Unless sustainable mechanisms for decentralising power are developed, the alternative is further chaos and fragmentation The curse of the modern Arab world has been the tendency towards centralisation ...

Interview with Kurdish filmmaker Sevînaz Evdikê about the situation of women in Rojava and the Islamist regime in Damascus. Sevînaz Evdikê (born 1992 in Serêkaniyê, Rojava) studied film in Northern ...

A responsible state is one that is closer to its citizens and responsive to their local needs. In governance parlance, this structure is called decentralisation, which has proved to be the only growth ...

Decentralisation of administrative, fiscal and political powers to provincial and local governments has received considerable attention in the past two decades due to the discontent over the central ...

Decentralisation in clinical trials could boost representation for more diverse demographic groups, a study has found. Research unveiled by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) ...

It was in a meeting abroad that I was first posed this question by a fellow Pakistani: ‘Don’t you think the health sector has suffered because of decentralisation? Don’t you think we’d be better off ...

Across the blockchain industry, decentralisation has long been touted as the core tenet. A promise of a future where power is distributed among the masses and control is wrested from the hands of ...

Historically, Bangladesh's urbanisation policies have been centred on Dhaka, and this will likely remain true in the future as well. But the ongoing trend of rapid, unplanned urbanisation in the city ...

The reason given by Local Government Minister Adolf Mwesige - that many more districts are meant to take services nearer to the citizens is not convincing enough since Ugandans could be said to have ...

For decades, philanthropy has been defined by formal institutions, foundations, corporate social investment programmes, and structured grant-making systems. But that architecture no longer holds ...