January 2015

Manpower development, capacity building and service delivery in Ife-East Local Government Area, Osun State, Nigeria

The essence of government and administration at local levels is to ensure effective service delivery to the people at the grassroots. By constitutional designs and norms, governance at this level draws more closely to the needs of the people. Effective dispensation of this responsibility depends largely on the capability, knowledge and expertise of the existing institutional actors and structures. Nevertheless, service...

Author(s): AGUNYAI Samuel Chukwudi

January 2015

The politics of language and representative bureaucracy in Ethiopia: the case of Federal Government

Building an inclusively representative and equitable bureaucracies in a multiethnic, multilingual and multicultural polity is a challenging phenomenon. Being one of such polities, Ethiopia embarked upon multinational federal nation-building policy exactly two decades ago through a constitutional reform. Accordingly, nine regional states and two chartered cities bureaucracies were established besides the federal...

Author(s): Milkessa Midega