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The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) supports decentralization to realize ‘good governance’ at the local level to improve rural livelihoods and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
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- 27 March 2009|CTAThe Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) are organising an advanced course on strengthening multi-stakeholder processes for rural development in East and Southern Africa. The course will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, 22 June - 3 July 2009. The application deadline is 1 April 2009.
- Vaz, Jose Carlos; Martins, RafaelLogoLink was a global network of practitioners from civil society organizations, research institutions and governments working to deepen democracy and promote social justice through greater citizen participation in local governance.
- 27 March 2009|Wageningen UniversityWageningen University and the Sadguru Foundation organize a symposium in Dahod, Gujarat (India), 27-28 October 2009, to share local, national and international experiences of decentralization reforms and forest tenure rights in relation to the political position of forest-dependent indigenous peoples and pastoralists. Deadline abstract submission: 10 April 2009.
- (author unknown)||1991-|africaThis bulletin is the journal of the Association Euro-Africaine pour l'Anthropologie du Changement Social et de Développement. Decentralization is one of its main topics.
- 22 June 2009 - 03 July 2009|IIRR and KITAdvanced course on strengthening multi-stakeholder processes for rural development in East and Southern Africa. The 2-week training will be held in Nairobi, Kenya.
- (author unknown)|Present in 136 UN members states, UCLG’s members include individual cities and national associations of local governments. It supports democratic local self-government across the globe through international co-operation, programmes, networks and partnerships.
- 07 September 2009 - 25 September 2009|Wageningen InternationalThe aim of this course is to provide participants with state-of-the-art knowledge and skills for different types of multi-stakeholder processes, practicing a broad range of participatory methodologies and tools.
- Smoke, Paul J.; Gómez, Eduardo J.; Peterson, George E.|2006|asia - latin americaIn this introductory chapter to "Decentralization in Asia and Latin America: Towards a Comparative Inter-Disciplinary Perspective" the authors argue against the fragmentation of the decentralization literature along disciplinary lines.
- 22 June 2009 - 26 June 2009|Wageningen InternationalMultiple stakeholder and social learning processes are part and parcel of most development processes. The course covers state-of-the-art thinking about participation from local to global level and introduces the most up-to-date methodologies and approaches for facilitation and participation. How MSPs and social learning relate to concepts such as dialogue, interactive policy making and adaptive management is fully explored.
- Smoke, Paul J.; Gómez, Eduardo J.|2006|asia - latin americaIf more researchers study decentralization from a broader perspective, more could be learned about its potential contributions to countries eager to adopt it in the pursuit of improved resource use, enhanced equity and deeper democracy.
