This participants’ kit explores the usefulness of political economy diagnostics for understanding decentralisation and local governance processes. It also looks at how domestic accountability works in decentralised contexts, and...
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This issue paper by Denmark’s Development Cooperation provides an overview of general and sectoral political economy and governance (PEG) approaches to development as well as guidance applicable to decentralisation reforms. The...
This reference document from the European Commission (EC) provides guidance to EC sector specialists on how to improve the quality and impact of response strategies at sector level by analysing governance in sectors in a more...
How does poor governance constrain development? This paper was prepared for the launch of the OECD DAC Network on Governance (GOVNET) work-stream on Aid and Domestic Accountability. It sets out a conceptual framework and approach...
Ghana’s reviewed decentralization policy is likely to bring about incremental rather than transformational change. In the authors’ view, extensive decentralisation would be likely to exacerbate problems rather than solve them. The...
What role does local government (LG) play in post-conflict reconstruction? What are the key issues for LG in post-conflict contexts? This paper, published by the United Nations Development Programme, argues that further research...
The Democratic Decentralization Programming Handbook conceptualizes decentralization as a reform that advances the exercise of political freedom and individual economic choice in a context of stability and the rule of law...
Decentralisation reforms have rarely bred empowered democratic local authorities. Discretion and accountability relationships depend on the political economy of each country, and historical/colonial legacies. Findings result from...
This volume presents a preliminary framework designed to help international development partners consider the relevance of political economy issues for their programmatic support to decentralization and local government reform...
This document makes suggestions for Terms of Reference and an outline forPolitical Economy of Decentralisation Analysis (PEDCA) studies. This document has been extracted and adapted from Eaton, K. et al, (2010) “The Political...