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Assessing the role of councillors in service delivery at local government level in South Africa
( G. Paradza;L. Mokwena;R. Richards / Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa , 2010)
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Governance approach to transparency at local level
( United Nations Human Settlements Programme , 2004)

This paper is part of an Urban Governance Toolkit Series. It describes the governance approach to promoting transparency at the local level. The governance approach is based on an institutional per...

Measuring and tracking the performance of local governments in Indonesia
( World Bank Research , 2008)
Indonesia has been transformed from a highly centralised country into one of the most decentralised countries. Since 2001, local governments (LGs) have become the main drivers of public service delive...
Can e-government and technology implementation influence good governance?
( D. Kettani;M. Gurstein;B. Moulin / Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries , 2008)
This paper presents the results of a e-government project implemented for the transformation of local governance, in Morocco. The technology implementation and deployment project is aimed at tran...
Impact of decentralisation on governance and citizen participation in Tanzania
( A. Chaligha / Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania , 2008)
This report analyses data on local autonomy and citizen participation from six case councils in Tanzania, for the period 2000-2004.The data covers citizen’s perceptions of their involvement in t...
Municipal performance measures
( P. Bracegirdle / The International Development Evaluation Association , 2003)
This paper presents an overview of international experience in developing and using performance measurement systems in municipal governance and management. It covers four areas:...
Local governance in post-conflict Lebanon
( K. Hamill;Z. Ali-Ahmad / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2008)
This research paper attempts to identify and disseminate relevant lessons for local government in post-conflict situations, using the Lebanon post-2006 war experience as a case study. It looks at the ...
Muncipal e-governace improves across the world
( M. Holzer;S. Kim / United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance , 2008)
This document presents the findings of the worldwide survey of municipal digital governance 2007. The survey evaluates 86 large municipalities which have official websites and ranks them on a global s...
Distributional impact of decentralisation reforms
( K. Kaiser / World Bank , 2006)
This document outlines three levels of analysis that offer a potentially tractable means of mapping out Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) for decentralisation....
Under which conditions can decentralisation help to defuse conflict?
( Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH , 2006)
Although decentralisation is often advocated as an instrument for conflict transformation and securing peace, little attention has been given to the conditions under which decentralisation might have ...

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