Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Resources for development practitioners

| cop. 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: capacity building, guidelines, manuals, development assistance
Literature, case studies, lessons learned, and good practices pertaining to capacity development. Includes links to international and local capacity development agencies and other knowledge resources.

The African capacity building foundation : building sustainable human and institutional capacity for poverty reduction in Africa

| cop. 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: African capacity building foundation (ACBF)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: capacity building, popular participation, development banks, foundations, africa
The foundation supports the building and sustenance of indigenous capacity in African countries. Programmes want to strengthen effectiveness of the core public sector, an inclusive and participatory process in policy formulation and implementation, and improvement in the policy environment.

Commonwealth local government forum (CLGF)

| cop. 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Commonwealth local government forum (CLGF)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: local government, capacity building, public services, guidelines
The forum helps strengthen effective democratic local government throughout the Commonwealth and facilitates the exchange of good practice in local government structures and services.

LGI professional and social network

| cop. 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Local government and public service reform initiative (LGI)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: local government, information exchange, internet, public services, democracy, decentralization in government, public administration, capacity building
The Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI) created this professional and social network to enable local government professionals to get in touch with each other, keep contacts, share ideas or form groups for discussion.

Community driven development (CDD)

| cop. 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: community participation, governance, decentralization in government, capacity building
The World Bank's CDD Group works to improve the understanding of community driven development approaches and their role in poverty reduction, improve the overall quality of lending programs using community driven techniques and to find ways to effectively scale-up community driven activities.
 

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