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LPSA Updates

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

May 29, 2023 LPS Alliance

The LPSA Advisory Board invites 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 […]

Iraq

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, […]

Asia

Does India love its local governments?

April 27, 2023 LPS Alliance

This year is the 30th anniversary of the passing of the 73rd and 74th Amendments. Indian governance was always overcentralized. But it is a sign of the times that even the modest steps these amendments […]

Community

LPSA is looking for Regional and Thematic Program Managers / Coordinators

April 21, 2023 LPS Alliance

The grand challenges that countries face in the 21st century cannot be dealt with by any single government level alone. This is true for a wide range of challenges, from addressing the concentration of wealth […]

Community

Two Decades of (Fiscal) Decentralization in Indonesia: Lessons for Decentralization Champions in Asia

April 17, 2023 LPS Alliance

Fiscal decentralization in Indonesia has come a long way in the past two decades. The adoption of two laws, the Law on Regional Government (Law No. 22 of 1999) and on Financial Balance between Central […]

Decentralization

Global Declaration of Mayors for Democracy

April 14, 2023 LPS Alliance

Two hundred mayors from five continents endorse the Global Declaration of Mayors for Democracy promoted collaboratively by the Global Parliament of Mayors, GMF Cities, and the Pact of Free Cities. The declaration is being presented […]

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