Agenda of session

1. Opening and introduction  :

Opening statement from Calisto COSSA Matola Mayor, President of IOPD

Allocution of Jean Pierre Elong MBASSI, General Secretary of UCGL Africa

Allocution of Alioune BADIANE, Director Programme Division UN HABITAT,

Session guidance, Bachir KANOUTE, Enda ECOPOP Coordinator

2. PANEL 1 

Presentations of citizen participation and PB's experience in African contexts: inventory, practices, advances and challenges

Honorable Deputy Aida MBODJ, County Council President Bambey, Senegal.

Jules Dumas NGUEBOU, General Coordinator of Assoal Cameroun

Honorable Mrs MWAMIKAZI Baharanyi Espérance, Provincial parliamentarian and et chief Sud Kivu DR Congo

Parfait RANDRIANITOVINA GIZ Madagascar

3. DEBATE 

4. PANEL 2 

Citizen participation and participatory budget: a tool for operationalization of the new issues on the agenda of local authorities

 Charter of rights to city (Pr Giovanni ALLEGRETTI, CES/University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Visiting Fellow at the School of Architecture & Planning, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg)

 LENA LANGLET, coordinator of the Democratic Dialogue Program of the Sweish Association of Local Authorities, SALAR/SKL

 The summit “Habitat 3” in perspective (Pr Yves CABANNES, DPU/UCL London).

5. Debate  moderated by the chairman of the session

6. Summary, reading of recommendations and adoption (Mansour DIAGNE Enda ECOPOP and MOBIO Logbé Carine ROPAO) (20min)