Urban Economic Growth and Chronic Poverty
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In: Public administration and development: the international journal of management research and practice, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 307-316
ISSN: 0271-2075
The article reviews the literature relating local level decision-making, citizen participation and accountability. It then presents the findings of a study of decision-making about the use of resources in a sample of municipal governments in Kenya and Uganda. It concludes that factors like committed local leadership, central monitoring of performance, articulate civil society organisations and the availability of information are critical. (InWent/DÜI)
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In: Public administration and development: the international journal of management research and practice, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 307-316
ISSN: 1099-162X
AbstractThe current fashion for decentralisation is built on the assumption that it will result in decisions that reflect local needs and priorities. Yet representative democracy, through periodic elections, is a crude mechanism for establishing these needs and priorities. Most local government systems offer few other opportunities for citizens to participate, particularly for the poor, and few mechanisms of accountability. This article reviews the literature relating local level decision‐making, citizen participation and accountability. It then presents the findings of a study of decision‐making about the use of resources in a sample of municipal governments in Kenya and Uganda. Local governments in Kenya have traditionally offered minimal scope for citizen participation or accountability, but this is beginning to change, mainly as a result of performance conditions applied through the recently introduced Local Authorities Transfer Fund (LATF), together with an increasingly active civil society. In Uganda, which has undergone a radical decentralisation, there is much greater scope for citizen participation at the local level but there are still many of the same problems of local accountability as in Kenya. The article reviews some of the examples of, and reasons for, good (and bad) practice. It concludes that factors like committed local leadership, central monitoring of performance, articulate civil society organisations and the availability of information are critical. But even with these, there is no guarantee that decentralised decision‐making will be inclusive of the poor. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
In: Public administration and development: the international journal of management research and practice, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 307-316
ISSN: 0271-2075
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 13, Heft 7, S. 997-1002
ISSN: 1099-1328