This document contains the guiding principles for a renewed local democracy and a partnership between the authorities and inhabitants/ city-dwellers.
This document has been prepared for the West African inhabitants' meeting "Africités" in May 2000 and for the world conference on popular districts' inhabitants in Mexico City in October 2000. This article contains the guiding principles for a renewed local democracy and a partnership between the authorities and inhabitants/ city-dwellers. These principles have been elaborated during the 90s through several international encounters: Caracas (1991), Salvador (1993), Istanbul (1996), Dakar (1998).
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