TitleDecentralization, democracy, and development : Recent experience from Sierra Leone / edited by Yongmei Zhou
Imprint Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2009
Descript xxxii, 150p. : ill, maps ; 26 cm

CONTENT

Establishing the legislative, political, and administrative framework for local government and decentralization in Sierra Leone. -- Fiscal decentralization: building the financial capacity of local governments. -- Administrative decentrallization: building the non-financial capacity of local governments. -- Decentralization in practice. -- Impact of decentralization on public services: evidence to date. -- Civic engagement in local governance. -- Landscape of local authority in Sierra Leone: how "Traditional" and "Modern" justice and governance systems interact. -- Reflections and conclusions on positives and problems resulting from devolution to date.


SUBJECT

  1. Sierra Leone -- Politics and government -- 1961-
  2. Democracy -- Sierra Leone
  3. Local government -- Swerra Leone
  4. Decentralization in government -- Serra Leore

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Political Science Library342.6029 D292 CHECK SHELVES