Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Technical and institutional capacity in local organisations to manage decentralised forest resources in Uganda

Turyahabwe, N. | 2006
  • Author(s): Turyahabwe, N.
  • Publisher: Sabinet]
  • Pages: 63--78
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, forest management, community organization, legal aspects, human resources, capacity building, uganda
The technical and institutional capacity in selected local organizations (community, government) to manage decentralized forest resources in Uganda was examined. None of them had either the legal mandate or sufficient human and physical resources to govern forest resources well.

Angola 2002/2003 : key development issues and democratic decentralisation

Tvedten, Inge and Orre, Aslak and Bakke, Rasmus | 2003
  • Author(s): Tvedten, Inge and Orre, Aslak and Bakke, Rasmus
  • Publisher: Chr. Michelsen institute (CMI)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: economic conditions, economic policy, development assistance, decentralization in government, local government, democracy, elections, angola
The prospects for Norwegian development organizations to support Angolan local government and its role in popular participation and service delivery are examined. First and foremost, there is a need for local elections.

Communities, livelihoods, and natural resources : action research and policy change in Asia

Tyler, Stephen R. | 2006
  • Author(s): Tyler, Stephen R.
  • Publisher: International development research centre (IDRC) [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: natural resources, environmental management, poverty alleviation, development policy, development research, community organization, community participation, natural resources policy, asia, south east asia, cambodia, lao, vietnam, bhutan, china
By presenting field reports of innovative approaches to poverty reduction and sustainable resource use, it provides practitioners with models of \"good practice\" in participatory, community-based resource management and contributes to broader learning in NRM policy.

Financial resources mobilization performance of rural local government : case study of three Union Parishad in Bangladesh

Ullah, Md. Anwar and Pongquan, Soparth | 2010
  • Author(s): Ullah, Md. Anwar and Pongquan, Soparth
  • Publisher: Canadian center of science and education (CCSE)]
  • Pages: 95--115
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, fiscal policy, local government, rural areas, property tax, finance, bangladesh
Fiscal decentralization in Bangladesh has been initiated but the existing pattern of rural local governments self financing is not impressive. The relatively small scale Union Parishad (UP), the lowest tier rural local government, show some promise.

Opposed legalities and collective action in a conflict context : the case of land rights in Darfur

Unruh, Jon | 2012
  • Author(s): Unruh, Jon
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: conflict, islamic law, legislation, customary law, land rights, sudan
This article examines how the internal functioning and interaction of statutory, customary, and Islamic legal regimes regarding land, and their attendant forms of collective action, have become aligned with different with different sides of the war in Darfur.
 

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