Training in Municipal Development, Decentralization, and Municipality Management

Interest and purpose of the training

• Taking account of transition issues for sustainable local development. and deconcentration: origins and multiple forms
• Relations between the State and local authorities: convergences, divergences and articulations
• The operation of local authorities: the decentralised exercise of powers linked to territorial development
• Public space, general interest, democracy, governance, civil society and citizenship: concepts
• Knowing and understanding the movements of local development and territorial development to move from project mode to a territorial approach to development
• Understand the role of local development in the transformation of territories and analyse its practices
• To set up and manage territorial governance and coordination mechanisms
• Build diagnostic/leadership tools focused on supporting change

Course outlines

• Decentralisation and deconcentration: origins and multiple forms
• Territory, territorial development, local development and sustainable development
• Relations between the State and local and regional authorities: convergences, divergences and articulations.
• The operation of local authorities: the decentralised exercise of powers linked to territorial development
• Public space, general interest, democracy, governance, civil society and citizenship: concepts
• Support for decentralisation processes: positions and approaches.
• A framework for reading a process and local governance
• Stakes and framing of a policy and a strategy for territorial coordination
• Understanding and analysing a territory: prospective territorial diagnosis in the light of transitions and territorial social innovation

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