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Month: November 2015

Africa

It’s time for Africa

November 29, 2015 LPS Alliance
The famous song performed by Shakira at the opening of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa was just translating the new appetite for Africa that is rising up in the mindset of many […]
Asia

The Rocky Road to Federation in the Philippines

November 27, 2015 LPS Initiative
Federalism is a buzzword in the Philippines these days. A former chief justice of the Supreme Court, Reynato Puno, recently launched a highly publicised national renewal movement, Bagong Sistema, Bagong Pag-asa (New System, New Hope), […]
Political decentralization

Local Governments and Public Goods: Assessing Decentralization in the Arab World

November 24, 2015 LPS Initiative
Countries across the Arab world have been engaging in a range of decentralization efforts. This book, edited by Mona Harb and Sami Atallah, documents and assesses past and current decentralization policies and initiatives in five Arab […]
Asia

Ethnic Armed Conflict and Territorial Administration in Myanmar

November 20, 2015 LPS Initiative
Rural and mountainous areas across many of Myanmar’s non-Bamar regions are contested by multiple governance actors with overlapping claims to territory, including: the Myanmar government and armed forces, countless state-backed ethnic militia, and dozens of […]
Latin America & Caribbean

Decentralization of Water and Sanitation Services in Honduras

November 17, 2015 LPS Initiative
Honduras has one of the highest incidences of poverty and inequality in the western hemisphere. It is the third poorest country in Latin America with a population of roughly 8.3 million inhabitants of which more […]
Asia

Forest and Land-use Governance in a Decentralized Indonesia: A Legal and Policy Review

November 13, 2015 LPS Initiative
Indonesia’s forest and peat land fire in 2015 is recorded as the worst forest fire incident since 1997 with 127,000 fires across the country. These fires, mostly resulted from slash and burn method used to […]
Fiscal Decentralization

Municipal Finances, A Handbook for Local Governments

November 11, 2015 LPS Initiative
Municipal Finances, A Handbook for Local Governments (2014), edited by Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic and Mihaly Kopanyi, is designed to help local government practitioners to improve strategic management of municipal finances. It provides practitioners, particularly staff of medium […]
Africa

Breaking Up is Hard to Do: The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Risky Decentralization Drive

November 9, 2015 LPS Initiative
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is in the midst of implementing a big decentralization project. The so-called “découpage”—literally, “cutting up”—has been a long time coming: the decision to subdivide is enshrined […]
Climate action

Lessons Learned from the Local Climate Adaptive Living (LoCAL) Facility

November 7, 2015 LPS Alliance
Over 100 participants from over 17 countries gathered at the Sokhalay hotel in Siem Reap, Cambodia — 2-4 November 2015 — to share lessons learned from the LoCAL experience and to coordinate the development of […]
Africa

Elections in Tanzania reflect greater political competition

November 3, 2015 LPS Alliance
Elections were held on October 25, 1015, in the United Republic of Tanzania, with more than 12,000 candidates from Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar—including 1,039 women—running  for the Presidency, Parliament,the Zanzibar House of Representatives, and local District […]

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