Decentralisation & local government
Considering approaches to decentralisation as a means to increasing democracy and citizen participation. Local government as a key part of the democratisation process.
Latest Documents
- Paper demonstrating the need for mainstreaming climate change into multi-level development plans
- S. Chinvanno; V. Kerdsuk / Asia Pacific Adaptation Network, 2013
- With a focus on Thailand and south-east Asia, this paper argues that the current process of ‘predict-then-act’ climate change adaptation is inherently flawed. The uncertain nature of climate change predictions can lead to ...
- Considering the development of political order in Somalia
- D.K. Leonard; M. Samantar / Wiley Online Library, 2013
- The reconstruction of Somalia was envisaged to be built upon a new social contract, which should be negotiated between the superordinate body and the local units of governance. This paper shows that while the founding leaders in north...
- Considering governance in post-conflict Sierra Leone
- J.B.M. Vincent / Wiley Online Library, 2013
- Sierra Leone is one of a number of states that underwent a period of civil war and collapse after the end of the Cold War. This article offers a bottom-up review of the post-war reconstruction of the Sierra Leone state. The paper poin...
- Policy brief: designing programs to increase women’s participation in local government
- J. Gomez / Hunt Alternatives Fund, 2012
- In 2006, The Initiative for Inclusive Security partnered with the Rwandan Association of Local Government Authorities (RALGA) and the National Women’s Council to conduct training to increase women’s participation in the 20...
- Effective administration and innovative government are crucial conditions for successful post-conflict reconstruction
- A. Alberti; P.K. Blind; J.M. Kauzya / Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2010
- Recovery after conflict is possible is possible if public administration can earn the trust of the people, provide services to them, and and operate in an effective, transparent and accountable way. This report seeks to ana...
- How responsive is local governance to citizens' needs in sub-Saharan Africa?
- M. Bratton / Afrobarometer, 2010
- The daily lives of Africans remain relatively untouched by the agents and institutions of a central state. Ordinary people are more likely to experience day-to-day interactions with local government entities or with informal, tra...
- Auditing in Brazil as an anti-corruption strategy
- C. Ferraz; F. Finan / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009
- Political institutions can affect corruption. The researcher uses audit reports from an anti-corruption programme in Brazil to construct new measures of political corruption in local governments and test whether electoral accountabili...
- Decentralisation and accountability in Mexico
- M. Grindle (ed) / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010
- As countries throughout the world democratise and decentralise, citizen participation in public life should increase. It is said citizens in a decentralised and democratic system of government are governed better because they can puni...
- Civil society roles in Tanzania
- W. Egli; D. Zurcher / NADEL – Centre for Development and Cooperation (ETH Zurich), 2007
- In many developing countries decentralisation efforts have been planned and implemented as a means to improve service delivery to all citizens, to increase citizen participation, and to improve good governance at the sub-national leve...
- Decentralisation programming: a handbook
- E. Connerley (ed) / US Agency for International Development, 2009
- This handbook conceives decentralisation as a means to achieve democratisation. Decentralisation is a reform that advances the exercise of political freedom and individual economic choice in a context of stability and the rule of law....
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