<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">New WB Justice for the Poor publication<br><br><a href="http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2010/10/06/000333037_20101006004928/Rendered/PDF/569310WP0Artic1eady0for0publication.pdf" target="_blank">Articulations of Local Governance in Timor-Leste: Lessons for Local Development Under Decentralization</a></span></b></div>                     <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div>                     <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">In  pursuing a decentralization policy that sets out to devolve elements of  state authority to municipalities, the Government of Timor-Leste faces a  key challenge: how to combine different types of governance systems  that have legitimacy at local and state levels. In order to inform this  process, this policy note&nbsp;looks at how communities and local government  currently work together to plan and implement local development  initiatives. It attempts to answer the question "what steps might the  government of Timor-Leste take to amplify the voice of citizens in  development planning, and the responsiveness of the state to those  voices?</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">”</span></div>                     <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div>                     <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">The Policy note is available in </span><a href="http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2010/10/06/000333037_20101006004928/Rendered/PDF/569310WP0Artic1eady0for0publication.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">English</span></b></a>&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 10pt;">and </span><a href="http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2010/11/02/000333038_20101102232524/Rendered/PDF/569310TETUM0Bo1ons1Tetum1November12.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: smaller;">Tetum</span></b></a></div>                     <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div>                     <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">For more Justice for the Poor publications for Timor-Leste </span><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTLAWJUSTICE/EXTJUSFORPOOR/0,,contentMDK:21172707%7EmenuPK:3282963%7EpagePK:210058%7EpiPK:210062%7EtheSitePK:3282787,00.html#Timor-Leste" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font color="#0000ff">click here</font></span></b></a><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTLAWJUSTICE/EXTJUSFORPOOR/0,,contentMDK:21172707%7EmenuPK:3282963%7EpagePK:210058%7EpiPK:210062%7EtheSitePK:3282787,00.html#Timor-Leste"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">.</span></a></div><br><br>Dr Bu V.E. Wilson<br>T: Australia +61&nbsp; 0&nbsp; 407 087 086<br>T: Timor-Leste + 670 744 0011<br>E: buvewilson@gmail.com<br><br><br><br>