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Local Governance and Decentralization
Institutions: Point Sud
(Mali),
The Centre for Democratic Governance (Burkina Faso), African Studies
Centre (The Netherlands)
Project leader: Dr. Moussa Sissoko (Point Sud)
Decentralization has been a major aim of the political reforms adopted by
African nations since the early 1990s. However researchers have not always
played the role they should have in the development, implementation and
monitoring of this new reform programme. With a focus on Mali and Burkina
Faso, which both have strong decentralization policies, the project expects
to develop the following:
• an empirical and analytical appraisal of the process of adaptation to
decentralization by the citizenry;
• knowledge of the population’s perceptions of the status of local
government practices;
• identification of the factors influencing legitimacy, equity and
inclusion;
• an inventory of research results that is available to the various
participants (national and local decision makers, lay persons, development
partners);
• training for student researchers within the various research teams;
• a dissemination of the work of the student researchers, post-doc
researchers and senior researchers through publications and accreditation
activities; and
• enhanced exchange and information mechanisms between research institutes,
researchers and other players in the decentralization process.
Workshop in Bamako, Mali, March 2010
Phase I
In Phase I of the CDP, this project looked at decentralization and local
governance reforms in Mali and Burkina Faso. The specific questions that the
project tried to answer were whether decentralization had made local
governance more democratic and whether processes of decentralization and the
institutions born out of them have become rooted and owned by local
communities. The project team chose to focus on the involvement in and
ownership of the decentralization processes by local (rural) communities (synthesis
report).
Phase II: Female political leadership
In the second phase of this project, the project team will focus on the role
of women in local governance and how decentralization has affected female
political leadership. Female political leaders will be followed and
interviewed about their trajectories and experiences. This is a comparative
study between Mali and Burkina Faso.
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