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Lokniti on Participatory Local Governance in Asia (Full Document)

Bangladesh: Shallow, hollow reform

Cambodia: Starting up the engines of reform

China: Some reform is local

India: Carrying on Gandhi’s legacy

Indonesia: Still waiting for reform

Nepal: Hold your breath

Pakistan: In the General’s shadow

Philippines: Reform in the land of People Power

Sri Lanka: Seeking change in the midst of war

Thailand: Reform still waiting in the wings

Vietnam: Waking up to reform

Lokniti Participation Local Governance

Jul 8, 2010

    LOKNITI – “Lok Niti” and “Raj Niti” are terms coined from the Sanskrit by Mahatma Gandhi. Lok Niti signifies people’s politics, the people in command and direct governance by the sovereign people, as opposed to Raj Niti, the politics of the nation state or indirect rule by a centralized government leadership based on current “democratic” forms of party and representative political institutions. The concept of Lok Niti was the political basis of Gandhi’s socio-economic “Constructive Programme,” which is now known in India as Sarvodaya. An increasing number of us who are associated with the Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC) feel that we have begun to find our bearings in the tangled terrain of “development” through commitment to the “gentle anarchism” of Mahatma Gandhi – a body of principles for both personal and social transformation through work in support of decentralized, village community oriented, rural development, guided by the ideals of satyagraha and non-violence and harmonization with both nature and tradition. Lok Niti as the journal of the Asian NGO Coalition is a very tentative beginning in the Asian NGO network.

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    ANGOC
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    Journal
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    ANGOC
    Publish Date
    2006
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    ANGOC
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    ANGOC
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    2006
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    Lokniti on Participatory Local Governance in Asia (Full Document)

    Bangladesh: Shallow, hollow reform

    Cambodia: Starting up the engines of reform

    China: Some reform is local

    India: Carrying on Gandhi’s legacy

    Indonesia: Still waiting for reform

    Nepal: Hold your breath

    Pakistan: In the General’s shadow

    Philippines: Reform in the land of People Power

    Sri Lanka: Seeking change in the midst of war

    Thailand: Reform still waiting in the wings

    Vietnam: Waking up to reform

    Founded in 1979, ANGOC is a regional association of national and regional networks of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Asia, actively engaged in food security, agrarian reform, sustainable agriculture, participatory governance, and rural development.

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