LPS Alliance, Author at Decentralization Net

The impact of subnational governance on the ability of women to reconcile career and motherhood

May 26, 2025 LPS Alliance

The gender-responsiveness of the local public sector plays a crucial role in shaping the opportunities and challenges faced by women in balancing career ambitions with motherhood. Effective local governance can provide supportive infrastructure and policies […]

UN-Habitat’s New Own Source Revenue Course

May 20, 2025 LPS Alliance

UN-Habitat is excited to share a new resource designed to empower cities and local governments to strengthen their municipal financial resilience: the Own Source Revenue (OSR) for Local Government Course. It is a free, self-paced e-learning […]

Syria’s new leaders reject demands for federalism and regional autonomy

April 29, 2025 LPS Alliance

Syria’s Islamist leaders said this week on Sunday that Kurdish demands for the country to adopt a decentralized system of government in a post-Assad political order posed a threat to national unity. “We clearly reject […]

Dynamics and Issues of Local Autonomy

April 18, 2025 LPS Alliance

Local autonomy is widely considered a cornerstone of effective governance and democratic participation. A new book, “Dynamics and Issues of Local Autonomy: A Comparative Study“, offers a comprehensive analysis of this crucial concept across 57 […]

Decentralization and Criminal Gangs in El Salvador

April 9, 2025 LPS Alliance

Over the past two decades, decentralization has been widely embraced as a pathway to stronger governance, more responsive service delivery, and increased local accountability. In El Salvador, this model helped democratize the political landscape after […]

Filling the emerging gap in development spending

March 18, 2025 LPS Alliance

As the reality sets in that the United States and European countries are drastically reducing their support to developing countries, there is a recognition that the end of the advanced economies’ generosity is not the […]

LPSA Advisory Board & Community Meeting – March 2025

March 13, 2025 LPS Alliance

The LPSA Advisory Board invites all LPSA Advisory Board members, LPSA Working Group Co-Chairs and members, as well as all interested policy practitioners, government officials, researchers and scholars, civil society stakeholders and other members of […]

Join LPSA’s online member directory

March 9, 2025 LPS Alliance

Registering as a member of the Local Public Sector Alliance on our member portal (localpublicector.org) allows you to create a member profile and publicly share your experience and expertise as part of LPSA’s online member directory. […]

LPSA launches its Member Portal

March 8, 2025 LPS Alliance

The Local Public Sector Alliance has established an online Member Portal—localpublicsector.org— to allow its members to connect, engage, and share with each other. Becoming a member of the Local Public Sector Alliance—and access to the […]

Decentralization, local governance, and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa

March 7, 2025 LPS Alliance

While many scholars, policymakers, and development practitioners view decentralization as a way to increase participation, strengthen political representation, and improve social welfare, little is known about the experiences of communities in the context of decentralization […]