Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation

The European Union’s (EU’s) shift towards a more political view on decentralisation as a process of empowerment has major consequences for the ways in which to support reform in partner countries. To this end, several key concepts involved in the process have to be reviewed.

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Here you can have a snapshot of:

• the implication of adopting a broader definition of decentralisation as a process of empowering citizens through the empowerment of their local authorities (managerial/governmental types of LA, autonomy & accountability for LAs…)
• basic concepts revisited in the context of the new narrative on decentralisation (fiscal/administrative/political decentralisation, devolution/delegation/deconcentration…)
• the connection between decentralisation and development
• an introduction to the concept of a territorial approach to local development