The call for greater diversity in leadership has grown louder, yet women remain underrepresented in political offices, particularly at the local government level. Despite making up more than half the ...

Over the past year, Uzbekistan has taken critical steps to redefine its local governance system. Last year’s constitutional revision marked a fundamental shift toward decentralization. The ...

Most foreign studies on Chinese microblogs probe patterns of censorship, paying scant attention to how state-society conflicts are neutralized by local governments or how changes are introduced into ...

The Future Governance Forum has called for a new blueprint to modernise and digitise local government, including a sector-wide workforce plan, de-risking innovation, targeted funding and creating a ...

The 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments marked a historic shift in India’s governance architecture by institutionalising ...

TACLOBAN CITY (PIA) — Leyte province has shown significant strides across various areas of local governance as reported in the recent executive briefing of its Status of Local Governance Report (SLGR) ...

The African National Congress (ANC) has declared 2026 as the year of decisive action to fix local government and transform ...

With support from the World Bank, 4,550 Union Parishads (UPs), the lowest tier of local government in Bangladesh, have institutionalized a formula-based system for transferring central government ...

The government of Ghana has reaffirmed its commitment to deepening decentralisation and reforming local governance systems to ensure greater efficiency, accountability, and service delivery at the ...

The title of a 1961 musical, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, can convey the relentless nature of organisational culture and operations. In local government, the pace of events and artillery of ...