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Decentralised Cooperation For Development

9-10 April 2013

Committee of the Regions ���� Brussels

101 Rue Belliard 1040

Brussels

Speakers Mr Roberto Grilo, Vice-President for Cooperation Affairs, Region of Alentejo, Portugal Mr Roger Gurdian, Mayor of the city of Léon, Nicaragua Ms Lotta Häkansson Harju, Member of the Järfälla Municipal Council, Member of the Committee of the Regions, Sweden Ms Oumou Sall Seck, Mayor of Goundam, Mali Mr Jaroslaw Sloma, Vice-president of Warmia-Masuria Province, Poland Ms Thi Thu Thuy Nguyen, President of the Popular Committee of the Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam Mr Lambert van Nistelrooij, Member of Committee on Regional Development, European Parliament Mr Ronald Hall, Principal Adviser, Directorate General for Regional Policy, European Commission Rapporteur Mr Abdoulaye Sene, Member of the Regional Council of Fatick, President of the Global Local Forum, Senegal Moderator Mr Erik Nyindu, Editor in Chief, VoxAfrica

Room: JDE 52 Language: EN, ES, FR, PL , DE, PT

Programme

RT 1 : Cross-Border and interregional cooperation, decentralised cooperation in support of regional integration

Tuesday 09 April 2013

14h30-15h00: Opening Session

Mr Gerhard Stahl, Secretary General, Committee of the Regions Mr Klaus Rudischhauser, Deputy Director General, Directorate General for Development and Cooperation EuropeAid, European Commission

Room: JDE 52

Listening room: JDE 51 & JDE 53 Languages: EN, ES, FR, IT, DE, PT

15h00-15h30: Coffee break

RT 2 : Local and regional authorities and the international agenda on development post-2015

Speakers Ms Mercedes Bresso, Councillor for Piedmont Region, First Vice-President, Committee of the Regions Mr Paul Carrasco, Prefect, Azuay Province, President of ORU-FOGAR, Equator Ms Moraig Henderson, Deputy Director, Brussels UNDP office Mr Carles Llorens, Director General of cooperation for development, Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain Ms Fatimetou Mint Abdel Malick, Mayor of Tevragh-Zeina, President of Network of Local Elected Women of Africa (REFELA), Mauritania Mr Chris Vanden Bilcke, Head of Liaison Office to the EU, UNEP Mr Santiago Fisas Ayxela, Member of the Deve Committee, European Parliament Mr Patrick Rabe, Policy Co-ordinator, Unit A1 Policy coherence, DG Devco, European Commission Rapporteur Mr Hubert Julien Laferrière, City councillor of Lyon, France Moderator Mr James Mackie, Senior Adviser, European Centre for Development Policy

Management (ECDPM), The Netherlands Room: JDE 51 Language: EN, ES, FR, DE, IT, PT

15h30-18h30: Thematic round tables

RT 4 : Capacity building of local and regional authorities: a support for development

Speakers Mr Syed M. Asghar Shah Gillani, President of Local Councils Association of the Punjab, Pakistan Mr Mohamed Boudra, President of the Region Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate and Member of ARLEM, Morocco Ms Marian Elorza, Secretary-General of External Affairs, Basque Government, Spain, Ms Gertrude Rose Gamwera, Secretary-General, Uganda Local Governments Association, Uganda Ms Milagros Navas Herrera, Mayor of Antiguo Cuscatlán Municipality, Chairperson of Corporación de Municipalidades de El Salvador, Salvador Mr Hans Janssen, Mayor of Oisterwijk, Member of the Committee of the Regions, The Netherlands Mr Alexander Osadci, Congress of Local Authorities from Moldova, Moldova Mr Pierre Shapira, Deputy-Mayor of the City of Paris and Platforma Spokesperson, France Mr Angelo Baglio, Head of Unit, Unit B2-Civil Society, Local Authorities, DG Devco, European Commission Rapporteur Mr Jean-Pierre Elong Mbassi, General Secretary, United Cities and Local Governments of Africa Moderator Mr Joshua Massarenti, Afronline.org, Vita Room: VMA 3 Language: EN, ES, FR, DE, PT, IT

18h30-20h30: Cocktail (JDE Atrium 5)

Speakers Mr Soulé Alagbe, Mayor of Parakou, Vice-President of the Council of Local Communities (CCT) of the

WAEMU, Benin Mr Sanjay Chauhan, Mayor of Shimla, India Mr Josep Oliva y Santiveri, Provincial Councillor for Social Welfare, Public Health and Consumptions,

Diputacio de Barcelona, Spain Mr Moustapha El Moutaouakil, President of Taroudant Municipal Council, Morroco Mr Luis A. Revilla Herrero, Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia Mr Joel Riguelle, Mayor, Berchem-Sainte-Agathe Municipality, Belgium Mr Luc Van den Brande, Chairman of the Flemish - European Liaison Agency, Member of Committee of the

Regions Mr Charles White, Administrator, DG for Regional and Urban Policy, European Commission Rapporteur Mr Hani Abdalmasih Al-Hayek, Mayor of Beit Sahour, Member of ARLEM, Palestine Moderator Mr Gie Goris, Editor in Chief, MO - mondiaal nieuws Room: VMA 1 Language: EN, ES, FR , AR, DE, IT

RT 5 : Towards a new European Commission Communication on Local Authorities in Development: the results of the consultation

RT 3 : Decentralised cooperation as a tool for addressing the challenges of

Speakers Mr Boubacar Bah, Mayor of Bamako IV Commune, President of Association of Mali Municipalities, 2nd

Vice-President of the Council of Local Communities of the WAEMU Mali Mr Mircea Cosma, President of Prahova County Council, Member of the Committee of the Regions,

Romania Mr Marin Casimir Ilboudo, Mayor of Ouagadougou, President of Burkina Faso Association of Municipalities,

Burkina Faso Ms Arame Ndoye, Minister for Territorial Affairs and local government, Sénégal Mr André Viola, President of the Aude General Council, President of ADF international relations and

decentralised cooperation commission, President of Arc Latin, France Mr Francisco Toajas Mellado, Mayor of Las Cabezas de San Juan, Spain Mr Luis Radhamés Minier Perez, Mayor of the City of Comendador, Dominican Republic Mr Jorge Rodriguez Bilbao, Administrator, Unit B2- Civil Society, Local Authorities, DG Devco, European

Commission Rapporteur Mr Dorin Chirtoaca, Mayor of Chisinau, Co-chair of the Conference of Regional and Local Authorities for

the Eastern Partnership (CORLEAP), Moldova Moderator Mr Mamadou Sembene, Director of Decentralised cooperation House, AMBF, Burkina Faso

Room: JDE 53 Language: EN - FR - ES & RO passive

Wednesday 10 April 2013

10h00-13h30: Plenary session

Ms Mercedes Bresso, Councillor for Piedmont Region

First Vice-President, Committee of the Regions

Mr Kristian Schmidt, Director, Human and Society Development Directorate, DG for Development and

Cooperation-EuropeAid, European Commission

Mr Joseph Costello, Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade with responsibility

for Trade and Development, Ireland

Ms Eva Joly, President of the Deve Committee, European Parliament (tbc)

Mr Abdoulaye Sene, Member of the Regional Council of Fatick, President of the Global Local Forum,

Senegal

Mr Hubert Julien Laferrière, City councillor of Lyon, France

Mr Dorin Chirtoaca, Mayor of Chisinau, Co-chair of the Conference of Regional and Local Authorities for

the Eastern Partnership, CORLEAP, Moldova

Mr Hani Abdalmasih Al-Hayek, Mayor of Beit Sahour, Member of ARLEM, Palestine

Mr Jean-Pierre Elong Mbassi, General Secretary, United Cities and Local Governments of Africa

Mr Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, President of the Autonomous Community of Murcia

President of Committee of the Regions

Mr Andris Piebalgs, Member of the European Commission in charge of Development

Room: JDE 62

Listening room: JDE 51, 52

Languages: EN, ES, FR, DE, IT, PT

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Associated seminar C

Associated seminar E

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Associated Seminars

Welcome Mr Thomas Wobben, Director, Directorate for Horizontal policies and Networks, Committee of the

Regions Mr Antonio Marquez Camacho, Head of Sector, Unit B2 - Civil Society and Local Authorities, DG Devco,

European Commission Speakers Ms Lia Giovanazzi Beltrami, Member of the Provincial Government of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy Mr Ali Berisha, Mayor of Peja Pec, Kosovo Ms Sara Franch, Research Officer of the Training Centre for International Cooperation (TCIC), Trento, Italy Mr Eduardo Galantini, Mayor Monte-Caseros, Argentina Mr Horacio Guerrero, Director of Iplaneg, Institute of Planification of Guanajuato State, Mexico Mr Pinto José Martins, Executive Director of the District Service for Infrastructure and Planning, Caia, Mozambique Ms Rose-Marie Saint-Germes Akar, Vice-President of Communauté d’Agglomération of Cergy-Pontoise, Administrator of F3E, France Ms Maria-Luisa Zapata, Deputy Director for International Cooperation at the City of Medellin, Colombia Moderators Mr Eric Recoura, Vice-President of the ARRICOD and Director of International Relations of the City of Grenoble, France Mr Paolo Rosso, Senior Trainer of the Training Centre for International Cooperation (TCIC), Trento, Italy Room: JDE 51 Languages: EN, FR, PT

Programme

AS A : Impact of decentralised cooperation: evaluating relationships between territories

AS B : Migrations, mobility and development: which role for local and regional authorities?

Speakers Mr José Da Costa, Head of project Local Governance and social et cohesion, Urban Community of Nouakchott, Mauritania Mr Antonio Garcia Nieto, Technical Advisor for the Murcia Region, Spain Ms Cécile Riallant, Programme Manager, Joint migration and development initiative, UNDP Mr Mamadou Sene, Director of Diourbel Regional Agency, Senegal Mr Augustin Sambiani, Member of the national Parliament, Togo Ms Helene Bourgade, Head of Unit B3 Quality of Operations for Social and human development and migration, DG Devco, European Commission Mr Robertus Rozenburg, Head of Unit, Unit 2 - External relations and enlargement, DG Home Affairs, European Commission Moderators Ms Lorenza Badiello, Head of the Bruxelles office of Emilia Romagna and Erlai network representative in

Brussels, Italy Ms Antonella Bisceglia, Director of the migration policies department, Puglia Region, Italy Room: JDE 53 Language: EN, FR, IT, ES Passive

Tuesday 09 April

09h30-13h00

AS C : Decentralised Cooperation: toward a Multi-stakeholder and Multi-level approach

AS D : European Union support to decentralised cooperation

Welcome Mr Paul Ortega, Director of the Basque Agency for Development Cooperation,

Basque Government, Spain Mr Giovanni Camilleri, International Coordinator of the UNDP ART Programme Mr Oriano Otocan, President of the Association of Local Democracy Agencies Speakers Mr Levon Barseghyan, Councillor in Gyumri Municipality, Armenia Mr Guillermo Herrera, Prefect of Del Carchi province, Ecuador Mr Enrique Urrutia, Director of Institutional Relations and Innovation of the Basque Agency for Water,

Spain Ms Mina Rouchati, Regional Councillor of Tangier Tetouan, Morocco Mr Henry Valot, Outreach Director of World Alliance for Citizens Participation CIVICUS, South

Africa Mr Stéphane Zapata Director of the Association of Pays Vichy-Auvergne, France Mr Charles Goerens, Member of Deve committee, European Parliament Mr Vincent Grimaud, Head of Unit, A5-Aid and development effectiveness financing, DG Devco,

European Commission Moderator Mr Luc Van den Brande, Chairman of the Flemish - European Liaison Agency, Member of Committee of the

Regions Room: JDE 52 Language: EN - ES - FR

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Mr Maurizio Baradello, Director of International Cooperation and Peace Department, City of Turin, Italy

Mr Agustí Fernandez de Losada, Team leader of the EC funded study on decentralised cooperation

Ms Sonia Gallo, Head of sector, European Resources Department, Provincial Council of Malaga, Spain

Mr Juan de Los Santos, President of Dominican Federation of Municipalities (FEDOMU), Dominican Republic

Mr George Wanjala Kombo, Representative of Kapenguria City, Kenya

Mr Christophe Rouillon, Mayor of Coulaines, Member of the Committee of the Regions

Moderator Mr Jacques Perrot, Administrator, Unit B2 - Civil Society and Local Authorities, DG Devco, European

Commission Room: JDE 62 Language: EN, ES, FR

Wednesday 10 April

15h00-17h30

Speakers Ms Annie Anne, Vice-President in charge of International and European Affairs, Basse-Normandie Region, France Mr Elio De Anna, Regional Minister for European and international affairs of Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region, Italy Mr Oriano Otocan, Director of the international cooperation and European integration Department, Istria Region, Croatia

Mr Alessandro Perelli, Vice-President of Association of Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA)

Mr Dominique Retailleau, Councillor in General Council of Territoire de Belfort in charge of Education and Youth, member of AFCEMR, France Mr Franz Schausberger, Delegate of the Region of Salzburg, Member of the Committee of the Regions, Austria

Mr Suad Zeljkovic, President of Sarajevo Canton Government, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ms Marije Cornelissen, Member of Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET), European Parliament

Mr Lawrence Meredith, Head of Unit, A1, Strategy and Policy, DG Elarg, European Commission

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Ms Katarina Sipic, European Projects Association Room: JDE 63 Language: BS, EN, FR Overflow room: JDE 53

AS E : The Western Balkans joining the EU: the contribution of decentralized cooperation

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17h30: Ends