Author: Mohamed Shakeeb
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-11-01
Year: 2011
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2011
Examination Committee: Jayant Kumar Routray (Chairperson); Soparth Pongquan, Mokbul Morshed Ahmad (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Maldives currently is going through a period of major political reform and democratic transition targeted to strengthen the local development through the decentralized administrative system. This process will help to hear voice of people concerns in relations to their development. After three decades of centralized government system, the new administration of President Mohamed Nasheed in 2008 introduced innovative policies aimed at decentralized government system through delegation of power to local government authorities particularly in political and development perspectives. If Maldives want to achieve MDGs, the government needs to empower the local administration to provide effective services even to those marginalized and uneducated population (UNDP, 2006). Decentralization process in Maldives it is very new concept. In Maldives, there is still a lack of comprehensive and detailed researches on decentralization process. Therefore, this study intends to examine the implementation of administrative decentralization at subnational levels and its effects on local development activities in Maldives. Specifically the study is aimed at understanding the real condition of local development in relation to the ongoing decentralized administration, assess the effects of decentralization on delivery of rural services, identify the local development needs associated problems and finally recommend the improvements of administrative decentralization on delivery of rural services. The study involved a number of methodologies which were used to collect data such as questionnaire survey which was used to collect primary data. Interviews were conducted in 20 Atolls and islands including capital city of Male’. The secondary data was collected from different sources that are reliable from existing documents some of the documents were constitution and government reports on decentralization, UNDP and World Bank repo11s as well as documents from President’s Office and Ministry of Home Affairs. The results from this study reveale
Scholarship Donor(s): Ministry of Health and Family, Maldives
Note: A thesis submitted in pa1tial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Regional and Rural Development Planning, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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