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.
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.
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.
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.
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.