|
Aims
of the Devolution Research Project
The
Devolution Research Project aims to monitor the performance
of local governments and to identify constraints that
may hinder output delivery of these bodies.
more...
Pakistan
's Local Government Plan (2000) and its aligned
reforms are a major step in the evolution of state-citizen
relationships in the country. This ambitious reform
aims to create new accountabilities at the local level
by restructuring inter-governmental fiscal relationships;
by creating new forms of electoral accountability and
by institutionalising citizen-based participatory bodies.
more...
Impact
Assessment of Government Responsiveness uses
community and household level field surveys from the
Punjab province to assess the degree to which devolution
reforms have resulted in: (a) increasing the magnitude
of local government provision at the village/household
level during the past three years and (b) the degree
to which the post-reform targeting of provision by union
administrations (the only directly elected tier of local
government) can be classified as pro-poor.
more...
Participation
Impact Assessment examines: (a) the extent
to which participatory bodies have been empowered during
the past three years in our case villages; and (b) the
extent to which the reforms have reduced the anti-poor
bias in access to and awareness of local level citizen
bodies. more...
Finally,
the Fiscal Impact Assessment is in
the process of putting together a database of district
budgets that will include 2001 as the pre-reform base
line and will include post-reform budgetary data.
The database will be used to assess the degree to which
devolution has resulted in changing expenditure priorities
at the district level. It also assesses the degree to
which changing expenditure priorities reflect the needs
of district citizens. Results of this work will be disseminated
to Government, citizen bodies and civil society groups
with an explicit aim of influencing the design of policies,
legal measures and programmes that aim at strengthening
local level governance in Pakistan.
The
work will be disseminated through three primary channels:
-
by establishing working relationships with local and
provincial governments
-
through training courses for local government
managers and civil society groups
-
through publications that will be posted on the LUMS-McGill
Social Enterprise Development Centre website
Workshop
on Pakistan's Devolution Reforms: Lessons,
Experiments and Challenges from the First Electoral
Cycle, June
1-2, 2005
Presentation
of Papers at the Devolution Workshop
Devolution
Workshop Schedule
For
further details, please contact:
Dr.
Ali Cheema
Task Leader
E-mail: cheema@lums.edu.pk
Telephone: +92 42 5722670-79
Ext: 2246
Devolution
Research Project
LUMS-McGill Social Enterprise Development Programme
Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Opposite Sector U, DHA,
Lahore
Cantt, Lahore 54792, Pakistan
Tel:
+92 42 572 2670-9
Fax: 92-42-5722591,5722691
|
