An International Webinar on Rethinking the Role of Local Governments in a Post Covid-19 World

Central University of Kerala and Centre for
Rural Management (CRM) propose to organize a webinar on rethinking
decentralization in the post-covid-19 era. The following are the suggested
themes for exploration. We welcome contributions on these themes or related
ones from across the world.
1. Ideas on and models of decentralization
2. Covid-19 and the regulatory framework/functional domain of local
governments
3. The role of subsidiarity in assigning health-related roles to local
governments
4. Local governments in federal and unitary systems
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5. Recentralization during Covid-19 and their positive and negative effects
6. Issues relating to the efficacy of different types of executive –directly
elected vs Mayor-in Council models in crisis management
7. Local government capacitation for more effective functioning in crises
8. Issues of coordination among different levels of government including
multi-tiered local governments
9. Areas of reform of the local government in the light of Covid-19
10. Gender of leaders and performance of local governments
11. Models of co-production at the local level
12. Stimulus packages and local governments
13. Experiences from Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas, Oceania and postcommunist
states
14. Experiences from different states in India
15. Similarities between local government response to pandemics and disasters
16. Epidemics, planning and cities
17. Synchronisation between institutions of local solidarity economy and local
government
18. Local democracy and elections during pandemics
19. Voluntarism and public participation at the local level
20. Local government experiences from Kerala