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• Decentralized forest resources and access of minorities to environmental justice : an analysis of the case of the Baka in southern Cameroon
  2006, Assembe Mvondo, Samuel Portal

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Decentralized governance and ecological health : why local institutions fail to moderate deforestation in Mpigi district of Uganda
  2007, Banana, Abwoli Y. Portal

  Factors that affect the effectiveness of decentralization of authority over forests to local user groups,...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Decentralized local governments as a modality for post-conflict recovery and development : an emerging natural experiment in northern Uganda
  2010, Boex, Jamie and Kimble, Deborah and Pigey, Juliana Portal

  The main features and potential impact of five post-conflict programmes in northern Uganda are compared...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Decentralized service delivery in Nairobi and Mombasa : policies, politics and inter-governmental relations
  2012, Mitullah, Winnie V. Portal

  Despite decentralization, poor service delivery continues to be problematic in the two largest cities of...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Decentralizing agricultural extension : lessons and good practice
  2000, Alex, Gary Portal

  Field extension advisory services are well suited to decentralized approaches, but a comprehensive extension system...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Decentralizing forest management : pretense or reality? : in the context of Forest rights act in India
  2009, Ghate, Rucha Portal

  After more than a century of centralization, the Forest Policy of 1988 was the first...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Decentralizing government and centralizing gender in southern Africa : lessons from the South African experience
  2005, Beall, Jo Conference proceeding/ paper

  This paper argues that: (1) effective involvement of women in local governance is predicated both...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Deconstructing development discourse : buzzwords and fuzzwords
  cop. 2010, Cornwall, Andrea and Eade, Deborah Portal

  If development buzzwords conceal ideological differences or sloppy thinking, then the process of constructive deconstruction...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Deepening democracy : innovations in empowered participatory governance
  2001, Fung, Archon and Wright, Erik Olin Portal

  Five experiments in participatory deliberative governance from Brazil, India, and the USA are examined. It...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Deepening democracy through local participation : examining the ward committee system as a form of local participation in Bonteheuvel in the Western Cape
  2007, Esau, Michelle Portal

  A case from Western Cape was used to examine the South African experience in the...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance