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Ghana

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Ghana’s youthful and diverse society contends with unsustainable foreign debt, social and cultural debates (many tinged with religious overtones), governance challenges, and the tensions and aspirations of today’s globalized world. With religious engagement in many respects an accepted part of the landscape, Ghana’s government and development partners have had little impetus to see religious actors explicitly as central players in development work, even as they play many different roles.

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Report May 20, 2024

Ghana: Towards More Strategic Religious Engagement

Ghana evokes sharply contrasting pictures: a forerunner and model of international development, mired in uncertainties linked to global developments and dynamic political and social forces; a robust and thus contentious democracy in an increasingly troubled region where democratic institutions seem to flag. This document aims to serve as a prelude and backdrop to explorations of how deeper…