THE ROLES AND CHALLENGES OF DECENTRALIZATION IN BUILDING DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE: THE CASE OF AMBO TOWN.

Abstract

Today most countries in the world are recommended to reorganize their government structure to been the decentralization. But it is not effective due to different challenges such as lack of awareness about concept of political decentralization. The financial constraints and corruption (power) concentration. This study aims to identify the roles, and challenges of decentralization in building democratic governance. To investigate the problems, the study settles a specific objective of identify lack of awareness about decentralization in building democratic governance and roles, and challenges of decentralization to investigate the problem. The study used purposive sampling based on the subjective judgment of the researcher. To collect the data, the study used primary and secondary data. To analyses the data, the study used descriptive research. The study found that the level of decentralization in building democratic governance implementation is low due to lack of effective implementation decentralization and corruption officials [power} concentration. The recommends are that in order to improve the decentralization. Government and peoples should work together or hand to hand by practiced decentralization in building democratic governance