25 years of building democracy, local government in Latin America Since the summer of 1995, each June, local and regional, as well as some national, government officials from throughout Latin America have been coming together in Miami to assess the progress being made in the building of local democracy and to develop strategies to further advance the strengthening of municipal government throughout the hemisphere as a means of both building democratic institutions and advancing the economic well-being of Latin America’s people.
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Sponsored by Miami-Dade County and organized by Florida International University’s Institute for Public Management & Community Service, some 500 local government leaders from throughout the hemisphere will gathered in Miami for the 25th annual interAmerican Conference of Mayors and Local Authorities. The event has become the largest annual non-political gathering of Latin Americans concerned with the building of local government. The conference kicked off with a keynote address by Luis Alberto Moreno, the president of the hemisphere’s most important multinational organization, the Inter-American Development Bank. In addition to Miami-Dade County Commissioner Javier Souto, a long time advocate of strengthening of local government throughout Latin America, conference attendees heard from an array of prominent figures from throughout the hemisphere.
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Inter-American Conference of Mayors and Local Authorities
Building the Communities of Tomorrow: Economic Development, Resilience and Sustainability
June 17 - 20, 2019
Hilton Miami Downtown Hotel Miami, Florida USA
JUNE 17 - 20 2019
For the past 25 years, ideas and initiatives emerging from this annual meeting have significantly influenced the actions of presidents, parliaments and regional authorities throughout Latin America in terms of the strengthening of local governments and the enhancement of their role in the construction of democratic institutions. Of particular note, the conference, in many instances. has enabled both national and international leaders to learn about the importance of strong local governments for both economic and democratic development. As the long time president of the IDB, Enrique Iglesias, frequently noted, it was through his participation in this conference that he first realized the importance of the bank working with local governments. Similarly, the conference has served as both an inspiration and a learning opportunity for those at the grass roots of democratic development. As the then mayor of Asunción, Paraguay, one of the most democratically challenged countries of the hemisphere, commented in a Miami Herald story a decade ago, “The conference is like a great supermarket of ideas for local government officials.”
Creating a Just, Peaceful and Prosperous World
Allan Rosenbaum, professor of public administration and director of the Institute for Public Management and Community Service at the Green School, speaks at the Inter-American Conference of Mayors.
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