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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)

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.org

Salvador de Bahia, Brasil

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  • Séverine Bellina

    General secretary

    Séverine Bellina is a Doctor of Public Administration, specialised on governance, institutionalization of power and normative pluralism in Africa. She is currently General secretary of the Institute for Research and Debate on Governance. From December 2004 to March 2008 she acted as a consultant on issues of democratic governance with the Directorate of Development Policy of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs - France - and has actively contributed to the drafting of the French strategy for governance development cooperation. She has also been an expert partner in the Democratic Governance Group Bureau for Development Policy Program United Nations Development (UNDP-BDP), stationed in Dakar and Regional Center in Oslo on governance with the Director. Séverine Bellina has served as consultant to the European Commission. She is a teacher at SciencePo Paris.


  • Martin Vielajus

    deputy director

    Martin Vielajus is a graduate of the International Affairs Masters of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences-po). Until October 2006 he assumed a parallel function to that at the IRG, as a part of the teaching executive at Sciences-po. His main fields of study are the forms and modes of action of civil society actors, and the perceptions of governance criteria in the different cooperation policies. The intercultural orientation on the IRG follows his experience at UNESCO and in several cultural institutions.

    email : martin.vielajus (@)institut-gouvernance.org

    Tel : +33(0)1 43 14 75 86


  • Michel Sauquet

    Director

    Michel Sauquet is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences-po) and a doctor in applied economics. He has spent the large part of his professional career, since the beginning of the 1970s in the areas of international cooperation, intercultural dialogue and communication for development notably in Africa and Latin America for various NGOs, international organisations and for the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation. Vice-President of the Alliance of Independent publishers, he is currently a teacher at Sciences-po and the author of around fifteen published books.

    email : michel.sauquet (@) institut-gouvernance.org

    Tel : +33(0)1 43 14 75 73


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