Overview
- Attempts to present a first kind of evaluation employing participatory assessment, unfolding conflicting perceptions among different stakeholders including leaders and followers at national, local and grassroots levels
- Is essential to understand how the poor at the grassroots perceive decentralization processes
- Forms a starting point from which to investigate a strategic issue: how to construct mutually empowering outcomes for (contending) stakeholders
- The first book to update the decentralization processes in Uganda
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Decentralization - an essential pillar of institutional reform - is of critical importance in developing countries, particularly in regard to democratization, effective development, and good governance. Uganda, since 1986 and the start of decentralization measures under Yoweri Museveni and the National Resistance Movement, has represented one of the most serious commitments in Sub-Saharan Africa. With the benefit of extensive fieldwork, Fumihiko Saito demonstrates how conflict resolution, information dissemination, and encouragement of the many and varied stakeholders to form partnerships are critical to successfully bringing services "closer to the people. Decentralization and Development Partnerships: Lessons from Uganda goes beyond theory to compare academic assumptions to the reality of decentralization implementation in modern Uganda. Although the process is by no means free of difficulties, Saito concludes that a "win-win" outcome is a real possibility.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decentralization and Development Partnership
Book Subtitle: Lessons from Uganda
Authors: Fumihiko Saito
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53955-1
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-40835-2Published: 20 November 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-53955-1Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 268
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science