Democracy and development

For the past many years decentralisation have been considered essential development strategies in ACP countries.Most government have made firm undertaking to introduce it often with strong encouragement from donors who in 1990's saw it as way of establishing Democracy by allowing people to play active role in the local public affairs.In the field this long awaited development is proving slow to take hold.Instead least developed countries (lcd) asking for their debts to be cancelled have yet to present specific proposals for decentralisation in their povert reduction

Location: MUNDIKA, BUSIA, KENYA