Browsing Research Articles (Faculty of Law) by Subject "Decentralisation"
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Chewing more than one can swallow: the creation of new districts in Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This article analyses the process of creating districts. It briefly discusses the local government system in Uganda and introduces the phenomenon of the increase in the number of districts. It continues with an analysis ... -
Fact sheets on decentralisation in Africa
(UTS ePRESS, 2022)A growing number of African countries are considering or implementing reforms that include forms of decentralisation. At times, these reforms are underpinned by (recent) constitutional change, as in Mozambique (2018), ... -
Local government and human rights: Building institutional links for the effective protection and realisation of human rights in Africa
(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2011)There is increasing recognition of the role of local government in the protection and realisation of human rights obligations. Recent studies on links between local government, decentralisation and human rights are evidence ... -
Ministerial directives to local government in Zimbabwe: top-down governance in a decentralized constitution
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)Urban and rural local authorities constitute the lowest tier of Zimbabwe's multilevel system of government. These local governments have a constitutional "right to govern" that must be exercised within the constitutional, ...