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Upcoming Course: Citizen Participation & Inclusive Governance

June 6, 2022 Laura Rincón

What strategies and tools can be used to involve citizens in local policies? How to ensure that minorities and marginalised groups are included? What are the preconditions for successful citizen participation? And how can citizens […]

Asia

Public hearings working magic for rural residents in Bangladesh

October 28, 2021 LPS Initiative

For 40-year-old Moslem Miah, the speed with which his power connection crisis was resolved after a public hearing seemed like the work of Aladdin’s genie. “They solved the problem in just half a day. I […]

Cities and urban services

Our City Plans: UN Habitat launches its updated participatory urban planning toolbox

October 17, 2021 LPS Initiative

What is UN-Habitat’s Our City Plans? Our City Plans, formerly known as Participatory Incremental Urban Planning (PIUP), is a toolbox that allows local governments and urban actors to implement projects, plans, and planning processes. It […]

Community

Unpacking Community-led Development

March 12, 2021 LPS Initiative

Community-led Development (CLD) is not a new idea. Even before the pandemic demonstrated why the world needs CLD, terms like localization, community-driven development and locally-led development had begun to gain traction in the development discourse. […]

Asia

Operationalizing women’s empowerment in development

January 23, 2021 LPS Initiative

One criticism of how women’s empowerment is operationalized in development interventions is the lack of consideration of its context specificity. A recent quantitative study investigates how women participants in development projects in Laos, Myanmar and […]

Decentralization

Nongovernmental Organizations-Local Governments Relations: A Snapshot from Lebanon

June 2, 2018 LPS Initiative

Creating and sustaining democracy remains an elusive quest for many nations. Across the globe, countries are experimenting with an array of structures, institutions, and rules intended to democratize their governmental systems. Many of these efforts […]

Participation and accountability

How Not to Increase Participation in Local Government

January 15, 2016 LPS Initiative

Local governments benefit in many countries from nonelected committees that provide citizen input on important issues. Although these committees offer a valuable tool for policy makers, they suffer from low participation and tend to underrepresent […]

Africa

Districts in Northern Ghana Commit to Deepen Local Governance

January 7, 2016 LPS Initiative

Six Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Northern Ghana, have committed to improve information disclosure and accountability to citizens, in a bid to actively engage them in local governance decision-making process for speedy development. […]

Asia

Decentralization and Role of School Development Committees in Public Schools in Sri Lanka

October 29, 2015 LPS Initiative

In this paper, Chandana Arachchi discusses the nature of the implementation of School Development Committees (SDC) in the government school sector in Sri Lanka. The Programme of School Improvement (PSI) is being implemented in Sri Lanka since […]

Africa

Why Uganda is more transparent than Norway

September 13, 2015 LPS Initiative

This unusual insight comes from a recent IMF publication – it finds that Uganda keeps better records of its public expenditure than Norway. Is that plausible? Absolutely. My work with the Budget Strengthening Initiative looks […]

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