Abstract
Promoting partnership with traditional Authority Project (PPTAP) was designed to translate into reality the vision of having our traditional leaders play pivotal roles in community development. The project was to test the role that chiefs, queen mothers and other opinion leaders could play in the decentralization of community development. In spite of the presence of some challenges with respect to project implementation such as slow pace in the payment of counterpart fund contribution, this novelty achieved spectacular successes. This paper discusses the results of a questionnaire survey that looked at the role played by traditional authorities and community involvement in infrastructure development for 40 selected communities in Ashanti region under the PPTAP, with support from the International Development Agency (IDA) of the World Bank and the Government of Ghana. The paper concludes that the inclusion of traditional authorities in beneficiary communities helped in an accurate identification of community needs, minimization of cost incurred and high-quality workmanship as well as strengthened ownership. For community based development, the paper recommends a Tripartite Partnership (TTP), where Traditional Authorities work in tandem with the Public and Private Sector to ensure sustainable national development. PPTAP presents an excellent framework for such TPP arrangements.
 Keywords: Traditional Authorities, Community Based Project, Infrastructure, Development
Highlights
Community infrastructure development in Governments world over, especially in Ghana has been largely plagued with lack of developing countries, are faced with the uphill project success due to non-participation of task of providing basic infrastructure and beneficiary communities in the planning and services for their people
Innovations Design Services (IDS)/Building and Road Research Institute (BRRI) was selected through a competitive bidding process which was assessed by an independent project team to have been fair and transparent
On the basis of the remarkable successes chalked by partnership with traditional Authority Project (PPTAP), the model below is recommended for future programmes as means of strengthening decentralization process in Ghana
Summary
Community infrastructure development in Governments world over, especially in Ghana has been largely plagued with lack of developing countries, are faced with the uphill project success due to non-participation of task of providing basic infrastructure and beneficiary communities in the planning and services for their people. Promoting partnership with traditional Authorities Project (PPTAP) is an innovative procurement route evolved from the vision to have traditional leaders play pivotal roles in community development.
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