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Participation and local basic services – Launch of GOLD III

Fostering Wellbeing

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  • Financing and governance of local basic services
  • Participation and local basic services – Launch of GOLD III
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In the current context of economic and political crisis, it is evermore necessary to find new methods of governance, in particular through citizen participation as a new form of governance of basic services. The presentation of case studies during this session will demonstrate participative democracy as an element in reducing the impact of the crisis at local level.

The key results from the 3rd GOLD Report on Decentralisation and Local Democracy will also be presented as a tool for analysis, reflection and advocacy for local governments in order to contribute to the improvement of basic public services.

Key questions:

  • Access to basic services: the need to guarantee universal access to basic services, main conclusions of GOLD III
  • Urbanisation: the urbanisation process creates tensions in the provision of services while also allowing output at the largest scale.
  • Citizen Participation: autonomy, co-responsibly, participative democracy, shared decision making, legitimisation of new public services.
  • New actors in the provision of services: public-private partners, citizen associations. Effective managing of public services.

In the current context of economic and political crisis, it is evermore necessary to find new methods of governance, in particular through citizen participation as a new form of governance of basic services. The presentation of case studies during this session will demonstrate participative democracy as an element in reducing the impact of the crisis at local level.

The key results from the 3rd GOLD Report on Decentralisation and Local Democracy will also be presented as a tool for analysis, reflection and advocacy for local governments in order to contribute to the improvement of basic public services.

Key questions:

  • Access to basic services: the need to guarantee universal access to basic services, main conclusions of GOLD III
  • Urbanisation: the urbanisation process creates tensions in the provision of services while also allowing output at the largest scale.
  • Citizen Participation: autonomy, co-responsibly, participative democracy, shared decision making, legitimisation of new public services.
  • New actors in the provision of services: public-private partners, citizen associations. Effective managing of public services.
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International Observatory on Participatory Democracy - OIDP

UCLG Committee on Decentralisation and Self-Government

Ponentes: 
Bachir Kanoute
Carles Agustí
Jairo Jorge
Joan Carles Garcia Cañizares
Paul Smoke
Pierre Bauby
Zineb El Adaoui
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International Observatory on Participatory Democracy - OIDP

UCLG Committee on Decentralisation and Self-Government

Speakers

  • Bachir KanouteBachir Kanoute
  • Carles AgustíCarles Agustí
  • Jairo JorgeJairo Jorge
  • Joan Carles Garcia CañizaresJoan Carles Garcia Cañizares
  • Paul Smoke Paul Smoke
  • Pierre BaubyPierre Bauby
  • Zineb El AdaouiZineb El Adaoui
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Bachir Kanoute
Senegal
Sessions:Participation and local basic services – Launch of GOLD III

Bachir Kanoute

ENDA and Coordinator of OIDP Africa  

Bachir Kanoute is a town planner and the Executive Director of the organization Enda ECOPOP (www.endaecopop.org), focused on supporting decentralization processes, governance, local development, capacity building of local authorities and local decision-makers in the civil society and community support in Africa and the Caribbean.

This enormous mission makes him to travel around Africa to support central and local governments of several African countries, and consolidate fragile decentralization processes. Expert of several international institutions including the World Bank, United Nations Program for Human Settlements (UN HABITAT), State University of New York Center for International Development, GIZ, etc., Mr. KANOUTE has led several high-level missions in different countries of Africa and Caribbean (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mauritania, Madagascar, Mali, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Senegal and Haiti).

Capitalizing on this rich experience, Mr. KANOUTE has developed several guides and manuals to train and build the capacity of local decision-makers and grass-roots communities:

  • Governance and Local Leadership,
  • Decentralization, social and community mobilization for local development in Africa,
  • Servicing and maintenance of equipment, infrastructure and basic social services,
  • Participatory budgeting in French speaking Africa. This last manual, edited in collaboration with the United Nations program for human Settlements (UN HABITAT), aims to promote participatory and transparent governance approaches in managing the public affairs of local authorities in Africa.
     

Mr. KANOUTE is the Focal Point for Africa of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy, launched in December 07, 2012 in Dakar, in the presence of thirteen (13) African countries. Last but not the least, he is a part-time lecturer in the University Cheikh Anta DIOP of Dakar - Senegal (Master degree: "Land-use Planning, Decentralization and Local Development") and in the Institute Development and Human and Peoples’ Right (Post graduate degree: citizenship, human rights, Humanitarian Action). 

Carles Agustí
Spain
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Sessions:Participation and local basic services – Launch of GOLD III

Carles Agustí

Commissioner for Citizens Participation, City of Barcelona. International Observatory on Participative Democracy (OIDP) 

BA in Political Sciences with a specialization degree on International Affairs. Currently Commissioner for Citizens' Participation and Associations of the Barcelona City Council. Professor at the University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Catalonia). Co-President of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (OIDP). Vice President of the Catalan Association of Communication and Political Strategy (ACCIEP) and member of the Management Board at the Centre of Studies and Public Opinion of the Regional Government of Catalonia (CEO). Previously I’ve been General Director of Inter-Departments Affairs at the Presidency Department of Regional Government of Catalonia.

Jairo Jorge
Brazil
Sessions:Participation and local basic services – Launch of GOLD III

Jairo Jorge

Mayor of Canoas

Jairo Jorge, 50 years old, is journalist. From 1993 to 2000 he practiced his profession in various television networks. In 1988 he was elected the city councilor most voted of the Worker’s Party in the interior of State of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. In 2003 he was Deputy Secretary of the Special Secretariat of the Social and Economic Development Council of the Presidency of Republic. Also served the positions of Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary in the Ministry of Education. By the year 2008 the Mayor of Canoas was the Pro-Dean of Communitarian Affairs of the Brazilian Lutheran University and for over 20 years he acts in the public life. Jairo Jorge was elected Mayor of Canoas in 2008 and built a participatory, daring and transparent management which resulted in strong positive changes in the city. In 2012 he was re-elected  with 71.27% of the votes, the sixth highest voting of Brazilian municipal elections and the largest of the southern region of the country.

Joan Carles Garcia Cañizares
Spain
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Sessions:Participation and local basic services – Launch of GOLD III

Joan Carles Garcia Cañizares

Mayor of Tordera, Barcelona

Joan Carles Garcia Cañizares is currently the Mayor of Tordera, Barcelona, since 1995, and Member of the Provincial Council of Barcelona since 2007. In the past he has held several positions in the field of local governments such as National Counsellor of the Catalan Association of Municipalities (2003-11) and Member of the Youth Commission of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (2003-11).

Paul Smoke
United States of America
Sessions:Participation and local basic services – Launch of GOLD III

Paul Smoke

Professor, New York University, United States of America

Paul Smoke is Professor of Public Finance and Planning and Director of International Programs at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He works on public sector reform, decentralization and urban development in developing and transition countries. He previously taught at MIT and worked with the Harvard Institute for International Development. Smoke has written, edited or co-edited several books and published many articles on decentralization and local government.  He has worked extensively with many development partners and organizations, including the World Bank, UNCDF, UNDP, USAID, several European development agencies, and a number of other UN agencies and international financial institutions. He served as technical co-coordinator for UCLG’s GOLD II report, Local Government Finances: The Challenges of the 21st Century.

Pierre Bauby
France
Sessions:Participation and local basic services – Launch of GOLD III

Pierre Bauby

Professor of Political Science, Paris 8 University

Researcher and Professor of Political Sciences at Paris 8 University. He is expert on public services and public policies. In addition, he is member of the Intergroup Public Services of European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee as well as other European networks. His most recent works focus on the Europeanization of Public Services and the challenges of regulating public services.

He is the author of various publications: GOLD III Report, Chapter Europe on “Basic local public services and Governance”, CGLU, 2013; “Providing Europe with high quality public services on the basis of the Treaty of Lisbon, CESI, 2012; “The Europeanization of the Public Services”, Presses de SciencePo, Paris, 2011; “Public service, public services” La Documentation Française, Paris, 2011; “Mapping of the Public Services in the European Union and the 27 Members States”, Brussels, 2010.

Zineb El Adaoui
Morocco
Sessions:Participation and local basic services – Launch of GOLD III

Zineb El Adaoui

President, Regional Court of Auditors

Since 2004 she is President of the Rabat /Gharb Regional Court of Audit and member of the Human Rights National Council. She is BA in Economics and Business with a specialization degree in Public Finances.  At present Zineb El Adaoui is preparing her doctoral thesis on “The Moroccan Court of Audit: from regularity control to management control. Is it effective?”

She is the first Moroccan woman to be appointed (in 1984) as a judge of accounts, and later Head of Division at the Court of Auditors (1993 to 2004). She has been a magistrate with exceptional grades since 2004.

Ms El Adaoui is a member of the Moroccan Board of the International Women Forum. She was member of the Regionalization Advisory Commission.

Ms. El Adaoui obtained an auditing certificate from a Canadian Audit Services Agency (BSV) and a certificate form Women as Business and Economic Leaders program.

In the field of Economics and Islam, Zineb El Adaoui has been promoting several conversations on safeguarding public funds in the presence of the King Mohamed VI.

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