Download or read book Developmental Local Governance written by Eris D. Schoburgh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary purpose of this edited collection is to evaluate critically the relationship between local government and national economic development. It focuses on how the relationship between local government and development is structured, and the specific institutional arrangements at national and subnational levels that might facilitate local government's assumption of the role of development agent. In light of the contradictory outcomes of development and implied experimentation with new modalities, post-development discourse provides a useful explanatory framework for the book. Schoburgh, Martin and Gatchair's central argument is that the pursuit of national developmental goals is given a sustainable foundation when development planning and strategies take into account elements that have the potential to determine the rate of social transformation. Their emphasis on localism establishes a clear link between local government and local economic development in the context of developing countries.
Download or read book Policies for Strengthening Local Government in Developing Countries written by Glynn Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government performance in the pursuit of development objectives is influenced by all the levels of government, and effective public sector management depends on the ability of the central government to harness the resources of lower levels of government. Local governments should be given elastic revenue sources, those that grow as the economy grows and that are not beyond their administrative capacity to collect. Personnel performance at the local level improves when one or more of the following elements is present: (a) well planned horizontal or vertical integration of personnel systems; (b) adequate compensation and incentives; (c) a determined effort to make officials accountable for their performance; (d) effective training of local officials. The division of responsibilities between levels of government needs to be carefully examined before a plan can be constructed for the improvement of local government. Some degree of continuing centralization is necessary, but level of government should be matched with suitability for particular functions. New institutional arrangements may be needed if local government is to be strengthened. A major obstacle to such reform is the absence of a holistic view that argues for integrating the efforts of all levels of government.
Download or read book How to improve development on local level written by Jakša Puljiz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals Through Better Local Level Data written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set global, big-picture targets that nations have committed to attaining. However, unless action is taken at the local level, these targets can never be reached. This publication describes how ADB worked with local governments and other stakeholders in East Java, Indonesia, to make data from districts available and accessible in a visually attractive and easy-to-understand way for different local stakeholders, thereby contributing to localizing SDGs.
Download or read book Local Level Planning And Rural Development Alternative Strategies written by United Nations Asian And Pacific Development Inst and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Local Government written by Michiel S. de Vries and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-04-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local governments encounter mammouth problems, and although there is not one panacea that works internationally, this book argues that there are mechanisms to improve the local situation and theer is evidence that this can suceed. By considering a number of key case studies from Latin America, Africa and Asia, the authors review best practices in good governance, thereby demonstarting that things can improve at the local level.
Download or read book Local and Community Driven Development written by Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Local and Community Driven Development: Moving to Scale in Theory and Practice' provides development practitioners with the historical background and the tools required to successfully scale up local and community driven development (LCDD) to the regional and national levels. LCDD gives control of development decisions and resources to communities and local governments. It involves collaboration between communities, local governments, technical agencies, and the private sector. Since the 1980s, participatory approaches have received new impetus via participatory rural appraisal, the integration of participation in sector programs, decentralization efforts of developing countries, and greater space for civil society and the private sector. This book traces the emergence of the LCDD synthesis from these various strands. 'Local and Community Driven Development' provides the theoretical underpinnings for scaling up, guidance on how to adapt the approach to the specific institutional and political settings of different countries, diagnostic tools, and step-by-step instructions to diagnose the national context, adapt policies, and expand programs. It will be a useful guide for rural and urban development practitioners, public administrators, and policy makers who wrestle daily with the problems the book addresses.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Local Partnerships for Better Governance written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-10-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the lessons learned from the most recent experiences in seven countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy and the United States. This book proposes a strategy that governments can implement to improve governance through partnerships.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Breaking Out of Policy Silos Doing More with Less written by Froy Francesca and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy silos and fragmented short-term policy interventions have become luxuries that our economies can no longer afford. This book provides concrete advice to policy makers at both national and local levels on how to better align policies, reduce duplication and waste, and “do more with less”.
Download or read book Rebuilding Effective Government written by and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication seeks to contribute to the policy debate on decentralisation and the role of local governments in promoting human development, by considering the situation in the countries of central and eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). It considers the key elements required to achieve responsible local government conduct based on the dynamic and often contradictory combination of strong central policies, high quality local leadership and the mobilisation of civil and non-governmental organisations at the local level.
Download or read book Local level Planning and Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Market Based Approach to Capacity Development written by Mark Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many developing countries, capacity development means donor-sponsored training programs and outside experts. But a noteworthy example in Uganda shows that capacity development may work better and be more sustainable when local market forces are unleashed to provide for local capacity needs. The Uganda case spotlights an approach supported by the World Bank and other partners that has focused on improving the capacities of Uganda's local governments, which since the 1990s have been part of one of Africa's most ambitious decentralization processes. In that program, Uganda's ministry of local government has used World Bank and other donor financing to create a set of incentives aimed at improving the performance of the country's local governments. Part of the approach was not only a system to reward high-performing local governments, but actions aimed at stimulating both supply and demand for capacity development at the local level.
Download or read book Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals Through Better Local Level Data written by Asian Development Bank and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents a case study in East Java, Indonesia, about ADB's collaboration with local governments and other stakeholders in monitoring, implementing, raising awareness, and advocating for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs set global, big-picture targets that nations have committed to attaining. However, unless action is taken at the local level, these targets can never be reached. The case study on Lumajang and Pacitan district demonstrate how ADB has been helping to make data available and accessible in a visually attractive and easy-to-understand way for different local stakeholders, thereby contributing to localizing SDGs.
Download or read book Decentralization and Development of Sri Lanka Within a Unitary State written by N.S. Cooray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume provides uniquely diverse insights into various aspects of decentralization and development from both developed and developing countries, with special reference to Sri Lanka. For a quarter century, Sri Lanka was battered by its prolonged civil war, which ended in 2009, but has now achieved relative peace and stability. Having developed rapidly, Sri Lanka offers a classic example for developing countries. There is, however, a strong need, particularly in the context of postwar conflict, to formulate policies for reconciliation, peace building, and development at all levels—local, provincial, and national. Decentralization itself is not a new subject; however, how to devolve power to local administrative levels within a unitary system and how to link the devolved power to make local administrative systems more conducive to development and provide better services for citizens are challenging tasks in many countries. Taking into account the developmental, governance, and conciliatory needs and the sensitivity of central–local relations, this volume critically examines the local government systems in Sri Lanka. It also proposes a viable, effective and autonomous local-level administrative unit based, which draws on experiences from Japan and other countries, and identifies the role and functions of such a unit. The book presents commissioned papers from a three-year research project undertaken by internationally respected experts with financial support by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) under a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research.
Download or read book Local Governance and Decentralization Assessment written by United States Agency of International Development and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the result of an extensive assessment of the process of proposed decentralization reforms in Ukraine as it relates to the future programming of USAID/Ukraine. Fieldwork for the assessment took place during most of the month of July 2014 and included over 50 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders in seven cities in addition to seven citizen focus groups conducted in four different cities. The three primary questions that the assessment sought to address are: 1) what is the current operating environment for local governance reforms?; 2) what is the capacity and capacity-building needs of local governments and civil society to implement such reforms and effectively exercise improved governance on the local level?; and 3) what are the existing and planned donor efforts in local governance and decentralization? With regards to the first question, the assessment team found that there exist mixed prospects for decentralization reform. On the one hand, there is widespread public support and political will within the present government for the reform, and many stakeholders view its implementation as an urgent priority to move Ukraine towards integration with the European community. On the other hand, vested interests in the present system related to the entrenched patron-client nature of politics in Ukraine threaten to undermine the prospects of meaningful decentralization that may cut-off existing avenues for rent-seeking on the national-level. Additionally, while there appears to be political will at high levels of governance, including President Poroshenko, many experts and political actors have yet to accept the present formulation of the reform more due to issues related to political competition at the national level than to the reform's role in empowering local governments. In particular, many of the national-level political actors are wary that decentralization reform proposed by the presidency will serve to strengthen the president vis-à-vis the parliament and cabinet of ministers. As a result, most of the parties in parliament did not support the version of the reform presented by the presidency over the summer. At present, the implementation of reform has been delayed at least until a new parliament can be elected in late October 2014. These elections could either provide a better or worse environment for adopting legislation needed for the decentralization reform depending upon the configuration of political forces it creates. In general, it is likely that the realization of reforms will require negotiation on various points in the proposed plan for decentralization. In addition to the question of whether national oversight of local governments will be performed by the presidency, the cabinet of ministers, or a combination of Ukraine's dual executive power structure, another controversial question that will likely need to be negotiated relates to the consolidations of villages (hromada) and rayons.1 Proposals suggest shrinking the number of hromada from about 15,000 to 1,200 and the number of rayons from about 500 to 100. This would make the proposed empowerment of hromadas in the country much more feasible, ensuring that each had the minimal human capital and technical capacity to implement self-governance. Additionally, this reform would make efforts to support each local government more feasible for the oblast and national level governments (as well as for international donors). However, many on the local level express concern that the proposal to consolidate hromada and rayons would adversely impact their existing access to health care clinics and schools. Furthermore, this reform is also likely to face opposition from many local interest groups, who would potentially lose their positions of power within the present configuration of territorial-administrative units.
Download or read book Improving Local Government Performance Through Tax Optimization written by Riyanto Wujarso and published by Asadel Publisher. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Improving Local Government Performance Through Tax Optimization" explores the vital role of taxes in the functioning of a country, with a particular focus on the significance of regional taxes in state and local governance. These regional taxes serve various purposes such as regulation, budget allocation, and resource redistribution. The effectiveness of local tax systems depends on their ability to generate sufficient revenue, ultimately enhancing the overall functioning of local governments. Through a descriptive qualitative approach, this book delves into strategies aimed at optimizing local tax collection methods to improve the performance of local governments. The study emphasizes the critical requirement of a funding source, known as PAD (Own-Source Revenue), primarily sourced from local revenue, for successful autonomy and decentralization implementation. However, the current state of affairs reveals a significant insufficiency in local taxes and levies, which account for only 16% of the total PAD. To address this issue, the book highlights the pressing need to maximize the intensification of local tax collection methods and regional levies to bolster regional income and enhance regional performance. By exploring various strategies, local governments can tap into a more substantial revenue stream, enabling them to enhance their operational capabilities and improve the overall governance structure at the regional level. The optimization of local tax collection methods and the intensification of regional levies not only have a direct impact on regional income but also contribute to the overall improvement of regional performance. By streamlining and optimizing these revenue streams, regional governments can invest in development initiatives, improve public infrastructure, and provide better public services to local communities. Furthermore, a robust financial foundation empowers governments to address socioeconomic disparities, foster economic growth, and promote overall well-being within their regions. This book underscores the significance of refining local tax collection procedures and strengthening regional levies to overcome the financial inadequacy hindering the progress of regional governments. By doing so, governments can effectively implement autonomy and decentralization, meet the demands of development initiatives, and fulfill the specific needs of their regions. Ultimately, this book aims to provide insights and recommendations to policymakers and practitioners on how to optimize tax systems at the local level for the betterment of regional performance and governance.
Download or read book Planning Local Economic Development written by Edward J. Blakely and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning Local Economic Development addresses the dilemma that local governments and community groups face in their endeavor to improve the local economic base and increase the community's control over its own economic destiny. The author describes the theories of economic development and provides the first complete analysis of development at the local level, offering suggestions of how local leaders can improve the economic and employment base of their locale.
