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• Improving local government : the Commonwealth vision : background discussion paper
  2009, Amis, Philip Portal

  This background discussion paper for the Commonwealth Local Government Conference on “Improving local government” (2009)...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Improving school governance through participative democracy and the law
  cop. 2011, Smit, Marius H. and Oosthuizen, Izak J. E-article

  This paper argues that the crisis presently experienced in the education system of South Africa...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Improving service delivery through outsourcing
  2011, Badenhorst-Weiss, J.A. and Ambe, I.M. Portal

  Analysis of 10 case studies of outsourcing in the South African public sector demonstrates that...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Improving the community development workers programme in South Africa
  2012, Davids, Ismail and Cloete, Fanie Portal

  In 2003, the South African government introduced a cadre of Community Development Workers (CDWs) with...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Improving the implementation of health workforce policies through governance : a review of case studies
  2011, Dieleman, Maria Areke and Shaw, Daniel M.P. and Zwanikken, Prisca Portal

  A study of 4 governance dimensions (including performance, which has an important decentralization component) on...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Improving the provision of basic services for the poor in fragile environments : water supply, sanitation and hygiene international literature review
  2008, Welle, Katharina Portal

  This paper constitutes a literature review of the international practice and experience in supporting pro-poor...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• In and out of the forest : decentralisation and recentralisation of forest governance in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
  2012, Bullinger, Cathrin and Haug, Michaela Portal

  The question what actual impact both de- and recentralisation of forest governance had on the...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• In gesprek met Hamas : over het falen van de isolatiepolitiek
  2009, Gruiters, J., Kuik, J., Oosterzee, J.J. van Report

  This report analyses what can happen when Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the international community...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• In pursuit of votes : the capture of the allocation of local public goods by the central state in Ghana
  2010, Horowitz, Leah and Palaniswamy, Nethra Portal

  Using a comparative case study of two districts in northern Ghana, it is shown that...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• In the know : using information to make better decisions : a discussion paper
  cop. 2008, Portal

  Buidling on the experiences on the UK Audit Commission, this paper aims to encourage people...

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  Decentralization & local governance