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Upcoming DeLoG Webinar: Who Does What? Functional Assignment Challenges and How to Address Them

May 11, 2022 Susanna Fazio

The Development Partners Network on Decentralisation & Local Governance (DeLoG) cordially invites you to participate to this upcoming webinar on functional assignment. During the webinar, we will discuss how to effectively assign functional responsibilities in multilevel governance systems. […]

Decentralization

The Dynamics of Decentralization in the MENA: Processes, Outcomes, and Obstacles

May 10, 2022 LPSAManager

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 […]

Decentralization

Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Latin America and the Caribbean

May 4, 2022 LPS Initiative

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 […]

Decentralization

LPSA Launches Decentralization Primer

April 26, 2022 LPSAManager

One of the primary goals of the Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) is to enhance the understanding of decentralization and localization as complex, cross-cutting and multi-stakeholder reforms. In line with this mission, LPSA is excited […]

Community

2022 Subnational Government GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) Survey

April 24, 2022 LPSAManager

Governments have been using technology to modernize the public sector for decades. The World Bank Group (WBG) launched the GovTech Initiative in 2019 to support the latest generation of these reforms. GovTech is a whole-of-government approach to […]

Africa

Making Devolution Work for Service Delivery in Kenya

April 10, 2022 LPSAManager

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 […]

COVID-19

Local government budget delays are impeding Nepal’s COVID-19 response

April 6, 2022 LPSAManager

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 […]

Cambodia

Intergovernmental Fiscal Architecture Study – Cambodia

March 30, 2022 LPSAManager

The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has made a strong commitment to strengthening public service delivery through three interrelated public sector reform initiatives: Public Financial Management Reform Program (PFMRP), National Program for Public Administration Reform […]

Decentralization

How to Design Subnational Fiscal Rules

March 13, 2022 LPSAManager

Mismanagement of subnational finances can entail large economic and social costs, not only within theaffected jurisdiction, but also for a country as a whole. History offers many examples of costly bailouts of subnational governments by […]

Decentralization

Using specific–purpose grants to achieve development goals

March 5, 2022 LPSAManager

Decentralization has been increasing in developing countries, oftentimes, with the encouragement of development partners. It is estimated that intergovernmental transfers account for about 60 per cent of total local government revenues in developing countries. Given this trend, the question […]

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