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Book Synopsis Deepening decentralization in Zambia: Political economy constraints and opportunities for reform by : Resnick, Danielle
Download or read book Deepening decentralization in Zambia: Political economy constraints and opportunities for reform written by Resnick, Danielle and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 2000s, decentralization has been espoused as a major policy goal of successive Zambian governments. With the passing of the 2019 Local Government Act, a greater understanding is needed of how decentralization has progressed thus far in Zambia and how political economy dynamics have constrained the process. As such, a survey was conducted with 153 bureaucrats across 16 councils in four Zambian provinces, complemented by interviews with elected ward councilors. Three key findings emerge. First, the organizational setting in which councils operate undermines the continuity of service provision. In particular, transfers of staff by the Local Government Service Commission (LGSC), partially driven by the growth in the number of councils in recent years, increases pressure on the wage bill of local authorities, creates uncertainty for civil servants, and undermines institutional memory. Second, the unwillingness to cede genuine autonomy to local councils by the Ministry of Local Government (MLG) repeatedly emerged. A perception of low levels of consultation with council bureaucrats and elected councilors, especially when statutory instruments are issued, reinforce that accountability remains upwards to the MLG rather than downwards to citizens. Third, within the councils, there is a mismatch in incentives between the bureaucrats and politicians that can undermine policy implementation; while the former respect authority and attention to procedures, the latter are focused on constituents’ priorities and may bypass formal procedures to deliver to their voters. Based on interviews with market committees and solid waste companies, these dynamics have negative externalities on citizen perceptions and service provision in urban areas. As one of the few analyses conducted with local bureaucrats to assess their experiences with decentralization, the study aims to advance both policy and scholarship about the political economy dynamics surrounding efforts to strengthen subnational capabilities in developing countries.
Book Synopsis Local Governance in Zambia by : Kandondo Chileshe
Download or read book Local Governance in Zambia written by Kandondo Chileshe and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study discusses central government grants; showing their effects on local government operational efficiency and effectiveness in Zambia. The Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government, with a view to improving local government operational efficiency and effectiveness, enacted a new local government Act in December1991, replacing the local administration act of 1980. The study reveals that whilst the 1991 local government Act provides for all local authorities to receive grants from central government, the situation obtaining in Zambia's Third Republic is that the government decided to ignore its statutory obligation to provide funding to councils. Therefore, local councils in Zambia have remained chronically short of money to the extent that they are unable to buy and maintain vital equipment; many of them have been unable to pay salaries and wages on time; and services to the local communities have not been adequately delivered or even not delivered at all. The study has shown that even though stringent measures and various local initiatives have been taken the gap left by non-provision of grants is difficult to be filled by the local authorities' own revenue.
Book Synopsis Decentralisation and Local Governance in Zambia by : Alex Simumba Muzano Kayolo
Download or read book Decentralisation and Local Governance in Zambia written by Alex Simumba Muzano Kayolo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Position Paper on Financing Local Government in Zambia by :
Download or read book Position Paper on Financing Local Government in Zambia written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Division of Provincial and Local Government Administration by : Zambia. Provincial and Local Government Administration Division
Download or read book Annual Report of the Division of Provincial and Local Government Administration written by Zambia. Provincial and Local Government Administration Division and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Local Government Matters by : Christopher Lamonica
Download or read book Local Government Matters written by Christopher Lamonica and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today many African states are formal democracies (in the sense of having governments that are the result of formal elections) but they are not liberal democracies (in the sense of protecting civil liberties and permitting an unhindered alteration of power). They are rather what Fareed Zakaria has termed illiberal democracies. This study explores the impediments to the development of liberal democracy in one such case: Zambia. Following a review of Zambia's pre-independence history and the failure of post-independence decentralization efforts, the study reviews Zambia's recent government reform measures, such as the 1993 Public Service Reform Programme and the 2004 National Decentralisation Policy. Local government policies and finances are also considered in a comparative historical context. The study argues that decentralization is pursued by governments as a mandate of structural reform from international organizations, without adequate attention to the flow of resources to local governments. While indigenous variables are considered the study concludes that the politics of strengthening Zambia's local governments extend well beyond Zambia's borders.
Book Synopsis Local Government Financing Framework by : Jimmy Chulu
Download or read book Local Government Financing Framework written by Jimmy Chulu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has taken so many years now to undertake comprehensive assignment of revenues and assignment of expenditures to the local authorities in Zambia because of non-existence of a sound local government financing framework. Critically, it is naïve to think that local government transfers system is the perfect and finisher to the fiscal constraints faced by councils'. In recent years, the reality to grant fiscal autonomy and authority to local governments since 2002 has however failed to resolve the financing arrangements even when formal decision was made by then Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) government to implement the decentralization policy. Notably, it is now thirteen (13) years since the decentralization policy was formulated but the process has been slow towards a more comprehensive approach of fiscal empowerment of councils. However, there is no doubt to state that decentralization is essentially a political process and not an end to itself. Obviously, the failure to assign additional revenues to local governments especially those that are not politically difficult to collect and coupled with declining own revenue sources have created enormous problems of fiscal imbalance between rural and urban councils'. In Zambia, fiscal autonomy is not the easiest policy option because assignment of revenues is a very difficult dimension of decentralization reforms regardless of the politics at play.
Book Synopsis Action Plan for Financing Local Government in Zambia by :
Download or read book Action Plan for Financing Local Government in Zambia written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Practicality of Stakeholder Participation in the Local Government Budgeting System in Zambia by : Stephen Gumboh
Download or read book Practicality of Stakeholder Participation in the Local Government Budgeting System in Zambia written by Stephen Gumboh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: A, ( Atlantic International University ) (School of Business and Economics), course: Government Budgeting, language: English, abstract: The paper focuses on the extent of stakeholder participation in budget making process at the local government. In the context of the study, the term stakeholder mean persons, institutions, organizations and groups of people who have direct or indirect interest in the budgeting process at any or all levels of the governance’s structure and activities thereof. The paper provides an analysis on the practicality of stakeholder participation or simply participatory budgeting in the local government system in Zambia using Kabwe Municipal Council as case study. An analysis of the challenges that the Government at the level of local government faces in its quest to incorporate participatory budgeting at the local level is also presented. The direction of the paper focuses mainly on the general assessment of the conditions for effective participatory budgeting and its impact on the stakeholder community. Kabwe Municipal Council was ideally suitable for the study as the first pilot council to have practiced participatory budgeting in Zambia. The primary focus in the Kabwe Municipal Council case study is on the extent to which stakeholder participation is promoted in the budgeting process by measuring the extent against the conditions for effective participation in the budgetary process as advocated by Wampler (2000) in his “A Guide to Participatory Budgeting” paper. This is done to inform the researcher on appropriate conditions that need to exist at the local level to ensure effective implementation of participatory budgeting in Zambia. The paper brings to light the notion of participatory budgeting as an on-going process that is linked to elements of direct and indirect democracy. It further proves that the concept does not reach its finality but is always developing as a step-by-step institutionalization of stakeholder participation in the budgeting process at the local level. The paper proves most of the participatory budgeting process in Kabwe Municipal Council to be in line with most of the pre-conditions of Wampler.The potential of participatory budgeting in Zambia is proved to be very much feasible but heavily depended on the political drive by the Government in power. The paper emphasizes facilitation of the immediate implementation of the Decentralization policy by Government as a precinct for participatory budgeting as it embraces most of the tenets of stakeholder participation in the budgeting process at the local government level.
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Ministry of Local Government and Housing by : Zambia. Ministry of Local Government and Housing
Download or read book Annual Report of the Ministry of Local Government and Housing written by Zambia. Ministry of Local Government and Housing and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essential Text on Local Government Law in Zambia by : Joseph Chirwa
Download or read book Essential Text on Local Government Law in Zambia written by Joseph Chirwa and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential Text on Local Government Law in Zambia is an important book that dissects the concepts and themes surrounding local government in Zambia. The book is a must-have guide for all role-players and stakeholders in local government administration in Zambia. It will be of much use to councillors, local government administrators, public administrators, town clerks, human resources managers and students of law.
Book Synopsis Action Plan for Financing Local Government in Zambia by : Zambia. Ministry of Local Government and Housing
Download or read book Action Plan for Financing Local Government in Zambia written by Zambia. Ministry of Local Government and Housing and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Local Government Reform by : Jimmy Chulu
Download or read book Local Government Reform written by Jimmy Chulu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decentralization reform process in Zambia has raised citizen expectations towards their participation in local democracy and development. However, a sense of mistrust has arisen among most citizens about the performance of the local governments in Zambia. Local governments are widely criticized and blamed for poor service delivery, even those functions to be performed by central Government. Proponents of decentralization agenda have argued that local government is the frontline of local democracy and development by which citizens must have the greatest opportunity to be engaged actively and directly in decisions affecting their well-being. Opponents of decentralization have contested that with the current institutional capacity of most local governments in Zambia, decentralization by whatever form is an exercise in futility because the local governments have not recovered from the hangover of the one party state system of local government. It is evident that decentralization is a key policy issue for Zambia though is not the panacea for local democracy and local development. Across the globe, many local governments are becoming more responsible for the social service delivery system. Opinion differs as to the type of decentralization reforms and is a matter in which citizens' appears so skeptic because of the perceived pitfalls of decentralization. However, the dominant view is that the decentralization process is good for citizens' participation as it enhances local democracy and local development. Of course it is not the answer to resolving the many challenges of institutional reforms because decentralization is a process and not end itself.
Book Synopsis Local Government in Zambia by : Nigel R. Hawkesworth
Download or read book Local Government in Zambia written by Nigel R. Hawkesworth and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Administration in Zambia by : William Tordoff
Download or read book Administration in Zambia written by William Tordoff and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Local Government in Southern Africa by : Willem Benjamin Vosloo
Download or read book Local Government in Southern Africa written by Willem Benjamin Vosloo and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Government in Zambia written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
