scholarly journals Resistances to Gender Mainstreaming: An Analysis of the Trend of Women Engagement in Participatory Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Shuvra Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Government Level

Gender Responsive budgeting (GRB) is among a few approaches for gender mainstreaming that has been introduced by the governments around the world or international funding organizations to institutionalize gender equality in public reforms. The formal processes of planning and budgeting at the Union Parishad (UP) - the lowest administrative tier of Bangladesh- offer general citizens to raise their demands at the local level. Besides, there is a provision that a 30% fund will be earmarked for women. In this paper, the case of UP gender budgeting practice was analyzed from a gender perspective. On the basis of case oriented qualitative research strategy, this was an empirical study of 06 (six) UPs of three different districts of Bangladesh. The data of this study indicated that members of the Non-Government Organizations (NGO) played a catalyst role in enhancing the access of women in the UP planning and budgeting processes. Along with the existing problems of local-level planning, lack of fiscal decentralization including resource constraint, absence of women development funding, the absence of women administrative officers at the different layers of government offices and obstacles and resistances in religion and patriarchal dimensions are inhibiting women to participate in the participatory processes. For implementing the GRB reform agenda suggestions are made for creating independent women budget groups at the local government level and researching on a broader perspective on GRB issues at the central government level.   

scholarly journals ROLE OF THE REFORMS OF THE 1550-IES AS INSTITUTIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION MEASURES

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
R. V. Fomenko
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Government Level

The article considers the prerequisites for the implementation, nature and significance of institutional measures to counter corruption at the local government level in Russia during the reforms of the 50-ies of the XVI century. The problems of evolutionary development or deliberated formation of new ways of combining public and private interests at the local level, interchangeability and complementarity of different forms of state administration, regional and local self-government are put. The article shows that in the search for ways to counteract abuse by vicegerent, the Central government gives wide powers to the bodies of local self-government. But the state will be able to completely abandon the vicegerent system only by the beginning of the XVII century. In turn, corruption costs were also evident in the activities of local authorities, which forces the state to create additional internal institutional mechanisms, and to impose anti-corruption expectations on new bureaucratic bodies voivodes, which were becoming a local continuation of the prikaz system.

scholarly journals Assessing the 2019 Redesign of Bulgarian Fiscal Equalization System

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-174
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Service Levels ◽  
Government Grants ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Fiscal Disparities ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Fiscal Equalization System

In many countries the narrowing of horizontal fiscal imbalance at local government level is an important issue of national fiscal policy. Large fiscal disparities at municipal level could lead either to lower service levels in fiscally poor regions or to higher tax rates for similar service levels in these regions. In turn, this could thwart efforts to reduce inequality in income distribution between individuals or could induce fiscally inefficient migration of business and individuals. Since the launch of fiscal decentralization reforms in Bulgaria in 2003 part of central government grants system for municipalities has been the equalization grant aimed at financing a minimum level of local services delivery. The equalization formula has undergone many changes during the years, and the last one was implemented in 2019. The main focus of the current study is to compare the equalizing effect of the equalization schemes applied in Bulgaria in 2018 and 2019. In order to test whether the 2018 and 2019 distribution formulas carry an equalizing effect with respect to municipal expenditure needs, per capita transfers received is regressed on three variables or indicators reflecting the differences in the municipal expenditure needs. Our results show that the new equalization mechanism as of 2019 is better designed to capture the differences in municipal expenditure needs and to alleviate fiscal disparities at local level when compared to the mechanism applied in 2018.

Incomplete Fiscal Decentralisation: An Impediment for Local Economic Development in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-105
Author(s):  
Audrey Smock Amoah ◽  
Imoro Braimah ◽  
Theresa Yaba Baah-Ennumh
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Fiscal Decentralisation ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Government Level

For the past three decades Ghana’s democratic decentralisation policy has sought in vein to establish a local government system capable of pursuing Local Economic Development (LED). One of the major impediments has been the insincere implementation of fiscal decentralisation for the local government to provide the enabling environment for LED. This paper employed primary and secondary data from the Wassa East District Assembly (WEDA) to assess the progress so far in Ghana’s fiscal decentralisation and its effect on LED. The paper highlights the potential benefits of LED and the incapacitation of the District Assembly by the Central government for LED financing. The paper again reveals the effects of the constraints of fiscal decentralisation on LED at the local government level and makes policy recommendations towards effective fiscal decentralisation for improvement in LED.

M-Government Initiatives at the Local Level

2007 ◽  
pp. 233-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis V. Casaló ◽  
Carlos Flavián ◽  
Miguel Guinalíu
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Level ◽  
City Council ◽  
Mobile Telephone ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Good Number ◽  
Government Level

This chapter introduces the concept of m-government and its implications for both citizens and public institutions. Although m-government is currently in an initial phase of development, its potential in the relationship between the public sector and the citizen is obvious because of, for example, the large number of mobile phone users among the public. In addition, the development of m-government initiatives generates a good number of bene?ts for the public sector that operates it as well as for the public, who experience improved accessibility to electronic public services. Because of this, this chapter analyses m-government initiatives developed by the Zaragoza City Council (Spain) in order to describe its bene?ts, implications for the relationship between the City Council and the citizen, and the future perspectives of these initiatives. We have speci?cally chosen a country like Spain due to the fact that mobile telephone usage is widespread and, at the same time, local government level has been chosen as the citizen participates more in the relationship with the public sector when it is at the local level.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Risk Management and Internal Audit Effectiveness at Local Government Level

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 389-396
Author(s):  
Mu’azu Saidu Badara
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Internal Auditors ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Audit Effectiveness ◽  
Government Level

Risk management can play important role in ensuring objective achievement of organizations. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between risk management and internal audit effectiveness at local government level. The paper is a literature review paper and the paper concluded that risk management can influence the effectiveness of internal auditors at local level. The paper needs to be validated empirically.

M-Government Initiatives at the Local Level

2011 ◽  
pp. 3033-3047
Author(s):  
Luis V. Casaló ◽  
Carlos Flavián ◽  
Miguel Guinalíu
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Level ◽  
City Council ◽  
Mobile Telephone ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Good Number ◽  
Government Level

This chapter introduces the concept of m-government and its implications for both citizens and public institutions. Although m-government is currently in an initial phase of development, its potential in the relationship between the public sector and the citizen is obvious because of, for example, the large number of mobile phone users among the public. In addition, the development of m-government initiatives generates a good number of bene?ts for the public sector that operates it as well as for the public, who experience improved accessibility to electronic public services. Because of this, this chapter analyses m-government initiatives developed by the Zaragoza City Council (Spain) in order to describe its bene?ts, implications for the relationship between the City Council and the citizen, and the future perspectives of these initiatives. We have speci?cally chosen a country like Spain due to the fact that mobile telephone usage is widespread and, at the same time, local government level has been chosen as the citizen participates more in the relationship with the public sector when it is at the local level.

scholarly journals TRANSFER OF TRAINING (ANALISIS PELAKSANAAN TRANSFER OF TRAINING DI BADAN KEPEGAWAIAN DAERAH (BKD) DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA)

NATAPRAJA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Citra Pandu Ardaneswari
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Transfer Of Training ◽  
Central Government ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Special Administrative Region ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Leadership Support ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Government Level

The objective of this research is to examine the implementation of transfer of training in regional employees services agency, Yogyakarta special administrative region. the research used descriptive qualitative research methods. Research results show that the implementation of transfer of training in regional employees services agency, fosters the acquisition of knowledge, both during training exercise and from working colleagues. Employees of the regional employees services agency implement knowledge that they acquire during training that entails takes theories and practices as well as in modifying the implementation of core task and functions. This research found significant influence, include a) internal factors that comprise facilities, leadership support and working colleagues, and reward and punishment; b) external factors that comprise central government policy that by and large, is not commensurate with those implemented at local government level, and technology.Keywords: human resource development, Transfer of Training

scholarly journals Managerial accounting in the implementation of deliverology using the example of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (54) ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Andrii Y. Buriachenko ◽  
Tetiana V. Zhyber ◽  
Tetiana Paientko
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Operational Control ◽  
Managerial Accounting ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
The Public ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Fiscal Decentralisation ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Government Level

AbstractThe article is devoted towards the application of managerial accounting for deliverology development at the local government level in countries and comparing them to the stage of fiscal decentralisation implementation in Ukraine. The aim of the article is to show how the application of the managerial accounting approach in the public sector can contribute to the introduction of deliverology at the local level using Ukraine as an example. The methodology is based on the application of Difference in Difference method for the implementation of deliverology at the local government level. It has been proved that the use of multi-criteria decision-making methods in the analysis of the performance of budget programmes at the local level will contribute to the improvement of public services delivery. The main contribution of this study is to provide the basis for developing recommendations for the use of a single or uniform standard of electronic databases on regional development indicators and local budgets. This will help to ensure operational control over deviations of actual indicators from planned ones, as well as identify regions where local authorities are using resources inefficiently.

scholarly journals Dinasti Politik pada Pemerintahan di Tingkat Lokal

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adelia Fitri
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Local Politicians ◽  
Plural Society ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Government Level ◽  
Democratic Country

This paper will explore the phenomenon of local politicians who perpetuate power through political dynasties at the local government level. This is important to discuss because Indonesia as a democratic country in an era of transparency and accountability needs visionary leaders who properly represent the people in accordance with their capacities and capabilities. The focus of this study examines the electoral system that occurs at the local level through politicians who build political dynasties in Riau Islands Province. Riau Islands Province was made a study area because there were still phenomena of families becoming politicians in the 2019 general election. To obtain comprehensive data, the authors used research data collection through library research. The results of the study found that political dynasties can occur due to several factors, among others, in the context of a plural or plural society such as Indonesia, individual political behavior will be strongly influenced by the production of social, economic, psychological, historical, political and cultural factors. Second, the absence of periodic restrictions makes candidates who have charismatic and popularity in the community continue to run themselves as a great opportunity for families to participate in electoral politics at the local level.

scholarly journals Impact of the Effective Internal Control System on the Internal Audit Effectiveness at Local Government Level

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mu’azu Saidu Badara
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Internal Auditors ◽  
Internal Control System ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Audit Effectiveness ◽  
Government Level

Effective internal control system plays an important role in ensuring objective achievement of organizations. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between effective internal control system and internal audit effectiveness at local government level. The paper is a literature review paper and the paper concluded that effective internal control system can influence the effectiveness of internal auditors at local level. The paper needs to be validated empirically.

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