dlgnews

dlgnews - Issue no 6
December 2011
Highlights of the Annual Report from the Focal Point / “Beyond Aid” a speech of the World Bank addressing transformed global realities / Workshop Governing the State with James Putzel / Will EU deliver smarter support to governance? / Competence Centers on dlg in Switzerland / Network News / Training Opportunities
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dlgnews - Issue no 5

September 2011
The Joint Training Programme on DLG organised by DeLoG / Article written by Erika Schläppi on “Decentralization / “Member Review”, with the reflections of Norbert Pijls on the DVD Learning Tool / Three Competence Centres working on dlg in Switzerland share their experience and expertise
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dlgnews - Issue no 4

July 2011
Plans of the dlgn for the coming months including staff rotation at SDC HQ / publication of the LearnBuch on Municipal Finances / 2011 Status Report on Network Development from the SDC Board of Directors / synthesis of Guidance and Key Policy Messages on Aid, Accountability and Democratic Governance of the OECD-DAC-GOVNET Programme on Improving Support to Domestic Accountability / presentation on 30 years of Decentralisation in Madagascar made by the Bernese social anthropologist Gion Cabalzar / News sent by dlgn members about activities in Kosovo, Albania, Serbia, Bangladesh and South Asia (LogIn) / Training opportunities
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dlgnews - Issue no 3

April 2011
Looking back at the dlgn F2F / looking into the future of dlgn - Reflecting on the link between Decentralization and Fragility - Sharing news from our colleagues from LoGIn, the South Asian Hub - Providing with links to interesting training opportunities on Decentralization and Local Governance in the Netherlands, Switzerland and in South Asia
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dlgnews - Issue no 2
February 2011
Editor’s notes / Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-East Europe (NALAS)/ On our way to Sarajevo – update on the learning projects / Network News
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dlgnews - Issue no 1

January 2011
Inside this Issue: - Editor’s notes - Does decentralization impact development? - Network News - The experience of dlgn members – LoGIn
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DOCUMENTS RELATED TO dlgnews - Issue no 7

Evaluation de la Réforme foncière à Madagascar
November 2011
Rapport final synthétique
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DOCUMENTS RELATED TO dlgnews - Issue no 6

International Training Course on Social Enterprise Development 
Author: IIRR
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Application Form
Application form for the International Training Course on Social Enterprise Development
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Central points of the discussion with Prof. James Putzel
August 2011
Author: Swisspeace
Central points of the discussion with Prof. James Putzel LSE “Why Donors Need a Better Definition of State Fragility” 2nd Meeting of the Experts Group on governing the state in fragile contexts
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Presentation of Prof. James Putzel
Why Donors Need a Better Definition of State Fragility
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DOCUMENTS RELATED TO dlgnews - Issue no 5

DeLoG Concept Note - Train4Dev Course: Harmonisation, Decentralisation and Local Governance
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DeLoG Subgroup Meeting - train4dev Course: Harmonisation, Decentralisation and Local Governance
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DeLoG – Train4Dev Expert Group - Defining structure, roles and responsibilities
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DOCUMENTS RELATED TO dlgnews - Issue no 4

Briefing note on 2011 Status Report Network Development
July 2011
Author: SDC - Adrian Gnägi
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DRAFT - Synthesis of Guidance and Key Policy Messages on Aid, Accountability and Democratic Governan

June 2011
Author: OECD-DAC-GOVNET
OECD-DAC-GOVNET Programme on Improving Support to Domestic Accountability
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OECD-DAC-Govnet Programme on Improving Support to Domestic Accountability

June 2011
Author: SDC - Alexander Widmer
Presentation and Discussion in SDC‘s DLG and PED Networks
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Gender, Power and Politics in Bangladesh: a baseline study for the Upazila Support Project

April 2011
Author: IDS - Naomi Hossain and Salma Akhter
FINAL DRAFT - Report prepared on behalf of the UNDP Bangladesh Local Governance Cluster
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DOCUMENTS RELATED TO dlgnews - Issue no 1


First draft of an input paper situating position of DPWG-DLG

December 2010
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Evaluating Democracy Support

August 2007
Author: IDEA / Sida
Methods and Experiences
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Mapping members of the dlgn
January 2011
Author: Skat - Bertha Camacho
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Crossroads of Knowledge on decentralization
December 2010
Benoît Girardin and Philippe de Rham reflect on the contributions of development cooperation to the adaptation of political systems and in particular to decentralization.
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