From 2012-2014, the United Nations Democracy Fund supported The Hunger Project to build a community of practice on Participatory Local Democracy. This community was mobilized to comprise dozens of local pro-democracy civil society groups in more than 70 countries.
Following a series of regional meetings in Africa, Asia and Latin America in 2012, a small secretariat team in Washington DC developed a multidimensional Participatory Local Democracy Index and solicited input from all participating countries to issue State of Participatory Local Democracy Reports during the 2013 and 2014 UN General Assembly.
UNDEF does not “renew” grants – it intends to make a catalytic investment, and with this project they succeeded. It led directly to the launch of the Movement for Community-led Development alongside the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015.
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Introducing the RDLG Bibliographic Database
We are pleased to announce that the Rural Decentralization and Local Government (RDLG) Database, with its 1600 bibliographic entries – is now part of this website. The Royal Tropical Institute in the Netherlands has, for many years, supported its development and operation within its KIT Information and Library Services. When the services closed in August 2013 due…
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Role of Civil Society towards State of Panchayat Raj in India
Mr. Ramit Basu, UN Habitat (Nairobi, Kenya) recently published the article, “State of Panchayat Raj in India, Not just Government Apathy!” on the State of Local Governments in India from the role of civil society point of view. He argues that Civil Society can be a great motivator and supporter for decentralized governance. The Indian…
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Local Governance Assessments
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)’s Decentralization and Local Governance Network (dlgn) published the paper “Local Governance Assessments: A Capitalization of SDC Experience” in February 2011 to offer guidance on conducting Local Government Assessment (LGA)s in the future. The purpose of the paper is part of the broader Learning Project on Local Governance Assessments,…
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PREMnotes : from the Poverty Reduction and Economic Network / World Bank
Abstract: The PREM (Poverty Reduction and Economic Management) note series is intended to summarize good practice and key policy findings on Economic Policy, Gender, Governance and Public Sector Reform and Poverty. Author(s): World Bank Published: World Bank, Washington, DC Link: http://www1.worldbank.org/prem/