Meeting of the Informal Development Partners Working Group on Decentralisation and Local Governance (DeLoG) - Agenda and Presentations

Time 

Day 1: Wednesday, May 18^th  

10:30 – 10:45

Opening and Welcome Speech 

Francesca Mosca (EuropeAid)

Hans Wollny (BMZ)

10:45 – 11:30

Presentation of the agenda (Kuno Schläfli,SDC) 

­Round of introductions

­Presentation of new / external actors (10 min each):

- All Africa Ministerial Conference for Decentralisation and Local Development (AMCOD)

- UNDP ART Initiative

- United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

- Local Economic Development Network of Africa (LEDNA)

11:30 – 12:30

Activities of the DPWG-LGD  

- Brief activity report of the DPWG-LGD (Jochen Mattern, GIZ)

- Presentation Train4Dev (Francois Bary, Lux Development)

- Video on Train4Dev course harmonisation, decentralisation and local governance

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:45

Dynamics between decentralisation programmes and sector programmes  

(Pekka Sepälä, MFA Finland)

- EuropeAid 's experience (Begona Bravo Hevia, EuropeAid)

- World Bank experience in South Asia (Tara Sharafudeen, WB)

- Presentation (Jan Willem Nibbering, MFA Netherlands)

- Discussion

15:45 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:20

Measuring Progress of Decentralisation Reforms and Impact of Donor Support  

(Sebastian Bartsch, BMZ)

- Constructing indicators to measure and monitor decentralisation in Sub-Saharan Africa (Klaus Veigel, KfW)

- Independent Evaluation on GTZ support to decentralisation (Rainer Rohdewohld, GIZ)

- Impact measurement of LGD (Kai Kaiser, WB)

- Discussion

17:20 – 17:30

Closure Day 1

Time 

Day 2: Thursday, May 19^th  

9:00 – 11:00

Presentation of the DPWG-LGD Publication (Gabin Hamman, EuropeAid) 

- Purpose of the publication (Jochen Mattern, GIZ)

- Main findings and recommendations (Soeren Villadsen, EC consultant)

- Discussion

11:00 – 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 – 12:30

Road to Busan (Alex Gerbrandij, EuropeAid)

- Towards 4HLF Busan  (Eduardo González, OECD)

- Decentralised cooperation (Giovanni Camilleri, UNDP ART)

- Local Government perspective (Nestor Vega, UCLG)

- Discussion

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Working Groups (Paul Smoke, NYU)

3 or 4 working groups to discuss findings and recommendations of the study.

Themes will be defined based on provided inputs.

15:30 – 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 – 17:20

Restitution Working Groups

Feedback of group work in plenary

17:20 – 17:30

Closure Day 2

Time 

Day 3: Friday, May 20^th  

9:00 – 10:30

Fiscal decentralisation and linkages to PFM
(Waltraud Rabitsch, ADA)

- Presentation based on Gold II report on local finance (UCLG) (Paul Smoke)

- Presentation of the SDC study on fiscal decentralisation 
  (Kuno Schläfli, SDC)

- Fiscal Decentralisation in Africa: Francois Yatta (LEDNA)

- Discussion

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00

Interactive session:

DPs Response in LGD to the situation in Northern Africa (Anki Dellnäs, ICLD)

- Panel Discussion: MAEE France, UNDP,  World Bank, EuropeAid

- Plenary Discussion

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00 – 14:00

Closing session

- Discussion on future activities of the DPWG-LGD (Jochen Mattern, GIZ)

- Next Year's Meeting?

14:00 – 14:30

Synthesis and ending of the conference
(EuropeAid, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation)