TY - BOOK AU - C. Gaudioso. TI - Improving urban management through local government capicity building U1 - 352.0080973 PY - 1999/// CY - Thailand PB - Urban management programme KW - Nathaniel KW - Occasional KW - UMP N1 - Introduction 1.1 Capacity building as the primary objective 1.2 The need for local government capacity building The need for local government capacity building 1.3 Capacity as a central element of governance 1.4 Capacity building as a process Developing Local Government Capacity 2.1 The concept of Performance and Capacity 2.2 Defining Local Government Capacity 2.3 Assessing local government capacity Developing Local Capacity Indicators 3.1 The nature of local capacity indicators 3.2 The need to develop indicators locally Building Local Government Capacity Through Goal-Oriented Project Planning 4.1 Goal-oriented project planning (GOPP) 4.2 Objective of GOPP 4.3 Basic features of GOPP 4.4 Basic operational steps of GOPP 4.5 Facilitating local government capacity building through GOPP ER -