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Decentralisation is a policy feature common to many African countries. Local governance is therefore gaining in relevance, though not yet in clarity. Based on the experience of a development project in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, the article examines the case of local governance in practice, grounding this in a historical analysis and focusing on the relationship between local government and civil society. (InWent/DÜI)

Donors and development practioners are increasingly seeking ways to operationalise rights-based approaches to development. The Department for International Development's (DFID) Participatory Rights Assessment Methodologies (PRAMs) project was conceived as one response to the challenge of putting their rights agenda into practice. PRAMs, presently being piloted in Malawi and Peru, is seen as an instrument for supporting governments, civil society and other social actors in understanding their rights and obligations and creating the institutional change necessary to ensure participation, inclusion and obligation for all human rights for all people. Emerging lessons confirm that participatory rights assessment is qualitatively different from "conventional" people-centred approaches to development initiatives, with one participant concluding: 'once you understand - really understand - that you have rights, everything changes.' (IDS Bull/DÜI)