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Deputy Minister of Local Government, Halima Daudi, has disclosed that the government is facilitating a review of the 2010 Local Government Act and the Decentralization Policy in order to address the concerns and challenges affecting the devolvement of powers to local councils. Daudi was speaking in Mangochi on Thursday when she opened a two-day 2021 […]
Malawi’s central government has been accused of contributing towards the poor performance of local governments in the country, this is according to the Malawi Local Government Association (Malga).
The association’s Local Authorities Performance Assessment (LAPA) report for the 2019/2020 financial released last month established that the central Government has “ignored” the underlying causes for the poor performance of local councils.
Hadrod Zeru Mkandawire, Malga acting executive director
But Malga, an umbrella body for all local governments in Malawi, says it is regrettable that the central government wants to look “smarter” on the under–performance of the assessed local councils by “hiding” its shortcomings in respect of fulfilling its obligations towards the local councils.
The Combined Harare Residents Association in collaboration with residents associations in all provinces, and civic society organizations has launched a national devolution campaign code named #3DCampaign.
The main objective of the campaign is to build citizen voice and agency among women and youths in devolution implementation and alignment of local government laws while building alliances and national consensus on devolution
The launch of the campaign come at a time when the government of Zimbabwe has developed a Devolution and Decentralization Policy and commenced a process of aligning local government laws with the constitution.
Service delivery in Zimbabwe has become a major challenge as most local authorities are failing to provide basic social services which has been mainly attributed to poor financing, corruption, abuse of power and lack of citizens’ oversight role on public bodies among others.
meeting, i mentioned what haiti s preoccupations and priorities were. our priorities are, first and foremost, as you said, protection of those people who today are homeless and who must be relocated. and in parallel, we must prepare the rainy season, which just last week has already caused the deaths of 15 people. and at the same time, much more basically, we must deal with the need of rebuilding haiti thanks to an effective decentralization policy. namely, offering health care, education, jobs to all haitians, men and women, regardless of where they live in the country.