Decentralization and Development Partnership: Lessons from Uganda

✍ Scribed by Fumihiko Saito (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Japan
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides the kind of on-the-ground look at the process and results of decentralization that we have been missing in the debates over "decentralization" and in efforts to plan for more effective meeting of people's needs through a process of devolved responsibility and financing, especially in Africa.

Norman Uphoff, Director, Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development

Cornell University, U.S.A.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages ii-xxii
Introduction: Why Decentralization Matters?....Pages 1-24
Decentralization Debate: Democracy, Development and Collective Action....Pages 25-47
Evolution of Decentralization in Uganda: Opportunities, Perceptions and Constraints....Pages 49-76
Poverty, Empowerment and the Local Council: Views from the Grassroots....Pages 77-99
The Representation of the Disadvantaged: Women, Youth and Ethnic Minorities....Pages 101-124
Fiscal Decentralization: Re-centralization by Other Means?....Pages 125-150
Decentralized Primary Education: Potential of Community Contributions....Pages 151-176
Decentralization and Health Services: Challenge for Public Confidence....Pages 177-201
Conclusions: The Way Forward....Pages 203-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-259

✦ Subjects

Regional/Spatial Science