Current trends toward the decentralization of responsibility for natural resource management to provincial governments may provide a useful institutional context for the establishment of some of these smaller, but nonetheless critical reserves [ 94].
Since the early 1990s, many countries have promoted decentralized environmental governance as part of a broader trend toward the decentralization of governmental responsibilities; this decentralization is designed to improve effectiveness, efficiency, transparency, and democracy.
Although there is a consensus that economic liberalization and decentralization of administrative responsibilities explain the urban changes, it is not clear whether or not actual economic and population growth is the only cause of urban expansion.
Along with decentralization of financial responsibility for managing health care, state funding for health care declined rapidly.
Organizational decentralization means externalization of responsibilities, rights, and duties within a superordinate process.
This discourse emphasized the crucial role of government decentralization, the devolution of responsibilities for natural resource management to local communities, and community participation within governance and decision-making processes (Leach et al. 1999: 225; Wilson 2013: 67-68, 83-86).
Asked about the way human fallibility has ruined previous utopias, he said that serious change must come from below, not from a dictatorship of the proletariat, and that he believed in the protective guarantees of legal rights, decentralization of authority, local responsibilities and multiparty democracy.
Georgia is a middle-income country where there has been extensive decentralization of public health responsibilities over the last decade.
Forming and strengthening partnerships at the local level are ever more important in achieving results for children given the decentralization of budgets and responsibilities to the counties and municipal sectors in Bucharest.
In Georgia, a country where there has been extensive decentralization of public health responsibilities over the last decade, an intervention was recently piloted to strengthen district-level local vaccine-preventable disease surveillance and response activities through improved capacity to analyze and use routinely collected data.
