Seminar presenting the results of the Evaluation of EC support to decentralisation processes
This event is of the type External event.
This event is organised by: Gessi Paola
- Political economy of decentralisation and local governance
- Aid modalities to support decentralisation
- Fiscal decentralisation
- Local governance, citizen participation and accountability
- Decentralisation and local economic development
- Decentralisation, sector policies and local service delivery
- Decentralisation, conflict and fragile states
- Local governments and capacity building
- Urban development
- Monitoring and Evaluation of decentralisation
Train4dev (2011) Harmonisation, Decentralisation, Local Governance: Practice cases on financing modalities
This document presents two case studies of financing modalities for local governments. The first case draws lessons for successful municipal contracting based on the experience of the Urban Development and Decentralisation Program in Senegal from 1998 to 2005. The second case describes the functioning of the ‘’Fonds d’Appui au Développement des Communes’’, an application of performance-based grant system at the local government level in Benin, and assesses its impact on aid effectiveness.
Train4dev (2011) Harmonisation, Decentralisation, Local Governance: Ghana Urban Management Pilot Programme (VNG/AFD)
The Urban Management Pilot Programme is an AFD-sponsored initiative implemented by VNG. Its aim is to support urban infrastructure development programmes and strengthen institutional capacity in four Ghanaian cities, using the municipal contracting modality.
LSE (2011) Cities in Fragile States.
The ‘Cities and Fragile States’ is a research programme of the Crisis States Research Centre of The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Over the past two decades, many cities around the world have become characterised by rising forms of violence, insecurity and illegality.
