Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Outsourcing revenue collection : experiences from local government authorities in Tanzania

Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge and Katera, Lucas and Ngalewa, Erasto | 2008
  • Author(s): Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge and Katera, Lucas and Ngalewa, Erasto
  • Publisher: Research on poverty alleviation (REPOA)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: privatization, local taxation, local finance, local government, tanzania
This brief examines recent experiences with privatized revenue collection in seven urban and rural councils in Tanzania, with particular focus on the outsourcing of revenue collection to private agents.

Disparities exist in citizens' perceptions of service delivery by local government authorities in Tanzania

Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge and Katera, Lucas and Ngalewa, Erasto | 2008
  • Author(s): Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge and Katera, Lucas and Ngalewa, Erasto
  • Publisher: Research on poverty alleviation (REPOA)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: public services, local government, tanzania
This brief compares Tanzanian citizens' perceptions of service delivery by local government authorities between 2003 and 2006; summarising their perceptions of the overall quality of local services, as well as their satisfaction with services in the three key sectors of education, health and water.

Basing care reforms on evidence : the Kenya health sector costing model

Flessa, Steffen | 2011
  • Author(s): Flessa, Steffen
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health services, kenya
The Ministry of Health of Kenya in cooperation with its development partners conducted a comprehensive costing exercise and subsequently developed the Kenya Health Sector Costing Model in order to fill this data gap. This article discusses this study.

Analysing governance and political economy in sectors : joint donor workshop : 5th-6th November 2009 : workshop report

Foresti, Marta and Wild, Leni | 2009
  • Author(s): Foresti, Marta and Wild, Leni
  • Publisher: Overseas development institute (ODI)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: governance, public sector, public services, political economy
Sector reform and effective service delivery are among the key critical factors for making progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and for achieving sustainable and equitable growth. This report summarizes donors' experiences in sector-level governance and political economy analysis.

Social accountability sourcebook : [strengthening the demand side of governance and service delivery]

Forster, Reiner | [2011- ]
  • Author(s): Forster, Reiner
  • Publisher: World bank]. Social development department
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: accountability, popular participation, decentralization in government, budgeting, guidelines, africa south of sahara, asia and the pacific, latin america, caribbean region
This sourcebook provides an analytical framework, an overview of the main concepts and definitions, tools and methods, case studies from different regions (including Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean), sectoral and thematic applications, and knowledge and learning resources.
 

About this portal

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