Local services Archives – Decentralization Net

Who trusts the Government of the United States?

February 14, 2025 LPS Alliance

Less than two weeks ago, people acting on the authority of the President of the United States announced that they would “shut down” the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with the United States Digital […]

Decentralized Delivery of Water and Sanitation Services

March 20, 2018 LPS Alliance

An important aspect of water and sanitation service provision is the fact that access to water and sanitation is, by its nature, provided at the lowest level of the public sector. As such, regardless of […]

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 […]

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” […]