Articulations of Local Governance in Timor-Leste : Lessons for Local Development Under Decentralization

This article asks how government can ensure that it hears and implements citizens’ views on development planning.

It discusses how the convergence of different governance systems at the local level, and the wider Timorese experience of sociopolitical change, can impact the way local development initiatives are perceived and implemented.

This policy note is available courtesy of the World Bank.