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Concept Note and Agenda- Lessons Learned from Assessing Governance: Towards Inclusive Democracies and Development in Asia
Asia and the Pacific, Event Material, Local Governance and Decentralization, UNDP ProducedThe South-South Exchange of Experiences and Experts’ Forum will reflect on the experiences in a number of countries in Asia-Pacific which have undertaken governance assessments. The Forum will explore the relevance of nationally-driven governance assessments to the challenges identified in the region – inequalities in development and governance deficits – and how governance assessments can...
The state of local governance and public services in decentralized Indonesia
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Civil SocietyDecentralization has been implemented in Indonesia since 2001. Many efforts to improve it have been supported by international and bilateral donor agencies. The Governance and Decentralization Survey (GDS) is one of the initiatives that aim to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the governance and decentralization policy. This publication is about a GDS survey which...
The Impact of Government Budget shifts to Regional Disparities in Indonesia: Before an After Decentralization
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think TankSince its independence, Indonesia has experience a rapid and uneven economic growth. The financial crisis in 1998 has led Indonesia to decentralisation with a new political and government budget order in 2001. Researches found that the local government’s main expenditure are on routine spending, such as wage and asset maintenance, not on the development spending. Using macroeconomic...