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Accepted Paper:
Addressing pressing development challenges: Faith leadership, faith-based giving and domestic resource mobilization in dwindling aid contexts in Ghana
Albert Arhin
(Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
Paper short abstract:
This paper highlights how leaders of faith-based organizations are navigating through the dwindling aid contexts and utilizing faith-based giving as an emerging domestic resource mobilization strategy to address development challenges in Ghana.
Paper long abstract:
The importance of faith communities and faith-based organisations in addressing global development challenges has now been well acknowledged. Yet, series of research point out that the context through which civil society actors work to address development challenges are changing especially in Global South. This paper draws on qualitative interviews with leadership of FBOs in Ghana, West Africa. It highlights how leaders of faith-based organizations are navigating through the dwindling aid contexts and utilizing faith-based giving as an emerging domestic resource mobilization strategy to address development challenges in Ghana. Specifically, the study will present the strategies, experiences and challenges of leaders of faith-based organisations in mobilizing domestic resource to address development challenges to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs.