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Africa’s smaller cities are usually overlooked: they shouldn’t be

July 17, 2022 LPSAManager
Often when one thinks or writes about urbanization in Africa, mega-cities or primary cities like Lagos, Nairobi, Addis Ababa or Kampala, come to mind. Little, however, is written about places like Gabés in Tunisia, Touba-Mbacké […]
Cities and urban development

Local Government Finance is Development Finance

July 6, 2022 LPSAManager
The Local Transformative Finance team at United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) recently released a book titled Local Government Finance is Development Finance. This book highlights the partnership, policy and investment agenda of UNCDF in […]
Decentralization

Empowering local governments? Lessons learned from Haiti

June 27, 2022 LPSAManager
The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, and the political crisis that followed, have, understandably, attracted a lot of media attention. But for most Haitians, the dramatic developments in the capital city have less bearing on […]
Decentralization

Local Autonomy in the European Union

June 25, 2022 LPSAManager
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 […]
Climate action

OECD Launch Conference: Financing Climate Action in Regions and Cities

June 13, 2022 LPS Alliance
Regions and cities play a key financial role in the carbon-neutral transition and the global response to climate change. This is, in large part, due to their jurisdiction over crucial adaptation and mitigation-relevant policy areas […]
Argentina

Subnational Governance in Large Federal Countries

May 22, 2022 LPSAManager
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. […]
Community

Local democracy and security in Ukraine

April 29, 2022 LPS Alliance
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 […]
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 […]
Events

Knowledge sharing on decentralization and local development in the MENA Region: A recap

April 19, 2022 LPSAManager
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) […]
Bangladesh

Strengthening of local government institutions stressed for achieving SDGs

April 10, 2022 LPSAManager
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 […]

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