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Kerala’s celebrated Kudumbashree scheme for poverty reduction: a critical look through a feminist lens 喀拉拉邦著名的Kudumbashree减贫计划:通过女权主义镜头的批判性观察

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi28.8683

Shilpa Santhosh

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The impact of New Public Management reforms on the delivery of secondary education in Tanzania 新的公共管理改革对坦桑尼亚提供中等教育的影响

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi28.8818

Wilfred Lameck, Chagulani Shabiru

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Entrepreneurship in emerging cities: mitigating impediments to small business development in Tshwane, South Africa 新兴城市的创业精神:减轻南非茨瓦内小企业发展的障碍

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi28.8360

Hayley Boks, Adrino Mazenda

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Filling the gaps in local governance: an analysis of the structure and process of informal community governance in Ibadan, Nigeria 填补地方治理的空白:对尼日利亚伊巴丹非正式社区治理结构和过程的分析

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi28.8233

Femi Olaniyan

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An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament: what can Australia learn from other countries? 澳洲原住民与托雷斯海峡岛民向国会发声:澳洲可以向其他国家学习什么?

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi28.8768

Harry Hobbs, Ed Wensing

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Fiscal decentralisation and public service delivery: evidence and lessons from sub-national governments in Kenya 财政分权和公共服务提供:来自肯尼亚地方政府的证据和教训

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi28.7712

Justa Mwangi, Gitile Naituli, James Kilika, Wilson Muna

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Funding primary health care service delivery in the West Nile sub-region, Uganda 为乌干达西尼罗河次区域提供初级卫生保健服务提供资金

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi28.7891

Stella B Kyohairwe, Christopher Yikii Agatre

{"title":"Funding primary health care service delivery in the West Nile sub-region, Uganda","authors":"Stella B Kyohairwe, Christopher Yikii Agatre","doi":"10.5130/cjlg.vi28.7891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/cjlg.vi28.7891","url":null,"abstract":"The provision of primary health care services is a global concern and quality health service delivery is based on a number of factors, including motivated health workers, good-quality infrastructure, consistent supply of medicines and technologies, adequate funding, sound health plans, and evidence-based policies. This study investigated the funding of primary health care service delivery in three local government districts in Uganda’s West Nile sub-region, and identified deficiencies in the allocation, disbursement and timeliness of health funding which have a negative impact on service delivery. Inadequate funding affects the quality of services, limits essential supplies and causes excessive reliance on private financing, which is not sustainable in poor rural economies. In view of these findings, the study recommended deliberate action by both central government and district councils to increase the percentage of funding allocated in their annual budgets to the health sector, in line with the 2001 Abuja Declaration. The government of Uganda should consider prioritising an increase in total national budget allocations to local governments; primary health care disbursements from central government should be paid on time directly to health facilities by use of the ‘straight-through processing system’ for all types of funding; the government should introduce, support and encourage additional community financing initiatives such as Community Health Insurance Schemes; and district and local community leaders should be sensitised on the benefits of this approach.","PeriodicalId":43511,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135864342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How informal ties matter: encroachment on road reservations along the Kumasi–Accra highway in Ghana 非正式关系有多重要:侵占加纳库马西-阿克拉高速公路沿线的公路保留区

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi28.8260

Ronald Adamtey, Florence Aburam, Benjamin Doe, Clifford Amoako

{"title":"How informal ties matter: encroachment on road reservations along the Kumasi–Accra highway in Ghana","authors":"Ronald Adamtey, Florence Aburam, Benjamin Doe, Clifford Amoako","doi":"10.5130/cjlg.vi28.8260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/cjlg.vi28.8260","url":null,"abstract":"A failure of urban planning in many developing countries is evidenced by encroachment on road reservations. Urban planning literature suggests that such encroachment is largely explained by poverty and urban growth. But how do encroachers find space in the road reservations? This paper examines encroachment along the Anloga Junction to Ejisu section of the Kumasi–Accra highway in Ghana. It argues that formal rules are not effective in governing the road reservations: informal rules rooted in social networks of reciprocity matter more. The research involved interviews with encroachers, senior officials from government institutions and traditional authorities. It emerged that encroachers invoked mainly ethnic and political party ties with public officials to secure space in the road reservations. This occurred in an environment of non-enforcement of relevant laws, weak formal collaboration among public institutions, and inadequate political commitment. There is a need for effective application of the principles and methods of multi-stakeholder governance, linking improved legal regulation with informal processes, to achieve better outcomes.","PeriodicalId":43511,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135864616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Decentralisation and political empowerment of citizens in Karamoja, Uganda 乌干达卡拉莫贾的权力下放和公民政治赋权

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi28.8769

Jimmy Francis Obonyo, William Muhumuza

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Review: The Winding Stair by Sir Rodney Brooke 书评:罗德尼·布鲁克爵士的《蜿蜒的楼梯》

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi28.8767

Andy Asquith

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