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Africa-Latin America Mutual Action Learning Initiative!
Participatory Budgeting Stocktaking Initiative in BrazilBack<<
The key objective of this project initiative is to collect information that identifies the current trend and patterns of participatory budgeting in Brazil during the 2004-2008 mayoral periods, including how each city’s or town’s participatory budgeting functions, its current challenges and its impact on poverty and local governance indicators. Ultimately this new knowledge is expected to be disseminated widely to policy-makers and practitioners in Africa. The project is therefore expected to have multiple impacts. These include:
- Providing experiences in the area of participatory budgeting methodologies from Brazil, resulting in the creation of a repository of key participatory budgeting methodologies and tools for the African region;
- Capacity building: the gathered information shall contribute greatly to capacity building once its incorporated into various MDP-ESA training material as well as being used for providing technical assistance at the municipal level; and
- Identification of further areas of research: the project’s outputs can be used as a pointer to other areas that needs to be further researched.
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Takawira Mumvuma |
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Coordinator - Participatory Budgeting Programme Coordinator |
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Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and Southern Africa |
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Takawira Mumvuma is the Coordinator of the Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and Southern Africa 's Policy Research and Participatory Budgeting Programme and a Development Economics lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe . He is currently also a visiting lecturer at Africa University where he teaches a course on Decentralization and Local Governance offered in their Public Sector Management Masters Programme. He has authored and co-authored many book chapters, articles and manuals on issues of enterprise development, local economic development, trade, policy reforms, participatory budgeting and social accountability in Africa . He holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Zimbabwe and a PhD in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague , Netherlands . . |
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