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Fiscal Decentralization: A Review of Concepts and Applications for Bangladesh (August 2006)
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Program participants and course facilitators visit Saidabad Union Parishad in Sirajganj District to study the local participatory planning processes.

The Workshop "Fiscal Decentralization: A Review of Concepts and Applications for Bangladesh" was held from August 5-10, 2006, at the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Center (BPATC) in Savar, Bangladesh. The week-long workshop was developed and delivered by the Andrew Young School for the Government of Bangladesh in collaboration with the UNDP / UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF).

The training program was intended to continue the policy-level sensitization and capacity building in the areas of fiscal decentralization and local governance which was begun during a similar training program on fiscal decentralization in Bangladesh in April 2005.

The workshop was attended by 17 senior government officials, including officials from the Local Government Division, the Ministry of Finance, LGED, and several government line ministries. In addition to classroom presentations and discussion sessions, the workshop also included a site visit to Siranjganj to learn first-hand about the Sirajganj Local Governance Development Fund Project.

 

Background readings:

  • An introductory overview of intergovernmental fiscal relations
  • Subnational government structure and intergovernmental fiscal relations: An overlooked dimension of decentralization
  • Intergovernmental fiscal relations and the assignment of expenditure responsibilities
  • Subnational revenues: realities and prospects
  • Tax assignment and subnational fiscal autonomy
  • The design and implementation of intergovernmental fiscal transfers
  • The determination of the incidence of intergovernmental grants: A survey of the international experience
  • Local governance and service delivery to the poor: Bangladesh case study
  • Fiscal transfers to local government in Bangladesh
  • Fiscal decentralization: twelve implementation rules
  • Role of UNDP in promoting local governance and decentralization in Bangladesh

    Lecture presentations:

  • An overview of fiscal decentralization and subnational government structure
  • Concepts in the assignment of expenditure responsibilities
  • The Assignment of Expenditure Responsibilities: Issues and Applications for Bangladesh
  • Poverty Reduction and Fiscal Decentralization
  • Concepts in the assignment of revenue sources
  • Concepts in the design of intergovernmental fiscal transfers
  • Intergovernmental grants: Issues and Applications for Bangladesh
  • Implementing decentralization reform: twelve rules

     

    Project Details
    Project: Fiscal Decentralization: A Review of Concepts and Applications for Bangladesh
    Date: August 5-10, 2006
    Training Facilitators: Prof. Jamie Boex and Ms. Eunice Heredia-Ortiz
    Location: BPATC, Savar, Bangladesh
    Donor/Client: UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)/ Local Government Division (MLGRD&C)

     

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