GOLD I Report

Decentralization and local democracy in the world”, the first Global Report on Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD I), was published in 2008.

The report provides a snapshot of the state of local democracy and decentralization in the mid-2000s, against which future advances and setback can be measured.

GOLD I argues that the world is undergoing a quiet democratic revolution, with local democracy gaining momentum from the highlands of Latin America to the barangay in the Philippines.

It analyzes local authorities in each continent under three main themes:(i) the evolution of territorial structures; (ii) responsibilities and power, management and finances; and (iii) local democracy.

An additional chapter is dedicated to the governance of large metropolises, where rapid growth presents major challenges, in particular in the fast developing countries of the global South.

Chapter 4. Commoning
PDF icon #01 "Participatory neighborhood improvement programs: a way par excellence to promote greater urban and territorial equity from the bottom. Zooming onto Latin-American inspirational experience", by IRDPDF icon #02 "Experiences in informal settlement upgrading: Zimbabwe & Namibia", by SDIPDF icon #03 "Slum Upgrading in Latin America", by GPR2CPDF icon #04 "Una lucha por el hábitat, la dignidad y la igualdad", by Madre Tierra, FOTIVBA, HIC PDF icon #05 "Low-income housing finance from commercial banks in Nepal", by ACHRPDF icon #06 "Developing pathways to urban sanitation equality – a case study of the simplified sewerage solution in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania", by CCIPDF icon #07 "Cities for the Right to Housing: The role of rights-inspired local action in addressing the housing crisis in the COVID-19 era", by UCLG CSIPDHRPDF icon #08 "The Community Land Trusts movement in Europe: implementing public-civic partnerships in the production of affordable housing", by FMDVPDF icon #09 "Formalising land tenure without displacement: the Community Land Trust in informal urban contexts", by urbaMonde, CoHabitat NetworkPDF icon #10 "The Right to Remain in Place", by GPR2CPDF icon #11 "Commoning for land and housing in Yangon", by ACHRPDF icon #12 "Urban commons and urban commoning: political-legal practices from Naples, Bologna, and Turin", by the University of Salerno - Department of Political Science and CommunicationPDF icon #13 "Cultural Occupations: Common Spaces. A report on the Occupation Bloc’s construction within the Municipal Secretariat of Culture in São Paulo", by São Paulo's Cultural Movement of the Peripheries, Occupations' Bloc