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Titre : Decentralization and the DRC - An Overview Type de document : document électronique Auteurs : Herbert F. Weiss, Auteur ; Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Auteur Editeur : Center on International Cooperation Collection : Issue Paper num. No. 1 Importance : 10 p Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : décentralisation/gouvernance Résumé : The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has had a long and varied experience with different forms of decentralization. For a country the size of Western Europe with a population of about sixty million people with internal boundaries designed by Belgian colonial administrators, this should not be surprising. The DRC is above all else a multi-ethnic society, but over the years two new identities have emerged; first, a strong sense of state identity and, second, a growing sense of provincial identity. In other words, whereas years ago a Mukongo in western DRC would have felt that identity to be not only primary but probably exclusive of others, today he/she would also identify as a Congolese from Bas Congo Province. The 2006 Constitution of the DRC has maintained the subdivision of the country into 11 provinces inherited from the Mobutu regime. Prior to that the DRC first adopted a 6 province structure in turn inherited from Belgian colonial rule in 1960 and then transformed that into a 21 province structure in 1962. This shows that the leaders of the DRC have struggled with the problem of internal divisions and decentralization for many years. The current Constitution, however, adds two important new elements. First, decentralization will give more resources to the provinces than has been the case in the past. For example, each province will keep – not have reimbursed to them as was the case before – 40% of revenue it generates internally. Second, within a three-year period, the 11 provinces are mandated to be re-divided into 26. The boundaries of these 26 provinces will follow current administrative divisions mainly employing “districts” to form new provinces there where such modifications have not already been put in place (e.g. the long established transformation of Kivu into three provinces – North Kivu, South Kivu and Maniema – are maintained and not further subdivided. En ligne : http://www.cic.nyu.edu/peace_ssr/docs/Issue%20Paper%20No.%201%20-%20Decentraliza [...] Decentralization and the DRC - An Overview [document électronique] / Herbert F. Weiss, Auteur ; Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Auteur . - Center on International Cooperation, [s.d.] . - 10 p. - (Issue Paper; No. 1) .
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés : décentralisation/gouvernance Résumé : The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has had a long and varied experience with different forms of decentralization. For a country the size of Western Europe with a population of about sixty million people with internal boundaries designed by Belgian colonial administrators, this should not be surprising. The DRC is above all else a multi-ethnic society, but over the years two new identities have emerged; first, a strong sense of state identity and, second, a growing sense of provincial identity. In other words, whereas years ago a Mukongo in western DRC would have felt that identity to be not only primary but probably exclusive of others, today he/she would also identify as a Congolese from Bas Congo Province. The 2006 Constitution of the DRC has maintained the subdivision of the country into 11 provinces inherited from the Mobutu regime. Prior to that the DRC first adopted a 6 province structure in turn inherited from Belgian colonial rule in 1960 and then transformed that into a 21 province structure in 1962. This shows that the leaders of the DRC have struggled with the problem of internal divisions and decentralization for many years. The current Constitution, however, adds two important new elements. First, decentralization will give more resources to the provinces than has been the case in the past. For example, each province will keep – not have reimbursed to them as was the case before – 40% of revenue it generates internally. Second, within a three-year period, the 11 provinces are mandated to be re-divided into 26. The boundaries of these 26 provinces will follow current administrative divisions mainly employing “districts” to form new provinces there where such modifications have not already been put in place (e.g. the long established transformation of Kivu into three provinces – North Kivu, South Kivu and Maniema – are maintained and not further subdivided. En ligne : http://www.cic.nyu.edu/peace_ssr/docs/Issue%20Paper%20No.%201%20-%20Decentraliza [...] Exemplaires (1)
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