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A first: women voting and running in local Saudi elections

December 10, 2015 LPS Alliance

Saudi activist and women’s health researcher Hala Aldosari is excited about next weekend’s elections in Saudi Arabia. It will be the first time women will be able to stand side-by-side with men as candidates. Women will […]

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 […]

How Many New Mayor Jokowis on December 9?

December 7, 2015 LPS Initiative

On December 9, 2015, Indonesians will elect nine provincial governors, 36 city mayors and 224 regents in the country’s first simultaneous local executive elections nationwide. Since the fall of long-term autocrat Soeharto in 1998, Indonesia […]

Decentralizing Revenue in Latin America: Why and How

December 2, 2015 LPS Initiative

Latin American countries have made great strides in increasing total revenue. The biggest challenge they face, however, is reforming tax institutions and rules. The importance of taxation as a development tool cannot be emphasized enough, […]

It’s time for Africa

November 29, 2015 LPS Alliance

The famous song performed by Shakira at the opening of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa was just translating the new appetite for Africa that is rising up in the mindset of many […]

The Rocky Road to Federation in the Philippines

November 27, 2015 LPS Initiative

Federalism is a buzzword in the Philippines these days. A former chief justice of the Supreme Court, Reynato Puno, recently launched a highly publicised national renewal movement, Bagong Sistema, Bagong Pag-asa (New System, New Hope), […]

Local Governments and Public Goods: Assessing Decentralization in the Arab World

November 24, 2015 LPS Initiative

Countries across the Arab world have been engaging in a range of decentralization efforts. This book, edited by Mona Harb and Sami Atallah, documents and assesses past and current decentralization policies and initiatives in five Arab […]

Ethnic Armed Conflict and Territorial Administration in Myanmar

November 20, 2015 LPS Initiative

Rural and mountainous areas across many of Myanmar’s non-Bamar regions are contested by multiple governance actors with overlapping claims to territory, including: the Myanmar government and armed forces, countless state-backed ethnic militia, and dozens of […]

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 […]

Forest and Land-use Governance in a Decentralized Indonesia: A Legal and Policy Review

November 13, 2015 LPS Initiative

Indonesia’s forest and peat land fire in 2015 is recorded as the worst forest fire incident since 1997 with 127,000 fires across the country. These fires, mostly resulted from slash and burn method used to […]