Discourses of international actors in the construction of the decentralisation policy: the case of Benin

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Table 1. Comparative table of the use of language in the PONADEC and the I&D Consulting, website (author's compilation, own translation).

	I&D Consulting (Institutions & Développement (I&D), n.d.)	PONADEC (PONADEC Document Cadre de Politique, 2008)
Title	The national policy of devolution and de-concentration (Politique nationale de décentralisation et de déconcentration)	The national policy for devolution and de-concentration (Politique nationale de décentralisation et de déconcentration)
Objective	to form competent territorial authorities with the following objectives: ‘the development of local services for the population to become the engine of local development, provide a space for local democracy’.	Make [of the] the territorial authorities spaces for grassroots democracy, good governance and sustainable local development […] (pp. 11, 32, italics added).
Strategic orientations		‘access of the population to local services’ (pp. 7, 28) ‘economic growth’ (pp. 10, 11; 31, 33, 34)

Institutions & Développement (I&D). (n.d.). No Title. Retrieved from http://www.ietd.net/.

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MDGLAAT. (2008). PONADEC document Cadre de Politique, n.p. Cotounou: Republic of Benin.

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