The United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa) are heading to the city
of Rabat, Morocco, for a training workshop for the first cohort of the members
of Pan African Local Government Peer Review, reports ITRealms.
The workshop, ITRealms
gathered, has been slated for November 1
and 2 at River Hotel to allow self-assessment and peer learning within the
local government community of Africa, with an aim to drastically improve the
delivery capacity and good governance of local governments and their national
associations.
ITRealms reports
that the Pan African Peer Review Programme ambition is to bring a local and
territorial perspective to the African Peer Review Mechanism of the African
Union (APRM).
This Programme, ITRealms
recalled was launched in 2012 with the financial support of the Luxembourg
Grand Duchy, and the technical support of the Local Government Association of
England & Wales (LGA) of the United Kingdom. It started as a pilot project
of 5 peer review exercises targeting 3 categories of cities that expressed interest
for it: small (less than 100,000 inhabitants) in Otjiwarongo (Namibia);
medium-size (between 100,000 and 1 million inhabitants); in Tiassale (Cote
d’Ivoire); and major cities (over 1 million inhabitants) in Yaounde (Cameroon);
as well as 2 national associations of local government in Ghana with the
National Association of Local Government of Ghana (NALAG) and Uganda, with the
Ugandan Local Government Association (ULGA).
ITRealms also reports
that these peer review exercises were highly appreciated by the political
leadership in all the five institutions, following which the office bearers of
UCLG Africa decided to transform the pilot project into a full-fledged Pan
African Local Government Peer Review Programme.
The 2-day training workshop is meant to capacitate the local
government officials and officers that volunteered to serve as members of the
Pan African Local Government Review Team to master the process and skills
needed to efficiently implement a peer review exercise.
The workshop will be attended by 35 participants from all
the regions of Africa, and will include: Political Leaders; City Managers;
Chief City Finance Officers; Chief City Technical Officers; Permanent
Secretaries of National Associations of Local Governments; Directors of
UCLG-Africa Regional Offices.
Nonye Dom/GEE
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