The partner institutions strengthened democratic decentralization in Ghana by assisting ILGS to deliver more high-quality training, applied research and consultancy services, and information and documentation services to local government officials, members of the district assemblies, and local non-governmental organizations through the use of information communications technology-based methods. 

Over the course of the collaboration, the ILGS partners worked with their UD counterparts to better understand how to organize and manage a web-based training and communications network. They developed and used CD-ROMs for training, made the services and resources of the ILGS library more readily available to local governments, and more effectively marketed ILGS’s services to District-level officials. 

UD also helped bolster IHS’s investment in Ghanaian higher education by assisting in the development of ILGSNet, a prototype web-based interactive net system for distance learning courses and training, and by developing surveys to help further improve training and library services at ILGS.