Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

[Local government action

| 2011-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Local government action]
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  • Keywords: local government, public services, accountability, water supply, housing, human rights, sanitation, south africa
This website provides access to a number of resource documents for local action with regard to water budgeting, housing, sanitation, and the right to protest.

UNU school for land administration studies

| 2011-
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  • Publisher: University of Twente. Faculty of geo-information science and earth observation (ITC)
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  • Keywords: land rights, land titles, social justice, economic growth, capacity building, universities and colleges, research, public administration
The School for Land Administration Studies aims to provide support in the area of land policy and land policy instruments through education and capacity building, research, advisory services, and expert meetings. Land policy determines access to land for food production and poverty alleviation.

Land governance : Governance assessment portal (GAP)

| 2011-
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  • Publisher: United nations development programme (UNDP)
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  • Keywords: land tenure, governance, public administration, poverty alleviation, evaluation, land rights, food security
Major inter-governmental institutions collaborate to produce a harmonized set of land indicators. These involve measures of governance and administration, distribution and access, functioning markets and investments, and tenure security indicators in rural and urban areas.

Decentralised cooperation : local and regional authorities for development

| 2011-
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  • Publisher: European union. Committee of the regions
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  • Keywords: co-operation between organizations, eu, development assistance, local government
This new EU portal recognizes the unique added-value that local and regional authorities bring to development. The portal includes a stock exchange for putting in contact local and regional authorities (LRAs) in the EU and their counterparts in developing countries.

Non-state actors and local authorities in development

| 2011-
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  • Publisher: European commission (EC)
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  • Keywords: local government, development assistance, eu, nongovernmental organizations, economic development
This thematic programme “Non-state actors and local authorities in development” aims at encouraging non-state actors and local authorities, both from the EU and in developing countries, to get more involved in development issues. It is a programme of the DG \"EuropeAid Development and Cooperation\".
 

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This information portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents on Rural Decentralization and Local Governance.