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Strengthening Local Governments in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author | : World Bank |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Strengthening African Local Initiative
Author | : Donald S. Rothchild |
Publisher | : GIGA-Hamburg |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9783928049269 |
Local Governance and Development in Africa and the Middle East
Author | : Khadija Darmame |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031606574 |
Lessons for Effective Fiscal Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author | : Mr.Niko A Hobdari |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 2018-07-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1484358260 |
Fiscal decentralization is becoming a pressing issue in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, reflecting demands for a greater local voice in spending decisions and efforts to strengthen social cohesion. Against this backdrop, this paper seeks to distill the lessons for an effective fiscal decentralization reform, focusing on the macroeconomic aspects. The main findings for sub-Saharan African countries that have decentralized, based on an empirical analysis and four case studies (Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda), are as follows: • Determinants and effectiveness: Empirical results suggest that (1) the major driving forces behind fiscal decentralization in sub-Saharan Africa include efforts to defuse ethnic conflicts, the initial level of income, and the urban-ization rate, whereas strength of democracy is not an important determi-nant for decentralization; and (2) decentralization in sub-Saharan Africa is associated with higher growth in the presence of stronger institutions. • Spending assignments: The allocation of spending across levels of gov-ernment in the four case studies is broadly consistent with best practice. However, in Uganda, unlike in the other three case studies, subnational governments have little flexibility to make spending decisions as a result of a deconcentrated rather than a devolved system of government. • Own revenue: The assignment of taxing powers is broadly in line with best practice in the four case studies, with the bulk of subnational revenue coming from property taxes and from fees for local services. However, own revenues are a very small fraction of subnational spending, reflecting weak cadaster systems and a high level of informality in the economy.
Local Governance and Development in Africa and the Middle East
Author | : Khadija Darmame |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-10-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9783031606564 |
The proposed edited volume surveys how current local governance policies and development strategies across Africa and the Middle east are advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Morocco's recent experience with local development strategies serves as starting point for the discussion (introductory chapter). Over the past decade, Morocco has undertaken a variety of initiatives aimed at reducing poverty and social inequalities and providing essential services to marginalized communities. These initiatives provide great opportunities to reshape the spatial organization of regions, and to address chronic local issues of infrastructure and investment. Local governance is the most direct way of providing basic services to populations, helping to alleviate socio-spatial inequalities. Also, it is and will continue to be the best way to engage people and local governments in economic, social and human development agendas. However, placing local governance at the heart of development strategies requires going well beyond participatory approaches to policy making. Local communities and their governments need to be empowered. As responses to the Covid19 epidemic have laid bare, new and more efficient modes of territorial governance are needed at local and regional levels if current global-scale challenges are to be met. While development and governance strategies like Morocco's are framed by global agreements and standards, there is a need to understand them at the regional scale. Are there discernible patterns in how African and Middle Eastern countries design and implement them? This volume will assemble case studies from across the region, allowing for understandings that transcend the usual spatial dichotomies between "North" and "Sub-Saharan" Africa and the "Anglophone" and "Francophone" spheres. The proposed volume builds upon an international conference on the topic held at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco (11-13 Feb. 2022, held on-line due to Covid restrictions). 22 participants, including both scholars and practitioners, presented at the conference. Nine of these contributions will be included as chapters in the volume, with a few additional chapters being solicited from researchers who did not attend. The volume is aimed at a readership of researchers and development practitioners, and will be of most direct benefit to advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students.
The Challenge of Developing a Shared Vision on Democratic Decentralisation and Local Governance in Africa for the 21st Century
Author | : D. Conyers |
Publisher | : Municipal Development Partnership Eastern and Southern Afric |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Decentralization in government |
ISBN | : |
Sub-Saharan Africa
Author | : World Bank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
3. Investing in people.
Building Capacity for Decentralization and Local Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author | : M. Sevilla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The Municipal Development Program (MDP) ws launched in 1991 with the World Bank as the executing agency and with the support of several donors to assist the governments in building local government capacity. The Program reflects the belief that since locally-elected officials are usually more in touch with the public than their central government counterparts, there is greater likelihood that the policies chosen will reflect the concerns of the committees and also be more accountable to them. The MDP is a facility that provides quick-disbursing grants to local executing authorities for policy development and capacity building. Support is made in the form of small grants and consultants, using action planning workshops and asissting in strategic planning aimed at providing management tools and adding key skills to selected staff. The MDP has been able to do this because of its design which allows for flexibility and easy access to funds, and its focus--local municipalities.
Which Way to Livable and Productive Cities?
Author | : Kirsten Hommann |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 2019-04-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1464814058 |
For African cities to grow economically as they have grown in size, they must create productive environments to attract investments, increase economic efficiency, and create livable environments that prevent urban costs from rising with increased population densification. What are the central obstacles that prevent African cities and towns from becoming sustainable engines of economic growth and prosperity? Among the most critical factors that limit the growth and livability of urban areas are land markets, investments in public infrastructure and assets, and the institutions to enable both. To unleash the potential of African cities and towns for delivering services and employment in a livable and environmentally friendly environment, a sequenced approach is needed to reform institutions and policies and to target infrastructure investments. This book lays out three foundations that need fixing to guide cities and towns throughout Sub-Saharan Africa on their way to productivity and livability.