The region grew rapidly following the of female-headed households in the south-central part opening of the road from Cochabamba to Santa Cruz of the southern zone live below the national poverty and the consolidation of La Cancha market in 1950. [...] Research undertaken by the Centre for Planning Meanwhile, the 1952 revolution and subsequent 1954 and Management in Bolivia (Ledo 2009: 69) found Urban Reform Act led to the disbanding of the hacienda that among direct migrants in the city of Cochabamba, system and the redistribution of land, whereby large more than 50 per cent of the men and two thirds of the parts were transformed for urban use. [...] to contest and destabilise the weak institutions of As the coordinating body, the council’s role is to channel decentralisation in the region, but also how formal the interests or demands of the urban communities communities are unwilling to make space for new or to the authorities in the municipal government. [...] This reflects the fact that the councils have to align themselves with the government The council recognises the steering committees of the – in the words of one leader, ‘if you’re not with the neighbourhood councils and OTBs and coordinates government you get nothing’. [...] Although the communities own the data, they local authorities have failed to formalise and continue to have been working openly with the local authorities exclude almost half of the communities in District 8 from around the questions and format of the profiles and to basic services and state resources.
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