Review Article

The World Bank and the Building of Local Institutionality in Senegal: A Path toward Municipal Adjustment

Table 2

The building process of the new local institutionality in Senegal.

Priority typeActors on the sceneGrafting
Project objective Operative transfersGovernance

(1)Public institutions Self-construction, self-financing, accessibility, infrastructure, and urban services Operational mechanisms (i) Deresponsibilization
(ii) Local management of poverty

(2)(i) Municipalities
(ii) Public and private sectors
Economic performance, operational effectiveness, and management of municipal resources (i) Administration, management
(ii) Induction and experimentation of institutional development
(i) Destatization/municipalization
(ii) Socioeconomic development
(iii) Privatization
(iv) Civil society
(v) Communitarianism

(3)(i) Institutions and territorialized structures
(ii) Civil actors and enterprises
(i) Individual competences, intensive work, manual of procedures and delegation, local enterprises, and coordination
(ii) Privatization of municipal management
(iii) Use of local artisanal labour and the local and private entrepreneurship
(i) Territorial entities’ prerogatives
(ii) Uniformization-harmonization
(iii) Networking
(iv) Appropriation
(v) Incorporation
(i) Destatization/municipalization
(ii) Sustainability
(iii) Intermediation
(iv) Interactivity
(v) Local self-management

(4)Institutions and territorialized structures(i) Deconcentration
(ii) Local responsibilization
(i) Systems of actors and/or intra- and extraterritorial actions
(ii) Autonomization
(iii) Local responsibilization
(i) Destatization/municipalization
(ii) Local governance

(5)(i) Municipalities
(ii) Private enterprises
(i) Centralization at the local scale
(ii) Public, state-controlled management
(i) Territorialization of actors’ systems
(ii) Interaction
(iii) Asymmetric reconfiguration
(i) Administrative decentralization
(ii) Privatization of the operationalization of development strategies
(iii) Delegation of certain powers to local actors
(iv) Civil and community participation
(v) Vertical, horizontal, and international cooperation of protagonists