Ng’ambi, Francis | 2011
- Author(s): Ng’ambi, Francis
- Publisher: Open society initiative for southern Africa (OSISA)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: decentralization in government, education, local government, development planning, malawi
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) of Malawi adopted a decentralization programme in 2005. However, decentralization is far from being realized as there is no political will to drive it. National priorities are not clearly spelled out in the district education plans (DEPs).
Nhien, Nguyen Huyen Thuy | 2012
- Author(s): Nhien, Nguyen Huyen Thuy
- Publisher: Erasmus [university Rotterdam]. International institute of social studies (ISS)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: political aspects, democracy, local government, civil society, governance, vietnam
The role of civil society in enhancing grassroots democracy in Vietnam is assessed. Grassroots democracy and civil society in Vietnam have little autonomy in the sense that they are still under the state’s control and monitoring.
Niazi, T. | 2009
- Author(s): Niazi, T.
- Publisher: Asian development bank (ADB)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: local government, development assistance, finance, governance, institution building, capacity building, indonesia
This Asian Development Bank support project falls under the Local Government Finance and Governance Reform Program in Indonesia. It follows the implementation of reforms to remove policy bottlenecks while conducting central government institutional strengthening and regional capacity building.
Nibbering, Jan Willem and Swart, Rolf | 2008]
- Author(s): Nibbering, Jan Willem and Swart, Rolf
- Publisher: Ministry's effectiveness and quality department (DEK)
- Pages: 257--269
- Keywords: local government, decentralization in government, development projects, development assistance, fiscal policy, capacity building, empowerment, poverty alleviation, netherlands
Funding is critical for running local governments, and calls for fiscal decentralization and aligned donor support. Capacity building is needed for all those involved in the process at all levels. Specific attention has to be paid to empowering the poor in local communities.
Nickson, Andrew | cop. 2011
- Author(s): Nickson, Andrew
- Publisher: Swedish International centre for local democracy (ICLD)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: local government, sociology, management, latin america
Ten basic features of local government systems are used as a template to situate Latin American local government within Weberian typology. The paper tentatively concludes that the ‘managerial’ type of local government is gaining ground over the ‘governmental’ type