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Organisational citizenship behaviour and service delivery in urban local governments in Uganda 乌干达城市地方政府的组织公民行为和服务提供

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Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi24.7752

Wilberforce Turyasingura, L. Nabaho

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Voting in New Zealand local government elections: the need to encourage greater voter turnout 新西兰地方政府选举中的投票:需要鼓励更多的选民参与

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Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi24.7541

Andy Asquith, K. Webster, Andrew Cardow

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Editorial 社论

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Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi24.7790

Graham Sansom

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Localising the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa: implementation challenges and opportunities 非洲可持续发展目标本地化:实施的挑战和机遇

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Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi24.7739

Eunice Annan-Aggrey, Elmond Bandauko, G. Arku

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Localising democracy on an uneven playing field: the roles of ward councillors in the City of Cape Town 不公平竞争环境下的民主本土化:开普敦市选区议员的角色

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Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi24.7065

V. Naidoo

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Australian local government’s contribution to good governance on major projects: increasing information, participation and deliberation 澳大利亚地方政府对重大项目善治的贡献:增加信息、参与和审议

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Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi24.7637

S. D. Vries

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Enhancing youth participation in local governance: an assessment of urban and rural junior councils in Zimbabwe 加强青年对地方治理的参与:对津巴布韦城乡青年理事会的评估

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Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi24.7734

Paradzai Munyede, Delis Mazambani, Jakarasi Maja

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Examining citizens’ trust in local government institutions: a focus on upazila parishads (sub-district councils) in Bangladesh 考察公民对地方政府机构的信任：关注孟加拉国的upazila parishad（街道委员会）

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Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi24.7275

N. Khan, Jannatul Ferdous, Md. Imran Hossain Bhuiyan

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Indigenous peoples’ human rights, self-determination and local governance – Part 1 土著人民的人权、自决和地方治理-第1部分

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Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi24.7779

Ed Wensing

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When public spending goes local: agricultural expenditure at a key stage in Ghana’s decentralisation reform 当公共支出转向地方：加纳权力下放改革关键阶段的农业支出

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Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.5130/cjlg.vi23.7560

Tewodaj Mogues, Kwaku Owusu-Baah

{"title":"When public spending goes local: agricultural expenditure at a key stage in Ghana’s decentralisation reform","authors":"Tewodaj Mogues, Kwaku Owusu-Baah","doi":"10.5130/cjlg.vi23.7560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/cjlg.vi23.7560","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a qualitative analysis that highlights the implications on agricultural services of a key stage in decentralisation reforms in Ghana. We assess the status of agricultural expenditure decentralisation and draw out the likely implications for agricultural service delivery and national strategies. The study finds that agricultural officers at all levels (national, regional and district) had concerns about the implementation of the new decentralisation reform. These included budget cuts and delays in releases that coincided with the reform period; the transfer of staff from the civil service to the local government service; and a sense that agriculture may receive less attention when allocation of government resources becomes the preserve of assemblies and district chief executives, rather than the central agricultural ministry. The structural changes also meant that agricultural local government staff now needed to learn to ‘market’ the value of their public services to local government leadership, in order to protect resources for agriculture. The decentralisation reform also necessitated new public expenditure reporting practices to ensure a clear overview of sectoral spending across government tiers.","PeriodicalId":43511,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42446148","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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