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USAID, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and
Nepal, October 2001 – October 2004
In South Asia, the demands for essential services, often organized
and articulated by political parties or civil society organizations,
are growing at a far faster rate than the ability of local
governments to respond in ways that are adequate and meaningful.
The USAID RUDO Office in India conceptualized this three-year
project in order to help strengthen the response capacity
of local governments in the region by creating greater awareness
of the principals of good urban governance.
The GUGSA project will document, disseminate
and demonstrate best practices in urban governance put into
place by local governmental bodies throughout the South Asia
region. The information gathered will focus on specific communities
and be formulated into case study format that will be shared
with community leaders and locally-elected bodies.
GUGSA also features a pilot project phase where
a community will have the opportunity to actively demonstrate
these principals in action through the implementation of an
actual municipal/urban project. This phase will also be documented
and disseminated along with the case studies.
Lastly, a regional conference will be held in
the conclusion of the project that will bring community leaders
and locally elected bodies together to discuss the need for
good urban governance, how that is defined in South Asia,
and can it can impact activities and developments in the region.
The conference aims to encourage the adoption of the principals
of good urban governance by locally-elected bodies and will
provide examples and lessons on how this adoption can take
place.
The GUGSA project started in October 2001 and
runs through October 2004. It will take place in three countries
in South Asia - Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.
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