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Welcome to Solution Exchange for the Decentralization Community in India |
We are a group of professionals from a wide range of organizations and perspectives who are dedicated to addressing challenges faced with respect to political, functional, administrative and financial decentralization, including sectoral decentralization and privatization of services.
The Decentralization Community is facilitated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and is moderated by a Resource Team comprised of Dr. Joy Elamon, Resource Person and Ms. Tina Mathur, Research Associate. Click here for the welcome message from the Facilitator, and click here for the message from the Resource Team.
Community Highlights
We wish members and their families a very happy and prosperous 2008 on behalf of the Community members and your Resource Team. The year gone by was quite fruitful. We issued thirty-eight consolidated replies during the past year. Members raised extremely interesting queries – which came directly from their field of work. The queries covered a wide range of issues - from exploring the role of panchayats in ensuring food security, disaster management, spreading health awareness to contributing critical comments on the drafting of roadmaps for strengthening the status of Panchayats in states such as West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Kerala.
We look forward to greater engagement with the members in 2008. Your ideas about how to make the Query-Consolidated Reply business more interesting and useful for members are welcome. We look forward to your continued participation in the Community’s activities.
Queries, e-Consultations and e-Discussions
Below are the current topics being addressed. To participate you must be a member. Go to the Mailgroup page to log in or sign up. Queries
[se-emp][se-decn] QUERY: Taking NREGA beyond Wages to SustainableLivelihoods. Experiences; Advice. Reply by 18 November 2008
From D. Narendranath, PRADAN, New Delhi
Seeks experiences on making NREGA a livelihood development program and improving capacity of panchayats for better implementation of the scheme [se-decn][se-watr] Query: Water service delivery by panchayats-Experiences.
From Puneet Srivastava, GTZ, Shimla
Seeks experiences of decentralized rural water service delivery by panchayats including the institutional and accountability mechanisms in the same
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How the Media Can Strengthen and Promote Panchayati Raj
“The Decentralization Community has grown into an active platform for experts and practitioners on decentralization to connect and share experiences and views on many important topics related to strengthening decentralized governance… I particularly like the concept of a Consolidated Reply, prepared as a tightly edited summary that concludes each discussion and captures its essentials"
