The project Governance for Inclusive Development (GovID) in Ghana aimed to contribute to the development of Governance by improving transparency, internal accountability, participation, decentralisation, and provision of public services and public finance management (PFM) so that national and sub-national Governance actors are able to finance inclusive development in Ghana.
The consultancy provided advisory services delivered by a national long-term expert, who managed a pool of international, regional and national short-term experts in the form of technical consultancy services. The key intervention areas were to:

• strengthen revenue management at the national level;
• strengthen municipal capacities for collecting internally generated funds (IGF) at the sub-national level;
• strengthen capacities for inclusive budget management at national and local levels;
• strengthen accountability mechanisms for budget execution;
• enable subnational public actors to identify and further develop local economic development potentials in cooperation with medium-sized enterprises in the agricultural and food industries.

To implement this strategy, the project combined measures in all three areas of capacity development. At the individual level, the project trained technical and managerial staff to implement the reform elements in the selected institutions and organizations. At the organizational level, the project supported the relevant stakeholders at the national, regional and local levels through organizational, strategy and process development that strengthen their mandates in the design and implementation of domestic revenue mobilisation (Ministry of Finance (MoF), Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD), Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), local authorities), the evidence-based budget planning and reliable allocation of funds (MoF, selected sectoral ministries, local authorities), accountability over the use of funds (Internal Audit Agency (IAA), audit committees, Court of Auditors, local authorities, civil society), and demand-oriented regional economic development (municipalities, medium-sized enterprises of agricultural and food industry). At the cooperation and societal level, the project supported the partners in the establishment of joint working groups and cooperation procedures and the development and adaptation of regulatory frameworks.