This Practitioner’s Guide to Designing Inclusive and Accountable Local Democratic Institutions is the first of its kind to provide an overview of the current range of local representative arrangements and electoral systems in Asia and the Pacific. This easy-to-use guide will assist Country Offices/Teams and government partners as programmes are shaped to make local decision-making processes more inclusive and accountable to all citizens.

This Guide has three basic objectives:

● To summarize findings about local government (LG) electoral processes and representation arrangements in a range of countries in Asia and the Pacific

● To highlight, on a thematic basis, key issues related to representation and electoral processes at the local level, in terms of tradeoffs, incentives and implications

● To put forward hypotheses on ways forward in further developing electoral representation at sub-national levels