Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/308373 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11477
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
We investigated the factors that negatively affect the service delivery capacity of charities in Ghana by using seven Rotary clubs as a case study. Primary data was collected via a survey of executives of the seven Rotary clubs. Our analysis revealed that the three main challenges that Rotary clubs face, in descending order of importance, were inadequate financial resources, unfavourable government policies, poor governance, and bad attitudes of the beneficiaries of Rotary clubs' charitable projects. The size of a club did not seem to have a positive effect on its service delivery capacity. We attributed this to a higher incidence of free-riding or apathy within bigger clubs. Indeed, we found that the lack of Rotarians' involvement in projects, scope creep of projects, and Rotarians' poor engagement with communities also had an adverse effect on service delivery.
Subjects: 
charities
governance
Rotary
service delivery
JEL: 
L30
L31
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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