Guidance and systemization of experiences
To what extent can decentralization help to institutionalize citizen engagement in governance and promote sustainable peace? This study analyses the concept of decentralization and looks at the challenges of implementing it in several post-conflict countries. It argues that participatory governance at the local level facilitates the involvement of local communities in policy decisions. This creates a shared commitment to peaceful progress that reduces the likelihood of violent conflict. Peace cannot be lasting unless both men and women, as well as those in minority groups, participate in shaping post-conflict reconstruction and are able to enjoy its benefits equally. However, effective decentralization for participatory governance requires political will, civic will, capacity development at the local level and careful implementation.
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The Institutional and Coordination Mechanisms guidance note aims to provide information on how countries have adapted their existing institutional and coordination frameworks or established new ones i...
Developed by United Nations Development Programme (UN...
Posted by UNDP
Guidance and systemization of experiences
Available in English
The Metropolitan Capacity Assessment Methodology (MetroCAM) has been developed by GIZ in cooperation with UN-Habitat as a guiding framework for implementing sustainable development agendas at the metr...
Developed by GIZ and UN-Habitat
Posted by Verena Goranko
Tools : Territorial / Multi-Stakeholder Approach
