Parliaments and the National Statistics System in Ghana: A Critical Relationship for Evidence Use

The role parliaments play in governance is fundamentally political, and as a result, the institutional side of parliamentary organisations is often overlooked.

This chapter focuses on the Parliament of Ghana showing how its role in the SDGs is intertwined with its engagement with key aspects of the national evidence system, as well as reflective of deeper structural aspects of Ghana’s political economy – in particular the relations.