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African School on Decentralisation 2020: Call for Applications
The South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Development at the Dullah Omar Institute of the University of the Western Cape, and the ...
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Local Government Bulletin Volume 14, Issue 2, 2019 is now available
The following articles/publications are available in this issue:
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Measuring transparency, public participation and oversight in the budget processes of South Africa’s metropolitan municipalities
The Metro Open Budget Survey (Metro OBS) is modelled on the global Open Budget Survey (OBS) initiated by the International Budget Partnership in 2006. The OBS ...
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Scholarship opportunities at the University of Fribourg
Twice a year the University of Fribourg offers scholarships to young researchers who would like to undertake a research stay on a doctoral or post-doctoral ...
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Prof Steytler talks about federal government at AAU
Prof Nico Steytler, South African research chair for multilevel government, Law and Policy at the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law made his ...
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Call for papers: Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa
The Organisers of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) are pleased to announce the call for papers for the Fourth ...
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Prof De Visser addresses DDP Conference on Local Government
"Reflecting on 20 years of Local Government" was the title of a presentation by Jaap de Visser to a conference on Local Government, organised by the Democracy ...
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Gradual but consistent improvement in audit outcomes from 2008 to 2013
There has been a gradual but consistent improvement in municipal audit outcomes over the past five financial years (2008/09-2012/13), but notwithstanding ...
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Measuring municipal audit consistency can be a useful policy tool
The data in the Auditor-General’s reports on local government can be used, not only as an annual scorecard of how many municipalities complied with their audit ...
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Majority of officials in local government fall outside the regulations
The vast majority of the 300 000 officials in local government fall outside the regulations. This is according Prof Jaap de Visser and Phindile Ntliziywana, ...
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