EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• French Development Agency – Agence Française de Développement (AFD): François Tirot and Marie Bjornson-Langen, Local Governments and Urban Development, • French Institut for Public Private Parnership - Institut de Gestion Délégué (IGD): Jean Marie Tétart, National Congressman, Mayor of Houdan (France), Special Adviser for the President. • French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE): Marc Trouyet, Head of the Division, and Emilie Maehara, Democratic Governance Division • Generalitat of Catalonia (Spain): Carles Llorens, Director General for Development Cooperation, Elisabet Guillemat Marrugat and Guadalupe Moreno Iturriaga, Secretariat of Foreign Affairs • Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF-FOMIN) – Interamerican Development Bank: Celia Bedoya del Olmo • Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) – World Bank: James Close, Program Manager, and Lauren Wilson, Portfolio Coordinator • Suez Environment: Thomas Perianu, Director for Sustainable Development UCLG Committees Secretariats • Eva García Chueca, Secretary of the Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights • Laia Vilademunt, Secretary of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy