Literacy and Local Governance in a Rural Community : The Experience of Nwodua, Ghana
The 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 adu...
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okr-10986-108312021-06-14T11:03:51Z Literacy and Local Governance in a Rural Community : The Experience of Nwodua, Ghana Easton, Peter ADULT LITERACY COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES HEALTH CARE INSTRUCTION LEARNING LITERACY LITERACY CENTERS LITERACY MOVEMENT LITERACY PROGRAM LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL DEVELOPMENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE MOTHER TONGUE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSES PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY SECONDARY EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINING TECHNICAL SUPERVISION YOUNG PEOPLE LITERACY PROGRAMS LOCAL GROUPS RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL COMMUNITIES LITERACY PROGRAMS ADULT BASIC EDUCATION ADULT VOCATIONAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACT FOOD PROCESSING AGRO-FORESTRY TRADE DEVELOPMENT ROAD REHABILITATION VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTERS TECHNICAL TRAINING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION GOVERNANCE CAPACITY The 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. 2012-08-13T13:13:55Z 2012-08-13T13:13:55Z 1999-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1999/04/1681432/literacy-local-governance-rural-community-experience-nwodua-ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10831 English Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes; No. 7 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Africa Ghana |
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ADULT LITERACY COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES HEALTH CARE INSTRUCTION LEARNING LITERACY LITERACY CENTERS LITERACY MOVEMENT LITERACY PROGRAM LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL DEVELOPMENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE MOTHER TONGUE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSES PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY SECONDARY EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINING TECHNICAL SUPERVISION YOUNG PEOPLE LITERACY PROGRAMS LOCAL GROUPS RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL COMMUNITIES LITERACY PROGRAMS ADULT BASIC EDUCATION ADULT VOCATIONAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACT FOOD PROCESSING AGRO-FORESTRY TRADE DEVELOPMENT ROAD REHABILITATION VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTERS TECHNICAL TRAINING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION GOVERNANCE CAPACITY |
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ADULT LITERACY COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES HEALTH CARE INSTRUCTION LEARNING LITERACY LITERACY CENTERS LITERACY MOVEMENT LITERACY PROGRAM LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL DEVELOPMENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE MOTHER TONGUE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSES PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY SECONDARY EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINING TECHNICAL SUPERVISION YOUNG PEOPLE LITERACY PROGRAMS LOCAL GROUPS RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL COMMUNITIES LITERACY PROGRAMS ADULT BASIC EDUCATION ADULT VOCATIONAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACT FOOD PROCESSING AGRO-FORESTRY TRADE DEVELOPMENT ROAD REHABILITATION VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTERS TECHNICAL TRAINING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION GOVERNANCE CAPACITY Easton, Peter Literacy and Local Governance in a Rural Community : The Experience of Nwodua, Ghana |
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The 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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Publications & Research :: Brief |
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Easton, Peter |
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Easton, Peter |
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Easton, Peter |
| title |
Literacy and Local Governance in a Rural Community : The Experience of Nwodua, Ghana |
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Literacy and Local Governance in a Rural Community : The Experience of Nwodua, Ghana |
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Literacy and Local Governance in a Rural Community : The Experience of Nwodua, Ghana |
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Literacy and Local Governance in a Rural Community : The Experience of Nwodua, Ghana |
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Literacy and Local Governance in a Rural Community : The Experience of Nwodua, Ghana |
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literacy and local governance in a rural community : the experience of nwodua, ghana |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1999/04/1681432/literacy-local-governance-rural-community-experience-nwodua-ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10831 |
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