PLATFORMA FORUM

Development and participatory governance Which multi-actor partnerships in Europe and in partner countries?

2-3 April 2012, Florence, Italy Cenacolo Santa Apollonia, Via San Gallo, 25

Draft programme (As of 26 March 2012)

Further to the structured dialogue initiated by the European Commission on the involvement of local and regional authorities and civil society in international cooperation, this Forum intends pursuing the reflection on partnerships between these actors and their respective added-values in development. The Italian experience, and in particular the experience of the Tuscany region in managing local consultation groups, will feed in the discussions. The debates will focus on multi- actor partnership models with the perspective from both European development stakeholders and local and regional authorities and civil society from partner countries. Concrete partnerships between towns or regions with NGO that have led to wider ownership by local communities, improved participatory governance at local level and wider access to basic services will be discussed.

PLATFORMA holds a European Forum on an annual basis, at the invitation of a European or region involved in development cooperation. The discussions will strengthen the knowledge base for PLATFORMA’s activities as well as its ongoing dialogue with the EU institutions.

2 April 2012

9h00 – 13h00 Meeting for PLATFORMA members

14h15-14h30 Welcome of participants

14h30-15h15 Opening of the Forum

Enrico Rossi, President of the Tuscany Region

Michele Picciano, President of the Italian association of the European Council of and Regions (AICCRE)

Pierre Schapira, Deputy Mayor of Paris and Carles Llorens i Vila, Director General for development cooperation, Region PLATFORMA spokespersons

Leonardo Domenici, Member of the European Parliament

15h15-16h00 Governing development partnerships, the Italian experience

Chaired by Francesco Petrelli, President of Oxfam Italy

- The Italian framework for development cooperation Andrea Stocchiero, CESPI - Giorgio Garelli, Regione Piemonte* - Fabio Laurenzi, Representative of Tuscan NGOs

Questions and answers

16h00-16h30 Coffee break

16h30-18h00 Consultation frameworks at the local level and division of labour between European development cooperation actors - Models and perspectives

Chaired by: Eleni Marianou, Secretary General of the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions (CPMR)

- Xavi Tiana Casablancas, Head of the European Cooperation Office, Province of , - Paola Berbeglia, DARE Forum, Italy, CONCORD - Susanne Stephan, Project Manager "Partnership for Democratic Local Governance in Southeast-Asia", Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, and Francesca Traldi, Fondazione Magna Carta - Isabel Fezer, Deputy Mayor of the city of Stuttgart, Germany - Jean-Noël Gaultier, First vice-president of the international affairs Committee, Pays de la Loire Region, France

Questions and answers

19h00 Cocktail dinner, Palazzo Vecchio

3 April 2012

9h00-10h45 Local democracy and participatory governance in partner countries – models and perspectives

Chaired by: Carl Wright, Secretary General of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF)

- Maher Bouazzi, Mayor of Kasserine, Tunisia - Massimo Toschi, Advisor of the President of the Tuscany Region on International Cooperation - Cézar Busatto, Secretary for Political Coordination and Local Governance, City of Porto Alegre, Brazil, United Cities and Local Governments representative - Gidon Bromberg, Director of the Tel-Aviv office, Friends of the Earth Middle East

Questions and answers

Thanks to the hosting of the Tuscany Region With the support of the European Commission

10h45-11h15 Coffee break

11h15-13h00 Final Roundtable

What lessons learnt from multi-actor partnerships? What added values for local democracy? Building on the results of the European structured dialogue, how should such partnerships evolve and be encouraged by the European institutions?

Chaired by: Jean Bossuyt, Head of strategy, European centre for development policy management (ECDPM)

- Patrice Tirolien, Member of the European Parliament, Member of the Development Committee - Angelo Baglio, Head of Unit Civil Society and Local Authorities, DG DEVCO, European Commission - Pierre Schapira, Deputy Mayor of Paris, PLATFORMA spokesperson - Carles Llorens i Vila, Director General for development cooperation, Catalonia Region, PLATFORMA spokesperson - Olivier Consolo, Director of CONCORD* - Marco Falcone, Development Cooperation Directorate General, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Questions and answers

13h00-13h30 Address of Mario Giro, Advisor of the Italian Minister for international cooperation and integration

Conclusions and approval of the final declaration

Frédéric Vallier, Secretary General, Council of European Municipalities and Regions

13h30 Closing of the Forum

* : speaker to be confirmed

Thanks to the hosting of the Tuscany Region With the support of the European Commission