Democratic Decentralisation and Promotion of Accountability in Urban Development in Bangladesh: A Study on KCC, KDA and Jessore Municipality

This study is the first attempt to analyse the upward and downward accountability issues of urban development practices in Bangladesh. The urban development practices include service delivery, plan preparation and plan implementation. This study explores whether different organisational arrangement produces different outcomes in respect of promoting accountability issues in urban development practices. In this context this study was conducted on Khulna City Corporation and Jessore Municipality, where these two organisations are of the same form of organisational arrangement of decentralisation (devolution). However, the context varies as the form is different as Jessore is a municipality and Khulna are a city corporation. In addition, analysing the accountability issues of Khulna Development Authority provides another lens in this study as this organisation represents the organisational form of delegation. Therefore, this research is significant to identify which form of organisational arrangement is more functional to promote accountability issues in urban development practices of Bangladesh.  

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