Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

'Tips and tricks' of participatory land-use planning in Lao PDR : towards a land zoning negotiation support platform

Bourgoin, Jeremy | 2011]
  • Author(s): Bourgoin, Jeremy
  • Publisher: Colorado state university
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: governance, land use, small farms, community participation, development planning, guidelines, laos
As alternative to complex ‘high-tech’ LUP models that local stakeholders are not able to use and replicate, a communication platform supporting negotiations among multiple stakeholders groups has been tested in a village cluster of Luang Prabang Province in northern Laos.

Resource development on customary land : managing the complexity through a pro-development compensation solution

Boydell, Spike and Baya, Ulai | 2012
  • Author(s): Boydell, Spike and Baya, Ulai
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: guidelines, community participation, compensation, customary law, land acquisition, melanesia
International valuation standards for potential solutions to land compensation are compared to formulate an equitable, hybrid model for possible use in Melanesia. In practice, because consensus is hard to reach, the proposed model is inherently time consuming.

Decentralisation and poverty reduction : a review of the linkages in Tanzania and the international literature

Braathen, Einar | 2008
  • Author(s): Braathen, Einar
  • Publisher: Norwegian agency for development cooperation (Norad)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: local government, administrative reform, decentralization in government, poverty alleviation, research, budgeting, popular participation, accountability, tanzania
The Local Government Reform Programme in Tanzania is analysed. It is shown that the service-delivery role of local government was strengthened. Enhanced grass-roots democracy and participation of the poor have led to improved local finances for poverty-reducing measures.

The role of decentralisation on peace making and conflict : a literature review

Braathen, Einar and Hellevik, Siri Bjerkreim | 2006
  • Author(s): Braathen, Einar and Hellevik, Siri Bjerkreim
  • Publisher: Norwegian institute for urban and regional research (NIBR)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, conflict, local government
After reviewing the literature of the role that decentralisation plays in peace and conflict management, it is argued that interdependency between central and local levels of government is necessary for decentralization to lead to peace.

Decentralization : fueling the fire or dampening the flames of ethnic conflict and secessionism?

Brancati, Dawn | 2006
  • Author(s): Brancati, Dawn
  • Publisher: Cambridge university press]
  • Pages: 651--685
  • Keywords: democracy, conflict, political conditions, governance, ethnic and racial groups, decentralization in government
This paper uses statistical analysis of 23 democracies from 1990 to 2000 to show that decentralization decreases ethnic conflict directly by giving groups control over their own affairs, but that it increases ethnic conflict indirectly by encouraging the growth of regional parties.
 

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