The primary purpose of this paper is to investigate non-state actors (NSAs) powers and roles in local development in light of urban power theories. In this article, the researchers employed both primary and secondary data that were qualitative in nature. Secondary data produced from constitutions, proclamations, regulations, policy declarations, and journals, while primary data produced from interviews, focus groups and key informant interviews. In the context of urban power theories, this study investigates the impact of non-state actors' power on local development. The findings of this article reveal that, the government dominated decision-making about local development. The result of this research provided insight on the government's hegemony over NSAs’ when it comes to collaborative development decisions. Insufficient NSAs’ engagement in development decision-making would have impeded collaborative development in the case study ULGs’. NSAs’ contribution to improving effective development management at the local level, as well as the production of resources for local development, would be impeded if true NSAs’ engagement was not improved. As a result, the role of NSAs’ engagement in bridging the ULGs’ gap in local service supply was impeded. Inadequate NSAs’ engagement in local development decision-making would increase the NSAs’ predisposition to be a passive receiver of development benefits rather than owner of development. At the end the study shows that, to maximize the effectiveness of NSAs’ engagement, the NSAs’ must be fully included in the decision-making process addressing local development. Extending the involvement of NSAs’ in development beyond the passive delivery of local public goods is essential. It is critical to link project-level action to a broader policy-making agenda, allowing the NSAs’ to wrestle with and reverse a set of policy priorities.
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Mengistu Gutema Kebede, Solomon Negussie. (2022). Non-state Actors in Urban Governance of Ethiopia: Examining Non-state Actors’ Powers and Roles in Local Development. Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 5(2), 69-78. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jpsir.20220502.16
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