans either short, medium or long terms. Long Term Development Plan and Sustainable Development: A Review of Related Literature
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