The role that decentralization plays in public sector management around the world is evolving. Whereas decentralization has traditionally been pursued in countries as a governance reform to increase ...

Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these ...

Over the past 25 years, Rwanda’s decentralization has been central to transforming a deeply divided post-genocide society into a cohesive, inclusive, and forward-looking nation. Initiated in 2000 as a ...

Since the early 2000s, Rwanda has pursued an ambitious decentralization reform aimed at promoting inclusive local governance, strengthening public service delivery, and deepening citizen participation ...

Divya Siddarth is associate political economist and social technologist at Microsoft, the RadicalxChange Foundation, and the Ostrom Workshop. Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University ...

As Rwanda marks 25 years of decentralization, the country stands as a compelling example of how effective decentralization can strengthen local governance, deepen democracy, and accelerate local ...