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Post-1991 Decentralization reform in Ethiopia reveals that regional governments have technically separate power to self administer their regions, formulate and implement their socio-economic policies and strategies, bear all financial expenditures, raise revenue from specified tax bases, get subsidies from the central government and borrow from internal sources. The implementation of the reform, however, shows sustained central government dominance on expenditure and revenue assignment, continued regional dependence on central subsidy, absence of borrowing, and sustained central government interference in the administrative affair of regions. By conducting detailed field research in three regional governments, this article exposes how public sector management system (public finance and human resource management system) determines decentralization outcomes. It contends that outcomes of decentralization reforms are shaped not only by political and economic factors, as suggested in the decentralization literature, but also by the de facto public sector management system.

ABSTRACTThis article addresses the question of why Ethiopia's post-1991 decentralisation reform is not taking the desired direction of matching diverse needs with available resources and creating accountable, responsive and autonomous regional governments. Given regional governments' relatively diverse socio-economic positions, the intention of the reform to create autonomous regions with devolved administrative, fiscal and political power is appropriate. Nonetheless, the implementation of the elements of the reform – expenditure assignment, revenue assignment, intergovernmental fiscal transfer and sub-national borrowing – is flawed. Existing studies that question the effectiveness of Ethiopia's devolution focus on political or fiscal aspects, and fail to link the de facto centre-region political power relationship with intergovernmental fiscal relations. This article, based on detailed field research in three regional governments, argues that the flawed intergovernmental fiscal relations reform is best explained by the clientelistic relationship between central and regional political parties.

This book describes the contrast between the strong economic growth and democratization that have occurred in Africa and its stalling political progress. It presents and discusses fragility as the phenomenon that has caused the state to remain weak and faltering and has led to at least one third of the continent's citizens living in fragile states. Following the examination of the drivers of fragility and the impact of fragility on citizens and neighbouring states, the book discusses capacity building approaches. This part shows how effective states can be built on the African continent, a process that would result in a change from state fragility to state resilience. It is based on lessons learnt from close studies of the nations where the state has been most developed in the region, in Eastern and Southern Africa. The book provides and responds to the most recent and up-to-date information on African development and uses insights of people who have lived and worked in the continent for most of their lives.

Die von der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Auftrag gegebene Studie gibt einen systematischen Überblick über Frauenorganisationen und -interessenvertretungen in Äthiopien. Neben den mit Frauenbelangen befassten Abteilungen in der öffentlichen Verwaltung sowie in humanitären und Entwicklungs-NGOs werden Typen, Ziele und Arbeit der Frauenorganisationen im NGO-Sektor analysiert. Es werden Vorschläge entwickelt, wie die Zusammenarbeit unter den Frauen-NGOs und zwischen NGOs und Regierung optimiert und die Durchsetzung der Fraueninteressen verbessert werden kann. (DÜI-Sbd)

The trajectory of public administration in Africa: background / Paulos Chanie Reforms without change: Kenya's unending "War on Corruption" / Joshua M. Kivuva. - Public sector reform amid adversity and uncertainty: the Zimbabwean experience / Claudious Chikozho. - The privatization and deregulation of Dar es Salaam's public transport, 1983-2010: outcomes and dilemmas / Matteo Rizzo. - Integrating all stakeholders: health service governance in Addis Ababa / Kassa T. Alemu and Shawel A. Yosef. - The ups and downs of business process re-engineering (BPR): a tale of two offices in Bahir Dar Town, Ethiopia / Abebe Walle Menberu . - The inside story of outsourcing: contract management capacity in Tanzania / Leonada Mwagike and Mamkwe Claudia Edward. - E-government for good governance: the case of Tanzania / Muhajir Kachwamba . - The quantity-quality balance: reforms in university education in Uganda / Roberts Kabeba Muriisa. - Making outcomes matter: programme-based budgeting for a better public sector in Mauritius / Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur and Kesseven Padachi. - Good intentions, poor results: reforming the academic organizational structure and performance management system at the University of Botswana / Keene Boikhutso. - Big growth and big mistakes: telecoms in South Africa / Maxwell Chanakira . - The performance of decentralisation and public sector accountability reforms in Uganda / William Muhumuza. - Contracting out public services to private agents: lessons from the management of local government contracts in Ghana / Nicholas Awortwi. - Lessons and conclusions / Paschal B. Mihyo. -