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Hubert M G Ouedraogo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Decentralization: An Enabling Policy for Local Land Management
Land Rights for African Development From Knowledge to Action, 2006Co-Authors: Hubert M G OuedraogoAbstract:Decentralization can be an opportunity for local development and for more secure land rights for the poor people. But for decentralization to work, the constraints and risks inherent to such a complex reform must be anticipated. Successful decentralization needs to build on ongoing local processes; it needs to invite the participation of CSOs. It also needs to cooperate with central government through sound deconcentration process: decentralization is not implemented against the state, but in collaboration with the state.
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Decentralisation and local governance: Experiences from Francophone West Africa
Public Administration and Development, 2003Co-Authors: Hubert M G OuedraogoAbstract:Since the 1980s, Decentralisation has become a key development theme in Francophone West Africa for various reasons. Perhaps most significant is the great dissatisfaction with centralised approaches of the past. Despite the heavy interest in Decentralisation, however, progress of implementation has been rather slow and problematic. Except in Senegal, Decentralisation is a relatively new phenomenon in Francophone West Africa and even there the Decentralisation process is far from complete. Other more recently decentralising countries have taken very different paths. Burkina Faso, for example, is gradually phasing in Decentralisation in the rural areas, while Mali created local governments across the entire country simultaneously. Such differences in approach can be a justifiable response to variations in the political and social climate across countries. One factor that has been uniformly given inadequate attention in Decentralisation efforts is the role of traditional local institutions and how they respond to the introduction of new local institutions. This and other aspects of Decentralisation in Francophone West Africa require further careful study if policymakers are to better understand how to design and implement more effective and sustainable decentralised systems. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Decentralisation AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE: EXPERIENCES\rFROM FRANCOPHONE WEST AFRICA
Public Administration and Development, 2003Co-Authors: Hubert M G OuedraogoAbstract:Since the 1980s, Decentralisation has become a key development theme in Francophone West Africa for various reasons. Perhaps most significant is the great dissatisfaction with centralised approaches of the past. Despite the heavy interest in Decentralisation, however, progress of implementation has been rather slow and problematic. Except in Senegal, Decentralisation is a relatively new phenomenon in FrancophoneWest Africa and even there the Decentralisation process is far from complete. Other more recently decentralising countries have taken very different paths. Burkina Faso, for example, is gradually phasing in Decentralisation in the rural areas, while Mali created local governments across the entire country simultaneously. Such differences in approach can be a justifiable response to variations in the political and social climate across countries. One factor that has been uniformly given inadequate attention in Decentralisation efforts is the role of traditional local institutions and how they respond to the introduction of new local institutions. This and other aspects of Decentralisation in FrancophoneWest Africa require further careful study if policymakers are to better understand how to design and implement more effective and sustainable decentralised systems.
A M Larson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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democratic Decentralisation through a natural resource lens
2005Co-Authors: Jesse C. Ribot, A M LarsonAbstract:1. Democratic Decentralization through a Natural Resource Lens: Countering central resistance, fostering local demand Jesse C. Ribot and Anne M. Larson 2. Between Micro-Politics and Administrative Imperatives: Decentralization and the watershed mission in Madhya Pradesh, India Amita Baviskar 3. Decentralisation When Land and Resource Rights are Deeply Contested: A case-study of the Mkambati eco-tourism project on the wild coast of South Africa Ben Cousins and Tembele Kepe 4. Formal Decentralization and the Imperative of Decentralization 'From Below': A case-study of natural resource management in Nicaragua Anne M. Larson 5. Democratic Decentralization and Traditional Authority: Dilemmas of land administration in rural South Africa Lungisile Ntsebeza 6. What Lies Behind Decentralization?: Forest, powers and actors in lowland Bolivia Pablo Pacheco 7. Closer to People and Trees: Will decentralization work for the people and the forests of Indonesia? Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo 8. Decentralization, Rural Livelihoods, and Pasture-land Management in Post-Socialist Mongolia Robin Mearns 9. Decentralization and Accountability in Forest Management: Case from Yunnan, southwest China Jianchu Xu and Jesse M. Ribot 10. Social and Organizational Roots of Ecological Uncertainties in Cameroon's Forest Management Decentralization Model Phil Rene Oyono 11. User Committees: A potentially damaging second wave of decentralization? James Manor 12. Decentralising Water Resource Management in Brazil Christian Brannstrom 13. Decentralizing Natural Resource Management: A recipe for sustainability and equity? Wicky Meynen and Martin Doornbos
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Decentralisation and forest management in latin america towards a working model
Public Administration and Development, 2003Co-Authors: A M LarsonAbstract:The particular characteristics of natural resources make the Decentralisation of their management to elected local governments even more complex than the Decentralisation of services and infrastructure. Nevertheless natural resources are equally important to rural development concerns in the Third World. Numerous countries have begun to implement policies for some form of Decentralisation involving natural resources and the environment and many local governments are already making decisions that affect the future of local resources. This article reviews experiences with Decentralisation of forest management in Bolivia Brazil Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua. Based on those experiences it proposes a working model for more effective Decentralisation strategies. The model addresses the legal structure for decentralised forest management and relevant variables that define the local decision-making sphere as well as key mediating factors that also affect outcomes. Most of these variables even in the local sphere offer important sites for policy and aid intervention. (authors)
Susan Steiner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Decentralisation and poverty conceptual framework and application to uganda
Public Administration and Development, 2007Co-Authors: Susan SteinerAbstract:In order to shed further light on the discussion about Decentralisation-poverty linkages in developing countries, this article introduces a conceptual framework for the relationship between Decentralisation and poverty. The framework takes the form of an optimal scenario and indicates potential ways for an impact of Decentralisation on poverty. Three different but interrelated channels are identified. Decentralisation is considered to affect poverty through providing opportunities for previously excluded people to participate in public decision-making, through increasing efficiency in the provision of local public services due to an informational advantage of local governments over the central government and through granting autonomy to geographically separable conflict groups and entitling local bodies to resolve local-level conflicts. Based on the experience with Decentralisation in Uganda, it is shown that these channels are often not fully realised in practice. Different reasons are singled out for the Ugandan case, among them low levels of information about local government affairs, limited human capital and financial resources, restricted local autonomy, corruption and patronage, high administrative costs related with Decentralisation and low downward accountability. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Decentralisation in uganda exploring the constraints for poverty reduction
2006Co-Authors: Susan SteinerAbstract:It is often claimed that Decentralisation is effective for the reduction of poverty due to inherent opportunities for higher popular participation and increased efficiency in public service delivery. This paper is a qualitative assessment of the potential of the Ugandan Decentralisation reform for poverty alleviation. The Ugandan government initiated an ambitious Decentralisation reform in 1992, which represents an example of full-fledged devolution with the transfer of far-reaching responsibilities to local governments. However, several shortcomings, such as low levels of accountability, insufficient human and financial resources, corruption, patronage, and central resistance to Decentralisation, constrain the proper implementation of the reform, putting improvements in participation and efficiency at risk and ultimately jeopardising the intended impact on poverty.
Bidhan Kanti Das - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Denial of Rights Continues: How Legislation for ‘Democratic Decentralisation’ of Forest Governance was Subverted in the Implementation Process of the Forest Rights Act in India
The European Journal of Development Research, 2019Co-Authors: Bidhan Kanti DasAbstract:It is argued that, in the absence of legislation, the outcome of Decentralisation initiatives in forestry remains limited in terms of devolution of power and assigning authority to politically weak forest-dependent communities are concerned. In this context, the ongoing implementation process of the Forest Rights Act provides an opportunity to examine the institutional arrangements for devolution of power and authority, and measures the extent to which this Act offers space for democratic and inclusive forest governance by the local people. Based on micro-level field work in parts of West Bengal, India, the paper argues that understanding roles of institutions under ‘democratic Decentralisation’ framework is not enough for meaningful democratic Decentralisation, particularly for forest resources. If democratic Decentralisation of natural resources is to succeed, a variety of factors embedded in the institutions, like actor, power and accountability, is to be recognised.
Kent Eaton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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latin america s resurgent centre national government strategies after Decentralisation
Journal of Development Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Tyler J Dickovick, Kent EatonAbstract:This article identifies the 'menu of options' available to national governments as they seek to re-assert the centre's prerogatives in the aftermath of Decentralisation. These include policy strategies, bureaucratic strategies, institutional strategies and societal strategies, each of which has afforded opportunities for the centre to reclaim the role of protagonist that it lost as a result of Decentralisation. Illustrated through the use of examples from across Latin America, our survey of these options shows that, short of outright recentralisation, national politicians and bureaucrats have been highly creative in their search for strategies to re-centre politics.
