Inclusive leadership and governance

  • Zmijivka – Pilot village in a period of transition 2017 – 2020

    Zmijivka – Pilot village in a period of transition 2017 – 2020

    The background is that in 1930 Gotland receive the majority of the returning Swedes from Gammalsvenskbyn in Ukraine, after they arrived in Sweden in 1929. The Swedish villagers have been a very substantial part of Gotland since. After Ukraine’s liberation in 1991 written a twinning agreement between the Municipality of Gotland and Gammalsvenskby 2001. Since…

  • Environment protection NORELD 2016

    Environment protection NORELD 2016

    This project proposal is a result of the Inception phase which the parties had in 2015. The municipalities have decided to apply for a continued partnership within the area of solid Waste management. The overall objective of the project is to contribute to a sustainable and cleaner environment by supporting the administration and the inhabitants…

  • Kontaktcenter; utveckling av service och tillgänglighet

    Kontaktcenter; utveckling av service och tillgänglighet

    The two-year project is based on a problem analysis where the cooperation of the municipalities respectively Contact Centers are faced with a need for development regarding their work. It is about the overall development of availability, service, treatment, new technology and work environment that will affect citizens’ contact with local democracy. The results may also…

  • Proceedings of the Workshop: Workshop on Devolution and Local Development in Kenya

    On June 26 2014, a workshop was held on devolution and local development at the Nairobi Safari Club in Nairobi, Kenya, to discuss the historic devolution reforms one year after their implementation. The workshop was organised by Agnes Cornell, Aarhus University, and Michelle D’Arcy, Trinity College Dublin, with funding from the Swedish International Centre for…

  • Proceedings of the Workshop: State of the Art of Local Governance – Challenges for the Next Decade

    Skriften är ett resultat av en konferens som arrangerades av ICLD i Visby 29-30 april 2010. Konferensen samlade akademiker och beslutsfattare inom området lokal demokrati och lokal styrning för diskussioner på temat ”State of the Art of Local Governance – Challenges for the Next Decade”. Konferensen hade två syften: Ambitionen var att tillhandahålla ett forum…

  • Strengthening local governance in Africa: Beyond donor-driven approaches

    Strengthening local governance in Africa: Beyond donor-driven approaches is the twelfth paper to be published in ICLD’s Working Paper series. In this paper Göran Hydén is critical of the donor-driven approaches to decentralization that pays little attention to political realities in Africa. He argues that the focus during the last decades has been on prescriptive…

  • Decentralizing for Development: The developmental potential of local autonomy and the limits of politics driven decentralization reforms

    Decentralization does not always guarantee democratic development, so how then can a model of decentralization be designed so that it also creates incitements for democratic institutions? In this paper the author tries to find the missing link between decentralization reforms and good governance. The important contribution in this paper is that one needs to take…

  • Participatory Budgeting and Local Governance

    Participatory budgeting has become a much used tool in the process of creating decentralized states, but what are the possibilities and risks of participatory budgeting from a democratic perspective? In this paper the challenge of creating well-functioning systems for participatory budgeting that combines both efficiency and civic participation is examined by studying local participatory budgeting…

  • Real Democratization in Cambodia? An Empirical Review of the Potential of a Decentralization Reform

    How can a war-torn country rise and in the process create democratic institutions? This paper uses Cambodia as an example and tries to identify some of the key dimensions of the Cambodian decentralization reform. The question in focus, how the process of decentralization and local development is played out in a post-conflict country is thoroughly…

  • Citizen Engagement, Deliberative Spaces and the Consolidation of a Post-Authoritarian Democracy: The Case of Indonesia

    Is there a correlation of strong civil society organizations taking part in a decentralization process and the possibilities that this process will result in a strong deliberative democracy and a well-functioning local government? By presenting different examples of how local CSO:s in post-authoritarian Indonesia engage with the government, the author argues that there has been…