Participation and Decentralisation
Decentralisation, Political Participation and Democracy: The Effects of Decentralisation on Political Participation and Democratisation in Non-Western States
... To begin with I should define what I mean with Western countries. According to my definition, the Western countries are all European countries in the former Western Bloc (including the neutral states). The definition ...
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Participation for local development:the reality of decentralisation in Tanzania
... And finally with regard to the personnel: it is striking that many of the staff members of the local government authorities are actually appointed by the central government. The current institutional framework in ...
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The effects of decentralisation on community participation in school-based management in the Philippines
... context and the pivotal role of school leadership in education decentralisation efforts. The chapter concludes with the discussion of how the forgoing literature informed the research framework. Chapter 4 ...
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Participation and decentralisation in rural development: Lessons from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project
... While these three observations were—and remain—valid, it was in the design and implementation of programmes aimed to address these challenges that difficulties arose. As rural populations were poor and perceived as ...
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Decentralisation, Participation and Boundaries of Transformation: Forest Rights Act, Wayanad, India
... Abstract Participation and decentralisation have been shown to yield democratic outcomes in terms of efficiency, accountability and transparency through citizen engagement and devolution of ...
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Interrogating Decentralisation in Africa
... Thirdly, decentralisation can take many different forms and there is still a big debate about the ‘best’ ...of decentralisation then being promoted, especially in Africa, was significantly different to that ...
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Philippines Decentralisation RRL
... government units (LGUs). 1 The LGC also specified the basis for revenue sharing between the national government and LGUs and provided for the participation of civil society in local governance. Several factors are ...
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NKC: DECENTRALISATION OF THE MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOLS
... OCT-NOV, 2012, Vol. – I, Issue-III www.srjis.com Page 443 the National Knowledge Commission held a series of workshops and consultations around the country involving a very wide range of stakeholders, to discuss issues ...
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Decentralisation and urban governance in Uganda
... as participation in and maintenance of public ...citizen participation in local government ...that decentralisation allows citizens at the local to choose from available options in services is ...
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Decentralisation, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Rwanda
... citizen participation is that of ...of decentralisation, ubudehe is a process developed by MINALOC which involves a four step process - social classification (assigning people to wealth/poverty-based ...
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Case for political decentralisation in Nigeria
... citizen participation in the local affairs in many developing countries is limited to the casting of votes at election ...nations, participation could be said to be limited to the right to elect councillors ...
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Decentralisation at a crossroads
... present cost, under the pretext of greater efficiency from an increase in proximity, but also amidst a climate of significant budgetary restrictions. This development of state disengagement in a time of crisis calls for ...
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Decentralisation in Venezuela and citizen participation in local government : the case of local councils for public planning and the communal councils
... 97 I may have been treated in a particular way because I was seen as having some association with the mayor). Furthermore, like many municipalities in the country, this area is categorized as ‘territorio oficial’ ...
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Devolution and Fiscal Decentralisation
... the Indonesian approach, which is simple, may be adopted. Districts within a province which are declared ‘backward’, on the basis of some criteria, could become eligible for a special grant linked to the size of ...
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Federalism, decentralisation and corruption
... 1 Introduction In the past 30 years the number of federal states has increased. Among indus- trialized countries, Spain and Belgium have joined Australia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland and the United States. Similarly, ...
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International Experiences with Decentralisation
... fiscal decentralisation in Uganda was implemented without taking into consideration the cost of decentralising services – this has had an adverse impact on the ability of local governments to perform their ...
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Examining the Case for Decentralisation
... spending decentralisation), a measure that acts as a proxy for the range of powers and responsibilities held by each system. As a measure it contains a number limitations, the most significant being its failure to ...
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Decentralisation as a Strategy for Development
... that decentralisation is said to be capable of bringing about, attempts at decentralisation in Africa have brought no marked improvement in development ...way decentralisation policies have been ...
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Decentralisation to promote democracy
... OF DECENTRALISATION Decentralisation could be regarded as an important contributor to the promotion of democratising government as it assigns decision-making powers to structures in closer proximity to ...
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Fiscal Decentralisation and Autonomy
... Decentralisation: new tax bases Value capture taxation The sourcing of metropolitan revenue through value capture taxation takes several forms, which include tax increment financing and betterment taxation and ...
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