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[ March 11, 2026 ] How can property taxes drive subnational development? Cities and urban development
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[ February 17, 2026 ] Reimagining democracy from the ground up Decentralization

Unpacking Community-led Development

March 12, 2021 LPS Alliance

Community-led Development (CLD) is not a new idea. Even before the pandemic demonstrated why the world needs CLD, terms like localization, community-driven development and locally-led development had begun to gain traction in the development discourse. […]

Future of Cities Will Shape Post-COVID-19 World

March 12, 2021 LPS Alliance

“If urban areas are where COVID-19 impacts have been the most severe, it also means that interventions in cities and towns can have the biggest impact. Cities are vulnerable to climate shocks and produce an […]

USAID: Placing decentralization at the service of the people in Peru

December 27, 2020 LPS Alliance

Despite having one of the world’s fastest growing economies in terms of gross domestic product growth rate, Peru historically has been unable to improve its public services at the same rate. This disparity was particularly […]

Somalia: Moving the Federalism Agenda Forward

December 12, 2020 LPS Alliance

Somalia is emerging from decades of conflict, with the signing of the Provisional Constitution in 2012 paving the way toward a political settlement. Whereas the Provisional Constitution defines the boundaries of Somalia based on the […]

World Bank Property Tax Diagnostic Manual

November 21, 2020 LPS Alliance

The recurrent, annual property tax has tremendous potential for mobilizing own-source revenues, primarily for local governments. The property tax generates about 0.3–0.6 percent of GDP for low- and middle-income countries, 1.1 percent in higher-income (OECD) […]

Rebuilding Local Fiscal Space Conference

November 17, 2020 LPS Alliance

Local governments are leading the COVID-19 responses around the world. They are on the front line of citizen engagement, service delivery and management of public space. Every preventive and containment measure require resources and has […]

USAID: Academic research and donor programming on decentralization

November 16, 2020 LPS Alliance

Beginning in the 1990s there was a wave of enthusiasm for the idea that decentralization would promote both democratic governance and economic efficiency. Throughout the 2000s, that optimism increasingly ran up against a second generation […]

PEFA: Revised guidance for subnational PEFA assessments to be piloted

October 20, 2020 LPS Alliance

The Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) program was initiated in 2001 by seven international development partners to harmonize the assessment of public financial management (PFM) systems across the partner organizations. Since 2001, the PEFA […]

WUF: If You Want to Go Far, Go with Many

March 14, 2020 LPS Initiative

The tenth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF10), convened by UN-Habitat, was held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from the 8th to 13th of February 2020. It was the first time that an […]

PEFA: Guidance for Subnational Government PEFA Assessments

January 30, 2020 LPS Alliance

The PEFA Steering Committee decided on June 2019 to revise the guidance for subnational government (SNG) PEFA assessments to better reflect SNG typologies and intergovernmental fiscal relations systems in each country. The revised guidance proposes […]