Exceptional Events
SOU-62 | SUSTAINABLE FINANCING OF BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES IN AFRICAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
19 May
14:30 to 18:00
Venue: Room 12
LEAD ORGANIZER
PRESENTATION OF THE SESSION
In Africa, the transfer of financial resources from the central Government to local authorities is not always concomitant with the powers transferred, so that the said authorities have difficulty in fully fulfilling their missions, in particular facilitating access to basic social services (education, health, water, electricity and sanitation) To remedy this, the New Urban Agenda (NUA) opens up new prospects for financing local authorities. In point n°15, c 4, its goal is to: "put in place effective, innovative and sustainable systems that can strengthen municipal financing systems and budget systems at the local level in order to create, preserve and inclusively share the benefits of sustainable urban development. While some countries manage to allocate more than 15% of the national budget to local authorities, others are at less than 3%. It is therefore for local development actors to seize other endogenous and external financing opportunities. Also, how to optimize the mobilization of endogenous financial resources? how to seize the opportunities of international financial cooperation? How can local authorities be financed in return to ensure access to basic social services? To respond to this, the experience of countries from the North Africa (Morocco or Tunisia), East Africa (Kenya) and Southern Africa (South Africa) Sub-Regions will make it possible to build assistance, so that the least developed countries can draw avenues to consolidate their approaches. Goals of the session § Making known the strategies and financing mechanisms of local authorities in Africa; § Prospecting innovative pan-African mechanisms for financing local authorities; § Presenting the economic intelligence tools allowing to seize the financing niches (property tax, green financing): § Presenting best practices for financing basic social services/ Contribution of the session to the goals of the summit and Recommendations § Optimizing the collection of property tax in Africa; § Increasing the number of African municipalities benefiting from green financing; § Sharing best financing practices from RIAFCO members § Increase the number of African cities mobilizing resources on the international financial market; |
PANEL
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Chairperson
Georges ELANGA OBAM
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Rapporteur
Abasse Olousoumare
AU-STC n° 8
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Facilitator
Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o
Governor of Kisumu County, Republic of Kenya
Honourable Professor Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o is the Governor of Kisumu County, Republic of Kenya. Prior to his election as Governor, he was the Senator of Kisumu County from 2013 to 2017. Professor Nyong’o served as the Minister for Medical Services of the Republic of Kenya from 2008 to 2013. Before then, he was Minister for Planning and National Development from 2003 to 2005. As Planning Minister, Professor Nyong’o led the formulation of the Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation (ERS); the economic transformation blueprint credited for the positive turn in Kenya’s development under the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) government. An accomplished academic, he holds a M.A and PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Political Science & Philosophy from Makerere University College, Kampala – Uganda. He has published a number of books, articles in refereed journals as well as edited volumes on diverse issues in international politics and development. He is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), where he was also Head of Programmes, before moving to the African Research and Resource Forum (ARRF) as founding Director. Professor Nyong’o is an avid writer and editor. He edited New Path: Journal of African Intellectual Thought (African Research and Resource Forum, Nairobi) and was a member of the International Editorial Committee, Estudios de Asia y Africa, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico D.F and the International Advisory Board, Development and Change, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. From October to December 2013, Professor Nyong'o was a Brundtland Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In this role, he taught a course in the Department of Global Health and Population titled "Leadership Development in Global Health and Policy-Making in Kenya”. He has served in a number of international committees and Boards including the Africa Monitor; The Nelson Mandela Institute for Science Technology and the Advancement of Knowledge; and the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA). For his accomplishments, Professor Nyong’o has won two distinguished awards, namely the 1995 German-African Award for contribution to scholarship and democratization and the 2005 Africa Brain Gain Award by the Kenyan American Professional Association and Career Nation for contribution to reversing Africa’s brain drain.
Programme
Summary
Speakers
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Mr. Claude NGOMSI
Acting Senior Technical Advisor. Central Africa, UN-Habitat
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Mr. Eric MEKINDA
Head of Decentralized Cooperation Service
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Mr. Gregory NTEMEYOK MEWANU
Mayor of the city of KUMBA
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Mr. Servilien NITUNGA
Managing Director of FONIC (Burundi)
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Municipal Equipment Fund (F.E.C.) of Morocco
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Philippe Camille AKOA
Director General of FEICOM (Cameroon)
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UCLG Africa
GALLERY
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