Local governance and decentralisation
This initiative is part of the informal development partners working group for local governance and decentralisation (DPWG-LGD): www.dpwg-lgd.org The rationale for the DPWG-LGD is to achieve strategy coherence and harmonisation in order to improve the effectiveness of local governance and decentralisation operations. Joint activity is an important instrument to achieve coherence and harmonisation. Therefore some of the members decided to form a subgroup in order to create an innovative approach for a joint training.
Those members are:
- Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark (DANIDA)
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (DEZA/SDC)
- EuropeAid
- Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Capacity International, Germany (InWEnt) (Lead)
Objectives
Being a subgroup of the DPWG-LGD, the focus of the training is deduced from the overall objective to enhance aid effectiveness and harmonisation. This notion will be reflected in the objective to create a joint training, where multi- and bilateral donor staff learn jointly. As a first step the subgroup will create jointly a generic module, which will also include the consolidation of existing modules in order to create a shared view on decentralisation and local governance within donor organisations and to harmonize the different approaches on LGD and its support modalities. This generic module will be made available under the train4dev network with the objective to create a multiplier effect within the donor community.
Decentralization is a process with multiple levels and multiple players. Donors and partners, Donors among each other, but also headquarter and field level within one donor agency, have a different view on the decentralisation process.
The generic module will constitute a first building block in order to improve alignment amongst donors (HQ, Field, Sectoralists) - But there is also the vision to create more specific modules based on this building block in the future, which might focus on different topics (such as urbanisation, fragile states), country specification and might also include the counterparts from partner countries.
Upcoming Joint Learning Events
The focus will be on the "basics of decentralisation". Further it will deal in detail with the different thematic entry points to progress in the implementation of the Paris declaration and AAA in operational terms, including the issue of aid modalities and capacity development based on an analysis of added value of each donor. In this sense, SWAPs will be an integral part of the module, also as a basis and working method to improve donor coordination in the field of LGD.
The module will also be flexible in the sense that it will be adaptable to the regional context. Entry points, analysis, country cases should refer to a specific region (such as Sub Sahara Africa, Latin America, Asia) and therefore meet the specific needs of field staff working in the region.
Resources
Joint Learning Event
Open Courses
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