The West Mamprusi District is one of 45 new districts created in 1988 under the Government of Ghana’s decentralization and local government reform policy. Carved out of the old Gambaga District in the Northern Region. The districts’ administrative capital is Walewale, which lies on the Tamale-Bolgatanga trunk road, approximately 68 miles away from Tamale. The district is bordered to the north by Builsa, Kassena-Nankana and Bolgatanga districts, in the Upper East Region; to the south by North Gonja, Karaga, Kumbungu and Savelugu district in the Northern Region; to the west by the Sissala East and Wa East districts; and to the east by East Mamprusi. http://westmamprusi.ghanadistricts.gov.gh/
The Walewale Human Rights City is located in the West Mamprusi District and works from the district capital, Walewale. Since its formation in 2003, the city has looked at peculiar issues within the district and has tackled them as such. In 2006 for instance LRC with the aid of the district health insurance scheme developed a comprehensive constitution for the scheme. LRC’s contribution to the various challenges in West Mamprusi district has been to provide legal services, conduct legal aid clinics, train women paralegals and to conduct various projects such as the registration and renewal of NHIS cards under the STAR-Health project.
