Roger Shotton has been working on sub-national government issues at policy level and in the field across Africa and Asia for some 30 years, first as senior adviser with the United Nations Capital Development Fund and latterly as consultant for various international agencies (ADB, World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, SDC). He has most recently been working on fiscal transfer mechanisms and on local government financing, planning and budgeting arrangements in several countries in East Asia (Myanmar, Lao PDR, Cambodia, and Mongolia).