Agenda 
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20 April 2010
Debate France24: Africa faced with the challenge of Democracy
France24, Paris
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25 March 2010
International Seminar : “taking part in public policies”
Paris, France
The IRG agenda
Forthcoming colloquial, conferences and seminars based around the key themes of the Institute.
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France24, Paris
Ousmane Sy, Vice-President of the IRG, took part in the debate “Africa faced with the challenge of Democracy” organised by the television Channel France24. Clips of the debate are available on the site www.france24.com.
Clips of the debate are available on the site www.france24.com
Part 1
Part 2
Paris, France
Last December, the CFSI (Comité français pour la solidarité internationale) invited the IRG to take part, in 2010, in a project capitalising the experience from a huge programme on “civil society and participation” conducted with the backing of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. This programme was notably aimed at increasing the participation of civil society organisations in the devising and implementation of public policies on development. Some fifteen CFSI member organisations were involved in some forty initiatives involving some twenty countries and offering an extraordinarily broad range of themes, methods, scales of intervention, advocacy issues, cooperation tools, etc.. The IRG chose to narrow its scope of observation to five case studies relating to initiatives conducted by four CFSI members with their Southern partners in two countries, Colombia and Madagascar. These case studies benefited from a number of filmed interviews and many other NGOs involved were interviewed. During a seminar co-organised by the CFSI and the IRG and bringing together representatives from Africa, Brazil, Haiti and Europe on 25 and 26 March in Paris, the main observations arising from the capitalisation of experience were debated. First and foremost the distinct evolution of North-South relations and the Southward shift of the partnerships’ centre of gravity was observable, along with a new definition of the legitimacies to intervene and the progress towards autonomization of a growing number of Southern partners. Second, it was possible to analyse the growing momentum, on the part of Southern NGOs, of political involvement models that are more and more frequently slotting in networks and alliances reinforcing their collective voices and enabling them to join, invite, create consultation forums in which to dialogue with the authorities.
The acts of this meeting and the capitalisation of experience report will shortly be available on both the IRG and the CFSI sites
Charlottesville, United States of America
The role of civil society towards co-producing health services and framing public health policies. In the framework of the “Co-production of public goods and multi-actor partnerships” programme, this seminar organised by the IRG and the University of Virginia with the support of the UNDP and the French embassy in Washington brought together some thirty participants from China, France and the United States. Researchers, students, patients’ association representatives, NGOs and consultants met together to share their experience and analyses concerning the governance of national policies on public health. They chose to focus their critical analysis on two themes that warranted a strong mobilisation from non-State actors in the three countries involved: The fight against HIV/AIDS and access to health for the most deprived populations. The debates addressed the positioning of non-State organisations towards the State and public policies, notably on potential tensions between partnership and independence, on the establishment of State and non-State actors’ legitimacy and, beyond, on dialoguing modalities and forums between authorities and civil society. The steps following this meeting will be the object of a publication in the autumn of 2010. This seminar was organised as part of the AGI, the Africa Governance Institute’s, activities towards political dialogue and advocacy for developmental governance in Africa. It follows the AGI’s inaugural workshop that took place in November 2009.
Dakar, Senegal
This seminar was organised as part of the AGI, the Africa Governance Institute’s activities towards political dialogue and advocacy for developmental governance in Africa. It follows on the AGI’s inaugural workshop that took place in November 2009.
Arusha, Tanzania
This colloquium is the third conference in the series “Meeting process for debate and proposals on governance in Africa”, a cycle of conferences that started in 2007 in Bamako-Mali. After the meeting in Polokwane-South Africa (June 2008), the Arusha colloquium gathered during three days (Nov.30th to Dec.2nd 2009) about sixty participants coming from five countries of the Eastern African sub-region (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania), from Southern Africa, and West Africa, as well as representatives from Latin America, the United-States, and France. The themes of the debate: sources of power legitimacy, constitutional processes, and the management of collective public goods. The participants are researchers, representatives of national and international public institutions, traditional and religious authorities, civil society leaders, trade unionists, media professionals, and representatives of the private sector. For the IRG and its partners, the challenge of this type of meeting is to highlight the benefits of a reflection on legitimacy in the evolution and reform of national and international public policies.
Salvador da Bahia (Brazil)
The IRG, in collaboration with Lausanne’s Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) and Paris’ Sciences Po University, will be leading two sessions at CLAD’s upcoming annual conference: a round table discussion on training in public affairs and a presentation of the programme offered by WOTPA (The World Observatory for Training in Public Affairs) a workshop reserved for WOTPA’s various partners, with the participation of representatives from the Externado University of Colombia, the National University of Colombia, the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Ecuador and Bolivia’s College of Plurinational Public Administration. WOTPA hosts a collection of resources and research on training in public affairs around the world. Its publicly accessible database lists and analyses more than 160 training programmes across all five continents and offers a range of analytical texts and presentations on training issues.
Salvador de Bahia, Brasil
The IRG, in collaboration with Lausanne’s Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) and Paris’ Sciences Po University, will be leading two sessions at CLAD’s upcoming annual conference: a round table discussion on training in public affairs and a presentation of the programme offered by WOTPA (The World Observatory for Training in Public Affairs) a workshop reserved for WOTPA’s various partners, with the participation of representatives from the Externado University of Colombia, the National University of Colombia, the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Ecuador and Bolivia’s College of Plurinational Public Administration.
More information on CLAD’s annual conference [es]:www.clad.orgColombia: from 20 to 28 April, Ecuador: from 29 April to 1 May, Chile: from 2 to 4 May, Peru: 5 and 6 May, Uruguay: 7 and 8 May
Pierre Calame author of La démocratie en miettes (Democracy in Tatters), visited South America from 20 April to 8 May to mark the publication of the Spanish version of his book in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Argentina. For associated texts, and photos of Pierre Calame’s visit please click here BLOG : http://wwww.institut-gouvernance.org/blog
Rambouillet (France)
The seminar will focus on a specific actor in civil society : the "self-help network", defending the rights of marginalised populations.
The defining characteristic of these networks is that members are personally concerned by the issue they defend. The IRG/Ford Foundation seminar is bringing together these networks in order for them to share their experiences in the establishment of advocacy strategies at the transnational level and to help evaluate strategies for developing alliances with others working in their field.
Paris, France
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Workshop of the OECD INCAF Task Team on Peacebuilding, State Building and Security
Co-organized by SciencesPoBordeaux (CEAN) and the Institute for Research and Debate on Governance (IRG) with support of BMZ, DFID, French MFEA, NORAD and OECD
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See terms of reference (PDF - 50 Kio)Lima, Peru
La rencontre de Lima s’inscrit dans le programme "Légitimité et enracinement des pouvoirs" et fait suite aux rencontres du parcours gouvernance en Afrique: celle de Bamako, au Mali, en janvier 2007, et celle de Polokwane, en Afrique du Sud, en septembre 2008. Avec une trentaine de participants d’origines socioprofessionnelles diverses (administration publique, sphère politique, secteur privé, communautés indigènes, coopération internationale, etc.), venant de pays de la région andine (Équateur, Pérou, Colombie et Bolivie) mais aussi d’Europe et d’Afrique, le colloque de Lima vise à élargir et à approfondir la dynamique de réflexion et de débat entamée en Afrique sur les sources de la légitimité des pouvoirs. La perspective est à la fois inter-acteurs, interculturelle et interdisciplinaire. Trois thèmes seront privilégiés sur la région andine:
1. Les différentes sources de légitimité du pouvoir dans la région andine;
2. Les processus d’intégration et d’articulation de ces diverses sources de légitimité;
3. L’étude d’un cas concret d’application: celui du foncier, considéré comme un bien publicPolokwane (South Africa)
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Movies of the meeting