BEIRUT: Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Monday that the government will soon forward a draft law on applying administrative decentralization in Lebanon to Parliament. Mikati spoke at the opening of ...

The Good Governance and Citizenship Observatory (GGCO) at the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut (AUB), in collaboration with the Observatory on ...

In the Andean countries responsibility for the provision of key public services has been transferred to local institutions. However, national governments still exert control over strategic assets such ...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh appointed Head of the Government Steering Committee on Administrative Reform and Decentralization. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh serves as Head of the Committee. The ...

Decentralization is a hot topic right now. In Ukraine, it has been proposed as a means of giving greater autonomy to the Russian-speaking regions in the East of the country - a gentle concession to ...

Timor-Leste’s new Prime Minister, Rui Araujo, has inherited a policy of decentralising the nation’s governance. Given capacity issues, this process is unlikely to bring broader-based rural development ...

The objective of the research was to determine the relationship between decentralized policies, techniques, and human resources directly related to improving educational quality and the influence of ...

Gandhinagar: In what is being seen as a politically significant move, the Gujarat government approved the formation of 17 new talukas ahead of the local body elections scheduled for January-February ...

Since the early 2000s, Rwanda has pursued an ambitious decentralization reform aimed at promoting inclusive local governance, strengthening public service delivery, and deepening citizen participation ...