Literacy and Local Governance in a Rural Community : The Experience of Nwodua, Ghana

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dc.creatorEaston, Peter
dc.date2012-08-13T13:13:55Z
dc.date2012-08-13T13:13:55Z
dc.date1999-04
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dc.descriptionThe note reviews the efforts begun in 1979 by an illiterate farmer from Nwodua, Ghana, to bring instruction in the ways of a modern society to his community. The success led to further opportunities in functional literacy, and soon a full scale adult primary school was opened, which became the center for a whole series of local developmental activities. A health care committee was established, which later guided the creation of a grinding mill to prepare weaning mixture for infants, eventually leading the community towards a self-sustaining food processing industry, and, other initiatives in the area of agro-forestry soon followed. Increased commerce made it imperative to upgrade roads infrastructure, to constitute a vocational-technical center, and develop new innovations to benefit the poor rural communities. This success lies in the renewed form of community governance, gradually elaborated by village authorities, and young participants in the new initiatives, to provide a basis for managing, and expanding their activities, in a framework to extend new forms of local governance.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1999/04/1681432/literacy-local-governance-rural-community-experience-nwodua-ghana
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/10831
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/10831
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/417305
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationIndigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes; No. 7
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectADULT LITERACY
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY GOVERNANCE
dc.subjectEDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
dc.subjectHEALTH CARE
dc.subjectINSTRUCTION
dc.subjectLEARNING
dc.subjectLITERACY
dc.subjectLITERACY CENTERS
dc.subjectLITERACY MOVEMENT
dc.subjectLITERACY PROGRAM
dc.subjectLOCAL COMMUNITIES
dc.subjectLOCAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectLOCAL GOVERNANCE
dc.subjectMOTHER TONGUE
dc.subjectPRIMARY EDUCATION
dc.subjectPRIMARY SCHOOL
dc.subjectPRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSES
dc.subjectPUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY
dc.subjectSECONDARY EDUCATION
dc.subjectTEACHER TRAINING
dc.subjectTECHNICAL SUPERVISION
dc.subjectYOUNG PEOPLE LITERACY PROGRAMS
dc.subjectLOCAL GROUPS
dc.subjectRURAL COMMUNITIES
dc.subjectRURAL COMMUNITIES
dc.subjectLITERACY PROGRAMS
dc.subjectADULT BASIC EDUCATION
dc.subjectADULT VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENTAL IMPACT
dc.subjectFOOD PROCESSING
dc.subjectAGRO-FORESTRY
dc.subjectTRADE DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectROAD REHABILITATION
dc.subjectVOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTERS
dc.subjectTECHNICAL TRAINING
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectGOVERNANCE CAPACITY
dc.titleLiteracy and Local Governance in a Rural Community : The Experience of Nwodua, Ghana
dc.titleAlphabetisation et gouvernance locale dans une communaute rurale : l'experience de Nwodua, Ghana

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