Highlights

IDG Highlights: 2012

• IDG Research: The Urban Institute Launches its Land and Asset Management Toolkit (Olga Kaganova, Urban Institute) - March 2012
• IDG Seminar: Local Public Sector Finances, Governance And Service Delivery: Practices And Experiences In Measuring The Local Public Sector - January 2012

IDG Highlights: 2011

• IDG Seminar: Devolution in Kenya: Balancing Reform Opportunities and Challenges (Paul Smoke, New York University) - November 2011
• IDG News: IDG Co-Hosts Discussion of Gender, Property Rights and Economic Development- October 2011
• IDG Seminar: Egypt's Path to Democracy: Is Political and Fiscal Empowerment below the Central Level Possible? (Khaled Z. Amin, Cairo University) - October 2011
• IDG News: IDG partner announces 2012 course offerings on decentralization and local governance- October, 2011
• IDG News: IDG announces week-long course on Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in partnership with The Hague Academy for Local Governance- November 6-11, 2011
• IDG Blog: Urbanization's Infrastructure Demands at Home and Abroad (Charles Cadwell) - June 2011
• IDG Policy Brief: Fiscal Decentralization in Kenya: A Small Step or Giant Leap? (Jamie Boex and Roy Kelly) - May 2011
• IDG Blog: Post Partum Depression- The Hard Work Begins in Egypt: Go Local (Charles Cadwell) - March 2011
• IDG Seminar: Evaluating the Impact of Improved Access to Land in Benin (Katie Mark and Nadia van de Walle) - March 2011
• IDG Seminar: State-building in fragile, post-conflict places (Chas Cadwell) - February 2011
• IDG Seminar: High Performance Organizations and Local Governance (Deborah Kimble and Sharon Cooley) - February 2011
• IDG Policy Brief: Democratization in Egypt: The Potential Role of Decentralization (Jamie Boex) - February 2011
• IDG Seminar: Too Much of a Good Thing? Own Revenues and the Current Political Crisis in Albania (Tony Levitas) - January 2011
• IDG Seminar: Urban Renaissance Under Labour: Better Opportunities for Deprived Communities? (Schinwon Kyung) - January 2011

• IDG Seminar / Project Highlight: Institutionalizing Reform: Organizational Change—Strengthening Decentralization for Sustainability in Uganda (Deborah Kimble)- December 2010
• IDG News: UI Partnership with The Hague Academy for Local Government- December 2010
• IDG Seminar: Municipal Competition and Economic Development in Serbia (Peter Epstein and Olga Popovic) - December 2010
• IDG News: UI Global Decentralization Initiative to Promote the Local Public Sector- December 2010
• IDG Seminar: Obstacles to Successful (Fiscal) Decentralization: Lessons from the Developing World (François Vaillancourt) - October 2010
• Research Highlight: Service Delivery Improvement Action Plans (SIAPs) - October 2010
• IDG Seminar: Localizing the MDGs: Unlocking the potential of local governments in achieving the MDGs 2015 (Jamie Boex) - September 2010
• Project Highlight: Improving Low Performing Schools in Pakistan - June 2010
• IDG Seminar: Sub-National Performance Information Systems in Decentralized Settings – A Review of the Literature, Key Issues and Select Country Cases (Victor Dumas and Kai Kaiser) - March 2010
• IDG Policy Brief: The Effectiveness of the State, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Success or Failure of the International Strategy in Afghanistan (Jamie Boex and Charles Cadwell) - February 2010
• IDG Seminar: Has decentralization really increased accountability at the local level? A Diagnostic Framework for Decentralization and Local Governance (Serdar Yilmaz, Ghazia Aslam and Asli Gurkan) - January 2010