Subject(s): Decentralization in Kerala -- History, framework and approach -- Fiscal decentralisation and fiscal management : tax effort and finance management -- Critique of decentralised planning : General trend and sectoral growth, Gram sabha/ Ward sabha, Development report and seminar, Technical support group and projection Expert committees (TAGs), District planning committee (DPC) -- Health and decentralisation -- Decentralisation and marginalised communities : Problems of Scheduled communities, Fishing community, SCP/TSP towards greater decentralization -- Women empowerment : Jaagratha Samithi (JS), Kudumbasree, Women empowerment and local governance -- Delivery of services and local governance -- Revisiting the role of block panchayats : Block panchayat association, Functional integration of block panchayats with C.D block -- Building a data base for local governance : State level data source, Data bank for planning statistics -- Towards a district plan methodology : Approach to district development plan preparation, Institutional arrangement for DPC for preparation of district development plan -- Decade of capacity building for decentralisation and the contours of the future : Role of acdamic institutions and NGOs, Capdeck -- കുടുംബശ്രീ