Achieving better service delivery through decentralization in Ethiopia / / Marito Garcia, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar

• Autore: Garcia Marito <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : Africa Region Human Development Dept., World Bank, , c2008
• Descrizione fisica: xix, 111 pages : illustrations ; ; 26 cm
• Disciplina: 352.2830963
• Soggetto topico: Decentralization in government - Ethiopia; Public administration - Ethiopia
• Altri autori: RajkumarAndrew Sunil
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-111).
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Executive Summary; 1. Improvements in Health and Education Services; Figure 1.1. Primary Enrollment Increased Rapidly Beginning in the Mid-1990s; Table 1.1. Index of Real Government Expenditures and Spending as Percentage of GDP, 1999-2005; Figure 1.2. Increases in Primary School Enrollment Since 1995 Occurred Despite Only Modest Increases in Spending on Education as a Percentage of GDP; Table 1.2. User Satisfaction with Government Health Services, 2005; Table 1.3. User Satisfaction with School Services, 2005. ; 2. Decentralization and the Delivery of Basic ServicesTable 2.1. Trends in Service Delivery, 1995/96-2004/05; Figure 2.1. Decentralization has Devolved Responsibility to Subnational Levels of Government; Figure 2.2. Accountability for Providing Services Can Follow a Long Route or a Short Route; 3. The Scope of Decentralization and Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers; Table 3.1. Assignment of Expenditure and Revenue Responsibilities for Education, Health, and Water and Sanitation, by Tier of Government, circa 2005 ; Figure 3.1. Federal Transfers to Regions Using Block Grants have been Rising but Not as Fast as Federal Discretionary SpendingTable 3.2. A Wide Variation in Per Capita Block Grant Transfers to Regions; Figure 3.2. A Very Close Inverse Relationship Between a Region's Population and its Per Capita Transfer from the Federal Government in 2005/06; Table 3.3. Two Different Approaches for Allocating Federal Resources to Regions; Figure 3.3. Following Decentralization, Transfers from Regional Governments to Woredas and Zones Increased, Except in SNNPR, Where They Were Already High ; Box 3.1. The "Unit Cost" Approach to Block Grant AllocationBox 3.2. Performance Agreements in SNNPR; Box 3.3. Devolution of Power in Theory and in Practice; Table 3.4. Regional Budgets and Share of Budgets Transferred to Woredas in Four Regions, 2005/06; Table 3.5. Block Grant Allocations in Oromiya, 2002/03-2004/05; Table 3.6. Block Grant Allocations in SNNPR, 2002/03-2004/05; Table 3.7. Trends in Regional Expenditure, 1993/4-2005/06; Figure 3.4. Regional Budgets With and Without Special Purpose Grants; Figure 3.5. Regional Revenue as a Share of General Government Revenue, 2002/03-2004/05 ; Figure 3.6. Real Per Capita Government Spending on Education Rose After 2000, but Much of the Increase went to Tertiary EducationFigure 3.7. Overall Real Per Capita Spending on Health Increased Between 2000/01and 2004/05, but Real Per Capita Subnational Government Spending Declined.; Table 3.8. Aggregate Fiscal Performance; Figure 3.8. Woredas' Share of Regional Recurrent Budgets for Amhara, Oromiya, SNNPR, and Tigray (the Four Main Decentralizing Regions) Together; 4. How Did Decentralization to Woreda Level Affect the Delivery of Social Services?. ; Figure 4.1. Expenditures of Woredas Increased After Decentralization.
• Sommario/riassunto: Ethiopia has made major strides in improving its human development indicators in the past 15 years, achieving significant increases in the coverage of basic education and health services in a short period of time. Imrovements took place during a period of massive decentralization of fiscal resources, to the regions in 1994 and to woredas in 2002-03. The devolutionof power and resources from the federal and regional governments to woredas appears to have improved the delivery of basic services. Surveys of beneficiaries reveal that they perceive that service coverage and quality have improved. B
• Titolo autorizzato: Achieving better service delivery through decentralization in Ethiopia
• ISBN: 1-281-19145-0; 9786611191450; 0-8213-7383-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814273203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Africa Region human development series.; World Bank e-Library.