Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh: Reforms, Participation and Accountability (Public Administration, Governance and Globalization Book 8)

Annotation This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people's participation and accountability. Throughout the chapters, the authors review the existing legal framework of UP and its relation to social accountability, examine how much of the social participation is spontaneous and how much is politically induced, question the success of the Citizen's Charter and Right to Information acts as mechanisms for social accountability, and present suggestions to remedy some of the problems facing people's participation and accountability in the UP. This book fills existing gaps in the discourse by adding new information to the literature on development research and legal reforms in Bangladesh, specifically in how those legal reforms have led to strengthening or weakening people's participation in local government. The target audience for this book are students and researchers in Asian studies, international development studies, and public administration, as well as practitioners working in the local governments discussed Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Introduction (Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday)....Pages 1-16 Policy Impact Study: A Conceptual Framework (Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday)....Pages 17-34 Past Reforms on People’s Participation and Accountability at the Local Level in Bangladesh (Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday)....Pages 35-55 Governance, People’s Participation, Accountability, and the Act of 2009 (Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday)....Pages 57-81 Process of Participatory Planning and Budgeting at the Local Level (Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday)....Pages 83-98 Ensuring Social Accountability Through Public Forums (Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday)....Pages 99-119 Ensuring Transparency Through Citizen’s Charter and Right to Information (Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday)....Pages 121-136 The Role of Administrative and Political Culture in Civic Engagement (Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday)....Pages 137-149 Challenges in Innovations in Public Management in Third World Countries (Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday)....Pages 151-174 Conclusion (Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday)....Pages 175-186 Back Matter ....Pages 187-216