Myanmar Archives – Decentralization Net

Deepening Decentralization within Centrally Led States: The Direction of Local Governance Reforms in Southeast Asia

August 24, 2021 LPS Alliance

While the countries of Southeast Asia are a heterogeneous bunch, a common element among them has been the emerging importance of decentralized governance. A flagship 2005 World Bank report–East Asia Decentralizes, Making Local Government Work–identified […]

State and Region Governments in Myanmar

November 12, 2018 LPS Alliance

In September 2013, The Asia Foundation published its first report on Myanmar, State and Region Governments in Myanmar. The report provoked a great deal of interest in subnational governance from government, civil society, donors, and […]

Myanmar: Make Municipal Governance a Reform Priority

May 4, 2016 LPS Initiative

In Myanmar, the social contract linking the average citizen to government has been damaged by decades of top-down military rule. People understandably do not trust government, or think that they benefit much from it. They […]

Local Economic Governance in Myanmar

March 1, 2016 LPS Initiative

Reforming economic governance at the local level is essential if the benefits of Myanmar’s transition are to reach the majority of the country’s people. Already, some state/region governments have begun experimenting with policy changes in […]

Sharing the Wealth: A Roadmap for Distributing Myanmar’s Natural Resource Revenues

February 16, 2016 LPS Initiative

Myanmar’s Union government collects much of the trillions of Kyat generated by oil, gas, gemstones and other minerals each year, primarily through its state-owned economic enterprises (SEEs). In the face of such centralized control over revenue, […]

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 […]

Mapping the State of Local Governance in Myanmar

July 31, 2015 LPS Alliance

The Government of Myanmar has expressed the desire to pursue people-centered development through civic participation, clean government and greater autonomy for state/region government in the country. The Government of Myanmar has initiated steps to realize […]