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Gradual but consistent improvement in audit outcomes from 2008 to 2013
Author: jacob
Published: 26 Sep 2014
There has been a gradual but consistent improvement in municipal audit outcomes over the past five financial years (2008/09-2012/13), but notwithstanding national government’s new and more realistic strategy to improving audit outcomes, local government may fall short of achieving the new targets for 2019 set by the new Minister.
news: Local Gov
Measuring municipal audit consistency can be a useful policy tool
Author: jacob
Published: 09 Jul 2014
The data in the Auditor-General’s reports on local government can be used, not only as an annual scorecard of how many municipalities complied with their audit obligations, but as a measure of the resilience of local government as a public institution.
news: Local Gov
Majority of officials in local government fall outside the regulations
Author: jacob
Published: 08 Jul 2014
The vast majority of the 300 000 officials in local government fall outside the regulations. This is according Prof Jaap de Visser and Phindile Ntliziywana, researchers at the Community Law Centre’s MLGI project in their latest article on Talking Good Governance blog.
news: Local Gov
SARChI looks into governance of cities in federal states
Published: 03 Jul 2014
To discuss and debate constitutional and legal challenges stifling cities, especially those in federal and quasi-federal states such as Ethiopia and South Africa, Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Policy at the Community Law Centre and Centre for Federal Studies at Addis Ababa University organised a seminar in June.
news: Local Gov
CLC looks into governance of cities in federal states
Author: jacob
Published: 01 Jul 2014
To discuss and debate constitutional and legal challenges stifling cities, especially those in federal and quasi-federal states such as Ethiopia and South Africa, Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Policy at the Community Law Centre and Centre for Federal Studies at Addis Ababa University organised a seminar in June.
news: Local Gov
Prof Jaap de Visser delivers a lecture on local government in Ethiopia
Author: jacob
Published: 08 Nov 2013
The director of the Community Law Centre, Prof Jaap de Visser lectured a group of honours and LLM students on the place of local government in the South African system of multilevel government at the Ethiopian Civil Service College in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia yesterday (7 November 2013).
news: Local Gov
CLC looks into constitutional adjudication in Ethiopia
Published: 18 Sep 2013
Constitutional adjudication in Ethiopia is primarily the responsibility of the House of Federation, Ethiopia’s upper house. In line with this, the Community Law Centre’s Multi-Level Government Initiative (MLGI) and the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Policy hosted a discussion on "Constitutional adjudication in Ethiopia" on the Tuesday 2 September.
news: Local Gov
CLC director lectures in Ethiopia
Author: jacob
Published: 23 Jul 2013
The director of the Community Law Centre, Professor Jaap de Visser, taught a week-long course on Local Government and Decentralisation for the PhD students at the Center for Federal Studies at Addis Ababa University.
news: Local Gov
The SA-Kenya dialogue
Published: 18 Jul 2013
SARCHI Chair on Multi-Level Government, Law & Policy which is hosted by MLGI has sparked a dialogue on Kenya's newly adopted constitution.
news: Local Gov
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