Seminar local governance & decentralisation

Intercooperation has defined in its business policy 2002-2005 "local governance and civil society" as one of its three core competences. At the beginning of the year 2002 the new "Municipal and Local Development Team" was established. In the framework of the yearly "Intercooperation-week" where all the delegates and the staff of the Intercooperation desk in Bern meet during one week to discuss and plan the different programmes and projects and institutional issues, a one day seminar on "local governance" was organised.

The main aim of the seminar with over 50 participants (IC staff, main partners of Intercooperation, main consultants, other persons and organizations working in the field of "local governance") was

• to introduce the new topic and position it within IC's portfolio
• to inform and exchange about ongoing experiences, different approaches and first lessons learned

The quality of the inputs, the fact that also many external experts and IC-partners participated in the seminar and brought in their experiences as well as the active participation and discussion of all participants made the seminar a big success.

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• Programme Thematic Day Local Governance (75 KB)
• Hilmar Stetter, Intercooperation: Introduction Municipal and Local Development (148 KB)
• Prof. Walter Kälin, Institute for Public Law University of Bern: Local Governance and Decentralization (65 KB)
• Prof. Walter Kälin: Government Decentralization (118 KB)
• Jean-François Cuénod, SDC: SDC Policy on Governance and Decentralization (65 KB)
• Pascal Arnold, Intercooperation: Municipal Development Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina (185 KB)
• Andreas Tarnutzer, Consultant: Local Governance and Decentralization in India (65 KB)