Enhancing CSO's Strategies- A complement to decentralisation for political participation of women at grassroots level in Ghana

The Republic of Ghana derives its name from the medieval Ghana Empire located in West Africa with a coastline of 554k111 along the Atlantic Ocean and a total land area of about 238,533sqkm (92.000 sq miles). Within thiI1y-five years of Ghana's becoming a sovereign state. the country has experienced nine different types of govellU11ent (three civilian and six military) including a Westminster-style parliamentary democracy, a socialist single party republic and several military regimes following coups in 1966.1972.1979 and 1981 before its f0U11h return to multiparty democratic government in January 1993 (Quainoo.2002).