The Role of Local Government Administration on Social Development in Ghana: the Case Study of Atwima Kwanwoma District Assembly

This study investigates the role of local Government Administration on Social Development in Atwima Kwanwoma District Assembly Ashanti, Ghana. Despite the existence of these huge number of such institutions with their primary motives of ensuring the social development of these poor rural dwellers, rural dwellers in Ghana still faces social developmental problems. The study identified the determinants of social development at the local level, role of local government administration on social development and finally the challenges associated with local government administration in delivering their mandate. Both primary and secondary data were used for the study. The secondary date was extracted from reports of the institution whereas the primary date was obtained from administering questionnaire. A total of 400 respondents from the District were administered questionnaires to and a total of 10 Local Government officials to know the problems they encounter in delivering their mandate. It was found out that availability of social amenities, availability of portable drinking water, quality healthcare delivery and availability of streetlights symbolizes social development. With the provision of these social development, respondents reported that the local Government administration has not provided them with social amenities and good portable drinking water. The rest have been duly provided. The Ten (10) reported that inadequate resources and low decentralization are the major challenges facing the Local Government administration. It is recommended that Local Government Administration in Atwima Kwanwoma District should be well resourced and much attention should be paid to provision of social amenities and portable drinking to its rural dwellers and finally, future work should consider conducting a quantitative analysis by running bivariate correlation between the dependent and independent variables and also check for endogeneity of the variables