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• Making environmental management more responsive to local needs : decentralisation and evidence-based policy in Ghana
  2003, Amanor, Kojo and Brown, David Portal

  This paper reports on research in Ghana’s Brong-Ahafo Region concerning the implications of democratic decentralisation...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Making local economic development strategies : a trainer's manual
  cop. 2004, Portal

  The trainer’s guide highlights the fundamental concepts, tools and instruments necessary for developing and implementing...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Making local government work : an activist's guide
  2011, McNeil, Claire and Heywood, Mark and Dugard, Jackie and Hope, P.J. Portal

  Guidelines for grassroots action to hold local governments to account are presented. To create accountable,...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Making reform work : institutions, dispositions, and the improving health of Bangladesh
  cop. 2008, Faquet, Jean-Paul and Ali, Zulfigar Portal

  This article examines whether local governance in Bangladesh can reduce maternal and child mortality, using...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Making services work for poor people
  2002, Devarajan, Shantayanan and Reinikka, Ritva Portal

  The framework outlined in this paper provides a way to examine options for improving the...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Making the road as we go : parents and professionals as partners managing diversity in early childhood education
  2008, Graaff, F. de, Keulen, A. van Report

  This publication discusses the experiences of the Parents and Diversity project, carried out in the...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Malawi : effective delivery of public education services : discussion paper : a review
  2011, Ng’ambi, Francis Portal

  The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) of Malawi adopted a decentralization programme in...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Mali : food security and land governance factsheet
  [2011], Heegde, Martijn de and Hilhorst, Dorothea H.M. and Porchet, Nicholas Portal

  This factsheet contains information on the regulatory land governance framework in Mali, including land tenure...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Mali, Botswana, Namibia, and Malawi : institutional aspects of renewable natural resources governance and management through special districts : final report
  2004, Report

  This document presents eleven cases studies of formal and non-formal special districts, offering promise as...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Management and supply in agriculture and natural resources : is decentralisation the answer?
  1995, Carney, Diana Portal

  The growing demand for food means that new, more effective ways of allocating resources and...

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  Decentralization & local governance