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- Awortwi, N. (2010). The Past, Present, and Future of Decentralization in Africa: A Comparative Case Study of Local Government Development Trajectories of Ghana and Uganda. International Journal of Public Administration, 33(12), 620-634.
- Awortwi, N. (2010). Building new competences for government administrators and managers in an era of public sector reforms: the case of Mozambique. International Review of Administrative Sciences , 76(4), 723-748.
- Awortwi, N. (2007). The Dutch-Mozambican Capacity Building Project in Good Governance and Public Administration: A Study in North-South Collaboration to Improve Higher Education. African Journal of Public Administration and Management, XVIII(2), 36-50.
- Awortwi, N. & Vondee, J. (2007). Drifting Towards Convergence? Motivation and Performance Management in State and Private Companies in the Provision of Telecom Services in Ghana. Public Administration and Development, 27(4), 261-272.
- Awortwi, N. (2006). Technology and Institutional Arrangements in the Delivery of Public Sanitation and Solid Waste Services in Ghanaian Cities. International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 5(3), 221-239.
- Awortwi, N. (2004). Managing Multiple Modalities of Delivering Basic Services in Ghanaian Cities. African Development, 3&4, 76-84.
- Awortwi, N. (2004). Getting the Fundamentals Wrong: Woes of Public-Private Partnerships in Solid Waste Collection in Three Ghanaian Cities. Public Administration and Development, 24(3), 213-224.
- Awortwi, N. (2010). Does Sequence of Decentralisation Matter in the Promotion of Local Self-Governance? A comparative study of Decentralisation Trajectories of Ghana and Uganda. In N. Awortwi & A. Okwany (Eds.), Issues in Local Governance and Social Development in Uganda (pp. 63-102). Maastricht: Shaker Publishing.
- Awortwi, N., Helmsing, A.H.J. & Oyuku-Ocen, E. (2010). Bringing Services Closer to the People? Explaining the Proliferation of Local Government Districts in Uganda. In N. Awortwi & A. Okwany (Eds.), Issues in Social Development and Local Governance in Uganda (pp. 17-63). Maastricht: Shaker.
- Awortwi, N. & Helmsing, A.H.J. (2008). Unbundling Basic Services Provision: A Study of sub-Saharan Africa with a special emphasis on Uganda. In Aspects of Social Development in Uganda (pp. 105-142). Maastricht: Shaker Publishing.
- Awortwi, N. (2008). Introduction to Aspects of Social Development in Uganda. In Aspects of Social Development in Uganda (pp. 14). Maastricht: Shaker Publishing.
- Awortwi, N. (2007). North-South Institutional Collaboration: Lessons from a Dutch-Mozambican Higher Education Project. In N. Awortwi & A. Nuvunga (Eds.), Foreign Aid, Governance and Institutional Development in Mozambique (pp. 11-31). Maastricht: Shaker Publishing.
- Awortwi, N. (2006). Enough of 'Blackbox' Explanations in Africa's Public Sector & Administrative Reforms. In African Perspectives on New Public Management: Implications for Human Resource Training (pp. 23-50). Maastricht: Shaker Publishing.
- Awortwi, N. (2006). Building New Competences for Administrators and Managers in an Era of Public Sector Reforms. In N. Awortwi & E. Sitoe (Eds.), African Perspectives on New Public Management: Implications for Human Resource Training (pp. 79-90). Maastricht: Shaker Publishing.
- Awortwi, N. (2005). New Public Management Paradigm: Lessons for Africa from the Delivery of Basic Services in Ghanaian Cities. In G.E. Tegene & M.P. van Dijk (Eds.), Issues and Challenges in Local and Regional Development. Addis Ababa: United Printers.
- Awortwi, N. & Okwany, L.A. (Eds.). (2010). Issues in Local Governance and Social Development in Uganda. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing.
- Awortwi, N. & Kanyesigye, C. (Eds.). (2008). Aspects of Social Development in Uganda. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing.
- Awortwi, N. & Nuvunga, A. (Eds.). (2007). Foreign Aid, Governance and Institutional Development in Mozambique. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing.
- Awortwi, N. & Sitoe, S. (Eds.). (2006). African Perspectives on New Public Management: Implications for Human Resource Training. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing.
- Awortwi, N. (Ed.). (2003). Getting the Fundamentals Wrong: Governance of multiple modalities of public services delivery in three Ghanaian cities. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing.
- Awortwi, N., Olowu, D. & Akiyinka, A. (2010). Decentralisation in Commonwealth Africa (Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Cameroon and Botswana). London: Commonwealth Secretariat.
- Awortwi, N. (2009). Institutional Assessment for Service Delivery in Somaliland and Puntland. Nairobi: UNCDF.
- Awortwi, N. (2009). Capacity Building in Good Governance and Public Administration in Mozambique. The Hague: Nuffic.
- Awortwi, N. (2006). External Evaluation of the Performance of Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern & Southern (MDP-ESA). Netherlands: World Bank & Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Berner, G.E. & Awortwi, N. (2005). Final project report on Tailor-made Training Programme 'Strengthening Good Urban Governance towards Social and Economic Development in Vietnam'. The Hague: ISS.
- Awortwi, N. (1999). The Riddle of Community Development: Factors Influencing Organisation Participation and Self-Management in 29 African and Latin American Communities. (ISS Working Papers, General Series287 ). The Hague: ISS.
- Awortwi, N. (2009). Foreign Aid and Global Recession: Time Out for ‘Donor Darling’ Countries to Reflect on the Culture of Dependency. Foreign Aid, Bureaucracy and Business: Oslo (2009, maart 27).
- Awortwi, N. & Helmsing, A.H.J. (2007). Governance of Basic Services Provision in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Need to Shift Gear. AEGIS European Conference: Leiden (2007, juli 11 - 2007, juli 14).
- Awortwi, N. (2004). Governance and Public Administration: The Global Perspectives (Paper presented at the conference on 'Good Governance & Public Administration in Mozambique' NPT Project/Ministry of Higher Education, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo Mozambique, 25 August 2004).
- Awortwi, N. (2004). New Urban Management Paradigm: The Experience of Three Ghanaian Cities in Basic Services Delivery (Paper presented at the Third International Policy Research Workshop, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 17 June 2004).
- Awortwi, N. (2003). From Crisis in Urban Infrastructure Provision to Crisis in Governance: the management of multiple modalities in delivering public services in Ghanaian cities. Annual Seminar of Network-Association of European Researcher on Urbanisation in the South (N-AERUS): Paris (2003, mei 15 - 2003, mei 17).