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TunisiaAlgeria: promoting local development through participatory democracy
November 25, 2016
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The EU and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed earlier this month in Algiers, a financing agreement for the programme ‘Participatory Democracy and Local Development’ (CapDeL), which aims to strengthen the capacity of local authorities and civil society as actors in local development.
The programme, funded by the EU with a contribution of EUR 8 million, seeks to improve strategic planning and local democracy systems, particularly through the inclusion of women and young people, and their involvement at different levels of governance, mainly wilayas (governorates) and regional.
CapDeL will thus promote active and responsible citizenship, capable of contributing fully to local development. The initiative will operate in selected representative pilot communes to strengthen their capacities as well as the tools and mechanisms at their disposal, to ensure their governance and local development role by modernising and improving services to citizens in direct and active collaboration, through broader spaces of civil society representativeness or intervention, especially of women and young people.
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Press release (FR)
EU Delegation to Algeria – website
EU Neighbourhood Info Centre – Algeria
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