Strengthening Local Governance In Bangladesh

Author : Shuvra Chowdhury
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319732846
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh written by Shuvra Chowdhury and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people’s participation and accountability. Throughout the chapters, the authors review the existing legal framework of UP and its relation to social accountability, examine how much of the social participation is spontaneous and how much is politically induced, question the success of the Citizen's Charter and Right to Information acts as mechanisms for social accountability, and present suggestions to remedy some of the problems facing people's participation and accountability in the UP. This book fills existing gaps in the discourse by adding new information to the literature on development research and legal reforms in Bangladesh, specifically in how those legal reforms have led to strengthening or weakening people's participation in local government. The target audience for this book are students and researchers in Asian studies , international development studies, and public administration, as well as practitioners working in the local governments discussed.

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Download or read book Strengthening Local Governance written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mohammad Jahangir Hossain Mojumder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000760626
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government and NGOs in South Asia written by Mohammad Jahangir Hossain Mojumder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses efforts of Bangladeshi government and NGOs to strengthen local governance, and identifies the challenges posed by collaboration with NGOs. Presenting a dominantly qualitative study, the analysis explores whether engagement between the Sharique project to strengthen local governance and the Union Parishads has translated into success. In doing so, it argues that evidence points to a positive impact on institutionalising good governance and fiscal autonomy through widening participation in planning and decision-making, reinforcing accountability of functionaries and enhancing tax collection. Furthermore, this book demonstrates that the collaboration has aided the process of development of social capital between officials of councils and NGOs, as well as amongst the community members, encouraging future partnership governance. However, with the phasing out of the project as a propelling force, it also shows that the results fall short of being sustainable and, as such, that statuary support, unequivocal political commitment, and incentivising engagements are required to stabilise outcomes. Bridging a gap in the Development Studies literature, this book presents new findings on the collaboration of NGOs at the local level. It will be of interest to academics working in the field of South Asian Studies, Development Studies, and Asian Politics.

Author : Mohammad Samiul Islam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789849116103
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strengthening Local Government in Bangladesh written by Mohammad Samiul Islam and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kamal Siddiqui
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Governance in Bangladesh written by Kamal Siddiqui and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States United States Agency for International Development
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781507581292
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strengthening Democratic Local Governance (Sdlg) Program in Bangladesh written by United States United States Agency for International Development and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-17 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strengthening Democratic Local Governance in Bangladesh (SDLG) Project as extended is a 51-month activity (December 2010-March 2015) funded by the United States Agency for International Development's Bangladesh Mission (USAID/Bangladesh). Building on more than a decade's worth of local government strengthening programs in Bangladesh, the SDLG Project combines a focus on research and policy advocacy, capacity development for local government associations, and training and technical assistance for local government units at union parishad, upazila parishad (UP), and pourashava levels. Tetra Tech ARD is the implementing partner for the SDLG Project. Key elements of the SDLG Project strategy for achieving results include: -Building on USAID/Bangladesh's more than 10-year history of significant local governance support programs.-Enhancing the political will of national and local government elected officials as well as citizen groups and NGOs to reform local governance.-Identifying and disseminating to local governments innovative practices to achieve performance standards.-Integrating gender and youth concerns across the SDLG program, while supporting women's participation in local government leadership.-Disseminating through multiple media outlets information on local governments in Bangladesh and the role of the USAID-funded SDLG Project.-Linking with USAID/Bangladeshâe(tm)s (and other donorâe(tm)s) programs, including Presidential Initiatives in the areas of health, agriculture and climate change.This strategic approach will help ensure the project achieves core objectives within the 51-month timeframe, given the resources available, and taking into consideration constraints and opportunities posed by the legal and policy framework for local governments.

Author : Local Government Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People's Republic of Bangladesh Report written by Local Government Commission and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rumana Siddiqi
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strengthening Local Government written by Rumana Siddiqi and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights of the dialogue held at CIRDAP Auditorium, on June 24, 2000, on the theme of strengthening local government, recent experience and future agenda; with reference to Bangladesh.

Author : A. K. M. Zafar ullah khan
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Decentralization of Administration and Strengthening Local Government Institutions: a Case Study of Upazila Parishad in Bangladesh written by A. K. M. Zafar ullah khan and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean-Paul Faguet
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A Tale of Two Upazilas written by Jean-Paul Faguet and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decentralization is commonly advocated as a means to improve primary services and hence accelerate social development. Although theory supports this position, empirical evidence is ambiguous. This paper examines whether local governance can improve social development empirically, with detailed evidence on good and bad cases of public service effectiveness in Bangladesh. We examine the institutional underpinnings of service provision, digging down beneath the rules of the game to analyze the beliefs, understandings and dispositions that drive social behavior. We find that changes in attitudes, which led to improvements in social indicators, coincided with rising educational levels, and training and outreach by NGOs. But such changes affected all of Bangladesh in similar ways. Regional variation in social outcomes is explained by the presence in certain areas of a dense web of relationships that enmeshed such advances, and their protagonists, in local systems of authority and legitimacy, strengthening their actions and making local society more susceptible to change.