Traditional Structures in Local Governance for Local Development

Social Inclusion Learning Program (CESI). Karen Sirker and Alex Widmer from the CESI staff provided many of the documents and contributed substantially to the final editing of the paper. We would like to thank the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for the generous financial contribution to this Desk Study as part of the WBI-SDC Learning Partnership and Robert Ebel (WBI) for launching the idea of the Learning Program this Desk Study belongs to. 1 The comments and critiques that were made by the many participants from the workshop on Traditional authorities and local governance in Berne, Switzerland in February 2004 were very valuable and helpful for the final report. Furthermore we would like to thank Karin Gilland, Isabelle Steffen and Monika Spinatsch and Utako Hanna Saoshiro for their support in finalising this report.