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11 Feb 2013
Unit: Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation
Location: The Netherlands, Wageningen
Organisation: Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation

 11 - 22 February 2013 - Centre for Development Innovation. 


New alignments between Government, Business and Civil Society.
Nowadays the role of governments is shifting towards creating an enabling environment and to facilitating – rather than steering – economic development and sustainable management of natural resources. Private enterprises are increasingly involved in (local) service delivery activities and local development processes.
Citizens are no longer seen as passive beneficiaries, but rather as active ‘right holders’ with the right to participate and demand good local governance.
This has led to the understanding that local governance for rural development should be addressed as a multi-stakeholder process with interactions taking place at different levels amongst actors with different ambitions or perceptions. >> read more
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