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Local Autorities

Local representatives are at the heart of most contemporary challenges. Their key position is enhanced to an ever greater extent through the process of globalisation which highlights the need for an integrated system of local governance more than ever before. Within this framework, the forum of local representatives aims at creating a platform for the exchange of opinions and experience which would enable those central actors to take into account a global perspective.

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Territories and Sustainable Development, Adaptation or Change of Paradigm ? Consequences for the Local Institutions
:: Pierre Calame :: February 2007 ::

This article develops the following thesis : territories will be essential for tomorrow's governance in the sense that it will answer this two essential necessities : 1) combining policies and actors in an integrated approach ; 2) combining scales of governance from local to global. This text is a summary of a presentation given at the conference on territorial interviews in Strasbourg directed to local authorities. Sustainable development is not something that can be reflected at the end of the thinking process. It offers the possibility to rethink society, its development and (...)

Local governance in rural areas of India
:: Laurence Hugues :: December 2001 ::

Since many years, Mr Shasma has been working for the development of his village of Chakol, the place he lives in and represents. He is militing for local governance policies based on participation of rural communities Local governance is the base of rural development and democracy. This is the opinion of Mr Suresh K Shasma, who is an active member of the Zila Parishad (local assembly) of the district of Kangra, in Himachal Pradesh. In this area of India, the local governance has been distributed through different levels. The Gram Sabha, the village assembly, is the first level, the next (...)

The local government impact on the international stage :: May 2001 ::

The document presents the different interventions of the Convention of the FMCU-IULA unit. The importance of the local level is underlined. The local authority role must be reinforced. Intervening parties are unanimes : it is necessary to think locally to construct propositions and to act globally. For Daisy Makaga, mayor deputy of Libreville, the legitimacy of the municipal movement must be reinforced by the democratic election. In the same way, for Heinrich Hoffschutte, president of the German city association, the seated legitimacy on the local democracy is again stronger that the (...)

Local authorities Charter for a responsible and united world :: December 2000 ::

The November and December first project proceedings. The local authorities Charter is a synthesis that allies the main preocupations of the college with the efforts and actions from the Alliance The text presents in five points the affirmation of some fundamental principles to guide the work of local authorities and a draft of a few perspectives where the reflection must be located. The charter hears, in the local-world society construction: to affirm the principle of the unit in the diversity, to show the necessity of a solidarity and a just tolerance, l construction of (...)

The Future of the Big Territorial Entities :: September 1998 ::

Reflection seminar of the general secretaries; Strasbourg 29-30/09/98 This article is the synthesis of a seminar gathering general secretaries of cities held in Strasbourg in autumn 1998. At a time when decentralisation in France emphasises the responsibilities of the territorial collectives, it is interesting to see how the administrative officials of collectivities question themselves about their role, their references and the crisis of the local representative democracy. Documents FR124 ko, 13 (...)

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