Train4dev Course: Harmonisation, Decentralisation and Local Governance
DAY 1: Concepts and rationale of decentralisation and local governance
9.00-10.15 Session 1.1. Introduction, aid effectiveness, decentralisation and local governance
Relevant documents:
General guiding principles for enhancing alignment and harmonisation (DPWG-LGD)
Specific guiding principles for enhancing alignment and harmonisation (DPWG-LGD)
10.15-10.45 Break
10.45-11.30 Session 1.2 Harmonisation and alignment: guiding principles in practice
Relevant documents:
Supporting Decentralisation and Local Governance in Third Countries (EC ref. doc n.2)
Alignment strategies: country practices and experiences
General guiding principles for enhancing alignment and harmonisation (DPWG-LGD)
Specific guiding principles for enhancing alignment and harmonisation (DPWG-LGD)
What can development partners do?
11.30-12.30 Session 1.3 An open systems approach to decentralisation and local governance
Relevant documents:
Supporting Decentralisation and Local Governance in Third Countries (EC ref. doc n.2)
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-17.30 Session 1.4 Political decentralisation and Political Economy Analysis
(break 15.30-16.00)
· Case study: the ACORDS Programme in Madagascar
Relevant documents:
Application of Political and Governance Analyses to decentralisation reforms
Analysing and Addressing Governance in Sector Operations (EC ref. doc n.4)
Aid and Domestic Accountability
Role of cities in state transformation
Political Economy of Decentralisation in Ghana
Local government in post-conflict contexts
Democratic decentralization programming handbook
The political economy of decentralization reforms
The role of traditional structrures
17.30-18.00 Wrap up Day 1
DAY 2: Introduction (continued) And Links Between Decentralisation And Sector Support
9.00-10.15 Session 2.1. Administrative decentralisation
Relevant documents:
Coherence between sector reforms and decentralisation through sector-wide approaches
Sector-Wide Approaches and Decentralisation: Uganda case
Decentralization briefing notes
10.15-10.45 Break
10.45-12.30 Session 2.2. Fiscal decentralisation
· Assessing fiscal decentralisation in the Kingdom of Rasunia (check-list)
Relevant documents:
Fiscal decentralisation and sector funding: principles and lessons learned
Integrated fiscal decentralisation
Progress, Problems, and the Promise
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-17.30 Session 2.3. Links between decentralisation and sector support
(break 15.30-16.00)
Relevant documents:
Local public authorities and development
Micro-meso-macro linkages in the context of sector-wide approaches
Sector-Wide Approaches and Decentralisation: Uganda case
17.30-18.00 Wrap-up Day 2
DAY 3: Designing Coherent Support Strategies
9.00-12.30 Session 3.1 How to assess local governance and decentralisation
(break 10.15-10.45)
· Rwanda Joint Governance Assessment
Relevant documents:
Survey of Donor Approaches to Governance Assessment
Guiding principles for enhanced impact and harmonisation
Lessons learned on donor support to decentralisation and local governance
Joint Governance Assessment: lessons from Rwanda
A users’ guide to measuring local governance
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-17.30 Session 3.2 Identifying strategic options for support
(break 15.30-16.00)
Relevant documents:
Lessons learned on donor support to decentralisation and local governance
Alignment strategies: country practises and experiences
Reference document on capacity development
17.30-18.00 Wrap-up Day 3
DAY 4: Implementing Support Strategies and Monitoring Change
9.00-12.30 Session 4.1 Implementation of support to decentralisation
(break 10.15-10.45)
· Introduction: The role of donors as change agents
· What is needed to effectively implement governance support programmes?
· Tools and approaches for capacity development
· Financing modalities for local governments/governance
- Performance-based grant systems in Ghana
- Municipal contracting in Ghana
- Performance-based grant system in Benin and Municipal contracting in Senegal
Relevant documents:
Performance-based grant systems: concept and international experience
Performance-based grant systems: concept and international experience (short version)
Terms of Reference for a study on fiscal decentralization and other annexes
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-17.30 Session 4.2 Monitoring and evaluating support
(break 15.30-16.00)
Relevant documents:
Supporting Decentralisation and Local Governance in Third Countries (EC ref. doc n.2)
Self-assessment of local government performance: Mali experience
17.30-18.00 Wrap-up Day 4
DAY 5: Evaluation and taking stock
9.00-10.15 Session 5.1 World Café
Relevant document:
10.15-10.45 Break
10.45-12.30 Session 5.2 Taking stock and evaluation
Relevant document:
Organised and facilitated by the European Centre for Development Policy Management, the Hague Academy for Local Governance and Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation.
On behalf of the Development Partners Working Group on Local Governance and Decentralisation (DPWG-LGD) in the frame of the Train4dev Expert Group on Local Governance and Decentralisation.
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