Rural Development Advocacy Podium - RUDAP

09/10/2026

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12/09/2026

12/09/2026

Kuren Is Still Waiting

In Kuren, a rural community in the Dormaa Central Municipality, residents still face poor roads, no potable water, limited healthcare, and weak network connectivity, hardships that have entrenched poverty and dimmed hopes for progress. Communities like Kuren aren't rare exceptions, they're a reminder of how many villages remain invisible in national development conversations.
No community should have to endure decades of neglect simply for being rural. Kuren, and places like it, deserve real investment, not just recognition.

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12/09/2026

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09/09/2026

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06/09/2026

06/09/2026

Rural Development Deserves a Policy, Not Just a Campaign Season

Every election cycle in Ghana, rural development becomes a familiar promise, roads to be built, boreholes to be drilled, clinics to be equipped. Yet research into decades of rural development in the country reveals an uncomfortable pattern: these commitments are too often used to win votes rather than sustained as governing priorities. Once elections end, momentum fades, and in some cases, projects are abandoned entirely when political power changes hands, leaving rural communities to restart the wait all over again.
This cycle persists partly because Ghana lacks a truly national, non partisan rural development policy, one insulated from party politics and capable of surviving a change in government. Without that continuity, every administration effectively starts from zero, and rural communities absorb the cost of that instability, unfinished roads, stalled clinics, and infrastructure investments that never reach completion because the political will that started them didn't outlast an election.
Real rural transformation requires institutional commitment, not campaign promises revisited only every four years. We call for the establishment of a consistent, protected national rural development framework, one that holds regardless of which party governs, so that a community's access to water, roads, healthcare, and education no longer depends on the outcome of an election, but on a policy built to last beyond it.

06/09/2026

As today is Sunday, what specific prayer point would you like to bring before the Lord in church?