Decentralized cooperation and aid effectiveness

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MINUTES DECENTRALIZED COOPERATION AND AID EFFECTIVENESS PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES FOR SUB-STATE ACTORS IN THE POST BUSAN DEVELOPMENT AGENDA rd

Barcelona, Friday March 23 , 2012

INSTITUTIONAL OPENING - Francesc Badia, CIDOB Manager - Carles Llorens, General Director for Development Cooperation, Government of Catalonia - Francisco Quesada, Advisor of the Office of the Secretary General for International Cooperation, Government of Spain - Octavi de la Varga, Executive Director of the OCO, Barcelona Provincial Council - Emilia Sáiz, Director of Statutory and Institutional Affairs, UCLG - Dasa Silovic, Special Advisor to the UNDP Assistant Administrator, BERA  The representative of the Secretary General for International Development Cooperation of the Government of Spain stressed their commitment with the aid effectiveness agenda, especially in this times of crisis. For the new executive, decentralized cooperation is a structural part of the Spanish cooperation, and coordination and complementarity is required at the highest level. There has been for instance the offer to share the Technical Cooperation Offices that Spain has abroad with those Spanish Autonomous Communities that might need it. He also forwarded the possibility of collaborating with the Autonomous Communities in the country cooperation frameworks.  The representatives of the government of Catalonia, UCLG, ORU-FOGAR, the Barcelona Provincial Council and UNDP reflected on the Partnership agreed in Busan, which opens a new landscape of development cooperation which is more inclusive, recognizing the role of emerging countries, civil society, the private sector and sub-state actors. This new fast-changing context will have during 2012 important meetings which will shape a new agenda for development, such as the Rio +20 Conference and the ECOSOC Development Cooperation Forum.  The various representatives recognized the importance of the partnership developed towards Busan between local government networks (UCLG) and regional (ORU-FOGAR) with the multilateral framework represented by UNDP ART. Given the added value of this alliance, the willingness to continue working in complementarity between the local, regional, national and international levels was reaffirmed. In this joint effort, the networks of local and regional governments lead the political dialogue and UNDP and other UN agencies are facilitators of the dialogue and presence in global forums, as well as supporting implementation at country level.  UCLG and ORU-FOGAR stressed that much work remains to be done in order to adequately place the importance of sub-state actors and of the needed complementarity between different levels of government for effective development. For the networks of sub-state governments it is difficult to disconnect their recognition in the international development agenda to the general recognition in global governance. FIRST ROUNDTABLE. MAIN CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE HLF-4 ON AID EFFECTIVENESS AND CHALLENGES FOR DECENTRALIZED COOPERATION AND SUB-STATE GOVERNMENTS

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