This document highlights definitions and concepts around decentralisation and local governance. Its intention is to further a common understanding of these concepts within SDC and to support capacity-building activities.
This guide was compiled as an orientation aid to facilitate both the assessement as well as the implementation of decentralization projects. It points out opportunities as well as risks and how SDC can cope with these.
This review looks at how and when do donor policies and initiatives for social inclusion in local governance processes and institutions really work to improve the lives of the poor. It seeks to review and organise a vast array of existing literature and empirical evidence documenting innovative experiences carried forward by SDC and other donors.
