Devolution in Pakistan : Annex 1. Recent History
The Devolved Service Delivery Study (DSD) is the product of an agreement between the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the Department for International Development (the United Kingdom), in response to a request from the Government of Paki...
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ACCOUNTABILITY ACCOUNTING ADB ADMINISTRATIVE DECENTRALIZATION ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS AMBITION ANTICORRUPTION AUDITING AUTONOMY CADRES CAPITALS CITIES CITIZENS CIVIL SERVICE COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT CONSTITUENCIES CONSTITUENCY CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS CONSTITUTIONS COUNCILORS DECENTRALIZATION DEMOCRACIES DEMOCRACY DEVOLUTION DISTRICT GOVERNMENT DISTRICT GOVERNMENTS DISTRICTS EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE ELECTED OFFICIALS EXECUTION EXPENDITURE ASSIGNMENTS EXPENDITURES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FISCAL CENTRALIZATION FISCAL REFORMS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES GOVERNMENT LEVEL GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS HEAD OF STATE INCOME JURISDICTION LAWS LEGAL FRAMEWORK LEGAL PROVISIONS LEGISLATURE LEGISLATURES LEGITIMACY LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT LOCAL COUNCILS LOCAL DEMOCRACY LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL LAWS LOCAL LEVEL MANDATES MILITARY REGIMES MINISTERS MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS MUNICIPAL SERVICES NATURAL RESOURCES OCTROI OWN SOURCE REVENUE POLITICAL DECENTRALIZATION POLITICAL REFORMS POLITICAL STRUCTURES POLITICAL SYSTEM POLITICIANS POVERTY REDUCTION PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS PROVINCES PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURES PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SPENDING REPRESENTATIVES RURAL WATER RURAL WATER SUPPLY SANITATION SEPARATION OF POWERS SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL SERVICES STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN STREETS TAXATION TRANSPORT URBAN AREAS WATER SUPPLY |
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ACCOUNTABILITY ACCOUNTING ADB ADMINISTRATIVE DECENTRALIZATION ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS AMBITION ANTICORRUPTION AUDITING AUTONOMY CADRES CAPITALS CITIES CITIZENS CIVIL SERVICE COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT CONSTITUENCIES CONSTITUENCY CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS CONSTITUTIONS COUNCILORS DECENTRALIZATION DEMOCRACIES DEMOCRACY DEVOLUTION DISTRICT GOVERNMENT DISTRICT GOVERNMENTS DISTRICTS EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE ELECTED OFFICIALS EXECUTION EXPENDITURE ASSIGNMENTS EXPENDITURES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FISCAL CENTRALIZATION FISCAL REFORMS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES GOVERNMENT LEVEL GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS HEAD OF STATE INCOME JURISDICTION LAWS LEGAL FRAMEWORK LEGAL PROVISIONS LEGISLATURE LEGISLATURES LEGITIMACY LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT LOCAL COUNCILS LOCAL DEMOCRACY LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL LAWS LOCAL LEVEL MANDATES MILITARY REGIMES MINISTERS MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS MUNICIPAL SERVICES NATURAL RESOURCES OCTROI OWN SOURCE REVENUE POLITICAL DECENTRALIZATION POLITICAL REFORMS POLITICAL STRUCTURES POLITICAL SYSTEM POLITICIANS POVERTY REDUCTION PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS PROVINCES PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURES PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SPENDING REPRESENTATIVES RURAL WATER RURAL WATER SUPPLY SANITATION SEPARATION OF POWERS SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL SERVICES STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN STREETS TAXATION TRANSPORT URBAN AREAS WATER SUPPLY World Bank Devolution in Pakistan : Annex 1. Recent History |
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The Devolved Service Delivery Study
(DSD) is the product of an agreement between the World Bank,
the Asian Development Bank, and the Department for
International Development (the United Kingdom), in response
to a request from the Government of Pakistan that the
agencies review progress toward improving service delivery
through decentralization. Pakistan's far-reaching
devolution initiative has been designed with three broad and
inter-related objectives in mind: To inject new blood into a
political system considered to be the domain of historically
entrenched interests; to provide positive measures enabling
marginalized citizens--women, workers, peasants-to access
formal politics; and to introduce a measure of stability
into a turbulent political scene by creating a stronger line
of accountability between new politicians and local
electorates. Underpinning the political strategy were other
technical objectives: improved delivery of social services;
better determination and enforcement of property and labor
rights and regulation of economic activities; and access to
justice in the form of improved performance by local
administrations, courts and police, with greater awareness
of basic human rights protected under devolution. Based on
an empirical study of 6 districts and 12 municipalities
(Tehsil Municipal Administrations) (TMAs), this paper
evaluates the extent to which the new structure has
succeeded in creating the incentives necessary for local
governments to achieve at least some of the service delivery
objectives. This report notes that remarkable progress has
been achieved. New local institutions with new structures
for local government, new arrangements for intergovernmental
sharing of resources, new electoral arrangements, new rules
for government formation and dismissal and new opportunities
for citizens to participate in the affairs of government
have all been created. At the same time as the devolution
initiative was being implemented, the government also
implemented significant reforms in tax, trade, deregulation
and privatization, the banking sector, anticorruption,
restructuring federal and provincial legislatures and
responding to gender concerns. |
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Devolution in Pakistan : Annex 1. Recent History |
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Devolution in Pakistan : Annex 1. Recent History |
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Devolution in Pakistan : Annex 1. Recent History |
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Devolution in Pakistan : Annex 1. Recent History |
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Devolution in Pakistan : Annex 1. Recent History |
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devolution in pakistan : annex 1. recent history |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/09/5152413/devolution-pakistan-assessment-recommendations-action-vol-2-3-annex-1-recent-history http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14571 |
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okr-10986-145712021-04-23T14:03:18Z Devolution in Pakistan : Annex 1. Recent History World Bank ACCOUNTABILITY ACCOUNTING ADB ADMINISTRATIVE DECENTRALIZATION ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS AMBITION ANTICORRUPTION AUDITING AUTONOMY CADRES CAPITALS CITIES CITIZENS CIVIL SERVICE COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT CONSTITUENCIES CONSTITUENCY CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS CONSTITUTIONS COUNCILORS DECENTRALIZATION DEMOCRACIES DEMOCRACY DEVOLUTION DISTRICT GOVERNMENT DISTRICT GOVERNMENTS DISTRICTS EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE ELECTED OFFICIALS EXECUTION EXPENDITURE ASSIGNMENTS EXPENDITURES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FISCAL CENTRALIZATION FISCAL REFORMS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES GOVERNMENT LEVEL GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS HEAD OF STATE INCOME JURISDICTION LAWS LEGAL FRAMEWORK LEGAL PROVISIONS LEGISLATURE LEGISLATURES LEGITIMACY LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT LOCAL COUNCILS LOCAL DEMOCRACY LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL LAWS LOCAL LEVEL MANDATES MILITARY REGIMES MINISTERS MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS MUNICIPAL SERVICES NATURAL RESOURCES OCTROI OWN SOURCE REVENUE POLITICAL DECENTRALIZATION POLITICAL REFORMS POLITICAL STRUCTURES POLITICAL SYSTEM POLITICIANS POVERTY REDUCTION PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS PROVINCES PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURES PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SPENDING REPRESENTATIVES RURAL WATER RURAL WATER SUPPLY SANITATION SEPARATION OF POWERS SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL SERVICES STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN STREETS TAXATION TRANSPORT URBAN AREAS WATER SUPPLY The Devolved Service Delivery Study (DSD) is the product of an agreement between the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the Department for International Development (the United Kingdom), in response to a request from the Government of Pakistan that the agencies review progress toward improving service delivery through decentralization. Pakistan's far-reaching devolution initiative has been designed with three broad and inter-related objectives in mind: To inject new blood into a political system considered to be the domain of historically entrenched interests; to provide positive measures enabling marginalized citizens--women, workers, peasants-to access formal politics; and to introduce a measure of stability into a turbulent political scene by creating a stronger line of accountability between new politicians and local electorates. Underpinning the political strategy were other technical objectives: improved delivery of social services; better determination and enforcement of property and labor rights and regulation of economic activities; and access to justice in the form of improved performance by local administrations, courts and police, with greater awareness of basic human rights protected under devolution. Based on an empirical study of 6 districts and 12 municipalities (Tehsil Municipal Administrations) (TMAs), this paper evaluates the extent to which the new structure has succeeded in creating the incentives necessary for local governments to achieve at least some of the service delivery objectives. This report notes that remarkable progress has been achieved. New local institutions with new structures for local government, new arrangements for intergovernmental sharing of resources, new electoral arrangements, new rules for government formation and dismissal and new opportunities for citizens to participate in the affairs of government have all been created. At the same time as the devolution initiative was being implemented, the government also implemented significant reforms in tax, trade, deregulation and privatization, the banking sector, anticorruption, restructuring federal and provincial legislatures and responding to gender concerns. 2013-07-25T15:32:36Z 2013-07-25T15:32:36Z 2004-09-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/09/5152413/devolution-pakistan-assessment-recommendations-action-vol-2-3-annex-1-recent-history http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14571 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Institutional and Governance Review (IGR) Economic & Sector Work South Asia Pakistan |