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India (Kerala): A Model Groundwater Bill

July 12, 2016 LPS Initiative

It seeks to make groundwater a common pool resource, reduce its pollution and degradation, and protect ecosystems and their biological diversity. The Union Ministry of Water Resources has put up a Model Bill for Conservation, […]

Shared Mandates, Moral Hazard, and Political (Mis)alignment in a Decentralized Economy

June 22, 2016 LPS Initiative

This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service delivery when mandates are shared between state and local governments. As argued by Oates (1972) long ago, when local administrations are not pressured to […]

Ghana: Education Decentralisation Remains Government’s Top Priority

June 15, 2016 LPS Initiative

Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary, has re-emphasised government’s commitment to the decentralisation of the education sector. He said the draft bill on the Education Decentralisation Policy would soon […]

Subnational Health Care Financing Reforms in Indonesia

April 19, 2016 LPS Initiative

Indonesia has seen an emergence of local health care financing schemes over the last decade, implemented and operated by district governments. Often motivated by the local political context and characterized by a large degree of […]

Namibia: Regional Councils to Take On Greater Responsibility in Education Budget

March 16, 2016 LPS Initiative

Regional councils and local authorities are now mandated with the responsibility to budget and plan for the delivery of public services in their respective areas, specifically dealing with capital projects such as revamping and construction […]

Kenya: To Attain Water Security, Draw on the 3 Streams of Finance, Groundwork, Climate

February 9, 2016 LPS Initiative

Access to safe and affordable water is not only a basic human right, it is essential to reduce poverty and to promote social equity. Yet in many parts of East Africa, poor people have found it […]

Reflections on Decentralised Health Delivery System in Kerala

February 1, 2016 LPS Initiative

The much acclaimed Kerala model of health care system (Elamon, Franke and Ekbal, 2004) had faced serious challenges in the mid-1980s and early 1990s due to the dilution of the politics of collective action and […]

Kenya: Counties Win Case on Devolution of Roads

December 31, 2015 LPS Initiative

The government’s chief legal adviser has been given 90 days to gazette the transfer of the roads function to county governments, in a ruling seen to give devolution a lifeline. High Court judge Mumbi Ngugi […]

Local service delivery in Nepal

December 9, 2015 Jamie Boex

Even though Nepal recently adopted a new federal Constitution, much of the attention of the ongoing public sector reforms has gone to the new provincial level, and the arrangements between the national (federal) government and […]

Decentralization of Water and Sanitation Services in Honduras

November 17, 2015 LPS Initiative

Honduras has one of the highest incidences of poverty and inequality in the western hemisphere. It is the third poorest country in Latin America with a population of roughly 8.3 million inhabitants of which more […]