Texts Links Rainer Rohdwohld

Selection of Reports and Publications (2025)

Public Sector Reform

Organizational Diagnosis and Development of the Local Government, Elections and Rural Development Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Observations and Recommendations. Final Report. May 2016. Support to Good Governance Programme (SGGP)/Result Area Local Government (GIZ). Islamabad.

Vision, Mission and Organisational Profile of the Government Bureaucracy in the 21st Century (CiptaNet Occasional Paper 2/1998; Rainer Rohdewohld).

Political and Administrative Reforms in Indonesia: New Perspectives for the 1990s?, in: Internationales Asienforum (International Quarterly for Asian Studies), Vol. 28 (1997) No. 2-3, pp. 195-209.

Government Reforms in Developing Countries: The Case of Indonesia; in: The Indian Journal of Public Administration Vol. XLIII (1997) No. 2, pp. 181-208.

Management Training in Indonesian Public Enterprises - Concepts and Approaches; in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (Liege) Vol. 67 (1996) 2, pp. 165-192. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8292.1996.tb01801.x/abstract)

Deregulating the Public Sector. Privatisation and Commercialisation in Nigeria. in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Vol 64 (1993) No. 4, pp 641-652.
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8292.1993.tb01497.x/abstract)

Schwachstellen und Ansatzpunkte der Reform öffentlicher Unternehmen in Entwicklungsländern (The Reform of Public Enterprises in Developing Countries); in: Zeitschrift für öffentliche und gemeinnützige Unternehmen (Beiheft 13), Baden-Baden (1991).

Decentralization and Local Governance

Three-Wheelers Don’t Fly: Design Issues for the Architecture of Local Government Systems in Pakistan. in: U. T. Haroon, I. Niazi, S. S. Aneel (eds.). Beyond the Pandemic: Leaving No One Behind. Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications 2023, pp. 121-134.

Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing SDGs in Asia and the Pacific. 2023. Co-edited with Bruno Carrasco and Hanif A. Rahemtulla. London/New York: Routledge (Routledge Series in Sustainable Development). (Open Access). (Authored chapters include: Chapter 1: Political and Administrative Decentralization in Asia and the Pacific; Chapter 4: Sector Decentralization and Functional Assignment in Asia and the Pacific; Chapter 6: Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific; and country chapters on Cambodia, Nepal, and Pakistan).

Critique of the functional assignment architecture of Punjab’s local governance legislation of 2013 & 2019 (together with Moazzam Janjua). Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Issue 22: 2019

The New Local Government System in Punjab – Summary and Assessment. (together with Moazzam Janjua). GIZ Support to Local Governance Programme (LoGo). Islamabad (August 2019)

Localizing Global Agendas in Multilevel Governance Systems. The Benefits of Functional Assignment as Core Element of Decentralization Reforms. Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila/Philippines (Governance Brief 30; May 2017)

Emerging Practices in Intergovernmental Functional Assignment (together with Gabe Ferrazzi), London/New York: Routledge 2017 (Open Access)

Localizing Global Agendas. Report on the Joint Learning Event of the ADB Governance Thematic Group and the Development Partners Network on Decentralization and Local Governance (DeLoG). Manila/Philippines. September 2016

Local Governance Assessment Tool. UNDP Bangok Regional Hub. July 2016

The Functional Assignment Architecture . Health Sector Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Health Sector Support Programme (GIZ). December 2015. Islamabad.

Functional Assignment In the Elementary and Secondary Education Sector, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) (Final Report). Support to Good Governance Programme (GIZ). December 2015. Islamabad.

Proceedings. External Support for Decentralization Reforms and Local Governance Systems in the Asia Pacific: Better Performance, Higher Impact? Regional Learning Event, Manila, 25-27 August 2015. Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Development Partners Network on Local Governance & Decentralisation (DeLoG).

Basic Concepts in Functional Assignment. Workshop Report 2‐4 September 2015, Bangkok. Local Governance Initiative and Network (LOGIN).

Functional Assignment in Multi-Level Government (Volume I: Conceptual Foundation of Functional Assignment). GTZ Sector Network Governance Asia. Eschborn 2009.

Functional Assignment in Multi-Level Government (Volume II: GTZ-supported Application of Functional Assignment.) GTZ Sector Network Governance Asia. Eschborn 2009.

Managing Decentralization: Interministerial Bodies, Policy Coordination, and the Role of Development Aid Agencies. ADB Governance Brief, Issue 15. Manila 2006.

Contributing to Democratic Development – Options for Future Donor Support to Decentralization and Deconcentration (together with Douglas Porter) (Cambodia, April 2006). (Final Report of the Independent Study of Donor Support for Decentralization and Deconcentration, prepared for the Royal Government of Cambodia)

Decentralization and the Indonesian Bureaucracy: Major Changes, Minor Impact?, in: E. Aspinall/G. Fealy (eds.), Local Power and Politics in Indonesia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003. (see: https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/265)

Capacity Building/Capacity Development

Governance, Development Planning, and Private Sector Strengthening. Capacity Development Needs in Mindanao and the Bangsamoro. Asian Development Bank (ADB), Philippine Country Office. December 2015.

Guidelines on Capacity Building in the Regions (Version 2.0) (GTZ) (February 2005, together with Dr. Manfred Poppe)

Module A: The Capacity Building Cycle - From Capacity Building Needs Assessment (CBNA) Towards the Capacity Building Action Plan (CBAP)

Module B: Methods and Instrument for the Capacity Building Cycle (“Toolkit”)

Module C: Supplementary Information and References

Capacity Building to Support Decentralization - The Case of Indonesia (1999 - 2004) (Paper prepared for the Tokyo International Symposium on Capacity Development, February 2004)

National Framework for Capacity Building to Support Decentralization (Government of Indonesia), November 2002

Capacity Building Needs Assessment for Local Governments in Indonesia; in: CapacityOrg, Issue No. 8 (Jan. 2001)

Country Studies

Verwaltungspapier Indonesien. Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (DSE), Zentralstelle für Auslandskunde (ZA). Bod Honnef. 1997

Public Administration in Indonesia; Melbourne: Montech Pty (for the Graduate School of Government, Monash University) 1995.

Indonesian Administrative Tradition; in: International Encyclopaedia of Public Policy and Administration (IEPP), ed. by Jay M. Shafritz, Boulder (Col.): Westview Press 1997.

Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit autoritären Regimen – Das Beispiel Indonesien (Development Cooperation with Authoritarian Regimes – the Example of Indonesia); in: Regina Frey, Wolfgang S. Heinz (Eds.), Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit autoritären Regimen? Entwicklungspolitik auf schmalem Grat; Berlin 1999 (Society for International Development – Berlin Chapter, SID Berichte No. 10). (http://www.sid-berlin.de/files/SID-Band10_EZ_mit_autorit_regimen.pdf)

Indonesia; in: Encyclopaedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (edited by Jack Rabin), New York: Marc Dekker, 2004.

Decentralization Reforms and Development Cooperation – Reflections on the Results of German Technical Cooperation Supporting Decentralization Reforms in Indonesia (1992 – 2010) (together with Gabe Ferrazi) (Paper presented at the Conference on Decentralization and Democratization in Southeast Asia - with a Special Section on 10 Years of Decentralization in Indonesia), Freiburg University, 15-17 June 2011).

Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing SDGs in Cambodia. 2023.

Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing SDGs in Nepal. 2023.

Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing SDGs in Pakistan. 2023.

Private Sector Cooperation

Länderkapital Bhutan; in: Wirtschaftshandbuch Asien-Pazifik 2018/2019, Hamburg 2018 (German Asia-Pacific Business Association/OAV)

Länderkapitel Kambodscha; in: Wirtschaftshandbuch Asien-Pazifik 2015/2016, Hamburg 2016 (German Asia-Pacific Business Association/OAV)

OAV (2015): ASEAN Positionspapier (dt)/ ASEAN Positionpaper (en), Hamburg

Den Fachkräftebedarf sichern; in: Insight Asia-Pacific (Hamburg), 2013.

Was bedeutet die ASEAN Economic Community für deutsche Unternehmen?; in: Insight Asia-Pacific (Hamburg), 2014

Entwicklungspartnerschaften mit der Wirtschaft; in: Insight Asia-Pacific (Hamburg), 2015