Thematic Round Tables and Parallel Sessions
Parallel Session
Financing and governing local public services In the framework of the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders, organized in Rabat from the 1st to the 4th of October 2013, a parallel session on the topic, “Financing and Governance of Public Basic Services” was organized by the UCLG Local Finance Committee, Suez Environnement and CGLU Africa, in partnership with the Institut de la Gestion Déléguée (IGD) and the Institut de la Recherche pour le Développement (IRD). The meeting brought together elected representatives and public service professionals. UN Habitat’s guidelines on decentralization and access to basic services place local authorities at the heart of development and basic service provision. Access to these services constitutes an essential element in fostering wellbeing for citizens. However, in a context characterized by rapidly growing needs, legal, institutional and financial frameworks on decentralization do not always offer local governments the necessary means
UN Habitat’s guidelines on
decentralization and access to basic services place local authorities at the heart of development and basic service provision.
Organizers UCLG Committee on Local Finance and Suez Environnement
speakers Xavier Chauvot de Beauchene, Water and Sanitation Specialist, Sustainable Development Departement, Middle-East and North Africa, World Bank Thierry Mallet, Director of Innovation and Industrial Performance, Suez Environnement Claude de Miras, Director of Research, Institute of Research for Development (IRD) Nguyen Trong Hoa, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies (HIDS), Vietnam Fathallah Oulalaou, Mayor of Rabat, Morocco, President of the UCLG Committee on Local Finances Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo, Mayor of Cotonou, Benin Martin Stucki, Planner, Transitec Ingénieurs-Conseil Jean-Marie Tétart, Mayor of Houdan, Vice-President of Yvelines General Council, France Brad Woodside, Mayor of Fredericton, Canada, First Vice-President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Rapporteur Nathalie Le Denmat, UCLG Committee on Local Finances for Development, UCLG
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