Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P. and Regt, Jacomina P. de | 2012
- Author(s): Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P. and Regt, Jacomina P. de
- Publisher: International food policy research institute (IFPRI)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: local government, world bank, empowerment, popular participation, community organization, community development
Scaling up an LCDD program generally takes 10 to 15 years. The overall process is nonlinear, iterative and should use a systems perspective. Scaling up has many dimensions, including inclusiveness and the need to go beyond participation by embedding empowerment in the entire development process.
Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P. and Regt, Jacomina P. de and Spector, Stephen | cop. 2010
- Author(s): Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P. and Regt, Jacomina P. de and Spector, Stephen
- Publisher: World bank
- Pages: --
- Keywords: local government, economic development, community participation, development strategies, development planning, empowerment, accountability, capacity building, guidelines
This publication provides development practitioners with the historical background and the tools required to successfully scale up local and community driven development (LCDD) to the regional and national levels.
Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P. and Regt, Jacomina P. de and Spector, Stephen | 2009]
- Author(s): Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P. and Regt, Jacomina P. de and Spector, Stephen
- Publisher: World bank
- Pages: --
- Keywords: local government, community participation, development planning, guidelines, development policy
This book includes historical backgrounds, best practices and underpinnings, analysis and lessons learned, and toolkits for developing supportive national policies and implementation programs that fit the individual contexts of countries and localities.
Bird, Richard | 2010
- Author(s): Bird, Richard
- Publisher: World bank. Poverty reduction and economic management network (PREM)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: decentralization in government, fiscal policy, accountability
From an economics perspective, the most important potential benefit from decentralization is the increased efficiency (and consequent welfare gain) that comes from moving governance closer to the people. To achieve this, close attention must be paid to the design of subnational tax systems.
Bird, Richard and Vaillancourt, François and Roy-César, ةdison | 2010
- Author(s): Bird, Richard and Vaillancourt, François and Roy-César, ةdison
- Publisher: Georgia state university. Andrew Young school of policy studies
- Pages: --
- Keywords: decentralization in government, conflict, civil war, africa south of sahara, south east asia
The very mixed stories of linkages between decentralization and national unity that emerge in a wide variety of countries around the world are reviewed with special emphasis on the actual or potential problem of secessionist tendencies.