In the Andean countries responsibility for the provision of key public services has been transferred to local institutions. However, national governments still exert control over strategic assets such ...

The Good Governance and Citizenship Observatory (GGCO) at the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut (AUB), in collaboration with the Observatory on ...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh appointed Head of the Government Steering Committee on Administrative Reform and Decentralization. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh serves as Head of the Committee. The ...

Decentralization is a hot topic right now. In Ukraine, it has been proposed as a means of giving greater autonomy to the Russian-speaking regions in the East of the country - a gentle concession to ...

Experts at a seminar on Thursday warned that Bangladesh’s development cannot be sustained without meaningful decentralization and stronger local government institutions. The Policy Research Institute ...

Timor-Leste’s new Prime Minister, Rui Araujo, has inherited a policy of decentralising the nation’s governance. Given capacity issues, this process is unlikely to bring broader-based rural development ...

Regarding decentralization, Thang noted that the draft law introduces stronger provisions, such as proposing to grant the Government authority to decide on national marine spatial planning and ...

The objective of the research was to determine the relationship between decentralized policies, techniques, and human resources directly related to improving educational quality and the influence of ...

The Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee (IMCC) on Decentralisation has concluded its sub-national level stakeholder consultations on the formulation of the National Decentralisation Policy and ...

March 11, 2017 marked a turning point in the administrative structure of the Nepalese government. The Constitution of Nepal, which had been promulgated in 2015, mandated political decentralization ...

The long-standing issue of administrative decentralization appears among the aspects of city public administration that are never addressed. Situations of rarefied stagnation for which there is never ...

The process of decentralization involves a structured transfer of political power from central governments to subnational jurisdictions. This becomes particularly important in the Amazon, rich in ...