A prominent example of LSM in urban sub-Saharan Africa is the Urban Malaria Control Program (UMCP), Dar es Salaam, initiated by the City Council in collaboration with Ifakara Health Institute and overseas academic institutions [1-2]. In 2004, mosquito surveillance systems were established and after one year of intensive baseline data collection (2005-2006), operational larviciding with Bacillus...

Although low voter turnout in national elections has garnered considerable attention and concern, much lower turnout in municipal elections has often been largely ignored. Using a survey of cities in California, this article examines a series of institutional remedies to low turnout in mayoral and city council elections. Moving local elections to coincide with the dates of national elections wo...

Successful change in local government can only exist if we take into account both the complex machinery of public sector service delivery and also the values and beliefs inherent within those services. This unique organisational arrangement requires a distinctive approach to change; evident in the reinterpretation of change methods within the public sector. This argument transpires from a longi...

THE CITY OF COLOMBO , which has a resident population of little over half a million, and a total area of 3731 hectares, is administered by a Municipal Council. The collection and disposal of solid waste generated within the City is a function of the Municipal Council, and is carried out by its six district offices. The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) collects around 500 metric tons of solid was...

Effective smokefree outdoor policies (SFOP) can reduce the normalisation of smoking and aid quitting.1-3 In New Zealand (NZ), more than 90% of local government authorities have some ‘educational’ outdoor smokefree policies, but these are not enforceable by law.4 We used a case study of NZ’s capital city (Wellington) to explore the issues and options for progressing SFOP in pedestrian-dense urba...

City councils have not yet benefited as much from modern information systems as the other administrations. In the Cuparla project, members of the Stuttgart city councils were each equipped with a networked Notebook and a special information system – the Cuparla software was developed. This paper describes the software design , usage experiences and the organizational implementation process. The...

Online debate tools for participatory democracy and crowdsourcing legislation are limited by different factors. One of them arises when discussion of proposals reaches a large number of contributions and therefore citizens encounter difficulties in mapping the arguments that constitute the dialectical debate. To address this issue, we present a visualization tool that shows the discussion of an...

The writing of this research aims to (1) find out and analyze the implementation halal product guarantees for traditional food entrepreneurs by Indonesian Ulema Council in Bengkulu City, (2) obstacles (3) efforts overcome City. This used a descriptive approach data were gathered through primary, secondary, tertiary legal materials. results explained that City is begun with carrying online regis...

I PROPOSE to-night to describe certain works that have been undertaken by the City Council of Melbourne within the past five years, for the purpose of improving the sanitary state of the city, in the hope that the subject may be of some interest to the members of this Institute, affecting as it does the health and comfort of the citizens generally. I will first of all refer to the most expensiv...