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Month: May 2023

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Nominations for LPSA Working Group Co-Chairs now open

May 31, 2023 LPS Alliance
The Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) is a global professional network for advocates of inclusive and efficient decentralization and localization grounded in the recognition that decentralization and localization are critical for achieving resilient, inclusive, sustainable, […]
LPSA Updates

Local Public Sector Alliance – Advisory Board & Community Meeting – June 2023

May 29, 2023 LPS Alliance
The LPSA Advisory Board invited all Advisory Board members, as well as all interested policy practitioners, government officials, researchers and scholars, civil society stakeholders and other members of the global community of practice on decentralization […]
Climate action

Climate Governance and Federalism

May 28, 2023 LPS Alliance
Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges of our time, demanding urgent action and global cooperation. As nations grapple with the complexities of climate governance, the role of federal systems becomes a topic of […]
Conflict and Fragility

Decarbonization and political transformation in Iraq

May 11, 2023 LPS Alliance
What happens when a petrostate loses its oil rents? While the oil market continues to go through boom-and-bust cycles, cases such as Iraq provide evidence of how the rapid loss of oil revenues—traumatic decarbonization—may affect […]
Community

The Role of Local and Regional Governments In Development Cooperation

May 10, 2023 LPS Alliance
The context in which international development cooperation is taking place has changed over the last decade. Global poverty rates have declined, but economic and social inequalities remain widespread challenges —notably gender-based inequalities. Some of the […]
Decentralization

Explainer: What is a local government and why does it matter?

May 9, 2023 LPS Alliance
Decentralization (or devolution, to be more precise) is sometimes defined as “the transfer of power, authority, and resources from the central government to local governments”. In other cases, decentralization has been defined as “the empowerment […]
Africa

Ghana: The (rebirth of the) decentralist

May 8, 2023 LPS Alliance
Few would disagree that decentralization is an alternative development strategy as evidence abound the world over, especially in emerging markets on the ability of decentralization to bring governance closer to the doorsteps of the people, […]

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