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opened up for a greater proportional representation <strong>of</strong> civil society<br />
groups working as local administrators <strong>and</strong> in local councils.<br />
Research findings:<br />
1. Assuming local administrator’s position under the stipulation that<br />
local administrators must be directly elected by the people bestows<br />
strength <strong>and</strong> stability upon local administration <strong>and</strong> uplifts political<br />
leadership <strong>of</strong> local administrators. However, in local government’s<br />
executive boards, a very small proportion <strong>of</strong> women’s representation in<br />
the position <strong>of</strong> vice president appointed by local administrators is<br />
observed.<br />
2. Local administrative organization is a system <strong>of</strong> separation <strong>of</strong><br />
powers between local government <strong>and</strong> local council but the local<br />
administrative organization law does not prescribe a checks <strong>and</strong> balances<br />
mechanism for local council. Consequently, local councils have been<br />
weakened <strong>and</strong> could not perform oversight functions to examine local<br />
government’s exercise <strong>of</strong> power.<br />
3. Regarding local council’s functions, the only principal role <strong>of</strong><br />
local council is to enact expenditure budget ordinance <strong>of</strong> local<br />
administrative organization. It is observed that there are very few<br />
enactments <strong>of</strong> other local ordinances to control <strong>and</strong> regulate the<br />
provision <strong>of</strong> public services <strong>of</strong> local administrative organization.<br />
4. Even though local government has more dominant administrative<br />
roles over local council but local government’s exercise <strong>of</strong> power in the<br />
provision <strong>of</strong> public services is restricted under the frameworks prescribed<br />
by central authorities. The central authorities require that the<br />
administration <strong>of</strong> local government be scrutinized under a participation<br />
process engaged by other organizations within local administrative<br />
organization’s territory as follows:<br />
4.1 The development process <strong>of</strong> annual expenditure budget<br />
ordinance <strong>of</strong> local administrative organization requires<br />
formulation <strong>of</strong> a local development plan that has passed<br />
through development processes <strong>of</strong> development plans at