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The IDS Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa
(SLSA) explores
the difficulties of introducing decentralised systems with the
systems and structures already in place |
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Decentralisations
in Practice in Southern Africa, SLSA Team (PDF)
This
study reveals how decentralised service delivery can conflict
with existing institutions and systems in case studies from
Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. |
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Rural
Development, Institutional Change and Livelihoods in the Eastern
Cape, South Africa: A Case Study of (Mdudwa Village / Zolile
Ntshona / Edward Lahiff)
(PDF)
This paper examines the effect of decentralisation on a village
in the Eastern Cape . It considers contests over land, forest
and water resources and looks at the emerging power dynamics
between new elected traditional authorities and raises questions
about the efficacy and long-term sustainability of decentralisation
reforms as currently conceived.
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The
ODI Livelihood Options project explores experience of decentralisation
in India, in particular the Panchayat system, (local political
bodies introduced in 1993) |
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Decentralisation
in India: Poverty, Politics (Panchayati Raj / Craig Johnson)
(PDF)
This literature review considers the extent to which administrative,
political and fiscal authority has been devolved to the local
panchayat system in India. |
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Decentralisation
in Madhya Pradesh, India: from Panchayati Raj to Gram Swaraj,
1995 to 2001 (Amitabh Behar / Yogesh Kumar)
This paper looks at why the Panchayat system has not fulfilled
expectations as a tool for local self-governance with disappointing
achievements towards economic growth and social justice
Prelims to Ch 5 (
PDF) Ch 6-End (PDF) |
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Decentralising
Natural Resource Management; Lessons from Local Government Reform
in India (Pari Baumann / John Farrington) (PDF)
This paper explores decentralisation processes at State, district
and village levels in Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka
and specifically considers the influence of political economy
factors on decentralised natural resource management in India.
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The
LADDER
project investigates experience of decentralisation in three
Sub-Saharan African countries, grounded in the reality of local
livelihoods |
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Decentralisation
and Rural Livelihoods in Malawi Sholto Cross and Milton Kutengule
LADDER (Working Paper No.4 / September 2001) (PDF)
This paper describes how Malawi has established the legal framework
for a comprehensive decentralisation but argues that while in
principle decentralisation is desirable, the prerequisites for
making this work are absent. |
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The
Institutional Context of Rural Poverty Reduction in Uganda:
Decentralisation's Dual Nature (Robert James /Paul Francis
/ Godfrey Ahabwe Pereza / LADDER Working Paper No.6/ November
2001) (PDF)
Uganda's decentralisation programme has been hailed by donors
and academics alike as one of the most ambitious and far-reaching
programmes of local government reform undertaken in the developing
world. An actor-oriented approach elucidates the view from the
periphery: from communities, administrators and locally elected
politicians. |
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Tanzanian
Rural Livelihoods: Towards a More Enabling Institutional Environment
(Robert James / Ntengua Mdoe / Fulgence Mishili / LADDER Working
Paper No.13 / March 2002) (PDF)
This paper addresses several interlocking aspects of the institutional
environment in which rural livelihoods are played out in Tanzania.
Specifically it examines how the changing nature of local government
may facilitate and inhibit rural livelihoods for example, through
increased grassroot participation, better service delivery and
'blocking' institutional arrangements such as rural taxation.
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The
SEI's project 'Improving Policy-Livelihood Relations in South
Asia' explores the micro-macro links which occur with decentralisation
processes |
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Learning
from the Grassroots: Lessons from Community Action for Policy
Change (George Varughese / SEI ) (PDF)
This paper investigates how the decentralisation process
in India is enabling more grassroots organisations to be recognised
and how they are making an increasing contribution to policy
formulation and implementation at different levels.
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Khanya's
project used Community Based Planning as a way to link decentralised
institutions with citizens. In practice, it is argued, resources
often get captured by 'meso-institutions' and do not reach the
community level |
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Generic
Community-Based Planning Manual (PDF)
The Community Based Planning Manual provides methodologies and
tools showing how to link decentralised institutions with citizens.
This drew on experience from projects in Uganda , South Africa,
Ghana and Zimbabwe. |
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Making
the Link Between Micro and Meso: Learning from Experience on
Community Based Planning (PDF)
This paper summarises some ongoing work to develop and implement
systems of community-based planning in Uganda, South Africa,
Ghana and Zimbabwe.
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The
Sustainable Coastal Livelihoods (SCL) project explores the role
of information to bridge the micro level with macro level policy
processes |
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An
Approach to Developing Informing and Influencing Strategies
Policy briefing paper (PDF)
Working paper (PDF)
The
Sustainable Coastal Livelihoods (SCL) research in India, Bangladesh
and Sri Lanka revealed that poor information flows between the
policy-making level and the poor is a key obstacle in the generation
of policies that effectively address poverty in coastal communities.
This paper addresses the apparent lack of knowledge of the local
context and discusses why existing information about the poor
fails to influence policy and how information systems to inform
policy might be improved.
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