Grappling with Developmental Local Government
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 8
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Managing Local Government
Author: Charldean Newell
Publisher: International City/County Management Association(ICMA)
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780873261791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKActual cases with a format that sets the stage for grappling with important decisions about supervision, hiring, economic development, staff misconduct, problem analysis in a political environment, the manager¿s role in promoting sustainability, and more! Designed to meet the needs of both practicing managers engaged in professional development and graduate students who aspire to local government careers.
Developmental Local Government Research Series
Author: T. C. Chigwata
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781485139508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Journey to Transform Local Government is about the challenges and opportunities for municipalities in South Africa as they journey towards delivering on the promise of developmental local government. It deals with various issues on the continuum of local government transformation in South Africa, for example, what does Sustainable Development Goal 11 mean for a municipality? Given that good governance is essential for success, are municipalities implementing anti-corruption policies and are the Municipal Public Accounts Committees functioning? How do we staff municipalities with professionals who see local government as their career of choice? And, given that our ageing infrastructure poses risks for the future, what should municipalities do to ensure proper maintenance? How do we manage the overlapping roles of traditional leaders and municipalities? Can traditional land use allocation and building practices co-exist with municipal planning and building regulations? And, when municipalities insist on town planning and building regulations, how does this affect local entrepreneurs? Lastly, how do we measure spatial transformation in practice? The authors grappling with these questions come from universities, government, civil society and the private sector. They fill the pages of this book with some of the latest research on local government, grounded in the reality of today's South Africa."--Back cover.
The Journey to Transform Local Government
Author: Tinasha Chigwata
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781485133056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Journey to Transform Local Government is about the challenges and opportunities for municipalities in South Africa as they journey towards delivering on the promise of developmental local government. It deals with various issues on the continuum of local government transformation in South Africa, for example, what does Sustainable Development Goal 11 mean for a municipality? Given that good governance is essential for success, are municipalities implementing anti-corruption policies and are the Municipal Public Accounts Committees functioning? How do we staff municipalities with professionals who see local government as their career of choice? And, given that our ageing infrastructure poses risks for the future, what should municipalities do to ensure proper maintenance? How do we manage the overlapping roles of traditional leaders and municipalities? Can traditional land use allocation and building practices co-exist with municipal planning and building regulations? And, when municipalities insist on town planning and building regulations, how does this affect local entrepreneurs? Lastly, how do we measure spatial transformation in practice? The authors grappling with these questions come from universities, government, civil society and the private sector. They fill the pages of this book with some of the latest research on local government, grounded in the reality of today's South Africa."--Back cover.
Struggling With Development
Author: Lynn Kwiatkowski
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-20
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0429965621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStruggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its main goals the alleviation of hunger in women and children and the raising
The Future of Local Government
Author: John Stewart
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1989-09-01
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1349201790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking at the future of local government, this book examines the different changes, such as community charge and other financial changes, housing reforms, education reforms services, local democracy and other problems within the local government.
Consolidating Developmental Local Government
Author: Mirjam Van Donk
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9781919895048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDocuments the dynamics of local government transformation and captures the key themes of the debates about policy options, lessons and key strategic decisions. This text is suitable for government officials, students, researchers, specialists, community leaders, businesses and the general reader.
Struggling Giants
Author: Paul Kantor
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0816677425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe struggle for governability in the world's four leading global city-regions
Developmental Local Government
Author: Jaap De Visser
Publisher: Intersentia nv
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9050954251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book concerns the role of the state in achieving development. In many developing countries conventional wisdom concluded that development is best achieved through a centralised development strategy. The failure of this centralised development strategy has brought about the emergence of decentralisation to local government as one of the means to turn the tide of underdevelopment. This book presents decentralisation not only as a manifestation of 'good governance', but also as an indispensable tool towards development. The central question, however, is the following: how should the transitional state convert this into constitutional and legal arrangements? The author proposes a model for capturing the developmental role of local government in institutional arrangements. The new design for local government, put forward in South Africas 1997 Constitution, is based on the notion that local government should be the epicentre of development. This has prompted the author to use this South African concept as well as the first experiences with the implementation of the new local government dispensation as a case study.The importance of the book thus lies in the fact that it produces an institutional model for developmental local government that is not only based on development and decentralisation theories but is also tested in practice. It is hoped that those with an interest in the role of the state in development will find the arguments and conclusions useful. The book also provides a comprehensive overview of the South African design for local government, which is of interest to lawyers, policy makers and other parties involved in the implementation of the South African decentralisation strategy. Jaap de Visser teaches public law at the Law Faculty of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Until the end of 2002, he worked as a researcher for the Community Law Centre (University of the Western Cape), specialising in local government law.
Developmental Local Governance
Author: Eris D. Schoburgh
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-26
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1137558369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe primary purpose of this edited collection is to evaluate critically the relationship between local government and national economic development. It focuses on how the relationship between local government and development is structured, and the specific institutional arrangements at national and subnational levels that might facilitate local government's assumption of the role of development agent. In light of the contradictory outcomes of development and implied experimentation with new modalities, post-development discourse provides a useful explanatory framework for the book. Schoburgh, Martin and Gatchair's central argument is that the pursuit of national developmental goals is given a sustainable foundation when development planning and strategies take into account elements that have the potential to determine the rate of social transformation. Their emphasis on localism establishes a clear link between local government and local economic development in the context of developing countries.
