During the last decade or so conceptual as well as implementation issues related to good governance and decentralization came to occupy rather important concerns in the agenda of international aid organizations. Programs/projects in the developing countries, and especially those implemented...

The interpretation, application and understanding of community participation, the South African local government discourse in particular, is ambiguous, thus, creating a more simplistic and superficial meaning for operationalization. This paper seeks to challenge the notion that community...

Significant efforts have been made by Government, NGOs, LGIs in Bangladesh since its independence but its poor, marginalized and excluded groups are yet to be reached with basic services. Researches shows that most of the time absence of participatory planning, budgeting and monitoring is...

Part I. Conceptual and Historical Perspectives of Decentralization and Local Governance -- Chapter 1. From Deconcentration to Devolution: Tracking the Historical Trajectory of Democratic Decentralization in Ghana -- Chapter 2. Historical Perspectives of Local Governance and Community Development...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Policy Impact Study: A Conceptual Framework -- Chapter 3: Past Reforms on People's Participation and Accountability in Bangladesh -- Chapter 4: Governance, People's Participation, Accountability and the Act of 2009 -- Chapter 5: Process of Participatory...