Texts and Publications by Rainer Rohdewohld


Public Sector Reform

Organizational Diagnosis and Development of the Local Government, Elections and Rural Development Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.Observations and Recommendations. Final Report May 2016.
Support to Good Governance Programme (SGGP)/Result Area Local Government (GIZ). Islamabad..

Commentary: "Vision, Mission and Organisational Profile of the Government Bureaucracy in the 21st Century" (CiptaNet Occasional Paper 2/1998).

Political and Administrative Reforms in Indonesia: New Perspectives for the 1990s?, in: Internationales Asienforum (International Quarterly for Asian Studies), Vol. 28 (1997) No. 2-3, pp. 195-209.

Government Reforms in Developing Countries: The case of Indonesia; in: The Indian Journal of Public Administration Vol. XLIII (1997) No. 2, pp. 181-208.

Management Training in Indonesian Public Enterprises - Concepts and Approaches; in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (Liege) Vol. 67 (1996) 2, pp. 165-192. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8292.1996.tb01801.x/abstract)

Deregulating the Public Sector. Privatisation and Commercialisation in Nigeria. in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Vol 64 (1993) No. 4, pp 641-652.
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8292.1993.tb01497.x/abstract)

Schwachstellen und Ansatzpunkte der Reform öffentlicher Unternehmen in Entwicklungsländern (The Reform of Public Enterprises in Developing Countries); in: Zeitschrift für öffentliche und gemeinnützige Unternehmen (Beiheft 13), Baden-Baden (1990).


Decentralization and Local Governance

Three-Wheelers Don’t Fly. Design Issues for the Architecture of Local Government Systems in Pakistan. in: Haroon, U.T., Niazi, I., and Aneel, S.S. (eds.) 2023. Beyond the Pandemic: Leaving No One Behind. Islamabad and Lahore: Sustainable Development Policy Institute and Sang-e-Meel Publications. pp. 121-134 (Anthology from the 24th Sustainable Development Conference (SDC) of SDPI, December 2021, Islamabad, Pakistan).

Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific.
Co-Editor with Bruno Carassco and Hanif Rahemtulla. London & New York: Routledge and Asian Development Bank.

Critique of the functional assignment architecture of Punjab’s local governance legislation of 2013 & 2019 (together with Moazzam Janjua). Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Issue 22: 2019

The New Local Government System in Punjab - Summary and Assessment
(together with Moazzam Janjua). GIZ Support to Local Governance Programme (LoGo). Islamabad (August 2019)

Localizing Global Agendas in Multilevel Governance Systems.
The Benefits of Functional Assignment as Core Element of Decentralization Reforms. Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila/Philippines (Governance Brief 30; May 2017)

Emerging Practices in Intergovernmental Functional Assignment
(together with Gabe Ferrazzi), London/New York: Routledge 2017

Localizing Global Agendas.
Report on the Joint Learning Event of the ADB Governance Thematic Group and the Development Partners Network on Decentralization and Local Governance (DeLoG). Manila/Philippines. September 2016


Local Governance Assessment Tool
. UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub (July 2016)

The Functional Assignment Architecture. Health Sector Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Health Sector Prigramm Support Programme (GIZ), Islamabad (2015).

Functional Assignment in the Elementary and Secondary Education Sector, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
(Pakistan) (Final Report). Support to Good Governance Programme, GIZ. Islamabad. December 2015)

Proceedings. External Support for Decentralization Reforms and Local Governance Systems in the Asia Pacific: Better Performance, Higher Impact?
Regional Learning Event, Manila, 25-27 August 2015. Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Development Partners Network on Local Governance & Decentralisation (DeLoG).

Basic Concepts in Functional Assignment.
Workshop Report 2‐4 September 2015, Bangkok. Local Governance Initiative and Network (LOGIN).

"Decentralisation Reloaded" - Der neue Beratungsansatz der GIZ im Themenfeld Föderalismus, Dezentralisierung und Lokale Selbstverwaltung. Ein Werkstattbericht. in: Laure Ognois (Hrsg.), Grenzüberschreitende Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Tagung des Arbeitskreises Entwicklung und Verwaltung (AKEV) 18.-20. April 2013 an der Deutschen Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaft Speyer, Speyer 2014 (Speyerer Arbeitshefte Nr. 212, Januar 2014).

GTZ Sector Network Governance Asia (2009); Functional Assignment in Multi-Level Government (Volume I: Conceptual Foundation of Functional Assignment)

GTZ Sector Network Governance Asia (2009), Functional Assignment in Multi-Level Government (Volume II: GTZ-supported Application of Functional Assignment
)


Proceedings of the Exploratory Workshop on Activity Mapping and Functional Assignment in Himachal Pradesh, December 2007 (PRI Report 2008-1)

Comparative Analysis of Activity Mapping in Himachal Pradesh (India) (Gabe Ferrazzi & Rainer Rohdewohld), March 2008 (PRI Report 2008-2)

Managing Decentralization: Interministerial Bodies, Policy Coordination, and the Role of Development Aid Agencies; ADB Governance Brief, Issue 15 (2006).

Current Donor Support to Decentralization and Deconcentration – A Mapping Exercise (Cambodia, April 2006). (prepared for the Royal Government of Cambodia in the context of the Independent Study of Donor Support for Decentralization and Deconcentration)

Contributing to Democratic Development – Options for Future Donor Support to Decentralization and Deconcentration (together with Douglas Porter) (Cambodia, April 2006). (Final Report of the Independent Study of Donor Support for Decentralization and Deconcentration, prepared for the Royal Government of Cambodia)

Decentralization and the Indonesian Bureaucracy: Major Changes, Minor Impact?, in: E. Aspinall/G. Fealy (eds.), Local Power and Politics in Indonesia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003. (see: https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/265)


Decentralization in Indonesia – The Framework for Local Governance. A Discussion Paper (May 2000)

Fiscal Decentralization in the Agricultural Sector (Indonesia, SfDM/GTZ, August 1998)

Indonesian Local Government Organizational Reform: Learning from International Experience (together with Gabe Ferazzi) (Indonesia, SfDM/GTZ, March 1999)



Capacity Building/Capacity Development

Guidelines on Capacity Building in the Regions (Version 2.0) (February 2005, together with Dr. Manfred Poppe)
Implementing Capacity Building Needs Assessments (CBNA) for Regional Government. Observations from the East Kalimantan Pilot Exercise 2004 (April 2005)

Capacity Building to Support Decentralization - The Case of Indonesia (1999 - 2004) (Paper prepared for the Tokyo International Symposium on Capacity Development, February 2004)

National Framework for Capacity Building to Support Decentralization (Indonesia), November 2002

Implementation Report of the Capacity Building Needs Assessment for Local Governments and Legislatures (CBNA) (October 2000)

Capacity Building for Local Governance - A Framework for Government Action and Donor Support (Final Report of the Capacity Building Needs Assessment for Local Governments and Legislatures) (Indonesia, GTZ/USAID, January 2001)


Capacity Building Needs Assessment for Local Governments in Indonesia; in: CapacityOrg, Issue No. 8 (Jan. 2001)



Country Studies


Public Administration in Indonesia; Melbourne: Montech Pty (for the Graduate School of Government, Monash University) 1995.


Indonesian Administrative Tradition; in: International Encyclopaedia of Public Policy and Administration (IEPP), ed. by Jay M. Shafritz, Boulder (Col.): Westview Press 1997.

Verwaltungspapier Indonesien; published by the Deutsche Stiftung für internationale Entwicklung (German Foundation for International Development) (DSE), Bad Honnef, 1997

Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit autoritären Regimen – Das Beispiel Indonesien (Development Cooperation with Authoritarian Regimes – the Example of Indonesia); in: Regina Frey, Wolfgang S. Heinz (Eds.), Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit autoritären Regimen? Entwicklungspolitik auf schmalem Grat; Berlin 1999 (Society for International Development – Berlin Chapter, SID Berichte No. 10). (http://www.sid-berlin.de/files/SID-Band10_EZ_mit_autorit_regimen.pdf)

Indonesia; in: Encyclopaedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (edited by Jack Rabin), New York: Marc Dekker, 2004.


Länderkapital Bhutan; in: Wirtschaftshandbuch Asien-Pazifik 2018/2019, Hamburg 2018 (German Asia-Pacific Business Association/OAV)  

Länderkapitel Kambodscha; in: Wirtschaftshandbuch Asien-Pazifik 2015/2016, Hamburg 2016 (German Asia-Pacific Business Association/OAV)  





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