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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 (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 […]
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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