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LA BONNE GOUVERNANCE : LA PARTICIPATION MULTINIVEAU ET L’INSTITUTIONNALISATION DE LA STRATÉGIE

Dr. Ingrid Schwoerer Linking Levels: Decentralisation – Regional Governance – Municipal and Urban Development Planning and Development Department Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit - GIZ

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Overview

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GIZ

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Linking Levels

III. City Development Strategies as a Multi - Level Governance Challenge

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Mandate and experience

I. Presenting GIZ | linking.levels@giz.de

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I. Presenting GIZ

German Development Cooperation

‘Joined-up development cooperation’

Technical cooperation

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Financial cooperation

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I. Presenting GIZ

Deutsche Gesellschaft f端r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Established on 1 January 2011, GIZ brings together under one roof the long-standing expertise of DED, GTZ und InWEnt.

Our registered offices are in Bonn and Eschborn.

In a spirit of partnership, we support people and societies in developing, transition and industrialised countries in shaping their own futures and improving living conditions.

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I. Presenting GIZ

Purpose of the Organisation GIZ’s purpose is to promote international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work.

As a 100% federally owned, public-benefit enterprise, we support the German Government in achieving its development policy goals.

On behalf of the German Government and Partner Governments we actively support the Cities Alliance as well as individual City Development Strategies

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I. Presenting GIZ

Promoting sustainable development means to us  viable, forward-looking solutions for political, economic, ecological and social development in a globalised world

 a holistic, value-based and process-oriented approach under sometimes difficult circumstances  participatory approaches to secure the integration of all stakeholders capacitating change processes

 innovative advisory services tailored to specific needs  acting at local, regional and national level in order to achieve maximum impact

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Understanding governance  as a constructive, transparent and just relationship between a development oriented state, informed and active citizens and a socially and ecologically constituted market economy  assuming the role of facilitator between governmental and non-governmental actors at various levels and of mediator in conflicts of interest integrated

processoriented

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value-oriented

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II. Linking levels | linking.levels@giz.de

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II. Presenting the Section

Linking Levels Inter-/supranational level National level Regional level Local level

Regional cooperation/integration Decentralisation

Framework conditions for governance

Governance in the

Regional development

multi-level system

Regional governance Regional management Municipal and urban development

Local governance

Levels Actors

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Public sector Executive/legislative bodies, municipal associations etc.

Private sector Companies, interest groups etc.

Civil society NGOs, civilsociety groups etc.

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II. Presenting the Section

Linking Levels  We operate specifically at the interfaces between different arenas and help to create effective linkages between different levels.  We do this because the points where societal forces meet administrative units are those where greater results can be achieved.  In so doing we support decentralisation and subsidiarity in the given country, promoting governmental performance capacity and citizen focus.

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II. Presenting the Section

Portfolio 18 programmes South-East Europe/ Central Asia

6 programmes MENA 18 programmes Asia

14 programmes Latin America 18 programmes Sub-Saharan Africa

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Politics up close

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III. City Development Strategies (CDS)

City Development Strategies - a Multi - Level Governance Challenge  A one time multi-stakeholder process for a CDS does not offset the structural and combined lack of transparency, efficiency and citizen responsiveness  Formalized administrative and institutional planning processes may ignore citizen needs but administrative/ executive powers are needed to move from visioning to implementation  CDS processes cannot replace decision making across levels and between interest groups  The fiscal dimension of CDS implementation is strongly linked to the multi-level financial governance systems

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III. City Development Strategies (CDS)

The challenge  Whose vision present CDS: steakholders, representative governments, bureaucrats, investors, local businesses, neighbourhoods, young or old ?  Are CDS image campaigns and grand plans for competing cities in the globalized and urbanized world  Are they promises to present or future citizens to be kept  Are they raising unrealistic expectations  Who owns the cities and the CDS over time ?

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Thank you

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