LDI Local Development International: Promoting Local Development Through Local Governments

Service Area 1 - Decentralization Reforms

LDI helps national governments and their development partners in the design, implementation and support of decentralization reform processes, including:

  • The preparation of national decentralization strategies;
  • The design of national programs to implement decentralization strategies and of related aligned and harmonized external aid initiatives; and,
  • The development of policy, legal and regulatory instruments underpinning new systems of sub-national governance and public administration, including Local Government Acts, Local Finance Acts, Sector decentralization policies and laws.
LDI provides policy and legal advisory services, training and capacity building services on political, fiscal and administrative decentralization, as well as facilitation services for multi-stakeholder decentralization policy development processes
decentralization reforms