Municipalities in South Africa–like those around the world–have faced challenges and opportunities in achieving financial sustainability, efficient service delivery, and responsive governance in recent years. As part of its efforts to ensure an efficient and […]
The Local Public Sector Alliance—led by LPSA’s Working Group on Sub-Saharan Africa and other Africa-based members of the Alliance—brought together leading African experts on decentralization and localization and partner organizations from around the world on […]
On October 22, 2024, the African School of Decentralization, in collaboration with the LPSA Sub-Saharan Africa Working Group, the Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape, and the Centre for Federalism and […]
Revenue decentralization represents a framework that facilitates enhanced fiscal autonomy for subnational governments, thereby enabling the tailoring of services to meet local needs and potentially fostering economic growth. In Kenya, the ratification of the 2010 […]
The Localizing WEE in Africa (LWEEA) project seeks to promote the adoption, funding, and implementation of intergovernmental policy solutions for women’s economic empowerment as a gender-responsive ‘macro-level’ (or multi-level) policy response that supports all women’s […]
The Collaborative Action for Childcare (CAC) Annual Conference 2024 will take place on September 18th and 19th in Nairobi, Kenya. This conference brings together state and non-state actors dedicated to advancing the quest for quality […]
The theme for the Fourth African School on Decentralisation (ASD) is ‘Decentralisation and Human Rights’. The 2024 ASD will examine whether, and if so how, decentralization can create favorable conditions for the protection and realization […]
Debates over decentralization in authoritarian contexts often center on whether it provides significant steps toward democratization or is simply a tool autocrats use to shore up their power. However, evidence from Tanzania finds that opposition-led […]
In December 2021, the Local Public Sector Alliance convened a series of virtual knowledge sharing events on Decentralization and Local Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Progress on devolution and local governance in the region was found to […]
After the adoption of a new Constitution in 2016, Zambia embarked on a process of devolution. To mark progress to date, and exchange views on the way forward, the Fourth National Decentralization Conference was convened […]
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