Local service delivery Archives – Decentralization Net

East Lampung Regent's Office, located in Sukadana, Indonesia (Credit: Crisco 1492)

Study: Decentralization Effort in Indonesia Shows Need for Performance Incentives from Central Government

October 29, 2015 LPS Initiative

Performance-based Public Management Reforms: Experience and Emerging Lessons From Service Delivery Improvement in Indonesia, a case study by RTI International, examines service delivery pathways in Indonesia 15 years after President Suharto was swept from power […]

Local fiscal inequities and the challenges of ‘disadvantaged’ Local Government Authorities in Tanzania

August 5, 2015 LPS Alliance

Inclusion and ensuring equitable development are important themes in the emerging post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda. Inclusion and equity are not only important features in the own right: poverty reduction and development progress can only be […]

The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain’t Learning

July 31, 2015 LPS Alliance

More than a billion children worldwide—95 percent—are in school. That’s due in part to steady progress toward the second Millennium Development Goal that every child “be able to complete a full course of primary school” […]

Decentralized Local Health Services in Tanzania

July 21, 2015 Jamie Boex

Over two-thirds of Tanzanians reside in rural areas and rely on local health facilities (such as Dispensaries and Health Centers) run by their Local Government Authorities to provide them with basic health services. Therefore, efforts […]