. Benin is currently in a process of political decentralization shifting responsibility for and administration of rural water …

amplification of the decentralization movement. On the basis of a literature review and their own practitioners' experiences, the … to the authors, there is a need to recognize local conventions, which offer an opportunity for decentralization to be … decentralization even if decentralization reforms and national forestry laws have ignored them across West Africa." authors' abstract …

by many different types of decentralization. However, the literature on land tenure reform rarely explicitly addressed … the implications of decentralization, and vice versa. This paper provides a review of how the issues of decentralization … are linked to land tenure reform, in theory and practice. Both decentralization and land tenure reform each encompass a …