UNDP/Basque Government (2011): Contribution paper on Aid effectiveness, multilevel governance and decentralized cooperation: basis for a new, post-Busan development cooperation architecture and the role of regions and cities
In view of the HLF-4, UNDP promoted a broad consultative process on aid effectiveness at the local level, in close collaboration with the Andalusian Municipalities Fund for International Solidarity (FAMSI) - vice-presidency of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), the Forum of Global Associations of Regions (FOGAR), the Institute of Development Studies and International Cooperation (HEGOA), Local Authorities’ Fund for Decentralized Cooperation and Sustainable Human Development (FELCOS Umbria), the Observatory for Decentralised Cooperation European Union – Latin America, the Basque Gov
Train4dev (2011), Harmonisation, Decentralisation, Local Governance: Identifying strategic options for support (Powerpoint presentation)
This presentation is about the elements that need to be taken into account when designing a support strategy for decentralisation.
OECD (2004) Lessons learned on donor support to decentralisation and local governance.
This study examines aid programmes geared towards decentralisation and local governance support. Based on experience of both bilateral and multilateral programmes, it presents lessons learned as well as guidance to donor and partner countries to improve their programmes.
Main findings of the study include:
OECD (2009) Donor approaches to governance assessments: Guiding principles for enhanced impact, usage and harmonisation.
This document summarises an analysis of various donors’ governance assessments and introduces five guiding principles to lead to better collaboration between donors as well as with partner country governments when conducting governance assessments. The principles were developed to improve donor impact, usage and harmonisation of governance assessment.
van Reesch, E. (2007) Bridging the Macro-Micro Gap: Micro-Meso-Macro Linkages in the Context of Sector-Wide Approaches.
The shift in aid delivery from donor-led projects to supporting sector programmes (Sector-Wide Approach, SWAp) has contributed to an increase in funding for social service delivery and better management capacity at the national level but not at the local level, creating a macro-micro gap.
Boex, Jamie (2010) Localizing the MDGs: Unlocking the potential of the local public sector to engage in development and poverty reduction. IDG Working Paper No. 2010-04.
Given the vast scale of the global development challenge, it is increasingly clear that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are pursued in a manner that is excessively top-down in nature and that the distance between central government authorities and their citizens is too large for central authorities to effectively empower the people over the public sector.
EuropeAid (2007) SWAPs in motion. Sector wide approaches: From an aid delivery to a sector development perspective.
This paper has been developed by Nils Boesen and Desiree Dietvorst as a contribution to the Joint Learning Programme on Sector Wide Approaches (JLP) that offers sector-specific in-country learning events for development agency partners and domestic stakeholders and is financed by Denmark, EU, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K.
Anwar Shah/World Bank (2004) Fiscal Decentralization in Developing and Transition Economies: Progress, Problems, and the Promise
This paper discusses the transformation of public sector thinking in public sectors of developing and transition countries. Countries are reconsidering their fiscal systems and searching for the right balance between central government control and decentralized governance.
DIE (2010) Integrated Fiscal Decentralisation: Taking New Aid Modalities to the Local Level. Briefing Paper 12/2010.
How to combine the implementation of the new aid agenda with the challenges of advancing subsidiarityoriented decentralisation in many developing countries? This question has been neglected for some years, as most of the discussion on ownership, the use of partnercountry systems, donor harmonisation and alignment has been focused on the central government level. However, that focus tends to ignore the fact that public finance reforms in developing countries often include elements of fiscal decentralisation.
DANIDA (2010) Fiscal decentralisation and sector-funding principals and practices.
This paper provides a general introduction to Fiscal Decentralisation (FD) and shares lessons learned from a number of developing countries. It also explores the links between FD and sector funding and discusses the use of various aid modalities for support to FD, based on experiences from countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A number of technical annexes provide more detailed information on some of the core issues.
