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Governance assessments for local stakeholders: What the World Governance Assessment offers
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think TankThis report introduces the basic features of the World Governance Assessment (WGA) and highlights main findings of the second round of WGA that was conducted in 10 countries in the global South during 2006. The report also presents an overview of the methodology and the special Study Management System, a capacity-building component that is also an important part of what WGA offers. The...
Report | AfriCOG’s survey report on devolution
Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Civil SocietyThe survey was conducted and sponsored by Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG) between 12th and 19th May, 2012 A sample of 2400 respondents was interviewed to represent the Kenyan adult population of 19,462,358 translating into a minimum margin of error of -/+ 2 at 95% degree of confidence. The survey was conducted in all provinces of Kenya.
Working Paper I What Is Governance?
Article / Working Paper, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think TankThis paper is part of an effort to better measure governance. The paper points to the poor state of empirical measures of the quality of states, that is, executive branches and their bureaucracies. The author argues, that much of the problem is conceptual, since there is very little agreement on what constitutes high-quality government. The paper suggests four approaches: (1) procedural...
Tanzania - Urban local government strengthening program : fiduciary systems assessment
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Local Governance and Decentralization, Inter-Governmental OrganizationIn 2004, Government of Tanzania (GoT) introduced the Local Government Capital Development Grant (LGCDG) as a grant flow to local governments. The LGCDG has evolved into the Local Government Development Grant (LGDG) program with several sub-programs and has become a mainstream performance based fiscal transfer. LGDG started the provision of on-budget funding flow to the local government level...
The KENYA Governance Report 2011
Africa, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Civil SocietyThe KENYA Governance Report 2011 is the first report in a new series by AfriCOG. The report discusses governance, leadership, integrity and accountability in several sectors in Kenya, including the Judiciary and security sector. It focuses on the developments that have taken root, in terms of reforms following the promulgation of the constitution and also highlights some of the more...
Improving Local Governance for Improved Service Delivery through FM Radio Broadcasting in the Rwenzori region: Project Assessment Report
Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Civil SocietyThe rural women and youths – who comprise 75 percent of the total population – in seven districts of the Rwenzori region, Western Uganda face serious manipulation, and many times, intimidated to access public information and knowledge sharing on democratic dialogue and monitoring public accountability for improved service delivery from their political leaders. This is because of illiteracy,...
The State of Political Pluralism and Democracy at Local Government Level in Uganda
Africa, Democracy, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Academic/Think TankFrom January 2009 to June 2010, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) in partnership with the Uganda Media Development Foundation (UMDF) implemented the project “Strengthening Civil Society, Media and Local Councils’ Capacity to Promote Political Pluralism, Democratic Participation and Representation at Local Government Level in Uganda”, which was funded by the European Union through the European...
Assessment of the delivery of the Vietnam development report 2010 : modern institutions and its impact on policy debates around institutional reforms in Vietnam
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Inter-Governmental OrganizationAs development processes become ever more complex, there is a growing demand for knowledge products that provide the necessary informationtoimplement evidence-based policy change. However, the practice ofmonitoring the impact of knowledge products, often produced by international donors, is relatively new. Viet Nam has seen sustained economic growth and rapid reductions in poverty since the...
2012-IIAG-summary-report.
Africa, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Civil SocietyThis is the sixth year in which we have measured governance outcomes in Africa, looking at both country and regional performances across four major categories – Safety & Rule of Law, Participation & Human Rights, Sustainable Economic Opportunity and Human Development – and 88 component indicators. Once again, the data point to some important findings that can assist leaders and citizens...
Is decentralization good for logistics systems? Evidence on essential medicine logistics in Ghana and Guatemala
Article / Working Paper, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think TankEfficient logistics systems move essential medicines down the supply chain to the service delivery point, and then to the end user. Experts on logistics systems tend to see the supply chain as requiring centralized control to be most effective. However, many health reforms have involved decentralization, which experts fear has disrupted the supply chain and made systems less effective. There...