MDP
2005

 

The following was undertaken by MDP-ESA in 2005. Please click the appropriate link to access the information you require

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To read on the details of the bulleted items below, download the annual report

POLICY RESEARCH AND GOVERNANCE
  • Ministers Conference on Leadership Capacity Building for Decentralized Governance and Poverty Reduction for Sub-Saharan Africa 6 – 8 June, Kigali, Rwanda

  • Founding Congress of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA) May 15-18, 2005, Tswhane, South Africa

  • Un-Habitat Expert Working Group Meeting on PB 22-25 November, 2005, Nairobi, Kenya

DIRECT SUPPORT TO MUNICIPALITIES

Africa Local Governance Programme (ALGP)

Africa Local Governance Programme and Local Government Competencies

  • Knowledge Management Workshop, September 2005, Bamako, Mali

  • Inter-regional workshop on Building Competencies in Local Government to Mainstream Gender and HIV/AIDS/Endemic Diseases, October 2005, Bagamoyo, Tanzania

  • The second Inter-Regional Workshop on Building Competencies in Local Government: Mainstreaming Gender, Malaria (Endemic Diseases) and HIV AIDS, November 2005, Ghana

  • Strengthening Municipal Responses to HIV/AIDS in Blantyre City Assembly

  • Study Tour of Ndola City Council, in Zambia, July 2005

  • Launch of 20-Day Activism, 22nd October, 2005

  • Orientation Workshop on Community Conversation for members of Ward Health Committee and other key stakeholders

  • Localising Millennium Development Goals in Local Authorities in Africa: Pilot Project in Marondera Municipality, Zimbabwe

  • The Lake Victoria Region Urban Development Initiative - Local Authorities Response to HIV/AIDS in the Lake Victoria Region

PROMOTING DECENTRALISED CO-OPERATION

  • Kadoma / Njeru Technical Exchange

  • Parliamentarians from Uganda Visit Zimbabwe

TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING DIMENSIONS

  • Fifth Edition of the Africa Local Governance Action Forum (ALGAF)

  • The Africa Good Governance Programme on the Radio Waves

  • Municipal Management Course for African Mayors and Local Government Leaders, 1st – 4th February 2005

  • The 7th Urban & City Management Course for Africa: Face - Face and Distance Learning Version

  • Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Financial Management National Course

  • Promoting Social Accountability in Anglophone Africa

  • Participatory Budgeting Knowledge & Action Support Facility for Africa

  • Preparations for the Annual Distance Learning Course on Participatory  Budgeting Knowledge

URBAN AGRICULTURE PROGRAMME

  • Launching the Cities Farming for the Future Programme

  • The Launching of the Bulawayo Multi-Stakeholders Urban Agriculture Forum

  • Implementation of the Training of Trainers for Urban Agriculture in the MPAP Process , 14th – 18th November 2005, Harare, Zimbabwe

  • Policy Seminar on Urban Agriculture

  • Stakeholders Workshop to Discuss Botswana Urban Agriculture Policy

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

  • The Local Government Forum e-News Bulletin

  • Zimbabwe International Book Fair 31 July – 6 August 2005

  • Preparations for the Fourth edition of Africities Summit

  • The ACP – Local Government Platform Management Committee  Meeting with EU-ACP in Brussels, Belgium

Supporting Partnerships

  • The Commonwealth Local Government Conference on Deepening Local Democracy March 15 to 17, 2005 in Aberdeen, Scotland

  • The 12th PRC Meeting of the Urban Management Programme (UMP),  21st to 23rd February 2005, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

  • The Conference on ‘Citizen Engagement for Enhanced Accountability in Africa May 3-5, 2005 in Accra, Ghana.

  • Establishment of the East African Local Government Association April 10, 2005 in Kampala, Uganda

  • Participation in the Fourth Globalization Forum from 9th to 11th, October 2005

  • Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Africa Fund Roundtable Meeting 6th – 8th June 2005

  • Africa Development Bank Workshop on Local Governance and Poverty Reduction in Africa

  • Training on Evaluating Impact of Training on Performance and Service Delivery 4-7 October, 2005, at Manchester University, United Kingdom

  • Training on Integrating HIV and AIDS in Development Programmes  21st of August to the 30th of September 2005

  • Training on Citizens Report Card,  November 7 - 12, 2005, Bangalore, India