The objectives of this peer learning were to: 1. Identify areas for cooperation between Maputo and its partners on decent work challenges and local economic development opportunities in the context of formal and informal markets. 2. Extract lessons from national and international experiences, especially in relation to human development, capacity building, inclusion of vulnerable groups and the creation of enabling conditions. 3. Define the strategic support needed by cities and their partners to develop a project enabling peer South-South collaboration, and to build local capacity for the efficient implementation. 4. Develop new learning opportunities with a view to reaching out to local communities and city management, fostering partnerships with global actors to address local economic development issues and identifying potential areas for South-South cooperation initiatives. The agenda setting turned out brilliantly indeed. The participants had three days to elaborate on their experience, to find similarities, discrepancies, and to explore joint learning opportunities with a view to reaching a better future. Presentations provided the participants with a broad background on which it was easy to base the following discussions. Visits to markets allowed exchanging experiences on the ground, and the dialogues organized with the market communities provided a lively picture of the partner country, Mozambique. As a result, the participating municipalities could define, with ease, which concrete issues to focus on within their future partnerships, and the supporting international organisations agreed to further facilitate the exchange of local knowledge between all involved stakeholders and to communicate the “lessons� within the global agenda setting.
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