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Prince Sultan University in
Collaboration with
United Nations Development Programme
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The Local Governance
Forum is in-line with current developments in the Kingdom,
namely its renewed commitment to good governance and,
especially as is reflected in the conduct of Municipal Council
Elections. Notwithstanding government commitment to reform,
the kingdom faces several legislative, structural and
institutional challenges. The LGF is intended to be a policy
-oriented event of concrete relevance and utility to
participants by providing a platform for discussion and,
hopefully, consensus on major issues of relevance to local
governance in the national context.
In the framework of this project,
UNDP assistance in improving
decentralization and good local governance will specifically
target the following:
1. Increasing awareness of good governance, democratic
decentralization and participatory local governance practices
by providing, evaluating and facilitating LGF discussions and
debates.
2. Providing Good Local Governance policy papers,
background documents, case studies and lessons-learned from
international and regional countries.
3. Mediating and facilitating discussions and debates
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a) The enabling environment for local governance |
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The national
legislative framework and inter-governmental relations |
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Fiscal
decentralization |
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The impact of
socio-economic local development |
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Institutional Capacities |
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Civil service
reform |
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Local and central
institutional capacity building |
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The importance of
strategic, widespread, intensive and innovative use of ICT
toward free and transparent flows of information |
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Empowerment and Citizen Participation |
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Accountability
and citizens' participation |
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Participatory
planning, budgeting and monitoring and evaluation |
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Local economic
revitalization |
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Creating an enabling environment for the kingdom's various
local governance stakeholders to contribute to a share future
vision for local governance as will be documented in the KSA
Good Local Governance Publication (first quarter of 2006).
This publication is part and parcel of the concrete follow-up
for policy makers on good local governance which will also
provide opportunities for strengthening cooperation between
stakeholders and
UNDP.
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