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30 November 2009
International colloquium “Debate and proposals on governance in Africa” [+] [-]
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.
Arusha (Tanzania)
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27 October 2009
XIV International Congress of CLAD on State and Public Administration Reform [+] [-]
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.orgSalvador de Bahia, Brasil
Documents du mois
- 21 December 2009
China : social organisations facing the State
- 21 December 2009
Institute of research and debate on governance
An intercultural, cross-disciplinary and multi-actor forum exploring governance
The Institute for research and debate on governance is a « think tank » based in Paris, with an office in Bogota. Born of an FPH initiative, its mission is to facilitate debate on governance by delivering expertise, setting up training modules, organising seminars and gathering and disseminating documentation (website and publications). The IRG uses methods that are :
cross-disciplinary, cross-fertilising of contributions from specialists in political science, anthropology, economy, law, etc.
multi-actor, through connecting the realms of academia, national administration, civil society organisations, traditional and religious authorities.
international and intercultural, through connecting networks of researchers and practitioners from the five continents, the IRG brings out the diversity of cultural responses to issues of governance.
In 2008-2009 IRG’s activities will revolve around five programs:
Three of these programs address major governance issues and the way they are analysed:
legitimacy and the deep-rootedness of power;
-co-production of public goods and multi-actor partnerships;
institutional engineering and public action reform;
Two programs are concerned with the vectors of change in the field of governance:
public affairs training;
Analysis and evaluation of governance.
