District Assemblies

The local government system consists of a Regional Co-ordinating Council, a four-tier Metropolitan and a three-tier Municipal/District Assemblies Structure. The District Assemblies are either Metropolitan (population over 250,000), Municipal (population over 95,000) or District (population 75,000 and over). There are 3 Metropolitan Assemblies, 4 Municipal Assemblies and 103 District Assemblies:

ROLE

A Metropolitan/Municipal/District Assembly is:

a.Created as the pivot of administrative and developmental decision-making in the district and the basic unit of government administration.
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b.Assigned with deliberative, legislative as well as executive functions.

c.Established as a monolithic structure to which is assigned the responsibility of the totality of government to bring about integration of political, administrative and development support needed to achieve a more equitable allocation of power, wealth, and geographically dispersed development in Ghana.

e.Constituted as the Planning Authority for the District.

SUB-BODIES

These are the Urban/Town/Zonal/Area Councils and the Unit Committees. In the performance of its function the District Assembly works through the Executive Committee. This includes the Social Services Sub-Committee, Works Sub-Committee, Finance Administration and Development Planning Sub-Committee among others.

The Executive Committee is presided over by the District Chief Executive and consists of not more than one-third of the total members of the Assembly excluding the Presiding member. http://www.ghanadistricts.com/

THE DISTRICTS OF GHANA

Region	No. of Districts
Ashanti Region	21
Volta Region	15
Greater Accra Region	6
Eastern Region	17
Upper East Region	8
Upper West Region	8
Central Region	13
Brong Ahafo Region	19
Northern Region	18
Western Region