The Northern Ghana Development Summit is an annual convening that brings together state and non-state actors, including institutions and individuals onto one big non-partisan forum to assess, discuss and recommend actions to accelerate the progress of development of Northern Ghana to address the disparities in development between the North and the South of Ghana. The issues that are discussed at the summit are at the core of development and range from local economic development to participatory governance and violence prevention, to name but a few. The NGDS is a rebrand of the Mole Series which was initiated in 2001 by Regional Economic Planning Officers (REPOs) in Northern Ghana to coordinate the economic planning and transformation of the northern sector and to jointly influence both political actors and development partners to invest in development programmes and projects in the north. It is an effort of diverse stakeholders, including the Regional Coordinating Councils of the five northern regions, Northern Development Authority (NDA), and other Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).
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