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NEW PUBLICATION: The Value of Comparative Federalism

The Legacy of Ronald L. Watts Edited By Nico Steytler, Balveer Arora, Rekha Saxena

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Call for Applications: Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Multilevel Government 2021 - 2022

The South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Multilevel Government, Law and Development, based at the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights (DOI), University of the Western Cape, is pleased to announce a full-time post-doctoral research fellowship in multilevel government for 2021.

African School on Decentralisation: Postponed to 2021

Due to the impact of COVID-19, the hosting of the African School on Decentralisation has been postponed to next year (2021).

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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 Centre for Federalism and Governance Studies of Addis Ababa University are delighted to announce the inaugural African School on Decentralisation.

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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 is an independent, comparative assessment of budget accountability: transparency, oversight, and public participation.

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 level.

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 presentation titled: ‘the federal character of federal government: the missing component of shared rules,; at the Center for Federal Studies of the Addis Ababa University.

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 Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2016) which will be held in Stellenbosch (South Africa) from Wednesday 7 September to Friday 9 September 2016.