The call for greater diversity in leadership has grown louder, yet women remain underrepresented in political offices, particularly at the local government level. Despite making up more than half the ...

The Future Governance Forum has called for a new blueprint to modernise and digitise local government, including a sector-wide workforce plan, de-risking innovation, targeted funding and creating a ...

The title of a 1961 musical, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, can convey the relentless nature of organisational culture and operations. In local government, the pace of events and artillery of ...

Good governance is the foundation of democracy in action. It is what transforms elections into effective service delivery and public trust into tangible community progress. In Malta, local councils ...

from State and Local Webinars and Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program Margaret Woolley Busse, executive director of the Utah Department of Commerce and cofounder of the state’s Office of Artificial ...

Centralisation and devolution, the two contending opposite trends, are turning out to be a crucial national issue with the business community, with major figures, business leaders and even members of ...

With support from the World Bank, 4,550 Union Parishads (UPs), the lowest tier of local government in Bangladesh, have institutionalized a formula-based system for transferring central government ...

For the past 10 years, the Government of Burundi has engaged in a decentralization process to strengthen social cohesion and empower local communities. Most of Burundi’s local administrations continue ...

Most foreign studies on Chinese microblogs probe patterns of censorship, paying scant attention to how state-society conflicts are neutralized by local governments or how changes are introduced into ...

Local governance is usually treated as a secondary issue in Afghan politics, unless it is about unseating a strong provincial governor. The appointment of governors with strong affiliations to the ...