Monitoring and Evaluating Support to Decentralisation: Challenges and Dilemmas

Abstract

The framework for European development cooperation is quickly evolving. In the context of democratisation, liberalisation and state reform, many African governments have launched a new generation of decentralisation programmes. This new wave of democratic decentralisation will have a direct impact on external assistance that aims to promote development and poverty reduction at the local level. European donors and their partners need to develop new instruments and modes of assistance that can facilitate institutional change and pursue these objectives in a context of transition. This discussion paper by Markus Steinich, who coordinates the section "State Reform and Civil Society " at the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), aims to contribute to the dialogue on new modes of ACP-EU development cooperation. The paper was prepared for an informal expert seminar on European support to decentralisation and municipal development, organised by ECDPM and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 14-15 June, 2000. The seminar was an opportunity for a structured exchange of experiences on new instruments and modalities of support to decentralisation and municipal development and in particular their relevance for poverty reduction and local development.

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