Decentralisation and governance from the ground-up : two case studies from Papua New Guinea

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Decentralised forms of government are seen to promote local participation, empowerment and sustainable development outcomes in developing countries. Although much work has been done in investigating and analysing forms of decentralised government and their impacts and outcomes there still remains much to be discovered and understood. Decentralisation takes on many forms across countries and produces differing results. There are now are a number of agreed upon factors that are required to be present if decentralisation is to be ‘successful' This may explain differences across countries but explaining differences within countries that are subject to the same structural circumstances allows us to investigate other factors that can impact on its ‘successfulness’ The purpose is to apply the theory to the situation in Papua New Guinea and compare the outcomes. By doing this we can see what factors are important for successful' decentralisation and in what situations do they arise. The resea

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