Decentralization
and local government empowerment
The importance of local
decentralization in an administrative, political and fiscal sense
has been described by analysts.
UN-Habitat, Decentralization:False
Start or New Dawn? Habitat Debate, Volume 8, No.1, March 2002.
H. Detlef Kammeier,
Linking
decentralization to urban development,
Jossy S. Materu, Decentralization
Policies and Practices in West Africa
Om Prakash Mathur,
Decentralization
and Local Government Finance: Asian Perspectives
Ramanath Jha, India's
Experiences with Decentralization
Paul Bongers, City-To-City
Cooperation: A Powerful New Tool to Manage Urban Development
Bharat Dahiya, Democracy,
Governance and Environmental Management in Contemporary Urban India,
16th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Edinburgh
6-9 September 2000.
Governance,
Sustainable Development Policy Institute.
Sajid Kazmi, Pakistan:
Haphazard devolution, Himal, September 2003.
PAKISTAN:
New devolution study links development to decentralisation.
IRINnews.org (Integrated Regional Information Network), August 31,
2004.
Transparency
and civic engagement
Transparency, or functioning
in an open manner, is a pivotal factor in good governance. Not only
is it crucial for urban governence to be transparent, but it is also
important for urban citizenry to be engaged with the civic body and
civic issues.
Indian
Parliament passes Right To Information Bill. InfoChange India
News and Features. May 12 2005.
Enhancing
Citizens’ Role in Service Delivery Improvement, Asian
Development Bank, Civil Society Case Studies (Bangalore, Colombo
and Naga City(Philippines)), 2005.
Systems
for better governance: Interview with Srikanth Nadhamuni (eGovernments
Foundation), India Together, December 2003.
Devendra Parulekar,
Why
not E-governance in Mumbai? Bombay First, volume 1, no. 2, June-July
2002.
Jasmine Kaur, Mumbai
Summit: E-governance does not mean no corruption, Dataquest,
March 31, 2005.
Jasmine Kaur, Kolkata
Summit: Ensure E-Government Before E-Governance, Dataquest,
March 31, 2005.
Reshmi Sarkar, E-Governance
– a step towards democracy, Asia Pacific Network Information
Centre. August 2003.
From
Water Wars to Water Democracy.
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Press Release,
May 15, 2003 .
Vinay Baindur, A
Progressive law for local planning, India Together, October
2003.
The Urban Governance
Initiatives, Kathmandu
Metropolitan City.
Informal
Sector Service Centre,
Kathmandu.
Local-global
partnerships
International institutional
initiatives most often involve the United
Nations Commission for Human Settlements (UN-Habitat). In 2004,
the United Cities
and Local Governments Organization was set up in Paris to encourage
participation of local governments in the UN Habitat programme for
human settlements. Other programmes involve city-to-city cooperation
for cities to share their urban management experiences and solutions.
The
Dhaka Declaration on Waste Management, 2004.
Shekhar Krishnan, Mumbai
Vision 2010 and Get Up, Stand Up, TimeOut Mumbai, November 19,
2004.
Paul Bongers, City-To-City
Cooperation: A Powerful New Tool to Manage Urban Development.
Habitat Debate, vol. 8, no.1, March 2002.
Inclusive
planning process
Reports of best cases
and projects underway for sustainable urban development recommend
the involvement of shanty town dwellers and others in disadvantageous
positions in the problem solving.
Jessica Nott and Samantha
Yates, A
Challenge to Invisibility: Intergenerational Experiences of Ageing
in the Urban Context, September 1999.
Shirish B. Patel, Housing
policies for Mumbai, Economic and Political Weekly, August 13,
2005.
P.S. Bawa, Urban
policing, Seminar No. 483, November 1999..
Dibaloka Singha, Urban
slums in Bangladesh: Facilitating access of depressed communities
to basic services, Livelihoods Connect, September 6, 2002.
Darin
Gunesekara's land trading project,
Ashoka (Social Innovation Entrepreneurs Impact). http://www.ashoka.org/fellows/viewprofile3.cfm?reid=144049
Sunder Burra, Sheela
Patel and Thomas Kerr, Community-designed,
built and managed toilet blocks in Indian cities, Environment
and Urbanization, vol 15, no. 2, October 2003. p. 11-32.
Ruth McLeod, Humpty
Dumpty, Poverty and Urban Governance – An Exploration of Investment
Partnerships with the Poor, A presentation for the 2nd Regional
Caribbean meeting of Urban Management Programme, September 2001.
Learning through Case
Studies, Sustainable
development in the Coastal City of Karachi: The links between conservation
and industry in Pakistan, December 2004.
Gautam Chatterjee, Urban
Poverty: Consensus vs Confrontation. Local Authorities and State
Agencies form Partnerships with Urban Poor Communities in Mumbai,
United Nations Human Settlement Program, May 2002.
Clarissa Brocklehurst
and Barbara Evans, Serving
Poor Consumers in South Asian Cities: Private Sector Participation
in Water and Sanitation, Water and Sanitation Program –
South Asia. January 2001.
For projects, see Collective
Research Initiatves Trust, Mumbai. Research
Projects and Interventions.
Engendering
the Urban Space
A crucial development
in urban planning thought is the attention to ‘engendering’
the urban space – taking into account the different needs and
experiences of women and men in a city.
For a general analysis
of the need for gender sensitive development in rural and urban areas,
see UN-Habitat, Gender
Issues in Human Settlements Development, Gendered Habitat: Working
with Women and Men in Human Settlements Development. The UN-Habitat
periodical Habitat Debate ran a special issue on Women
in Cities in March 2005, vol.11, no.1..
Jo Beall, Why
Gender Matters, Global Articles, UN-Habitat: Millenium Development
Goals.
UN-Habitat, Women
and urban governance, Policy Dialogue Series: Number 1. May
2001.
A
Decade of Women’s Empowerment Through Local Government in
India, Workshop report, Institute of Social Sciences, South
Asia Partnership Canada, International Development Research Centre,
New Delhi, October 20-21, 2003.
Dr. Amanullah Khan and
Dr. Asma Fozia Qureshi, Women
in the Informal Labor Market in a Developing Metropolis: Agents
for Change, Takemi Program in International Health.
Prabha Khosla, Gendered
Cities: Built and Physical Environments. Women and Urban Environments:
Community Initiative (National Network on Environments and Women’s
Health) and Toronto Women’s Call to Action workshop entitled
“Building Healthy Cities for Canadian Women.”January
2005.
