Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Energising local economies : an overview : conference report

Rhodes, Sue | 2011
  • Author(s): Rhodes, Sue
  • Publisher: University of technology Sydney (UTS)]
  • Pages: 187--193
  • Keywords: private sector, co-operation between organizations, poverty alleviation, economic development, local government
The need for establishing national local economic development (LED) frameworks was emphasized. LED not only can help reduce poverty and deliver the MDGs, but also creates a climate for partnership and inward investment that is vital to all communities to improve local livelihoods.

Forestry and democratic decentralization in sub-Saharan Africa : a rough draft review

Ribot, J.C. | 2008]
  • Author(s): Ribot, J.C.
  • Publisher: Center for international forestry research (CIFOR)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, forest management, history, local government, social justice, capacity building, africa south of sahara
How can forestry interventions support the emergence of local democracy? How can local democracy foster sustainable and just forest management and use? This article explores the history of decentralization reforms in Africa and some learning on local management in the forestry sector.

Choice, recognition and the democracy effects of decentralization

Ribot, Jesse C. | cop. 2011
  • Author(s): Ribot, Jesse C.
  • Publisher: Swedish International centre for local democracy (ICLD)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, development assistance, co-operation between organizations, private sector, nongovernmental organizations, political representation, local government, democracy, benin, brazil, guatemala, india, indonesia, malawi, senegal, south africa
Often large development agencies choose to work with a wide range of other local interlocutors, including deconcentrated agents, private bodies, customary authorities, and NGOs. As a result, fledgling local governments are receiving few public powers and face competition for legitimacy.

Waiting for democracy : the politics of choice in natural resource decentralization

Ribot, Jesse Craig | cop. 2004
  • Author(s): Ribot, Jesse Craig
  • Publisher: World resources institute
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: natural resources, environmental management, sustainable development, rural development, decentralization in government, democracy, popular participation, natural resources policy
This report examines ways in which reforms of decentralization involving natural resources could be designed and implemented in law and in practice to improve their social and environmental outcomes.

Democratic decentralization of natural resources : institutionalizing popular participation

Ribot, Jesse C. | cop. 2002
  • Author(s): Ribot, Jesse C.
  • Publisher: World resources institute (WRI)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, natural resources, popular participation, natural resources policy, environmental management, forest management, management, civil society, wildlife, water management, accountability, africa south of sahara
The degree to which natural resource decentralizations have taken place and their measurable social and environmental outcomes are examined, using cases from a number of countries on forestry, wildlife, and water management.
 

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