Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Citizen charters : enhancing service delivery through accountability : dealing with governance and corruption risks in project lending

Post, David and Agarwal, Sanjay | [2012]
  • Author(s): Post, David and Agarwal, Sanjay
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: water supply, education, health services, civil society, accountability, public services, mexico, philippines, kenya, india
Introduced by the United Kingdom in the early 1990s, CCs are now being used in a wide range of countries -- including the United States, Kenya, India, Jamaica, and Mexico -- to improve the quality of service delivery and enhance public sector management.

Rapid feedback : the role of community scorecards in improving service delivery : dealing with governance and corruption risks in project lending

Post, David and Agarwal, Sanjay and Venugopal, Varsha | [ca. 2011]
  • Author(s): Post, David and Agarwal, Sanjay and Venugopal, Varsha
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: guidelines, public opinion, community participation, accountability, public services, local government
Community Score Card initiatives are typified by a number of common characteristics including: the use of a simple and low cost implementation framework; promoting community ownership and empowerment; and providing service providers with direct feedback.

Is decentralization a reliable means of increasing equity?

Poteete, Amy R. | cop. 2004
  • Author(s): Poteete, Amy R.
  • Publisher: Indiana university. Digital library of the commons (DLC)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, natural resources, environmental management, social justice, empowerment, africa, asia
This paper evaluates the effects of decentralization of natural resource management in Africa and Asia on: (1) equity between localities; (2) equity in the rights between community and national decision-makers; (3) political equity within communities; and (4) economic equity within communities.

Defining political community and rights to natural resources in Botswana

Poteete, Amy R. | 2009
  • Author(s): Poteete, Amy R.
  • Publisher: Blackwell
  • Pages: 281--305
  • Keywords: political power, community participation, natural resources policy, decentralization in government, botswana
In Botswana, the entangling of natural resource policy with identity politics contributed to a partial recentralization of CBNRM. Decentralization has been associated with democratization in that decentralized natural resource management is virtually equated with empowerment of local resource users.

Repertoires of domination : decentralization as process in Botswana and Senegal

Poteete, Amy R. and Ribot, Jesse C. | 2010
  • Author(s): Poteete, Amy R. and Ribot, Jesse C.
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • Pages: 439--449
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, natural resources, democracy, popular participation, accountability, bureaucracy, botswana, senegal
The concept of “repertoires of domination” is used to describe the many tactics government ocials and non-state actors use to limit meaningful shifts of authority associated with decentralization related to wildlife management in Botswana and forestry management in Senegal.
 

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