Seven years after Nepal replaced its unitary government with a three-tier federal system, its civil service is stuck in limbo. The fractious national government has been unable to agree on new federal civil service legislation […]
It has long been observed that many autocracies run national elections, and several theories have been proposed to explain this regularity. The main thrust of these theories is that elections cement the regime’s grip on […]
As part of its global webinar series on Elevating the Decentralization Debate, which seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners on issues related to decentralization, multilevel governance, and localized development, the Local Public Sector Alliance—in […]
Gender inequality is perhaps the single most significant impediment to achieving a more just, equitable, prosperous, and inclusive world. Inequality, a root cause of poverty, instability, and conflict, is damaging to people, societies, and the […]
The Paris Collaborative on Green Budgeting, established in 2017 with the OECD serving as the Secretariat, aims to design new, innovative tools for national and subnational governments to better align national expenditure and revenue processes […]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a policy paper which contextualizes the local government performance measurement framework (LGPMF) for Uzbekistan, and provides a starting point for the development of performance indicators and the creation […]
The Forum of Federations is an international organization–based in Ottawa, Canada–that develops and shares comparative expertise on the practice of federal and decentralized governance through a global network. The Forum has a practical, problem-solving approach […]
There are five villages in the Damrey Slab commune of Cambodia’s Kampong Thom province, but travel among them was difficult. The roads between villages were in disrepair, complained Mr. Chea, a villager in Damrey Slab […]
The World Bank Group published a guidebook for practitioners to promote policy actions that strengthen competitiveness at the subnational level. This guidebook introduces Subnational Competitiveness Grants (SCGs) as an innovative approach in which well-tested tools […]
Decentralization and devolution of the public sector have been at the center stage of national policy agendas in many African countries in the past decades. Despite this trend, sub-national governments continue to rely on top-down fiscal transfers […]
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