Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Resources, citizen engagements and democratic local governance (ReCitE) : a topic guide

Navarro Mangad, Marina | 2004
  • Author(s): Navarro Mangad, Marina
  • Publisher: University of Sussex. Institute of development studies (IDS). LogoLink coordination unit
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: local government, budgeting, community participation, budget contributions
Different aspects of citizen engagement in budget processes are reviewed, including resource raising, budget allocation, tracking and monitoring, and NGO engagement. A basic guide to the 5 different stages of the budget cycle is provided.

Assessing the impact of devolution on healthcare and education in Pakistan

Nayyar-Stone, Ritu and Hatry, Harry and Peterson, George | 2006
  • Author(s): Nayyar-Stone, Ritu and Hatry, Harry and Peterson, George
  • Publisher: Urban institute
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, public services, fiscal policy, accountability, popular participation, health, education, water supply, pakistan
This report assesses the progress and challenges of effective and efficient service delivery in the health, education, and water sectors, local fiscal roles and responsibilities, and local government accountability and citizen participation under devolution in Pakistan since 2001.

Private provision of public services in developing countries?

Ndandiko, Charles | 2010
  • Author(s): Ndandiko, Charles
  • Publisher: University of Twente
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: local government, public services, water supply, waste management, private sector, uganda
The relative efficiency of public and private provision in Uganda‘s local governments of waste collection and water supply services was examined. Public policy makers ought to establish prevalence of conditions that favour private provision before transferring a service to the private sector.

Decentralization in Africa : a stocktaking survey

Ndegwa, Stephen N. | 2002
  • Author(s): Ndegwa, Stephen N.
  • Publisher: World bank]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, administrative reform, fiscal policy, local government, governance, africa south of sahara
In 2002, a survey was conducted among World Bank country specialists to catalogue the status of political, administrative, and fiscal decentralization in 30 African countries south of the Sahara.

The politics of decentralization in Africa : a comparative analysis

Ndegwa, Stephen N. and Levy, Brian | 2003
  • Author(s): Ndegwa, Stephen N. and Levy, Brian
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, political conditions, uganda, senegal, malawi
The different pathways to decentralization are examined, via a focus on the political dynamics of the process. A framework for assessing decentralization within individual countries was applied to Uganda, Senegal, and Malawi.
 

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