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Organisational Review of The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS)
This study is an organisational review focusing on KS' ability and capacity to deliver results in line with the objectives that are based on Norwegian developmental policies. The cooperation between Norad and KS is centred on Municipal International Cooperation (MIC). The primary objective according to the Review's Terms of Reference (ToR) is to assess KS' capacity to manage the programme and the association's general competence in carrying out democratisation projects in the South. The review also considers KS' ability to adapt and revise working methods, and recent amendments are accounted for even if results of the changes have not yet been registered. The review does not focus on results as such. Neither does it focus on the involved actors' individual performance, but rather KS' administrative and professional capacities to deliver. Whether KS is able to deliver is contingent upon MIC as a practicable, viable programme. The review has looked into the MIC programme theory and the realism of the assumption it is based on. This review also provides recommendations on how Norad and KS can follow-up the findings. The report has been written with the ambition to be of concrete use for a possible further development of Norway's support to local democracy in the South.