Design and Evolution in Institutional Development: The Insignificance of the English Bill of Rights

The article is devoted to the actual issue – institutional analysis of initiative budgeting and territorial public selfgovernment, as well as the possibility of their integration. Over the past few years, a system of civil participation in budget decisions has been built in Russia, the regulatory framework of practices has been created, thousands of employees of state and local government bodies have been trained, project centers have appeared for ensuring development of initiative budgeting. Citizen participation in budget decisions can significantly accelerate the development of the lower level of local government. Initiative budgeting is an innovative instrument of public finance and at the same time a social technology allowing for the real involvement of citizens in the issues of state and municipal governance. Initiative budgeting development programs make it possible to transfer financing of projects aimed at solving local issues with the participation of citizens onto a systemic basis. The results and materials of this study can serve a foundation for theoretical understanding of the institutional development of public finances at the regional and local levels. At the same time, this practical area that was intensively developing in recent years requires deep institutional analysis.

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The Relevance of Energy Service Contracts in the Budget Sphere

Light & Engineering ◽

10.33383/2018-096 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 64-68

Author(s):

George V. Boos ◽

Elena Yu. Matveeva

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Institutional Development ◽

The Public ◽

Debt Burden ◽

Comprehensive Plan ◽

Effective Implementation ◽

Service Contracts ◽

The Face ◽

Energy Service ◽

The Russian Federation

The problematic aspects related to the implementation of energy saving policy in the budget sphere are examined in the article. The factors hindering the mass and effective implementation of energysaving measures are highlighted in the article. Among these factors, there is the technical complexity of energysaving projects, the presence of innovative and investment risks, problems with the financial provision of costs in the face of increasing debt burden in most public budgets. The article concludes that in these circumstances only the energy service contract is a tool that allows implementing energysaving measures without the first participation of budgetary funds in financing and allows transferring the risks of making technically inefficient decisions directly to the investor. In the article, the authors substantiate the importance of the institutional development of energy services directly in the public sector and analyze the measures of the comprehensive plan to improve the energy efficiency of the economy of the Russian Federation aimed at expanding the scope of energy service contracts in the public sector.

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The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights under the 2010 Constitutional Dispensation

African Journal of International and Comparative Law ◽

10.3366/ajicl.2018.0228 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 205-226

Author(s):

Bonolo Ramadi Dinokopila ◽

Rhoda Igweta Murangiri

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Transitional Justice ◽

National Commission ◽

Bill Of Rights ◽

Institutional Perspective ◽

Post Conflict ◽

National Human ◽

The Status ◽

Protection Of Human Rights

This article examines the transformation of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and discusses the implications of such transformation on the promotion and protection of human rights in Kenya. The article is an exposition of the powers of the Commission and their importance to the realisation of the Bill of Rights under the 2010 Kenyan Constitution. This is done from a normative and institutional perspective with particular emphasis on the extent to which the UN Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles, 1993) have been complied with. The article highlights the role of national human rights commissions in transformative and/or transitional justice in post-conflict Kenya. It also explores the possible complementary relationship(s) between the KNCHR and other Article 59 Commissions for the better enforcement of the bill of rights.

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