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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2017
    Kenya

    This paper describes the development of a Land Information Management System (LIMS) for County Governments in Kenya. In the new Constitution 2010, devolution of some national government functions and formation of county governments was provided for. These invoked the development of new land laws to guide the devolution processes and procedures. According to the County Government Act 2012, all County Governments are supposed to develop digital Geographic Information System (GIS) based spatial plans and these calls for development of LIMS for and efficient breakthrough.

  2. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    The purpose of this Independence
    Evaluation Group (IEG) special study is to illuminate the
    scale and scope of Bank support for municipal development
    and to draw specific lessons from the achievements and
    failures of a sample of individual projects. The study
    focuses on three dimensions of municipal management:
    planning, finance, and service provision that figure
    repeatedly in Bank financed municipal development projects

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    North Macedonia

    The present study examines the
    challenges facing municipal governments in FYR Macedonia.
    The introductory chapter provides some further context for
    these developments, in terms of the challenges they pose
    for urban areas and their governments. Chapter Two examines
    issues for financial management of municipalities under the
    decentralized regime, and the attendant need for improving
    local government capacity. The third chapter highlights

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2013

    Danang City is the capital and economic
    hub of the central region of Vietnam. As in all of the major
    urban centers of the country, Danang is currently
    experiencing rapid urbanization fueled by consistent
    economic growth and the resultant steady increase in
    population, much through rural-urban migration. For this
    reason, central and city government has been increasingly
    concerned with the urban development and housing sectors.

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Mozambique

    Municipalities in Mozambique were
    established by law in 1997 and elected in 1998 for the first
    time, only a few years after the peace agreement. Most
    inherited archaic and dysfunctional remnants of colonial and
    central government systems and infrastructure, and as such
    limited progress was achieved in transforming them into
    functioning local governments during the first mandate
    (1998-2002). During the second mandate (2003-2008), however,

  6. Library Resource
    May, 2014
    Global

    In this report, in addition to aggregate
    results, six brief case studies are used to highlight the
    impact of Bank supported mining sector reform on various
    indicators at different links of the value chain. These
    include: the impacts on investment; production and
    employment in Argentina; institutional capacity building in
    Papua New Guinea; production and fiscal revenues in
    Tanzania; community and regional development in Madagascar;

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