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Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

UCLG position paper on aid effectiveness and local government : understanding the link between governance and development : including the support paper and a compilation of case studies

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United cities and local governments (UCLG)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: local government, development aspects, international co-operation, development assistance
Local and regional governments should be acknowledged as development partners occupying an equitable place in the international Aid Effectiveness debates. The Paris Declaration aid effectiveness principles do not fully address local level development.

Donor approaches to governance assessments : guiding principles for enhanced impact, usage and harmonisation

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Organisation for economic co-operation and development] (OECD)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: governance, local government, evaluation, guidelines, development indicators
The scope and volume of assessment tools to understand governance impacts have flourished. The OECD DAC Network on Governance (GOVNET) has analysed these tools and their use in an effort to share experience, reduce the risk of duplicating assessments, and promote more coherent collective action.

Outsourcing's third wave : buying farmland abroad

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Economist newspaper
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: land acquisition, food security, public sector, foreign investments, poverty, colonialism, asia
The fear of rising food prices and trade bans have prompted rich food importers from the Middle East and China to acquire vast tracts of poor countries' farmland. Is this beneficial foreign investment or neocolonialism?

Political economy of sub-national government

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: University of Birmingham. Governance and social development resource centre (GSDRC)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: local government, political economy, decentralization in government, decision-making, afghanistan, brazil, peru, south africa
The evolution of sub-national government as a means for central government to accommodate or subordinate local power centers is described. Contradictions between formally assigned roles and the actual power that sub-national actors are able to wield are highlighted.

Local governance support program (LGSP)

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: governance, local government, capacity building, popular participation, social development
This film shows the activities of the Local Governance Support Program (LGSP) in Bangladesh on strengthening Union Parishads. LGSP aims at capacity building of the people at grass roots level by having them participate directly in development activities and development schemes.
 

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