Decentralisation and public sector reform in Zambia

After defeating the incumbent United National Independence Party (UNIP) in November 1991 in the first multi-party general election in nearly a quarter century, the Movement for Multi-Party-Democracy (MMD) won a resounding victory in all provinces save one in local government elections a year later....

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Southern African studies
1. Verfasser: Tordoff, William (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Young, Ralph A. (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: 1994
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Verwaltungsreform > Dezentralisierung > Sambia > Abstimmung > Wahl > Gemeindeverwaltung > Dezentralisation > Verwaltung > Politische Reform > Öffentlicher Sektor > Partei > Wahl/Abstimmung > Öffentliche Verschuldung > Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
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Zusammenfassung:After defeating the incumbent United National Independence Party (UNIP) in November 1991 in the first multi-party general election in nearly a quarter century, the Movement for Multi-Party-Democracy (MMD) won a resounding victory in all provinces save one in local government elections a year later. These elections were held under the Local Government Act of 1991, which had replaced the Local Administration Act of 1980 and provides for a flexible and multifaceted local government system. In March 1993, as part of a wide-ranging Public Sector Reform Programme, the MMD government committed itself to underpinning the role of local government within Zambia's new pluralist framework by an ambitious programme of decentralisation involving the deconcentration of administrative functions to the country's nine provinces and the devolution of additional responsibilities to its urban and rural local authorities. This article explores the progress made thus far in implementing Zambia's decentralisation programme against the background of a highly centralised state machine inherited from the UNIP era, the financial constraints imposed by the country's current debt crisis, and the dislocations experienced by the local authorities as a result of more than two decades of underfunding. (JSAS/DÜI)
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ISSN:0305-7070