In this project, presented in the framework of the program ‘;Non-State Actors and Local Authorities’, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is in association with UCLG-Asia Pacific section (ASPAC), Latin American Section (FLACMA), East African Local Governments Association (EALGA), the associations of local authorities for Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal.
Overall objectives are to support the process of decentralization and local democracy in developing countries, and notably in the Less Advanced Countries, to strengthen local development and ‘;good governance’.
Specific objective is to have strengthened the LAs in their capacity to analyze, to define agendas of priorities and to dialogue with States and regional institutions in support of the decentralization process and the role of local authorities in development cooperation in the three regions of the world (Africa, Latin America, South East Asia).