A community hotline in Qadis District in Afghanistan served as a monitoring and evaluation tool for the USAID-funded Stability in Key Areas-West (SIKA-West) program.

With economic development being increasingly important for local governments and their managers, it is the right time that one issue—the November issue of PM magazine—focus solely on economic development.

State and local governments often regulate in the same space as federal agencies and are often regulated by federal agencies. The SLLC’s amicus brief argues that requiring notice-and-comment for significant changes to interpretations of regulations will maintain the balance between agency discretion and reliance interests that the Administrative Procedures Act was designed to protect.