Local autonomy is a highly valued feature of good governance. The continuous attempts of many countries to strengthen the autonomy of local government shows the importance given to decentralization and reinforcing competences at the lowest […]
South Africa’s current intergovernmental architecture was an important element of the country’s successful post-apartheid transition. A broadly unitary state, South Africa nonetheless adopted some of the framework and language of a federal system. The Constitution […]
Decentralization, effective intergovernmental relations and good subnational governance are pursued by countries around the world. However, nearly two-thirds of the world’s population–over 5 billion people–live in the fifteen largest, most populous countries in the world. […]
In March 2020, the Program on Governance and Local Development at the University of Gothenburg brought together decentralization scholars from around the MENA region. The discussions focused around the design of decentralization reforms, obstacles, progress […]
The Outlook of Fiscal Relations between Levels of Government in Latin America and the Caribbean (Panorama de las relaciones fiscales entre niveles de gobierno en países de América Latina y el Caribe) is a joint […]
Conventional security discourses did not predict the magnitude and endurance of resistance efforts in Ukraine, considering the asymmetry between Russia and Ukraine in terms of military capacity. Based on our own research on local democracy […]
As part of the global webinar series on decentralization and local development around the world, the Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) hosted the ”Decentralization and Local Development in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) […]
Kenya adopted a new constitution and began the process of devolution in 2010, ceding many formerly national responsibilities to new county governments. As an institutional response to longstanding grievances, this radical restructuring of the Kenyan […]
On November 4th, 2021, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Bangladesh and the Government of Bangladesh’s Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (MLGRD&C) organized a workshop titled “Strengthening Zila Parishad in Achieving […]
Six months into the fiscal year 2021/22, 24 of Nepal’s 753 local governments have yet to approve their annual budget and plan, failing to deliver on what is arguably their most critical constitutional role. With […]
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