Building Capacities for Sustainable Local Governance: The Role of IIAS First Forum of the Territorial Managers and Training Institutes African Local Governments Academy Rabat, Morocco, 20 September 2017 Steve Troupin, PhD
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IIAS Factsheet • Established in 1930 by countries willing to elaborate joint solutions to the governance challenges of the day • Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium • French and English are official languages • Prof. Dr. Geert Bouckaert as President • Dr. Sofiane Sahraoui as Director General
How IIAS has evolved • Academicization • Federalization – Regional groups (AGPA, EGPA, LAGPA) – Specialized association for capacity building: IASIA
• Globalization: development in Latin America, Asia, MiddleEast, Africa • Partnership: with the UN, OECD, CLAD, AAPAM, ASPA, MENAPAR and UCLG-Africa/ALGA
2016 IIAS-IASIA Congress in Chengdu, China • Theme: “Building Capacities for Sustainable Governance” • Which governance model is functional for the SDGs? – Horizontal governance, across the policy fields – Multi-level governance, across government levels – Participative governance
• Report at the 16th session of United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration
Enablers of Sustainable Governance • Complex and systemic thinking • Committed and enabling leadership • Innovation and experimentation • Trust
The Key Role of Local Governments • Responsible for most SDGs • Experience with participative mechanisms • Low power distance creates the needed trust • Low size and high number allows innovative experiments
How Does IIAS Contribute to Local Governance Capacity Building? • Accreditation • Publications • Events • Awards • Together with its partners
Accreditation in Europe: EAPAA • Established in 1999 by EGPA and NISPAcee • Accreditation of Public Administration programmes in Europe • Process – – – –
Application Self-evaluation Site visit Decision
• EAPAA is accredited by the European Quality Assurance Register
Accreditation in the World: ICAPA • 2008: UNDESA-IASIA Standards of Excellence for Public Administration • 2014: IASIA establishes the International Commission on Accreditation of Public Administration Education and Training • Comparable process as EAPAA • Worldwide focus
Publications • International Review of Administrative Sciences (PA 23/47) • Developments in Administration – Bi-annual peer-reviewed open-access journal – Does justice to the diversity of theoretical approaches and empirical evidence all over the world • Benmansour (2016), Satisfaction with public services in Qatar • N’Gala (2017), Decentralization in DRC • Wright (2017), Principles of Fiscal Decentralization
• Open Access Publication • Lessons from comparative research into local government • EU-financed Cost Action LocRef • Interview of the editor
• Outcome of research performed in the framework of IASIA Working Group “Subnational Governance and Development” • Edited by Reddy & de Vries (2015)
38th AAPAM Roundtable Conference, El Jadida, Morocco, 6-10 November • Joint AAPAM-IIAS Taskforce for Public Administration Research Capacities has been created – It will meet at AAPAM & IIAS events – Academic call-for-papers – Vehicle for publication and other joint projects
• Theme: “African Governance Systems: Beyond Neo-Patrimonialism” – Theoretical objectives: find suited approaches – Empirical objectives: describe governance as it is
2018 IIAS Congress in Tunis, Tunisia, 25-29 June • Theme: Administrative Resilience • ALGA Track – Theme: “Localizing the SDGs in Africa” – Chair: Najat Zarrouk – Submission in French, Arabic, English and Portuguese
• UN DPADM Track – Theme “Resilient Public Service Delivery” – Chair: Marion Barthélemy
• AAPAM-IIAS Taskforce for Public Administration Research Capacities in Africa
2018 IASIA Congress, Lima, Peru, 23-26 July • Call-for-papers on the themes of ALGA Forum – – – –
Education and Training (Kroukamp) Subnational Governance (Reddy) Gender, Diversity and Equity (Pillay & El-Baradei) Leadership (Nemec & Lues)
• Panel of the OECD Network of Schools of Government
EURO-MENA Dialogue, Granada, Spain, 24-26 October • Between – IIAS’ European Group of Public Administration (EGPA), and – Middle-East North Africa Public Administration Research network (MENAPAR)
• Theme: Paradigms and Conceptions of Public Administration in Europe and MENA regions
United Nations Public Service Award • IIAS is a NGO with a general consultative status vis-à-vis the UN ECOSOC • IIAS supports applications from its member states for the United Nations Public Service Award – Review/edition of applications – Support of valuable applications through nomination and letters of recommendations
• Awards delivered during the United Nations Public Service Forum on June 23rd
Thank you for your attention! • Membership and other enquiries s.troupin@iias-iisa.org; info@iias-iisa.org