الحوكمة المحلية : كمدخل لإدارة العمل التنموي المحلي : دراسة نظرية بالإشارة للحالة المصرية

Abstract EN

The study endorses local governance as an approach for managing local development by focusing on the various dimensions of the theoretical relationship between the two concepts highlighting the Egyptian case.

The paper is divided into four main sections: the first section reviews the concept of local governance, its development and the reasons behind it.

The second section highlights the evolution of the concepts of managing local development activities.

As for the third section, it relates to analyzing the dimensions of the theoretical relationship between the concepts of local governance and local development by focusing on the political, economic, social, and administrative dimensions of that relationship.

Finally, the fourth section analyzes and studies local governance as an approach for local development activities in Egypt.

The study, using the analytical method and the case study method, reached several important conclusions, the most important of which can be clarified as follows: The concept of local governance is one of the local activities management concepts that are closely related to the development.

Moreover, the concept of local governance was able to resolve the conflicts and intellectual confrontations that dominated the literature of development throughout diverse historical periods.

Since it highlighted the three pillars of local development processes embodied in: decentralization, democracy, and market ideology.

Egypt is legislatively close to the thought of local governance, and in practice it is away from that thought, and this situation has many consequences.

Among these consequences, the control of the central formal part over the informal.

part of local development processes, in light of the lack of efficiency and effectiveness of local development institutions, and the shallowness of the accountability and participation mechanisms which are needed for the proper application of local governance thought.

The study recommends working to bridge the gap between legislation and practices in Egypt as a guarantee for applying the elements of local governance in managing local development activities