Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Guidebook on decentralisation and local government in Malawi

Ott, Nicola and Dikani, Tofara | cop. 2005
  • Author(s): Ott, Nicola and Dikani, Tofara
  • Publisher: Malawi-German programme for democracy and decentralisation (MGPDD)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, local government, governance, democracy, community participation, development planning, public services, accountability, guidelines, malawi
This guidebook provides information on decentralization in Malawi. Subjects include: finance, infrastructure, services, national government, municipal and local government, democracy. community participation, local governance, participatory planning, transparency, and accountability.

Conflict in Uganda's land tenure system

Owaraga, Norah | 2012
  • Author(s): Owaraga, Norah
  • Publisher: Centre for international governance innovation (CIGI)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: poverty, food security, legislation, administrative reform, customary law, public administration, land rights, land tenure, uganda
Uganda’s dualist land tenure system is a root cause of conflict over land use and ownership. The current land tenure laws facilitate land alienation, threaten livelihoods and contribute to food insecurity. The need for reform imposes itself.

Sharing experience : enhancing the benefits to communities from extractive industry projects

Owen, Dan | [2009]
  • Author(s): Owen, Dan
  • Publisher: Sustainable community development fund (CommDev)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: community development, community participation, world bank, industrial development, development projects
In the first part of this 2-h video, Dan Owen, Program Coordinator for Community Driven Development at the World Bank, gives an overview of the Bank’s practices.

New niches of community rights to forests in Cameroon : tenure reform, decentralization category or something else?

Oyono, Phil René | 2009
  • Author(s): Oyono, Phil René
  • Publisher: Mulawarman university. Center for social forestry]
  • Pages: 1--23
  • Keywords: community participation, administrative reform, land tenure, land rights, forest resources, decentralization in government, cameroon
This essay interrogates the nature of ongoing change in the structure of community rights in Cameroon: is it tenure change or decentralization? In reality, it is neither a strict decentralization process nor a strict tenure reform, but a mixture of devolution and delegation of powers.

Green and black gold in rural Cameroon : natural resources for local governance, justice and sustainability

Oyono, Phil René and Ribot, Jesse C. and Larson, Anne M. | 2006
  • Author(s): Oyono, Phil René and Ribot, Jesse C. and Larson, Anne M.
  • Publisher: World resources institute (WRI) [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: natural resources, forest resources, decentralization in government, community participation, poverty alleviation, compensation, cameroon
This study investigates the effects of forest management decentralization and oil compensation on local governance and local democracy in southern Cameroon. It suggests indicators and dynamics to be taken into account when assessing local governance.
 

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