Documents
and articles
Local
Governance for Poverty Reduction in Africa
Fifth Africa Governance
Forum (AGF-V), Concept Paper, Maputo, Mozambique, 23-25
May 2002, organized by United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) and
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Monitoring
and evaluation of support for decentralisation and local
governance:
A case study on Burkina
Faso, By Pamphile Sebahara, Feb. 2004.
Promoting
participation of women in local governance and development:
The Case of Ghana
Ofei-Aboagye, E. 2000.
Promoting the Participation of Women in Local Governance
and Development: The Case of Ghana (ECDPM Discussion
Paper 18). Maastricht: ECDPM.
Local
Democracy, Taxation and Multi-level Governance in Africa
By Dele Olowu, Institute
of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, Draft paper
prepared for Norwegian Association for Development Research
(NFU) Annual Conference on Politics and Poverty, Oslo,
Norway, October 23-24, 2003.
Links to
institutions
The
Africa Local Government Action Forum (ALGAF)
The Africa Local Government
Action Forum (ALGAF) is a joint initiative of the Municipal
Development Program for Eastern and Southern Africa,
The World Bank Institute and the Global Distance Learning
Network (GDLN) through six distance learning centers
in Africa (Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Dar Es Salaam,
Kampala and Harare).
Regional
Information Centre on Local Government (Southern Africa)
Website for information on local government
on Local Government in the Southern African Region.
Consortium
for Self-Governance (CSGA)
The Consortium for Self-Governance (CSGA)
is an association of teaching and research centers and
research-action organizations in Africa and the United
States. Our mission is to help the diverse peoples of
Africa enhance their own capacities to govern themselves.
International
Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability
was founded in 1990 by local governments at the United
Nations Headquarters in New York as the International
Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). ICLEI
is a democratically governed membership association of
cities, towns, counties, metropolitan governments, and
local government associations. Its headquarter is located
in Toronto, Canada.
International
Union of Local Authorities (IULA)
United Cities and Local Governments is
a new world organisation dedicated to promoting the values,
objectives and interests of cities and local governments
across the globe. It is the largest local government organisation
in the world, with a diverse membership that includes
both individual cities and national associations of local
governments.
Local Government
Institute
LGI was established in Seattle WA in 1988.
To date, we have provided technical assistance publications
or services to more than 4,000 local governments in all
50 states, as well as a number of foreign countries. LGI
is a Federally recognized independent tax exempt 501(C)3
non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality
of local government throughout the English speaking world.
World
Bank Decentralization Site
The aim of the Decentralization and Subnational
Thematic Group is to share information and deepen knowledge
among a wide range of practitioners -- macro, sectoral,
urban, and rural -- to bring about a more informed, consistent
and comprehensive approach to decentralization and subnational
development in our country programs. |
