VVSG - Winning through twinning WAY FORWARD

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1 WAY FORWARD

2 Local Government Associations Keep up the advocacy work! To Belgian federal and Flemish regional and Southern African national governments Service delivery/ advice of LGA in SA regarding MIC Subsidy programmes declaration of Paris Conference = good initiative more of the same In the end is the beginning

3 Conferences VVSG Mid-term evaluations Elaboration of new pluriannual plan for federal government Regional conference : Winnning through Twinning, city-to-city cooperation between Southern Africa and Flanders, Bloemfontein, South Africa 4-5 October 2010 City-to-city cooperation between Flanders and Latin America, Santo Tomas, NICARAGUA 28 March 1 April 2011 International conference on MIC, Gent, October 2011

4 Conferences To enhance and document vision on C2C To have maximum input from all stakeholders and actors involved from North and South Input for future programmes Shared vision on C2C

5 Important momentum LOCAL GOVERNMENTS =

6 Municipal international cooperation Buy-in! Political + civil society so that needs can be expressed and addressed

7 City-to-city cooperation =

8 C2C = means, not end Good Local Governance local democracy Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another

9 City-to-city cooperation WORKS

10 Colleague-to-colleague/ peer-to-peer approach

11 Partnership: different, but equal

12 Perceptions are different

13 Link C2C to strategic municipal planning 6th dimension linked to IDP

14 Communication and working visits Internal communication Bilateral communication (frequency) Public Relations communication Documentation good practices and lessons learned Working Visit important to meet Colleague-to-colleague approach Agreements on managing the city link

15 Monitoring & Evaluation

16 New Monitoring tools

17 Coordination Find ways for more coordination in Flanders and in Southern Africa Through UCLG network with other European-South African partnerships Dutch, Swedish, British, Finnish municipal partnerships Need for C2C coordinator within local governments in Flanders and in Southern Africa

18 Networking Strengthen South-South exchanges PROPOSALS Triangular cooperation: Francistown-Genk-Livingstone- Buffalo City New tools: ex. Cosmogolem Role LGAs in SA

19 Learning event Capacity development is key issue Organisational learning = institutional change

20 FEDERAL PROGRAMME South Africa: joint planning sessions South African programme: 1 Logical Framework Challenge: combine coordination + impact-level with autonomy of the local governments Challenge: Alleviate administrative load

21 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT Context is different Need for advocacy and lobby: role for and trust in Local Governments in Youth Policy Capacity building in national organization(s) Multi-stakeholder approach: civil society and local governments Volunteer management, LED for youngsters,

22 FOLLOW-UP CONFERENCE Reports Presentations on website EVALUATION FORMS Flanders: final meeting with Southern Africa group

23 Ultimate goal

24 Thank you for participating!