IOPD Africa, Enda ECOPOP, Municipality of Cotonou (BENIN), Municipality of Pikine (SENEGAL), Municipality of Maputo (MOZAMBIQUE), ONDDL (MADAGASCAR)

Speakers:

• M. Jean Luc Atrokpa: Mayor of Cotonou- Benin, President of IOPD Africa
• Bachir Kanoute: Secretary General of the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy for Africa (IOPD Africa) 
• Amadou Diarra: Mayor of Pikine Est - Senegal
• Alain Ramanana: Director of the National Observatory of Decentralization and Local Development of Madagascar
• Said Jamal: Focal point of the International Observatory for Participatory Democracy in Africa – IOPD, Good Governance Advisor (Maputo Urban Transformation Project), Province Coordinator, Deutsche Gesell- schaft für Internationale Zusammen-arbeit (GIZ)

Session schedule:

• Brief presentation of institution the speakers
• First speaker: Opening remarks by Luc ATROKPA President of IOPD Africa
• Second speaker: Introduction and framing for Bachir KANOUTE, SG OIDP Africa
• Third speaker: 1st Experience from SENEGAL (Amadou DIARRA)
• Fourth speaker: 2nd Experience from MADAGASCAR, (Alain RAMANANA)
• Fifth speaker: 3rd experience from MOZAMBIQUE (Said JAMAL)
• Exchange: Questions and answers
• Summary and closing (President and GS of IOPD Africa)