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Fiscal Decentralization in Myanmar: Towards a Roadmap for Reform
This discussion paper by Hamish Nixon and Cindy Joelene intends to inform the wider discussion about how best to proceed with fiscal decentralization in Myanmar. Its goal is to ...
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Fiscal decentralization and national reconciliation in Myanmar - Key issues and avenues for reform
This paper outlines the current form of fiscal and administrative decentralisation in Myanmar, and the associated priorities for reform. It subsequently goes on to explore the r...
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Administering the State in Myanmar: An Overview of the General Administration Department
this research report provides an extensive overview to the General Administration Department (GAD) based on literature review and a series of in-depth interviews. The report fir...
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Municipal Governance in Myanmar: An overview of Development Affairs Organizations
While Development Affairs Organiztions are the primary municipal governance agencies for Myanmar outside of Yangon City, Mandalay City, and Nay Pyi Taw, there is limited underst...
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Sub-decree No. 497 on the delegation of power to sub-national administrations to appoint, move and terminate civil servants working at sub-national level
This sub-decree aims to promote the accountability of civil servants working at the sub-national level for sub-national administrations under the ministries with purpose to dele...
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Accountability and managing for results accountability to whom? Who hold whom accountable?
Each principle of the Paris Declaration is separately and mutually important to achieving the effective use of aid to produce actual results on the ground. Mutual accountability...
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Scorecard of the implementation of Cambodia Millennium Development Goals (CMDG) at sub-national levels by capital, provinces, municipalities, districts, khans in year 2012
The Working Group of Decentralization and Deconcentration and Sethkomar (WGDDS) of Ministry of Planning has studied and presented questionnaires for collecting raw data and tra...
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Memorandum of Understanding between the Secretariat of National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development Secretariat (NCDDS) and partners of the Implementation of Social Accountability Framework (I-SAF) Phase II
This page gives information about the 4 non-government organizations which worked on the Implementation of Social Accountability Implementation Plan for Sub-National Democratic ...
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Memorandum of Understanding between the Secretariat of National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development Secretariat (NCDDS) and partners of the Implementation of Social Accountability Framework (I-SAF)
This page gives information about the 5 non-government organizations which worked on the Implementation of Social Accountability Implementation Plan for Sub-National Democratic ...
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Sub-degree No. 51 on transferring national budget to Commune/Sangkat budget
This sub-decree is to limit the amount of national budget to transfer to Commune/Sangkat for 5 years from 2019 to 2023. By 2023, the Commune/ Sangkat b...
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Law on administration of the Capitals, Provinces, Municipalities, Districts and Khans
This law is intended to define the administration of the Capitals, Provinces, Municipalities, Districts and Khans. The Capitals, Provinces, Municipalities, Districts and Khans s...
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Governance and participation in Laos JUNE 2003
This quote captures the focus of this Study. It examines whether the two legs of Good Governance and Participatory Development are in place and propelling the Peopleís Democra...
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Guide to free prior and informed consent
This guide is an introduction to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). It provides basic information about the right to FPIC and how this right can help people to have a say ...
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Decentralised governance in a hybrid polity: localisation of decentralisation reform in Cambodia
This paper reviews the progress of the decentralization and deconcentration (D&D) reform in Cambodia. It revisits the conflicting positive and negative views on the achievements...
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Commune councils and civil society: Promoting decentralization through partnerships
This publication provides an overview of the current work of commune councils in Cambodia and concrete examples of how development agencies are helping to build council capacity...
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Catchment governance and cooperation dilemmas: A case study from Cambodia
This study investigates the gap between the ideal principles of Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) and the actual degree of current cooperation to identify ways in which ICM...
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Flood forests, fish, and fishing villages, Tonle Sap, Cambodia
The study describes the experiences of Kompong Phluk, a Khmer community that has been attempting to protect its flood forests and fishing grounds for the past fifty years. The...