Decentralisation: An Experience

Decentralisation and its implications for reproductive health: the Philippines experience.

Decentralisation is one of the most common health sector reforms initiated in developing countries in the 1980-90s. Although decentralisation is often politically driven, it can significantly improve health sector performance. However, the early phase of the Philippines experience indicates that decentralisation in and of itself does not always improve the efficiency, equity and effectiveness o...

Decentralisation and Local Governance

Decentralisation in South Africa¤

2 The complexities of decentralisation 5 2.1 Types of decentralisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Arguments for (and against) decentralisation . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2.1 Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2.2 E¢ciency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2.3 Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Decentralisation and Good Governance 1 . Decentralisation and Conflict Management in Multicultural

1.1. Types of decentralisation In this paper, we shall be concerned mainly with forms of decentralisation other than federalism. Decentralisation is a very general term, conventionally used to describe the extent to which the political, administrative or fiscal powers of a central government have been shared or distributed, amongst territorially defined sub-national agencies or authorities. Thi...

Democratic decentralisation in Ghana: issues and prospects