UCLG Africa Three Year Priority Program 2010 – 2012 Adopted by UCLG Africa Executive Committee

UCLGA Three Year Priority Program 2010 – 2012 Adopted by UCLGA Executive Committee on 12 July 2010 For the three years 2010-2011-2012 the UCLGA Executive Committee decided to give priority to 15 program lines selected from among GADDEPA and the Africities 2009 resolutions as following: 1. Support Fund for local development and decentralized cooperation 2. Network of local elected Women 3. African Local Government Academy 4. African Media Network for Local Development 5. Participatory Budgeting 6. Migrations and Diaspora 7.

Local Economic Development Network of Africa (LEDNA)

8. Fiscal Decentralization 9. Local Agenda 21 10. Culture and Heritage 11. Basic Services and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 12. Microcredit and Local Entrepreneurship 13. Partnership with Traditional Rulers and Moral Authorities 14. Peace, Security and African Integration 15. Observatory on Decentralization and Local Governance For each of these programs, the secretary general should elaborate a feasibility document that will identify for each program line: 1. A technical facilitator (moral entity or individual expert) that will work with the secretariat in order to define the overall goal of the program and its expected impact, the targeted beneficiaries, specific objectives, expected outcomes,

proposed

activities,

implementation

costs

and

timeline,

concerned stakeholders, potential funding partners (A) 2. From one to five cities (and their decentralized cooperation partners) that will be associated to the management of the program and to fundraising activities (C) 3. Technical partners institutions for program implementation (T) 4. Prospect financial partners (F)

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5. Participating Local governments (at least 30 African local governments) (N)

In a first attempt, the organization and results of the different program lines can be outlined as follows:

African

Support

Fund

for

Local

Development

and

Decentralized

Cooperation (A) DGCL and FEC, Morocco ; (C) two to five local governments to selected

from

among

voluntary

candidates

;

(T)

Global

Fund

for

Urban

Development (GFUD), Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA); (F) African Local

Governments,

African

Development

Bank,

the

World

Bank,

French

Development Fund, European Investment Bank, USAID, KFW, DFID, Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation ; (N) All African local governments and specifically for a start, the 50 African local governments from Sub Saharan Africa that concluded partnership agreements with Moroccan local governments during the Marrakech Africities Summit in December 2009.

Expected Results: year 2011: feasibility document and fundraising roundtable; year 2012: official launching of the Fund (during the Africities VI in Dakar in December 2012)

Network of local elected Women (A) DGCL Morocco and Directorate for Training, Ministry of the Interior, Morocco; (C) two to five local governments to selected from among voluntary candidates; (T) UCLG Gender Committee, Hoarou Commission ; (F) UNDP, Dutch Cooperation ; (N) African local elected women.

Expected Results: first quarter of year 2011: regional forum of local elected women of Africa: election of the leadership of the network of local elected women of Africa, and adoption of its program of action; year 2012: setting up of the network’s secretariat and website, beginning of the implementation of the program of action.

African Local Government Academy (A) Directorate for Training, Ministry of the Interior, Morocco; (C) two to five local governments to selected from among voluntary candidates; (T) CEFEB-France, Local Government Association- UK, 2IEBurkina Faso, CESAG-Dakar, CEFAM-Buea, Local Government Training InstituteMali, Local Government Institute-Ghana‌ ; (F) Ministry of Foreign and European

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Affairs-France, Luxembourg Cooperation, African Capacity Building Foundation, UNDP, Africa Development Bank (ADB), French Development Agency; (N) Local administration Staff and Local Elected officials from all over Africa Expected Results : year 2011: feasibility document; organization of a regional seminar aiming at networking training institutions involved in local governments capacity

building,

and

labeling

their

curricula ;

fundraising

activities;

implementation of a pilot project on peer learning and peer review in each of the five regions of Africa; year 2012 : effective launching of the training activities of the Academy

African Media Network for Local Development: (A) Echos Communication; (C) two to five local governments to selected from among voluntary candidates; (T) Schools of Journalism; (F) Belgium Cooperation, European Commission; (N) Professionals from the media and African local governments communication officers Expected Results: year 2011: feasibility document; setting up of the network secretariat and website; year 2012: beginning of training activities targeting at least 20 journalists and 20 local governments’ communication officers per year; the training courses will be delivered in the framework

of the African Local

Governments Academy

Participatory

Budgeting

(A)

Professor

Yves

Cabannes,

Expert

from

the

Development Planning Unit, London University; (C) two to five local governments to selected from among voluntary candidates; (T) ENDA Tiers Monde ; Latin America Network on Participatory Budgeting; (F) Brazilian cooperation, USAID, DFID, UNDP ; (N) Network of Participatory Budgeting African Cities Expected Results: year 2011: feasibility document; setting up of the secretariat and website of the network of African Cities on Participatory Budgeting; identification and documentation of best practices; year 2012 : publication of a document on lessons drawn from African experiences on the implementation of participatory budgeting (to be disseminated during the Sixth Africities Summit in December 2012 in Dakar)

Migrations and the Diaspora (A) Raymond BenhaĂŻm, Expert with the Ministry in charge of the Diaspora, Morocco; (C) two to five local governments to selected from among voluntary candidates; (T) Office for International Migrations, Regional

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Economic

Communities

of

Africa;

(F)

African

Union

Commission,

African

Development Bank, European Commission, French Development Agency; (N) African local governments and their partners in decentralized cooperation Expected Results: year 2011: feasibility document of the program; year 2012: launching of the African local governments Forum for the management of migrations and structured relations with the Diaspora (during the Dakar Africities Summit in December 2012)

Local Economic Development Network of Africa (LEDNA) (A) Dr Franรงois Yatta, international Expert on local economy; (C) two to five local governments to selected from among voluntary candidates; (T) Swiss Contact; (F) Swiss Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, France, GIZ-Germany, French Development Cooperation; (N) LEDNA Cities network Expected Results : year 2010: organization of a sensitization workshop on local economic development in Morocco; years 2011 & 2012: implementation of national LED strategy in 5 countries (1 per each of the African sub-regions); conduct of a test on a local economic development exercise in Sidi Boumedi local government, Morocco; year 2012 : validation workshop on national LED strategies in each of the five selected countries and presentation of results during a regional seminar organized during the Sixth Edition of the Africities Summit in December 2012 in Dakar

Fiscal Decentralization (A) Dr Franรงois Yatta; (C) two to five local governments to selected from among voluntary candidates; (T) UCLG, CEFEB ; (F) African Development Bank, French Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs-France; (N) National association of local authorities of Africa and national local finance committees Expected Results : year 2011: policy dialogues on fiscal decentralization in Benin and Tanzania; year 2012: Based on the experience of Benin and Tanzania, production of a training document on conducting policy dialogues on fiscal decentralization targeting national and local decision makers, to be disseminated at a regional workshop organized in December 2012 during the Sixth Africities Summit in Dakar

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Local Agenda 21 (A) UN Habitat Morocco; (C) two to five local governments to selected from among voluntary candidates; (T) ICLEI; (F) UNDP, UNEP, SIDA; (N) Local Agenda 21 cities Network Expected Results: year 2011: feasibility document; annĂŠe 2012: constitution of the Africa local agenda 21 cities network to be officially launched during the sixth Africities Summit in Dakar in December 2012

Culture and Heritage (A) UNESCO Center for World Heritage; (C) two to five local governments to be selected from among voluntary candidates ; (T) UNESCO Center for World Heritage; UCLG Committee for Eco-Tourism; (F) Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs-France, UNDP; (N) Network of historical cities and network of touristic cities, World Heritage cities Expected Results: year 2011: feasibility document; year 2012: implementation of a pilot program for the process of African sites registration in the World Heritage, and a pilot program for labeling eco-tourism sites in Africa; presentation of results during the Sixth Africities Summit in December 2012 in Dakar

Basic Services and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (A) Mounir Zouggari, Basic Services Expert; (C) two to five local governments to be selected from among voluntary candidates; (T) UN Habitat, Africa Water Association, Institute for basic services subcontracting (IGD); (F) Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs-France, French Development Agency, GIZ-Germany; (N) any interested African local government Expected Results: year 2011: feasibility document; creation of a dedicated website; contribution to pilot projects on the implementation of the international guidelines on access to basic services for all; year 2012: presentation of the first results of the implementation of the international guidelines on basic services during the Sixth Africities Summit in December 2012 in Dakar

Microcredit and Local Entrepreneurship (A) Michel Leborgne, Expert on Territorial Development; (C) two to five local governments to be selected from among voluntary candidates; (T) Convergences Network, France, SODET, Canada ; (F) Swiss Cooperation, French Development Cooperation, GIZ-Germany, African Development Bank; (N) all voluntary African local governments

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Expected Results: year 2011: feasibility document and development of an Internet Platform for connecting local entrepreneurs with investors (including from the diaspora), and setting up of local entrepreneurship ‘business angels’ within African local governments; year 2012: launching of the network of African cities for local entrepreneurship during the sixth Africities Summit in 2012 in Dakar

Partnership with Traditional Authorities (A) to be found; (C) two to five local governments to be selected from among voluntary candidates; (T) to be found; (F) USAID, UNDP; (N) any voluntary African local government Expected Results: year 2011: feasibility document and setting up of a network of cities partnering with local and moral authorities on a voluntary basis; year 2012: implementation of five pilot projects on shared local governance between local authorities and traditional and moral authorities (1 in each of the 5 sub-regions of Africa); organization of a regional seminar for sharing lessons from the pilot projects during the sixth Africities Summit in December 2012 in Dakar

Peace, Security and African integration (A) Said Jinit, current representative of the UN Secretary General for West Africa and former African Union Peace and Security Commissioner (to be confirmed); (C) two to five local governments to be selected from among voluntary candidates ; (T) ECOWAS/WAEMU/ENDA DIAPOL, UCLG City Diplomacy Committee; (F) Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, European

Commission,

USAID,

Japanese

International

Cooperation,

Chinese

cooperation; (N) local governments at national trans-borders areas Expected Results: year 2011: feasibility document on the involvement of local governments in the conflicts prevention process; year 2012: launching of a pilot program on trans-border decentralized cooperation in each of the 5 sub-regions of Africa, in coordination with Regional economic communities; sharing of lessons from pilot projects during the sixth Africities Summit in December 2012 in Dakar

Observatory on decentralization and local governance (A) PDM/MDP/AIG; (C) non applicable; (T) UCLG; (F) Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs-France, Generalitat of Barcelona; (N) All countries of Africa Expected Results: beginning from the year 2011: annual publication of the state of decentralization and local governance in Africa.

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The Executive Committee asked furthermore to the Secretariat to sign an agreement with each interested national association of local governments and direct member defining the conditions of their participation in programs developed

by UCLGA.

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