Urgent local government problems in Africa

Abstract

It is understood that this Second Conference on Urgent Administrative Problems of African Governments is intended, inter alia, to enable, through its deliberations and recommendations, a report to be submitted to the IX Session of the Economic Commission for Africa which will form the basis for a resolution to be adopted shaping the Commission's programme in the field of Public Administration for same time to came. This background paper is intended to provide a means of introducing the present day problems of local government to the Conference and suggest now the Economic Commission for Africa can assist in salving them.