Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific

Bruno Carrasco served in various positions at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), including Principal Financial Economist, South Asia Department; and Director, South Asia Public Management, Financial Sector and Trade Division. He was appointed Chief of the Governance Thematic Group in 2019 and, in February 2021, was promoted to Director-General, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC). He has a PhD in economics from Essex University, United Kingdom, and a masters in economics from the University of British Columbia. Hanif A. Rahemtulla is Principal Public Management Specialist at ADB. He is a public sector reform specialist focusing on public financial and investment management and fiscal decentralization with more than 20 years of experience in project management, advisory services and research in more than ten developing countries in the Asia and Pacific region. He obtained his doctoral degree from University College London (UCL) and his postdoctoral degree from McGill University, Canada. Rainer Rohdewohld is a senior decentralization policy advisor with more than 30 years’ work experience on administrative reform, decentralization reforms, and local governance capacity building in Asia (Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, and Pakistan) and West Africa (Ghana). He holds a master’s degree in political science from the Free University (Berlin/Germany) and a master’s degree in administrative sciences from the German University of Administrative Sciences (Speyer). He is co-author of the publication Emerging Practices in Intergovernmental Functional Assignment, published by Routledge in 2017.

0. Introduction - Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific: Multi-Level Governance in the "Decade of Action" 1. Political and Administrative Decentralization in Asia and the Pacific 2. Fiscal Decentralization in Asia and the Pacific 3. Subnational Planning and Budgeting in Asia and the Pacific 4. Sector Decentralization and Functional Assignment in Asia and the Pacific 5. Measuring Performance and Promoting Accountability in the Context of Decentralization and Local Governance Reforms 6. Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific 7. Conceptualizing and Implementing Decentralization in Asia and the Pacific – Reform Designs, National Strategies, and Development Partner Support 8. Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Cambodia 9. Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Indonesia 10. Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Mongolia 11. Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Nepal 12. Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Pakistan 13. Conclusions