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(VF)Si les innovations managériales et les démarches de modernisation se multiplient au sein des collectivités territoriales, rares sont les études qui, non seulement, analysent de manière spécifique les facteurs favorisant l’appropriation de ces démarches aux différentes étapes de...

In accordance with the Law about administrative decentralization from R.M., the competencies of local government are all rights and duties of local authorities in the fields they are established. In order to achieve its competencies, local authorities use institutional, financial, human and...

In the areas around cities, growing conflict over land use as well as the emergence of local authority development policies are inducing farmers and their representatives to accept urban development as a major part of their future relationships with the land. Local communities aim to conceive...

Objectives which they propose a public authority requires, among others, providing the necessary resources, including the material occupy a large proportion. This is done through the public procurement system. The procurement is part of the legal and economic reality of the Romanian society and...

The Local Authorities Transfer Fund (LATF) is one of the funds that the Kenyan Government has decentralized to local authorities to supplement the financing of service delivery, enhance financial management and accountability, as well as reduce debts accumulated by the authorities. The purpose...

Debt can be rewarding in cases of moderate use, but can be disastrous in cases of imprudence. Excessive debt has been a key challenge to Kenyan local authorities, constraining service delivery and undermining financial sustainability. The Government established and decentralized the Local...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe and discuss the pilot Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) project that ran in three London boroughs in England in 2014-2015. The project aimed to help local authority social work practitioners better engage with adults at risk at the beginning,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the methodology being used in a study exploring the organisation of adult safeguarding. Design/methodology/approach – A mixed-methods study is presented which describes how the research team is seeking to identify models of adult...