Assessment of development control capacity of mmdas: a study of selected works department in the Gomoa district
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2021-06-15
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Abstract
Effective development with respect to the capacities of MMDA’s works department
has been a major concern for districts across the shores of Ghana. This cancer has been
as a result of a lot of factors including political interferences, bribery and corruption,
the illegal conversion of residential structures for commercial usage, inadequate
equipment and machinery needed for the effective discharge of duty at the various
districts, understaffing and inadequate training of staff and many more. The objectives
of this study are to assess development control capacity of Metropolitan, Municipal,
and District Assemblies with particular interest in the works department of MMDAs,
investigating the challenges facing development control, with focus on the Gomoa
Central, Gomoa East, and Gomoa West Districts in the Central Region of Ghana. The
researcher adapted both quantitative and qualitative approaches with regards to the
collection of a primary data from fifty respondents. Both deductive and inductive
approaches were used for the analysis of the data with the validity and reliability of data
being tested using Cronbach’s Alpha test. The empirical data collected were analysed
using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 21). The results of the analysis
revealed that the staffing level of the works department of the MMDA’s needed to be
reconsidered to ensure that staff of the works department are not only adequately
trained to understand nature and rudiments of their jobs; the staffing level be increased
to accommodate more staff to help monitor the developments of buildings in the various
communities as a step towards the effective control development in the ever-increasing
urban population. Therefore, the study recommends that staff of the MMDAs be
periodically trained and appraise on the legal rules for construction work, building
regulation/code, land management, town and country planning rules/laws; They should
also be made to understanding that as part of their requirement to undertake their dutiesiv
in their various capacities, their knowledge of the various tools they need to equip
themselves for the job is of eminent importance; MMDAS should use their internal
staff to execute majority of their projects instead of hiring or giving out the projects on
contract; The MMDAs adapt innovative method of financing public works, such as
Public-Private-Partnership; The Central Government should be more flexible in
releasing and allocating central budgets to the various MMDAs to better place the latter
plan and work more efficiently; The MMDAs should improve remuneration/service
conditions to attract more technical/professional staff into the service to help in the
attempt to effectively control the development of buildings and other structure in the
communities; and the MMDAs encourage stakeholder participation in determining
local infrastructure needs.
Description
A thesis presented to the Department of Construction Technology and
Management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Degree
of Master of Science in Construction Management.
Keywords
Assessment, Development control, Capacity, Works department